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HomeMy WebLinkAbout092322 FW_ KPTZ Listener Questions for Monday September 26_ 2022 BOCC Update ________________________________ From: Lynn Sorensen Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:24:35 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Allison Berry; allison.berry@clallamcountywa.gov; Willie Bence; Greg Brotherton; Kate Dean; Heidi Eisenhour; jeffbocc; KPTZ VTeam Subject: KPTZ Listener Questions for Monday September 26, 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 the KPTZ listener questions from this past week for Monday, September 26, 2022 BOCC update listed below. Thank you, Lynn Sorensen KPTZ Virus Watch Team Questions for Dr Allison Berry: 1. Do you recommend starting the polio vaccine sequence for people over 70 who have NEVER been vaccinated? Context: - A nurse at JCPH advised against it, saying it was endemic prior to the Salk vaccine, most cases were asymptomatic, and immunity was likely. - CDC public guidance is clear: get the vaccine!"I - The vaccination sequence takes at least 8 months, probably more for full protection. - Polio is spreading in the New York City area. - Planes are still flying people from there to here. Asking for a close relative (a recovering Christian Scientist), who did not get the vaccine after the nurse's advice. 2. We just confirmed our appointments for the next vaccination clinic at Blue Heron on Oct. 1. We currently have 3 shots - all Moderna and last being administered in December 2021. The person who booked our appointment urged us to consider getting the Pfizer bivalent shot rather than Moderna, saying that there is a slightly better immunity if we ‘mix it up’. I’m curious your opinion on whether we should indeed mix is up or stick with Moderna? 3. How come Novavax vaccine won’t be approved as a booster when large trials in the US showed it works beautifully against BA 5 and MNRA Vaccines were very hastily approved from a scant trial in mice and never tested in humans? Novavax has been approved as a superior booster no matter what your vaccine history is around the world. Is the FDA and CDC run by the MNRA lobby? 4. I had CoVid Aug 5th and had Paxlovid rebound effective 8/17. How long should I wait to get the new Omicron booster? 5. Does the body's ability to resist coronaviruses weaken with age? I feel relatively safe as a healthy 40-something, but if COVID is still endemic when I turn 60, 70 etc. will my body's ability to fend it off have degraded progressively with each decade that has passed? 6. Is it possible to catch such a low dose of Covid and combat it so well that one experiences a very low level of symptoms and does not get a positive result on a series of rapid antigen tests? That may have happened to me, and I realize no one can answer whether what I experienced recently was Covid or another virus I coincidentally contracted. My experience was identical to that of most colds I've caught in the past decade: mild and very brief, with familiar symptoms of lethargy, poor thinking ability, and a certain feeling around the eyes (and sometimes a bit of a sore throat, but not this time.) I am unfamiliar with flu, but didn't experience what are described as flu-like symptoms: temperature, runny nose, body aches, etc. It is the timing of my illness that intrigues me. I traveled with and spent full time with a group of women aged 69-74. On the last day, we had to stand in a crowded, slow-moving TSA line before boarding our plane. All of us have had three vaccines and all wore masks. Most people in the line were not masked. The second day after we parted on returning to Seattle, one of us started feeling ill and tested positive the next morning for Covid. She received Paxlovid and is testing clear now. I started feeling poorly on day three and tested myself the on the morning of day four and the next three days. After a day of bed rest, on day five, I felt fine. All my antigen tests were negative. Besides being curious about whether I'm "in the club," I wonder how this should affect the timing of my bi-valent booster. Does this possible case of very low-level Covid put me in the category of people who should wait two months, or would it be reasonable for me to get the booster in mid-October?