What Does Getting Covid Feel Like, For The Fully Vaccinated?
- 'The illness can still have a big effect on health & daily life, say 3 people in their 20s, 40s and 50s, who were double-jabbed.' The Guardian, Aug. 23, 2021.
Is the number of recorded coronavirus infections in the UK rises again, we spoke to three people about their experiences of catching Covid despite having been fully vaccinated, and how it affected their daily lives.
Clare Jenkins, 44, from Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, contracted Covid this month after her 13-year-old daughter became infected at a party. “The four of us in the house isolated when she tested positive and were all clear when her isolation period finished, but then four days later my husband started to get symptoms, and tested positive two days later, while I was still negative. A further two days later I also tested positive.” Jenkins, who has an underlying health condition that puts her at higher risk, has been fully vaccinated since April, and her husband had also had both jabs when he fell ill with the virus.
“It did definitely come as a surprise when we got ill. My husband has been much more poorly with Covid than I was. We were really worried about him for a while – he had the full checklist of symptoms really badly for 10 days. “We have had to cancel our only holiday planned for this year – two weeks in Cornwall – which we were really looking forward to after a very intense last 12 months. I am also supposed to be running the London marathon and it has massively derailed my training plans.
“But I still feel really grateful to have had the vaccine. It’s been a bit rubbish and we’ve missed out on a nice family holiday, but it’s not the end of the world, and I don’t want to imagine how bad things might have been had we not been fully jabbed.” Simon Price, 54, a local government employee from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, thinks he caught the virus when he attended the Euros semi-final game between England and Denmark at Wembley stadium in July...
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