Posted on 12/27/2020 5:39:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Dr. Emily Porter, sister of Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), is warning about the dangers of still contracting Covid-19 even though you’ve received the first of two vaccination shots:
We didn’t let our guard down, but I’m not gonna lie—COVID in our household the week after we both got vaccinated is a major buzzkill. https://t.co/aXp4FwRRBd
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
In this instance it was Dr. Porter’s husband, an ER doctor, who started feeling sick on Christmas day after receiving his vaccine shot:
Updates from the last 48 hours: (Thread)
12/25: My ER attending physician husband got his first fever of 2020. On Christmas. After avoiding COVID since March. 9 days after his COVID vaccine. I don’t know whether to scream or cry. 1/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
And then he tested positive for Covid-19:
12/26: And…that’s a positive rapid COVID PCR for him. The rest of us are pending testing Monday and Tuesday.
We are so thankful we did not gather w/ family or attend Christmas Eve mass because he developed symptoms AFTER he’d have exposed others. 2/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
To be clear, the vaccine didn’t have time to work before he tested positive. This is not a vaccine failure. It is just incredibly unlucky timing. We were hoping our household could make it through unscathed after all we’ve sacrificed and how careful we’ve been. 3/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
He moved out for 3.5 months April-July and we’ve both been vaccinated as we’re both physicians. So close!!! We also did not travel/gather for Thanksgiving. Or eat indoors. Or have a service for my grandma when she passed of COVID 12/14. 4/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
Either we were exposed at work or possibly one of our children at school/preschool. We will be fine—I hope. But I’m so ready for the high risk people to get vaccinated. 5/10
My 8 yo is hyperventilating & hysterical.
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
She’s afraid her parents are going to die like my grandma, wants to know if she’ll have to move to Cali/Philly and leave all her friends, blaming her brother for giving it to Dad as he had a runny nose and a single fever 9 days ago. 6/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
She even burst into tears tonight for “lying to me.” The “lie”? That she threw her Motrin in the trash last night instead of taking it for her 101.4 fever and now she’s afraid she’s going to die, too. And Ryan’s job wants to know when he’ll be back. 7/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
He is supposed to work 12/27, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/6. He doesn’t have paid vacation days so he’ll have to pay back any missed shifts so of course he wants to return ASAP while I hear him hacking through a closed door. 8/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
He also doesn’t want to dump on his coworkers. Healthcare workers are not okay. We are NOT okay. We get scared just like everyone else. And we’ve seen enough people die to know how unpleasant it is, even in the best of circumstances. 9/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
So, before you gather for New Year’s, Monica’s birthday, chowing down on Mexican food indoors or whatever you may be doing, remember that your actions have consequences and there might not be a doctor left to take care of you if you get sick because WE ARE NOT OKAY. 10/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
Her family is now in quarantine and awaiting the results of their own tests:
I wish @dominos had a “subscribe & save” feature like Amazon because I’m gonna need 2 medium cheese pizzas, cinnamon twists, parmesan bread bites and a 2L of Diet Coke at least 4X per weeks x 14 days to feed this family of 6 while we recover from COVID.
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
It’s also gotten political for Dr. Porter:
24 hr later, we’re still waiting on the helicopter to land in our front lawn to take my frontline physician husband to get his free lifesaving monoclonal antibodies. I just assumed that it happened automatically for every American with COVID, or were we supposed to call someone?
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
But, there’s actually some good news here. Those experimental treatments that the president and others close to him received *are* available to the general public *right now* and are going unsued in many parts of the country. From the NYT:
When antibody treatments first got authorized for emergency use last month, everyone thought they’d get snatched up. But that hasn’t happened. @RebeccaDRobbins and I called hospitals around the country to figure out what was going on. https://t.co/9iTwz4OSJX
— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020
We found a wide variety in how hospitals have embraced these treatments. At Tufts Medical Center in Boston, out of 117 doses received, only 19 patients have gotten infused. But at Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, doctors are turning patients away.
— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020
Some of the reasons are no surprise: continued lags and confusion over testing is making it hard to identify the right patients. Hospitals are overwhelmed with rising cases and vaccine rollouts.
— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020
Eli Lilly’s chief scientific officer, Dr. Daniel Skovronsky, offered another theory: with politicians bragging about getting the treatment, ordinary people didn’t even ask for them. “People thought, well it’s not for me — it’s for those people.”
— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020
Her MD husband should have known that they dont know yet if this vaccine PREVENTS Covid.
We must be vaccinated but vaccinations are no guarantee of protection.
That figures.
Not a surprise. It takes several weeks to develop immunity after a vaccine. Any physician should know that
I will pass on the vax and I will pass on getting covid amap....
Didn’t read it all (bad form I know, but have to go do something) ... did he already have it when vaccinated, just wasn’t showing symptoms yet? Is it more BS so they can keep the mask mandate going for vax’d people?
According to the New England Journal of Medicine primary article, the Pfizer vaccine is only about 50% effective about 2 weeks after first dose. Maximal effectiveness is reached a few weeks after the 2nd dose (which is 3 weeks after the 1st dose). Therefore, one can become infected (and sick) early after vaccination.
For at least a decade those of us who run lab tests noticed the flu starts shortly after the flu vax. In fact, some us make a little wager on it.
See? ... I TOLD you Trump was a danger and a phoney !
“My 8 yo is hyperventilating & hysterical.
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
She’s afraid her parents are going to die like my grandma, wants to know if she’ll have to move to Cali/Philly and leave all her friends, blaming her brother for giving it to Dad as he had a runny nose and a single fever 9 days ago. 6/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020
She even burst into tears tonight for “lying to me.” The “lie”? That she threw her Motrin in the trash last night instead of taking it for her 101.4 fever and now she’s afraid she’s going to die, too. And Ryan’s job wants to know when he’ll be back. 7/10
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020”
Nice job scaring the shit out of your kids.
That’s interesting
I dont get the flu shot but have seen those claims. Interesting to see someone who does labwork say that.
The placebo/vaccine lines don’t diverge in either Pfizer or Moderna studies until day 14.
As any doctor should know.
Fake news.
BUT, they did everything right and protected themselves...
Maybe the so called “protections” don’t work would be my first thought, but NO, it’s Trump’s fault.
I have no problem using politicians or their families as guinea pigs.
These tweets etc are so unbelievably hysterical. They reek of democrat politics. I find it hard to believe they are so destitute the ERdoctor husband can’t take a day off?
No kidding. What a crap parent.
short version of story: Doctor catches COVID days before getting vaccinated.
Also, after 1dt shot , vaccine is about 60% effective, so half the people vaccinated might still get it.
after 2 shots, its 95%, so 1 out of 20 vaccinated people who are exposed will get it.
Not only that but aren’t there two shots? Plus it takes time to work. Liberals are dumb.
Sounds like the family needs out of misery. God?????
Monoclonal antibodies?
Uummmm, OK.
Or how about a handful of Hydroxychloroquine tablets (that are now miraculously perfectly safe) and some chelated zinc?
Lots easier on the bank account.
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