Their reasoning I may be super-immune is that I survived, therefore I had to have produced something to fight off the viral pneumonia. When I was in the ICU, the doc told me that 44% of patients on Rituxan do not leave the hospital. Also, when I got my 3rd full dose of Moderna after I was discharged, I had a reaction; fever, chills, muscle aches, etc that lasted for 6 days. Prior doses had no reaction at all. My chemo consisted of rituximab/Rituxan. This kills off B-cells that the vax uses to train to fight COVID. It also killed off my bone marrow stem cells that are used to make b-cells. It is now suspected that those patients who get covid and are on Rituxan or treated within the past year are the reason for the variants of COVID. The thought is that COVID lives long enough in those patients who have no immunity and treated with medicines. In the meantime, it survives long enough in the human body to mutate. It is now recommended that Rituxan not be administered if any other treatment is found to be as effective.
I was involved with a study conducted by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society where we were tested before and after each dose of vaccine for antibodies. I didn't have any for the first two. After I contracted COVID, the study wasn't interested in testing me any longer. I asked both my PCP and oncologist about testing for antibodies and they both said it wouldn't matter if I had them or not. I either was going to be open to further COVID infections or I wasn't. Knowing would not provide me any more protection than not knowing. They said that the test is also under emergency authorization, not approved and that it is simply suspected that it measures antibodies, not proven. For that reason, they don't care to authorize the test. They both said to get the 3rd full dose of Moderna and act unvaccinated; staying masked, avoiding crowds, etc. The thing is, I had been at home for 3 weeks, never leaving when I got COVID. My wife never tested positive and I was never near another person. I live on 5 acres in the woods. They don't believe me, said I must have been in contact at some time and long enough to contract it, but I swear I was not. They don't wanna hear that. The implication is that COVID is more than transmittable person-to-person, it's airborne or is on contaminated surfaces from items brought into the home. It is already measurable in sewage water, perhaps it's also in tap water now that was treated drinking water. I don't know.
I did recover and now after 3 months, fully recovered my lung capacity. Where before I could not even get up to use the toilet, on oxygen at 15L, I am now back to walking 4 miles a day and testing at the lung capacity of someone my height in their 20's. The exercises work! Ha!
I've asked about Evusheld. Here's the scoop;
The federal government bought it and distributed it to the individual states based on population. California distributed it to only some medical providers. In my area they distributed it to UCDavis, Sutter and Kaiser. I belong to United Healthcare. UHC doesn't have it and can't get UCD, Sutter or Kaiser to give them doses. I'm sure the state intended for those larger providers to distribute, but not given explicit direction to, so they don't. I can log on to see that the greater Sacramento area has over 5,000 doses of Evusheld, that those are distributed to UCD, Sutter, Kaiser and the jails/prisons. But I can't get a dose because my provider is UHC. Great. My PCP and oncologist keep trying though, but they both tell me it was developed under Delta variant and there is zero medical evidence it has any effect for Omicron or other variants, so that alone has them both saying it's not something they'll push for. Perhaps when Evusheld is proven to be effective for variants other than Delta that it was developed under, they will pursue it for me.
Sounds terrible. Thanks for the heads up, though.
But then who does.
It's a rich tapestry of humanity out there so YMMV.
