Explained: Can You Test Positive For Covid-19 After Receiving Vaccine?
Previous Covid-19 infection and vaccines do not stop you from getting infected again. But vaccines help reduce severity of the disease, says health economist professor Anup Malani
PTI 19 April 2021 PTI outlookindia.com 2021-04-19T15:23:44+05:30
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India on Monday registered a record single-day rise of 2,73,810 new Covid-19 infections. Amid this second wave of the pandemic, many states are facing a shortage of hospital beds for coronavirus patients, oxygen cylinders and remdesivir injections, an antiviral drug used in the treatment of Covid-19.
Researchers believe that one of the key factors responsible for this Covid-19 resurgence in India is the increased rate of reinfections.
Send COVID-19 vaccines do not stop one from getting infected but instead help in curing the disease faster and reducing its severity, said health and development economist Professor Anup Malani.
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He also said that reinfection can be one of the reasons behind the recent surge in cases in the country.
Malani, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the university s Pritzker School of Medicine, has been leading a series of COVID-19 serosurveys in cities and states across India with economic development-focused think-tank IDFC.
In an interview with PTI, Malani said, I fear this is the biggest misunderstanding around India and even in other countries today. Previous infection and vaccines do not stop you from being infected. That was never how immunity worked. Instead, natural and vaccine-acquired immunity is helpful because it helps you clear the infection faster once you are infected.
Since the COVID-19 virus was discovered, the world has waited for a vaccine that would help our lives return to some level of normalcy. Now that vaccine distribution has begun, what will this “new normal” look like?
Here, University of Chicago experts explore what the vaccine rollout has revealed about our cities, and how it will impact our lives within them from our health care systems and businesses, to our educational and cultural institutions.
‘A complex gift’
“So the vaccine is a complex gift. It both gives you a sense that you are protected, but it ought not give you a sense that you’re free to do anything you want,” says Laurie Zoloth, a professor of religion and ethics at the Divinity School. “The fact that you have the vaccine means that you’ve accepted the gift, and the gift comes with some strings attached.
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