re: Anecdotal there seems to be a lot more illness going around.

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Ever since I got the covid vaccine I seem to get sick a lot more and stay sick longer. Seems that it hurts your natural immunity.

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I haven’t seen this correlation in practice.
I no longer wear a mask on a regular basis in the office (still will toss one on in respiratory rooms. Pre-COVID we’d make febrile coughers mask up during flu season. Now I just wear it myself instead). Since then, I have gotten 2-3 different colds- about what I’d get before. This, of course, in no way suggests that anyone should be daily masking, but if you and your wife spend 30% of your working hours examining patients with colds, it does seem to anecdotally make a bit of a difference. We both had commented on just how rarely we were sick since masking in the office. We were generally pretty lax about wearing them in public.


She also has not noticed an uptick in illness in vaccinated vs unvaccinated folks. And we both have plenty of patients in both categories.