Should a person be retested after they have the virus and recover?

DETROIT – Dr. Local 4’s Frank McGeorge answers questions from viewers about the coronavirus and the COVID-19 vaccines.

Information on the vaccines is developing rapidly and there is a very good understanding of the effectiveness and safety of the trials conducted to obtain authorization. However, more information will come out during the mass vaccination campaign.

The answer is no.

Once a person is determined to be infected, we treat the disease based on your symptoms and clinical condition from the point of view that a person is no longer contagious, which is also determined by the course of your disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have guidelines for when it’s safe to be with others. It has been 10 days since symptoms first appeared and 24 hours without fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and other symptoms of COVID-19 improve.

Ideally, your second dose will be right on time. The efficacy data of the studies were based on this.

If it is not possible to get the second dose on time, it is acceptable to get it as soon as possible after 21 days for the Pfizer vaccine or 28 days for the Moderna vaccine. Preferably within three to four days after it was due.

Many viewers keep asking whether the COVID-19 vaccine is a live vaccine. The currently approved Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are not live vaccines. Both are mRNA vaccines.

There is no live component for either. None of the vaccines being developed in the US have been made with live or inactivated whole COVID-19 virus.