At this time, when complicated times are being experienced again due to a new rebound in the Covid pandemic due to Omicron, the health authorities are encouraging the population to get vaccinated, either for the first time or to complete the table or resort to booster doses, to protect themselves and also help the peak of infections to drop again and stabilize.
Until now, in the United States, only 62% of the population eligible to be vaccinated has completed the table and only one 23, 7% has applied the booster dose, figures that they are still worrying.
Given the current scenario and the one that is glimpsed for the following days, all those who have not been vaccinated, for different reasons, are invited to do so. To support the measure, the government of Joe Biden has decided to open more vaccination posts so that more people apply it.
There are people who may want to start the anti-Covid vaccination chart or who want to receive the booster dose; however, at this time they may think more about it because due to the characteristics of Omicron, you may be infected without knowing it.
And it is that previously and with vaccines for other diseases, health experts always recommend not putting them on when you are sick and that you have to let some pass 14 days after recovery to be inoculated.
What happens if I don’t get vaccinated and I’m infected with Covid
“It may happen that due to the circulation of the Omicron variant, which generally presents milder symptoms, there are more people going to be vaccinated while infected, but this does not represent any type of risk” , affirmed Ricardo Teijeiro, infectologist at Hospital Pirovano and member of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, in an interview for La Nación.
“Most likely nothing will happen at all”, he added.
In case it happens to you because you go to get vaccinated and days later you find out that you have Covid, what Teijeiro recommends is to immediately notify your doctor so that he can follow up on your case.
It also indicates that the secondary effects of the vaccines do not last more than 72 hours after their application, for so if these discomforts persist later, it is best to do a coronavirus test to rule out any contagion.
Finally, it should also be noted that if you test positive a couple of days later if you have been vaccinated, it will not aggravate the disease because the vaccines are inactivated; what is very likely is that it will not have an effect on your body and therefore, you will not have much protection because for immunity it takes a few 14 days to start producing cells of the immune system that recognize the antigen against which we are vaccinated mos and 21 days to generate the so-called memory cells. That is why you have to wait at least 21 days for the second dose, so that the immune system process is complete
“It may happen that due to the circulation of the Omicron variant, which generally presents milder symptoms, there are more people going to be vaccinated while infected, but this does not represent any type of risk” , affirmed Ricardo Teijeiro, infectologist at Hospital Pirovano and member of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, in an interview for La Nación.
“Most likely nothing will happen at all”, he added.
In case it happens to you because you go to get vaccinated and days later you find out that you have Covid, what Teijeiro recommends is to immediately notify your doctor so that he can follow up on your case.
It also indicates that the secondary effects of the vaccines do not last more than 72 hours after their application, for so if these discomforts persist later, it is best to do a coronavirus test to rule out any contagion.
Finally, it should also be noted that if you test positive a couple of days later if you have been vaccinated, it will not aggravate the disease because the vaccines are inactivated; what is very likely is that it will not have an effect on your body and therefore, you will not have much protection because for immunity it takes a few 14 days to start producing cells of the immune system that recognize the antigen against which we are vaccinated mos and 21 days to generate the so-called memory cells. That is why you have to wait at least 21 days for the second dose, so that the immune system process is complete