COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (4 Viewers)

[nolaspe]

Glad you're doing better Ward, my dad (who got it last week) left me a VM saying that my Mom now has COVID. I'll be calling her in a few to see how she's doing...

 

[jayd265]

Wife and I Covid + with a home test yest after work. Went by my office and got computer last night.

No fever. Just sinus infection type symptoms. Plus sahara dust isn’t helping my case.

 

[Eeyore]

Whelp, it's official.... I have the Rona.

Luckily the fever broke. Other than the severe malaise and fever, the nasal symptoms aren't that bad, and not really coughing.

Doc basically told me I'm looking pretty good, so just do a lot of Saline rinses up my nose to go to the back of my throat to prevent the virus from getting to too many other areas.

You ded

 

[faceman]

Wife and I Covid + with a home test yest after work. Went by my office and got computer last night.

No fever. Just sinus infection type symptoms. Plus sahara dust isn’t helping my case.

Hope you feel better soon,and yes that sahara dust is making life miserable on the Ms coast now.

 

[nolaspe]

You ded

Did he catch the Mariah variant?

 

[Optimus Prime]

At one point last month, children were admitted to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with a startling range of seven respiratory viruses.

They had adenovirus and rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus, influenza and parainfluenza, as well as the coronavirus — which many specialists say is to blame for the unusual surges.


“That’s not typical for any time of year and certainly not typical in May and June,” said Thomas Murray, an infection-control expert and associate professor of pediatrics at Yale. Some children admitted to the hospital were co-infected with two viruses and a few with three, he said.

More than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, familiar viruses are acting in unfamiliar ways. Respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, typically limits its suffocating assaults to the winter months…….,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/13/covid-flu-rsv-viruses/

 

[Saint_Ward]

Wife and I Covid + with a home test yest after work. Went by my office and got computer last night.

No fever. Just sinus infection type symptoms. Plus sahara dust isn’t helping my case.

Hope it stays that way.

Mine was basically this.

Day 1 - afternoon throat felt a little weird, slight itchy nose. Covid negative.

Day 2 - more of the same, but lightly runny nose, no fever, light malaise. Covid negative. But wore a mask all day in the house.

Day 3 - early AM fever, mack truck hit me, weak. Went to UC to get tested, covid positive. Runny/stuffy.

Day 4 - same, but less weak fever breaking up.

Day 5 - fever gone little stuffy, coughing up crap, headache, neck stiff, body hurts from coughing. By evening almost felt human.

Day 6 - today. Same but less sick feeling. Super tired, because I only got 4 hours of sleep due to muscle tightness and headache. Hoping to get a nap in later. May get tested to see if I'm over it.

But basically went from a hmmm, that's weird, to I don't like this, to PAIN!

 

[Saint_Ward]

You ded

Yeet

 

[where yat brah]

Fauci Positive for COVID

Face of U.S. pandemic response fully vaxxed, double boosted, and experiencing mild symptoms

www.medpagetoday.com

 

[Infoman]

Not sure how many times it's been pointed out... Or needs to be... Vaccines don't stop the spread or contraction of Covid... The overall numbers bare that out (when comparing highly vaxed areas to not so highly vaxed areas of similar populations and density), and in my personal experience... every person I know that has gotten the shot, has also contracted Covid afterwards (myself included)....

It's doesn't stop you from getting Covid... Nor does it stop the spread... Some will argue that it slows the spread, but the numbers (when not cherry picked) don't support that...

What the shots do... is what most vaccines shots have done for decades... creates an immune response in the individual... that lessens the chance of severe illness... just in that person... nothing more.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

But if they buy into that, they have a harder time supporting their conspiracy theories.

 

[bclemms]

Not sure how many times it's been pointed out... Or needs to be... Vaccines don't stop the spread or contraction of Covid... The overall numbers bare that out (when comparing highly vaxed areas to not so highly vaxed areas of similar populations and density), and in my personal experience... every person I know that has gotten the shot, has also contracted Covid afterwards (myself included)....

It's doesn't stop you from getting Covid... Nor does it stop the spread... Some will argue that it slows the spread, but the numbers (when not cherry picked) don't support that...

What the shots do... is what most vaccines shots have done for decades... creates an immune response in the individual... that lessens the chance of severe illness... just in that person... nothing more.

Since Omicron, completely true.

Not true at all with Alpha and to a lesser extent Delta.

There was about a 2-3 month period in November-January where it became really clear that the vaccine was not having any significant impact on infection where people were still acting like it did but I honestly haven't seen anyone claiming it did in recent months. A new vaccine is needed for those wanting it. By now, case fatality rates are so low and almost everyone has some sort of immune response we are no longer dealing with a novel virus.

 

[DaveXA]

Since Omicron, completely true.

Not true at all with Alpha and to a lesser extent Delta.

There was about a 2-3 month period in November-January where it became really clear that the vaccine was not having any significant impact on infection where people were still acting like it did but I honestly haven't seen anyone claiming it did in recent months. A new vaccine is needed for those wanting it. By now, case fatality rates are so low and almost everyone has some sort of immune response we are no longer dealing with a novel virus.

Indeed, well said.

 

[Arathrael]

Not sure how many times it's been pointed out... Or needs to be... Vaccines don't stop the spread or contraction of Covid... The overall numbers bare that out (when comparing highly vaxed areas to not so highly vaxed areas of similar populations and density), and in my personal experience... every person I know that has gotten the shot, has also contracted Covid afterwards (myself included)....

It's doesn't stop you from getting Covid... Nor does it stop the spread... Some will argue that it slows the spread, but the numbers (when not cherry picked) don't support that...

What the shots do... is what most vaccines shots have done for decades... creates an immune response in the individual... that lessens the chance of severe illness... just in that person... nothing more.

The data does indicate there is still a moderate (~45%) level of effectiveness against infection from Omicron in the initial period (three months) after a booster, but that this rapidly wanes (see UK vaccine surveillance reports).

That would have some effect on a population level, but given that moderate effectiveness and other factors like Omicron's transmissibility and the numbers and timing of boosters, not that much, so it's still fair to say it's unlikely to be significant. And on an individual level, in particular given the waning effect and the persistence of Omicron and further subvariants, it would at most be one layer of limited protection largely in that initial period, not a substitute for other mitigations, against infection.

But it remains the case that "not much" is not "none at all."

 

[J-Donk]

The data does indicate there is still a moderate (~45%) level of effectiveness against infection from Omicron in the initial period (three months) after a booster, but that this rapidly wanes (see UK vaccine surveillance reports).

That would have some effect on a population level, but given that moderate effectiveness and other factors like Omicron's transmissibility and the numbers and timing of boosters, not that much, so it's still fair to say it's unlikely to be significant. And on an individual level, in particular given the waning effect and the persistence of Omicron and further subvariants, it would at most be one layer of limited protection largely in that initial period, not a substitute for other mitigations, against infection.

But it remains the case that "not much" is not "none at all."

I'm boosted, and have never gotten covid to my knowledge. A decent amount of my family is the same way(all boosted as well). I have no idea if we had asymptomatic infections. We all have some home testing kits, but never had a reason to use them.

In fact, the sickest I've been since covid started was the vaccines.