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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.

Update:

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.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    2 weeks ago

    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.

  • 4 weeks ago

    No, because there is NO intact funchinal virus in the shot. 

  • 4 weeks ago

    No. It does not work like that. There is no shedding from the shot. 

    You should both get vaccinated though. 

  • 1 month ago

    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. 

    No way to give anybody COVID nor adenovirus. 

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/jo...

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  • 1 month ago

    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.

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    There is no certainty that you cannot still catch the virus after being vaccinated, but it cannot happen in the way you are asking.        "The J&J one-dose vaccine was shown to be 66% protective against moderate to severe Covid infections overall from 28 days after injection, though there was variability based on geographic locations. The vaccine was 72% protective in the United States, 66% protective in South America, and 57% protective in South Africa.   But the vaccine was shown to be 85% protective against severe disease, with no differences across the eight countries or three regions in the study, nor across age groups among trial participants. And there were no hospitalizations or deaths in the vaccine arm of the trial after the 28-day period in which immunity developed".

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    What's virus shedding? That's a new one. You really should try hard to convince your mom to be vaccinated. Dying slowly from Covid is not a nice way to go.  Your shots will have no effect on her whatsoever.

  • 1 month ago

    No.............

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