Welcome back to 21 Snow cone health
infection prevention medical
Director Doctor Cynthia Snyder
is here answering your questions.
This person is texting.
What do hospitalizations look
like for cone health right now?
Save for over the last three to four weeks.
We've been looking really good.
Knock on wood where we've had
anywhere from mid 50s to low 60s
hospitalization across our whole
health system and and then also that
reflects what's happening statewide.
You know we've had just under 1000 covid
hospitalizations throughout the state
and we're haven't yet seen any pick up.
And it might be still a little bit
too early to see if any fallout
from like Easter and Spring break
that's so far it's been study.
We're still hoping that the
cases continue to trend down.
Yes, right? This
person is asking after the second
shot and two weeks wait after should
you get a covid test to confirm it?
So we don't necessarily recommend folks to
get tested to see if they have antibodies.
The reason being is that not all
tests that check for immunity will
be structured the same, and some
people make it like a false negative,
so we don't recommend you to get tested.
We suspect that you're still going to have a
really good immune response to the vaccine.
This person is kind of a follow up.
Where do I go now if I do want
to get akovi test right now I'm
only seeing vaccine locations.
It seems like that right?
A lot of people when they're
looking at covid testing sites now
I think are pretty accessible.
You can even get them at local grocery
stores or farm like pharmacies,
and so I would go there first.
And you can do them on line first to get
your appointment and you just are able
to go in there pretty easily, right?
This person is saying does the vaccine
actually prevent the COVID-19 virus,
or does it just lessen the effects?
So it's a better combination of both,
so it is a very effective vaccine to
prevent severity of illness as well as
prevent getting the disease process at all.
And this is a question about
the Johnson and Johnson's shot,
especially since we've seen
what we've seen in the news
the last couple of days.
Are people getting sick from
the Johnson and Johnson
shot? So looking, you know there was
a bit of a scare last week and the
North Carolina Health State Health
Department looked into it as well
as the CDC and looking at some of
the reactions that happened on site.
But it is not thought to have
more side effects than others.
There's thought that maybe at the
site people had had like I guess
what we consider like a in the
realm of fainting or basal vagal.
So the key thing right now
as it's getting warmer,
making sure to stay hydrated.
You know, if you're prone to
having low blood sugar,
make sure you eat,
stay hydrated,
and then go to your get your vaccine.
This person
is asking must an adult accompany a
16 year old to get their vaccination.
So I don't believe so,
but the key thing is that when
somebody who's 16 and older
getting the covid vaccine,
they should be getting the Pfizer one.
That's the one that's there.
They're allowed to have
at that at that age OK,
and these are two kind of
questions. How long should you wait
after recovering from Covid to get
your vaccine and then why do I
need a vaccine if I've had covid?
That is a good question.
There's an insight in some scientific realms.
There's a lot of debate of when
to get your vaccine and and
then possibly which one so.
The thought is initially
when somebody had covid,
we knew we we do suspect you have
at least three months of immunity
back when we didn't have as much
vaccine and available for everybody,
we asked those who had covid to wait.
But now that the vaccine is widely available.
If you have recovered,
you can take it as soon as like a few
weeks after you've been recovered
from having the disease process,
or this person is asking
if I have received both of my shots.
Is it safe for me now to go to church?
So the. You are safe here.
You have more immunity.
It really depends on how
your church is set up.
I worry if it's indoors and folks are
closer than six feet from each other.
If your church services are outdoors,
I think that is probably
the safest bet. Right
now someone's asking does Medicaid pay
for covid shots, but the shots are
just free, correct?
So it doesn't matter, we don't.
We don't care anybody's insurance.
Coverage, we just want you to
come in and get the vaccine.
Yeah, they don't ask you for that, correct?
There's no, there's no ID being
checked at any of the sites,
so we we want to make it seamless.
There's no billing,
we just want to make sure that you're
older than 16 to get the vaccine,
and then please come out and get your shot.
And to clarify that for
like the cone health vaccination
sites now you may go to like a CVS or
Walgreens and they may ask you for
something like that, but definitely
not at the cone vaccination
sites. Correct OK,
great Ann. One last one it says
should have fully vaccinated person.
Be afraid of getting around
a non vaccinated person.
It really depends on what that UN
vaccinated person is doing right there.
If they are, if the person you're with
that son vaccinated is doing a lot of
other activities without wearing a mask,
they potentially right may be at risk
of having it while they meet you.
So that vaccine status helps you
like protects your immunity.
It's not 100%, so I still think there is
definitely some merit with wearing a mask.
All right.
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