[cft]

I was sick with 101.5F for a week, excruciating headaches, confirmed by a positive PCR after Moderna vaccination. My girlfriend as well, two months after the second dose. How much higher would our viral load be without Moderna?

[scott_w]

It’s hard to say, maybe the vaccine didn’t work on you.

Or maybe it saved yours and your girlfriend’s life.

It’s hard to say on a case-by-case basis which is why we depend on population-level data.

[cft]

My girlfriend is 29. Maybe it saved her life, but the COVID mortality at that age is very very low.

[jquery]

Whatever your experience with the virus was, it would’ve been a lot worse if you were unvaccinated.

[kbelder]

Probably. Don't overstate your certainty. It's an error and moves you farther from the truth, not closer.