I'm a senior and live with my 92 yr old mom who is housebound. If I get the J&J vaccine can virus shedding from my shot give her covid?
My mom wouldn't be covid vaccinated.
2021-03-07T20:47:15Z
Virus shedding is when the immune system attacks the virus and you can pass it to others. I have heard not to go near people who just had the flu shot for three days due to shedding.
?2021-03-21T01:12:58Z
She needs to get the vaccine before you do. You can arrange this.
But no, you can't give her the virus from getting the vaccine.
The language with regards to viruses is slightly different than the rest of the other living things as viruses are not alive nor dead. One uses the term inactivated when they disabled to reproduce or chemically destroyed.
J&J uses a viral carrier of adenovirus that has been inactivated and unable to reproduce. It can not cause disease because it was designed just to be a carrier and all instructions to cause disease and to replicate were taken out. Sterility checks are performed to assure that that is the case with viral cultures to show nothing is replicating in the vaccine.
Once injected the product of the vaccine is production of antigen as a result of the payload DNA inside the vaccine and not viral particles and so there is no way for the vaccine in the muscle in your arm to leave your body and go into somebody else. There is no shedding of intact infectious adenovirus for anybody else to be infected. There's no mode of transmission to occur. It can't be coughed out because it isn't in your respiratory tract.
The J&J vaccine is an inactived live virus EXACTLY like the flu vaccine. There is no reason to not go around people with the flu vaccine or the J&J covid vaccine. Maybe this was a thing years ago but not now.