As a record 1 million Americans were diagnosed with COVID-19 in a single day, the best weapon remains being vaccinated.
Others go above and beyond the recommended doses, as was the case with a Texas woman who received five shots of the vaccine. She told Inside Edition that she was justified in doing so.
Stacey Ricks (49) received her first Moderna shot last Jan. She also received her second shot four week later. Ricks stated that after each shot, tests revealed that she had not developed any antibodies.
Ricks received a kidney transplant in 2016, and is now immunocompromised. She said she underwent the tests as part a Houston Methodist Hospital transplant patient study.
Another study was done last spring.on organ transplant recipients by Johns Hopkins Medicine and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that 46% of participants had no detectable antibodies 29 days after their second shot.
The researchers concluded that people who are immunocompromised should strictly follow COVID-19 safety measures, even after vaccination.
In June, before anyone was getting boosted, Ricks says she got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on her own. Her body still showed signs of illness. “nothing measurable”COVID-19 antibodies.
“I then got the two Pfizer and it wasn’t until after the second Pfizer that I developed any antibodies,” Ricks said.
She said that with the Omicron variant, even after five shots, she still doesn’t feel safe.
COVID-19 has brought more than 113,000 patients to the hospital, close to the January record.
Tuesday’s announcement by President Joe Biden was that he had doubled the order for Paxlovid (the Pfizer antiCOVID pill), bringing the total number to 20 million.