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HomeMy WebLinkAbout091622 KPTZ Listener Questions for Monday September 19_ 2022 BOCC Update________________________________ ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. ________________________________ County Commissioners, Dr Allison Berry, and Willie Bence, Please see this week’s KPTZ listener questions listed below for the Monday, September 19, 2022 BOCC Update. Thank you, Lynn Sorensen KPTZ Virus Watch Team Questions for Dr Allison Berry: 1. I’m 69, have at times uncontrolled hypertension, so the vaccine would be personally very helpful on top of helping our community stay safe. I live with two autoimmune disorders, Hashimoto’s and Sjogren’s syndrome. There may be one or two other’s that have not been diagnosed as I know these things come in clusters. I am not on any immunosuppressive drugs. My reaction to the vaccines, the first three being Pfizer and the fourth Moderna on July 15, left me with long lasting severe reactions. With Pfizer the reactions were mostly feeling ill, fatigue, feverish and extreme nausea. This lasted at least 10 to 14 days. With the Moderna, every old injury I’ve ever had and forgotten about began to hurt. Muscles, soft tissue, formally broken bones, ligaments, the works. Some things are still sensitive. Almost all of these were healed long ago. I did fracture my sacrum (s3 and s4) five years ago which is rather rare and pretty disabling. I still manage that daily. The sacral pain after the Moderna shot felt almost as bad as it did when I first fractured it. The ankle was a very bad break 15 years ago. And that reared it’s head so much that I couldn’t put weight on it at times. A ligament in the ankle that had been damaged and long forgotten began to hurt. All these pains are now easing. Not being on immunosuppressive drugs, I was led to understand from all sources, made me a normal candidate for the vaccines. But now I am reading here and there from various doctors submitting papers to the NIH (?) and shared online that the mRNA vaccine can cause immune dysregulation in people with autoimmune disorders who are NOT on immunosuppressive drugs. And that the dysregulation can last for some time. They’re not sure of long lasting issues. I read that this population was not included in the trials before the vaccines were offered to the public. One doctor suggested that people with autoimmune conditions who are NOT on immuno suppressing drugs, be given such drugs when they receive the mRNA vaccine to avoid stirring immune disregulation reactions. I was looking forward to this upcoming omicron vaccine. But since it is mRNA in nature, I dread the reaction I might have. And I am wondering if these reactions might be harmful in the long run. Do you know anything about this? Or have any suggestions? 2. I hope you will discuss the Omicron BA.4.6 subvariant. Is it present in our community yet? Is the new Omicron-specific bivalent vaccine booster equally effective in preventing infection with BA.4.6 as it is for BA.4 and BA.5? It appears that there is a loss of protection from Evusheld (tixagevimab + cilgavimab) with the BA.4.6 subvariant when given as pre-exposure prophylaxis. How greatly is this protection reduced? What about the monoclonal antibodies that are given IV for treatment of COVID infection? Are those still effective if the illness is caused by BA.4.6? 3. If we had Covid in April how likely was it Omicron? If it was Omicron do we need Omicron booster? 4. Can you talk about "super immunity" when vaccinated people have breakthrough Covid infection. Is this a real thing? How long will it last? Do these people need the new Omicron vaccine anyway? 5. What benefits can we expect from new bivalent Omicron vaccine? How long will benefits last ?