If you have contracted covid-19, you must recover to receive the vaccine

Adriana was scheduled to receive her booster shot the last week of January, but he has doubts about applying it because he got infected with covid-19.

This Friday, January 21, 2022, he feels better, he assures, but at the beginning of the infection he had strong symptoms such as fever -which reached 39 degrees-, muscle pain and discomfort in the stomach.

The 37-year-old woman believes she contracted the virus on the bus the first week of January 2022. Use that means of transport at least three times a week to go to work; the other days telework.

“I don’t like to take the bus, but I have to and they are full. I am the only one in my family who got infected, so I think it was there that I exposed myself,” she says.

Adriana says that when she presented the symptom I know isolated In his bedroom. He remembers that he spent two days with a fever, which gradually subsided, as well as pain in his throat and body. On the third day, he felt an improvement in his discomfort and on the fourth he went to a private laboratory to have a test that came out positive.

His doctor prescribed antibiotics and paracetamol. Now, he says, it’s better. “Even though I had strong symptoms, they didn’t last for many days and I didn’t have any complications,” he says.

Your concern now is to decide whether or not to apply the booster shot. The doctor who treated her told her that if there was no longer any symptom, it could be placed without problem.

The doctor Luis Miguel Hidalgo mentions that a patient who went through the illness yes, you can be vaccinated once the acute phase has passed, you must not present any symptoms and you must also complete the isolation period of minimum 10 days.

For the specialist, comply as soon as possible vaccination schedule, including reinforcement, is currently very important due to the Omicron variant, which is much more transmissible.

“Vaccines have been shown to be effective in preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death,” he says.

For his part, the epidemiologist Daniel Simancas indicates that the person should wait 15 days for the vaccine and clarifies that she cannot do it immediately after contagion or if she is sick.

I agree with you Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), scientific evidence shows that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 after you recover gives you a additional protection to its immune system.

One study showed that, in the case of people who already had covid-19, those who do not get vaccinated, after their recovery, are twice as likely to re-infect than those who receive full doses after healing.

Can I get vaccinated if I have covid-19?

On the contrary, if a person is with a active infection from covid-19 or suspect the disease, the CDC clarifies that you should not receive the vaccine.

In their recommendation they indicate that the patients who have symptoms should wait to be vaccinated until they have fully recovered from the illness and until they meet the criteria for discontinuation of isolation.

The asymptomatic people they must also defer the dose until completing the preventive isolation period of 10 days.

The CDC extend this recommendation for those who had close contact with a positive person and ask to postpone immunization until the end of the quarantine period.

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