you can still get it .my wife did
Yes, you can.
Two weeks ago on Tuesday I visited my doctor for my semi-annual checkup. While there he talked me into getting the Prevnar 13 vaccine for Pneumococcal Pneumonia and the Covid vaccine. Yes, I gave in to the Covid vaccine.
The day after I received those two vaccines, Wednesday, I experienced intermittent fatigue throughout the day along with minor body aches as though I was coming down with something. During the night on Wednesday night I awoke with a fever. By Thursday I was back to just feeling slightly fatigued and with minor body aches that came and went. The listed side effects from both of these vaccines include fatigue, body aches, and fever so I suspected I was experiencing those side effects.
Thursday, my neighbor and his son picked me up to attend a customer appreciation lunch at our local creamery so the three of us rode together. That following Sunday I attended our church pot luck, pie, and ice cream social to celebrate our pastor's last day. The only symptoms I was still feeling was a little sinus congestion and that would cause me to cough occasionally.
The next day, Monday, my neighbor, his son, a couple other fellows, and I were working together to replace part of the roof shingles on our church entry way. We had lunch together inside the church basement. My neighbor was sniffling and coughing a little and commented that he had picked up a cold.
The next day, Tuesday, he decided to get tested for Covid because he had been feverish the night before. His test confirmed he was positive. His son was also tested and positive. I checked with my doctor and we decided that I too should be tested along with my wife. That Thursday our test results came back positive. My neighbor's wife developed symptoms later and tested positive as well as did one of the other fellows that helped with the roof. We all experienced only minor symptoms and are just now ending our isolation periods.
Here's the unique thing about all of this. My neighbor, his wife, his son, my wife, and the other fellow that tested positive were all fully vaccinated. I was the only one that was not vaccinated. Yes, I got the first shot the day before my symptoms started but that would have no effect as I was already infected before I was vaccinated.
I asked my doctor about this and he said that we are learning that the vaccinations don't really do too much to prevent infection, particularly with the Delta variant. This makes sense because according to the numbers we should have achieved herd immunity now and the virus should be having trouble finding suitable hosts to infect and yet case counts are rising somewhat rapidly.
The vaccines may help some but they are proving to be less effective for preventing infection as time goes on. BUT he also said it is a current fact that the number of people who are hospitalized due to Covid are nearly all unvaccinated. This indicates that the vaccinations have been doing a great job of protecting people from serious illness resulting in hospitalizations and deaths. There is also mounting evidence that vaccinated persons are contagious for a shorter time period than unvaccinated persons. This makes sense because the vaccines give our immune system a jump start in the fight against the invasion.