Oh yeah... My journal. So far the arm where I didn't get the shot is feeling pretty good. No soreness. There is some road rash on my elbow from an existing mistake involving the EUC. No symptoms, thought my temperature is 99 instead of the usual 93-95. Maybe I'm already sick?
Well. I'm happy to report I still have a pulse and am not dead.
***Do you require a second shot of Covid like the vax?
Maybe I should start a separate thread? Anyhow, one of the reasons that I was not as concerned by viral load was a study out of China. It is also part of the reason for my decision to have a planned infection (and one of the reasons I think it is dumb they want me to keep working until I'm symptomatic.) Translation of the info below- you are not likely to show symptoms until 5 days after infection. You are at your most infectious between .5 and 2 full days BEFORE you show symptoms. Viral shedding declines rapidly for a week after symptoms show up (cousin was 5 - 6 days after symptoms.) I have not seen much that contradicts this (though there is some. Why not err on the side of caution?)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036707v2.full.pdf "Separately, based on 77 transmission pairs obtained from publicly available sources within
and outside mainland China, the serial interval was estimated to have a mean of 5.8 days
(95% confidence interval [CI] = 4.8 to 6.
and median of 5.2 days (95% CI = 4.1 to 6.4)
based on a fitted gamma distribution (Figure 1b). Assuming an incubation period with a
mean of 5.2 days from a separate study of early COVID-19 cases,2 we inferred that
infectiousness started from 2.5 days before symptom onset and reached its peak at 0.6 days
before symptom onset (Figure 1b). The proportion of transmission before symptom onset
(area under the curve) was 44%. Infectiousness was estimated to decline relatively quickly
within 7 days of illness onset. Viral load data was not used in the estimation but showed
similar monotonic decreasing pattern after symptom onset. "
