{"id":738,"date":"2022-10-06T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=738"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:12","slug":"coronavirus-booster-faq-can-it-cause-a-positive-test-when-should-you-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/06\/coronavirus-booster-faq-can-it-cause-a-positive-test-when-should-you-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus (booster) FAQ: Can it cause a positive test? When should you get it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2022\/10\/04\/1126542224\/coronavirus-booster-faq-can-it-cause-a-positive-test-when-should-you-get-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR<\/a> &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vaccine and the tests are based upon different parts of the COVID virus. &#8220;All the vaccines in the United States use the spike genetic material,&#8221; says Kamil. &#8220;All of the home tests detect something called nucleocapsid,&#8221; a protein not found in the vaccine. But if the vaccine is going to make you feel ill, then how can you tell whether you&#8217;re sick from the vaccine or from a COVID infection? The answer to that question has to do with the timing and nature of your symptoms. As for how long your vaccine symptoms might last, Cohen says &#8220;everybody&#8217;s a little bit different,&#8221; but you should start to be concerned if you have a fever, body aches or headaches that last more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR &#8211; The vaccine and the tests are based upon different parts of the COVID virus. &#8220;All the vaccines in the United States use the spike genetic material,&#8221; says Kamil. &#8220;All of the home tests detect something called nucleocapsid,&#8221; a protein not found in the vaccine. But if the vaccine is going to make you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}