Covid Jab

[Dizzart]

If a member of my household ie in my case my husband is older and will have his inoculation first why is it safe for me to share the same house hold with him as I thought the whole point of the jab was to inject a little virus into the recipients???

[EmmaF91 Community Ambassador]

It’s not a live virus. You won’t catch it. It is a very dead, non-contagious tiny bit a what the actual virus is.

Think of it like the virus is cut in half. It is dead, but the body can now learn how to fight it off, without the virus fighting back. It only works if the dead, cut in half virus is physically put into you. It cannot be passed on as it needs to be whole and ‘alive’ to do that

Hope this helps

[Dizzart in reply to EmmaF91]

Hi Emma I almost feel sorry for it being cut in half😃thank you for such a fast and succinct reply👍🏻So I won’t have to make my husband sleep in the shed after all 💤 stay safe spring on the way

[Pipsqueak77 in reply to EmmaF91]

HiI think the AZ vaccine is live....? but that still should not be a problem for majority of people.

Take care all 😊👍

[EmmaF91 Community Ambassador in reply to Pipsqueak77]

In a way yes and no. It’s a genetically modified ‘common cold’ virus changed to in essence ‘look like’ covid to the body, whilst also making it not contagious and having no actual affect on your systems (and it’s not COVID at its base and you shouldn’t get the cold). The change to the outside means the body recognises it as a threat, and produced antibodies specific for that look which means if you do then contract covid you are better and fighting it off as your immune system already know what to build.

So it’s not a dead dead virus, but a live very mutated virus that should do no more harm than a normal flu jab thing, whilst allowing your body to learn how to fight covid.

[Pipsqueak77 in reply to EmmaF91]

Yes.. it’s a live virus...😊

[EmmaF91 Community Ambassador in reply to Pipsqueak77]

Yup, just trying to help others understand what a live virus actually is, cause some people will think they are being infected with live covid which is not correct 😅

[Pipsqueak77 in reply to EmmaF91]

Hi

Yes..I understand that but you said that it was a dead virus and it is not... so just to be correct with the facts.As I said earlier this should not cause any problem for healthy people but people who are immune compromised may be better served by having the Pfizer vaccine. This is up to their GP/Cons and the individual to decide...

😊👍

[EmmaF91 Community Ambassador in reply to Pipsqueak77]

Technically none of them are live vaccines. A live vaccine is when they give you a live, weakened version of the actual virus. As neither vaccine are both live AND COVID based... it’s technically not what’s called a live vaccine. AZ is a viral vector vaccine (genetically modified cold virus), and Pfizer is RNA (part of a dead covid virus).

It depends on whether you want the official definition of live vaccine meaning none of the vaccines are, or the unofficial ‘this has a kinda live but not really, cold vaccine’ definition meaning AZ.

From the BHF website;

“Can the vaccine give me coronavirus?

No. You can’t get coronavirus from the vaccine. A vaccine would not be approved for use if it could give you the disease it is supposed to protect you from.

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine does not contain any live virus, and nor does the Moderna vaccine. The Oxford vaccine contains a harmless form of a different virus, which has been altered so it cannot cause an illness.” bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

But yes. It’s up to the doc/con/individual to work out which they want, they do the same thing in different ways, and the only ‘issue’ truly presented so far is the anaphylaxis to Pfizer potential, but the docs should know which would be best for you if they think there will be a difference.

[Pipsqueak77 in reply to EmmaF91]

HiIt is a modified Chimp virus... so is live with an additional spike protein...it is not dead.

As opposed to the Pfizer vaccine which is not as it is a piece of RNA..

😊

[Dizzart in reply to EmmaF91]

If only those in top jobs would take the trouble to explain and not leave it all to gossip there would be 100percent uptake instead of people being afraid to take the jab . I was a child in the Polio epidemic and thank goodness I had an enlightened doctor and a mother who believed in modern medicine. Thank you again for making it so clear 👌

[Dizzart in reply to EmmaF91]

Amazing and what a fantastic reply , thank goodness for people like you Emma as I’m sure I couldn’t ever get a better explanation from any one else 👍🏻👍🏻

[purple64]

I wondered if I would be able to get mine when he gets his as I’m his carer

[twinkly29 in reply to purple64]

From what I've read, no. I think everyone is in their group for themselves.