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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Maher tested positive for Covid, cancels Fri show.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/05/13/bill-maher-real-time-sidelined-after-hosts-positive-covid-19-test/5083082001/"Covid has sidelined comedian Bill Maher and, for one week at least, his HBO talk show, "Real Time with Bill Maher and for one week at least, his HBO talk show, "Real Time with Bill Maher."
"The "Real Time" Twitter account Thursday announced the cancellation of Friday's episode after the fully vaccinated host "tested positive during weekly staff PCR testing for COVID." The tweet continues that Maher "is asymptomatic and feels fine."
"'Real Time' production has taken every precaution following COVID CDC guidelines. No other staff or crew members have tested positive at this time," the tweet says.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,133 posts)That is the point of the vax.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)Some people say "fully vaccinated" and mean only that they have just had their last (or only) shot. It takes time for immunity to build up.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)believing that there is a correlation between vaccines and autism.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)I just haven't been able to find any suggestion of when he got vaccinated (or which vaccine).
Hugin
(33,164 posts)A couple of things.
First, I wonder if the posted efficacy rates for the vaccines took into account that the people participating in the trials were also following the other COVID guidelines.
Also, all along it has been suspected that the severity of the infection with the COVID virus is related to the amount of virus a person was exposed to. These 'breakthrough' infections may be due to higher than average exposure. Granted, without the vaccine these high exposure infections would have ended up with a poor prognosis.
You pose a good question, too. Not knowing anything, but, what I've seen in reports of people's highly varied reactions to the vaccination. I'm supposing the point of 'fully vaccinated' is also highly variable. On average happening between five to six weeks after the first or only vaccination.
Demsrule86
(68,593 posts)boston bean
(36,222 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)NT
LisaL
(44,973 posts)NT
boston bean
(36,222 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)speak easy
(9,261 posts)Vinca
(50,279 posts)appearance railing against obese people and claiming they were the ones getting Covid because they take lousy care of themselves. Self righteousness doesn't wear well in this case.
retread
(3,762 posts)1. To greatly reduce our odds of contacting the disease.
2. To reduce the symptoms if we did get the disease.
I suspect quite a few of the "great unwashed" that are fully vaccinated but aren't tested on a regular basis will be asymptomatic if we get Covid.
Demsrule86
(68,593 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)In other words, if Bill Maher was a regular guy on the street who didn't have to get tested for his show, he would have never known that he "had" COVID. If a tree falls in the forest, etc.
ChrisF1961
(457 posts)question everything
(47,487 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)1. mRNA vaccines are 95% so 5% will get infected.
2. J&J is around 75% so around 25% will still get it.
3. If you get exposed, you are likely to have a bunch of virus in your nasal pharynx which will result in a positive test but the virus wont take hold and actually cause infection as your antibodies would be fighting it.
If its door number three, I bet if he tested again it would be negative.