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Question I have is how do they know if the antibodies are from natural infection or from the vaccine? Much seems unknown about anitbody profiles after vaccination.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/covi...afterward.html
Schechter acknowledged there could be a role for post-vaccination antibody tests, but he said "there's still a lot more we have to learn."
https://wreg.com/news/coronavirus/me...covid-vaccine/
by: April Thompson
Posted: Feb 11, 2021 / 05:53 PM CST / Updated: Feb 11, 2021 / 05:53 PM CST
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Mid-South doctor has died of a COVID-related illness. However, he never knew he had the virus and he’d been vaccinated.
Dr. J Barton Williams, called a student of medicine and science, went from doctor to patient when he fell ill weeks ago. Dr. Stephen Threlkeld helped treat him at Baptist Hospital.
Threlkeld says the disease quickly went from diagnosis to death.
“It was matter of days,” Threlkeld said. “Just a tragedy.”
Williams, an Orthopedic Surgeon for OrthoSouth, died February 8 of multisystem inflammatory syndrome or MIS, a condition usually affecting children and attacking the immune system....
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They want to dispel rumors this was a new variant of COVID. Threlkeld says they never found an active virus in Williams body.
“It does seem to be in every case we have seen so far to be related to the virus itself,” Threlked said. “It’s a post-viral, sometimes a few weeks later, a post-viral effect. Not during the first part of it.”
We asked if the vaccine could not be a protector against this because Williams had already been predisposed to the COVID virus.
“It’s a very important question. All preliminary,” Threlkeld said. “We are working with the CDC to see how vaccines can play in all directions. We don’t have any data to suggest the vaccine has any affect in either direction.”...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/covi...afterward.html
Schechter acknowledged there could be a role for post-vaccination antibody tests, but he said "there's still a lot more we have to learn."
https://wreg.com/news/coronavirus/me...covid-vaccine/
by: April Thompson
Posted: Feb 11, 2021 / 05:53 PM CST / Updated: Feb 11, 2021 / 05:53 PM CST
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Mid-South doctor has died of a COVID-related illness. However, he never knew he had the virus and he’d been vaccinated.
Dr. J Barton Williams, called a student of medicine and science, went from doctor to patient when he fell ill weeks ago. Dr. Stephen Threlkeld helped treat him at Baptist Hospital.
Threlkeld says the disease quickly went from diagnosis to death.
“It was matter of days,” Threlkeld said. “Just a tragedy.”
Williams, an Orthopedic Surgeon for OrthoSouth, died February 8 of multisystem inflammatory syndrome or MIS, a condition usually affecting children and attacking the immune system....
...
They want to dispel rumors this was a new variant of COVID. Threlkeld says they never found an active virus in Williams body.
“It does seem to be in every case we have seen so far to be related to the virus itself,” Threlked said. “It’s a post-viral, sometimes a few weeks later, a post-viral effect. Not during the first part of it.”
We asked if the vaccine could not be a protector against this because Williams had already been predisposed to the COVID virus.
“It’s a very important question. All preliminary,” Threlkeld said. “We are working with the CDC to see how vaccines can play in all directions. We don’t have any data to suggest the vaccine has any affect in either direction.”...
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