Tuesday Block 2

Leyla: we just heard from a local nurse whose life has changed since her covid-19 last summer, and a pill that eradicates symptoms in covid patients, dr. lucinda, about to he so a you again.

Good to see you too, leyla, thank you for having me.

Still staying healthy?

I'm trying, and i did get my first covid vaccine.

Leyla: you're going through the two shotter?

Leyla: can you tell us which of the two?

Yeah, i got pfizer.

Leyla: so far so good?

So far so good.

I got it almost a week ago, and in all honesty, i had no side effects at all.

My arm wasn't even sore, which i expected it to be.

Leyla: sometimes your arm is killing you, right?

Yeah.

Leyla: we just spoke to a nurse who contracted covid late june of last year, and she's still to this day suffering from various heat problems, and how common is this?

I think it's becoming more common than we thought it was.

I think initially, and it's like everything with this disease.

You know, as time marches on, we learn more and more about it.

And there are things about it that i think we didn't expect.

So it's becoming more evident that the long hauler is there, and it's here to stay.

We don't know really because it's a relatively new, i'm going to say diagnoses, or acceptance.

We don't really know how long it's going to last.

You know, it may cause permanent damage to their varying systems that it effects for the rest of their life.

We do not know.

That's what she's saying she's experiencing.

There's currently a pill that's in trials, and i want to talk about that in just a moment.

But first, let's talk about the vaccinations currently on the market.

We have two that are two doses and we have the johnson & johnson vaccination that's just been released.

Can we talk about briefly the two that are currently on the market that are the two-dose vaccinations.

The two-dose vaccinations.

One at this point is pfizer and the other is moderna.

Pfizer was the first to get eua, or emergency authorization, and then mod mod came behind it, and i think it was about a month later.

Both of them are two shots.

You go and you get your first shot.

And then officially, pfizer was supposed to be 21 days later.

But i think for convenience sake, they have said both of them will be 28 days later.

And that falls within pfizer's window of 21 to 40 days to get your second one.

The interesting thing is, there are several things to remember about the two dose vaccines.

One is that you do get some protection within 7-14 days of that first shot.

But it's not the maximum that you can get that they found in their clinical trials.

So you may get like 80% efficacy.

The key though, you need to get that second booster shot because you are not going to have the full immunity that you need.

The key though is it's all based on how your body responds, and responds to the pieces of the vaccine or the pieces of the virus that are in these vaccines, and that's what determines how many immunizations you need.

I just want to talk real quickly about the johnson & johnson vaccination.

Because that has raised some eyebrows and conserves among some of our community leaders.

The johnson & johnson vaccination is a one-dose vaccine, and it doesn't have to be kept in freezing temperatures the way the other shots do.

But this is a statement that we received from the roman catholic diocese of charleston.

They said that it's moral marlly acceptable to receive any type of the vaccines bah because of the way that johnson & johnson was tested and produced with abortion derived cell lines, if given a choice to choose the moderna or the pfizer, over the j & j and so there are morality issues that some don't think about.

Real quick, we only have a few seconds left.

But there's also a pill that's in trials, that someone diagnosed with covid can take over a five-course dose, and it eradicate symptoms, and so are we saying possible light at the end of the tunnel for people that have just been diagnose?

We're sure hoping.

There are several things out there.

One is an infusions that if you have an oxygen requirement you're at risk.

And there's a whole list of requirements tush able to get an infusions that's you get several of them.

And it can help mitigate the symptoms, and i think the hope is that this pill is going to do that as well.

There's definitely positive outcomes in the small trials they have done, and it's now being done on a much larger front.

So we'll see.

As the saying goes, stay tuned, because the story may be different.

Leyla: that's right, and keep wearing your mask.

Dr. lewis india demarco, thank you for