A co-worker of mine in his late 50s or early 60s who was traveling around the USA for work and having dinners and shaking hands unmasked for the last few weeks and was fully vaxxed with Pfizer in March, got sick last week at a convention in Arizona and cut his trip short and came back to So Cal where he tested positive for Delta. He said it went straight to his lungs but over the weekend said he felt like he was getting better and was sending work emails and that's when I talked to him.
Got an email today he was taken by ambulance to the hospital w/pneumonia. Not sure what the %s are but sure hope he pulls through, he's a good dude. But Delta, especially if you're in the 60+ older crowd, even if fully vaccinated, is pretty scary. I'm thankful I'm still younger when all this is happening, though I wish this all happened when I was like 20-30 and before I was on immune-suppressant lifetime medication!
I was reading about how the pneumonia vaccine seems to help against covid,
https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/our-story/health-research/news/pneumonia-vaccine-may-affect-course-of-covid-19And my doc had recommended I get the pneumonia vaccine, even though I'm under 65 because I'm immune-suppressed, but looking online it seems my immune-suppressant seriously reduces the efficiency of the pneumonia vaccine so that sucks, but better than nothing I guess?
https://www.janssenmd.com/remicade/dosage-administration/drug-interactions/vaccines/remicade-use-of-pneumococcal-vaccinePatients on REMICADE or combined immunosuppression had significantly lower response rates to pneumococcal vaccination (57.7% and 62.5%, respectively) compared to the mesalamine group with 88.6% response (P=0.008 and P=0.02, compared to the control group, respectively). Patients in the azathioprine group had a 78.9% response rate to the vaccination which was not a significantly lower rate vs. the mesalamine group (P=0.43).
Will get the pneumonia shot before my next infusion when my immune suppressant is at the lowest I can for the hopefully extra protection.
Also I can't post about my co-worker getting hospitalized on era without fear of getting banned for "making doom shit up" because it's not fitting their narrative that vaccines are awesome and it's incredibly rare to get anything more than a cold from delta if vaccinated.