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Originally Posted by stanleychief

I've been coughing a lot the past 4 days and didn't think much of it. Yesterday I officially had a 'fever' (100.4 on the nose). I've had and still have full sense of smell and taste. Out of an abundance of caution, I took a rapid Covid test at a drive up testing station. A few hours ago, I learned that my test came back positive.

Throughout the pandemic, I have been extremely careful. I got the J&J vaccine back in May. I rarely go out, and work from home. I live in Jackson County and follow mask guidelines whenever I do go out. I was pretty confident that I wouldn't get Covid, yet here I am.

From the beginning of the Covid pandemic until about two weeks ago, I personally only knew of 5 people that had contracted Covid (or at least admitted to it). In the past 2 weeks, 3 people that I know of have contracted Covid. One of them is in the hospital on a ventilator. What do we all have in common? We all took the J&J vaccine!

When I was getting tested, they asked if I had been vaccinated, and I replied, "yes". I then asked if she needed to know which one, or when I was vaccinated. She said "no", administered the test and left. Once I learned of the positive result, I contacted my doctor who did ask some more follow up questions, but also didn't care about which vaccine I took, or when it was administered. It seems like this would be important data to collect. Wouldn't you think?

Just Googling "is janssen covid-19 vaccine effective against delta variant" returns confusing results:

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Far Less Effective Against Delta Variant, Study Suggests

J&J: Vaccine Protection Against Delta Variant Is Strong

I think the most frustrating thing about the official response to Covid-19 is the changing and contradictory 'facts' that have been put out there. Do we need a booster if you had the J&J shot? Nothing out there conclusive.

I'm not looking for "vaccines are a lie" responses, or for anything, really. Just wanted to vent a bit (no pun hopefully intended) and to tell you all to be careful out there. And maybe, just maybe, think about getting a booster if you did get that J&J shot!

It's a novel virus being treated with a new type of vaccine technology, that was created via emergency authorization because it was a global pandemic that has since killed over 4.5M people globally with the actual total being much more than that. Decisions made in the first few months of the pandemic were made on data that was barely weeks old. They were making decisions on the best info they had, which was basically nothing. They had to be cautious. What the experts know now is incomparable to what they knew 1yr ago or more when leaders were forced to make decisions.

Still, the results speak for themselves. We've now vaccinated over half the global population. Still no obvious dangers at all, with well proven effectiveness against hospitalization and death.