Norman Swan
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard 11 Aug
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The T GA instruction is a twelve week gap.
So nobody knows what effect you're going to get from a sixteen week gap.
Go and find another doctor who'll do it in twelve weeks.
Herd immunity is a difficult concept here, but what's happening is that the Pfizer vaccine is protecting them against severe illness, which is what we're talking about here, but it's also reducing the chances of getting what's called asymptomatic infection.
In other words, an infection with no symptoms.
And that's what's turned that's what's turned this virus into a pandemic, is that it spreads when you don't know you've got it.
So the volume of virus in
the community is dropping.
So whether or not it's herd immunity or just the fact that there's n that because there are fewer susceptible people getting the virus, the virus numbers are dropping in the community, that's probably more that's what's going on.
But it's a it's ki it's a it's a moot point.
It's more that there's less virus going around.
Your body certainly will, and it happens not day one where you can feel a bit crap.
It happens day four or afterwards.
So you get new symptoms like headache, blurred vision, abdominal pain, that sort of thing, after day four, up to about day fifteen, day twenty, then that's when you talk to your doctor that you may have a problem.
Remember, it's incredibly rare, very unlikely to happen, but it happens then, not on day one, two or three.
And we will see you on
And I'm physician and journalist Dr Norman Swan.
It's Tuesday the 30th of March 2021.
Yep,
It does.
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