Originally Posted by
Often1
You are confusing two entirely separate issues.
The sole question is whether someone exhibiting symptoms of Covid has been tested to rule out Covid. Whether that person has been recently vaccinated is a complete red herring.
Have symptoms = get tested.
Systemic vaccine side effects are, by and large, not similar to COVID symptoms.
Vaccine side effects tend to be pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, muscle aches, chills, fever, joint pain and nausea. [
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COVID-19 symptoms are fever, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea. [
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There's really very little overlap there, other than fever, fatigue and headache. If you lose your sense of taste or smell or have respiratory symptoms of any kind, it's not a vaccine side effect - get tested for COVID-19. If your arm is sore, you have a slight fever and you're fatigued, but you have no respiratory symptoms or loss of taste/smell, it's almost certainly the vaccine. If there's any doubt at all, get tested.
The point of my post was to correct the common misconception that getting vaccinated is an exposure to COVID: it is not, because no COVID is involved in the production of the vaccines.
I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice.