COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (2 Viewers)

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My youngest came home from college last weekend, and then tested positive on Monday. He stayed home all week. The test today shows a very, very faint line on the T, so hopefully this means it’s almost over. His symptoms were basically what you’d expect from a cold. My wife and I had the updated booster 2-3 weeks ago and so far we’re fine. He needs to get back to school so hopefully tomorrows test is negative.
 
I will be getting my 2nd booster Monday. I'm not panicking lol. People are still dying and we don't know if a future
strain will be deadlier than Delta

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Las Vegas doctors say new COVID strain is more aggressive than ever before

The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services reports a 42% increase in COVID-19 cases and doctors in the valley say the new variant has more aggressive symptoms.
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faceman said:
I will be getting my 2nd booster Monday. I'm not panicking lol. People are still dying and we don't know if a future
strain will be deadlier than Delta

www.ktnv.com

Las Vegas doctors say new COVID strain is more aggressive than ever before

The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services reports a 42% increase in COVID-19 cases and doctors in the valley say the new variant has more aggressive symptoms.
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Is that the one updated with the omicron variant? My 1st 3 jabs were Pfizer, and this one was Moderna. It may be coincidence, but I had the “worst” side effects with this one. I quoted “worst” because it’s relative; the 1st 3 were basically not much for me. With this updated I had low grade fever, mild chills and body aches. It all lasted about 16 hours. Glad I got it. With my wife being a teacher we’re preparing for a surge in cases after Thanksgiving, and then Christmas/New Years.
 
gboudx said:
Is that the one updated with the omicron variant? My 1st 3 jabs were Pfizer, and this one was Moderna. It may be coincidence, but I had the “worst” side effects with this one. I quoted “worst” because it’s relative; the 1st 3 were basically not much for me. With this updated I had low grade fever, mild chills and body aches. It all lasted about 16 hours. Glad I got it. With my wife being a teacher we’re preparing for a surge in cases after Thanksgiving, and then Christmas/New Years.
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Yeah my Dr. said it was based on the Omnicron variant. The others were based on the alpha strain which is long gone.

I'm expecting more side effects like you. The first 3 were arm soreness at the injection site. The first two were minor.
I was unable to use my left arm the day after the first booster. It's still better than catching the actual virus
 
faceman said:
Yeah my Dr. said it was based on the Omnicron variant. The others were based on the alpha strain which is long gone.

I'm expecting more side effects like you. The first 3 were arm soreness at the injection site. The first two were minor.
I was unable to use my left arm the day after the first booster. It's still better than catching the actual virus
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The arm soreness was worse for my 1st 3 as well. With this latest, it wasn’t much at all.
 
faceman said:
Yeah my Dr. said it was based on the Omnicron variant. The others were based on the alpha strain which is long gone.

I'm expecting more side effects like you. The first 3 were arm soreness at the injection site. The first two were minor.
I was unable to use my left arm the day after the first booster. It's still better than catching the actual virus
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I got my omicron based booster over a month ago. I had zero side effects aside from injection site tenderness...
 
A few weeks ago, a new and disturbing wave of covid infections looked possible. Several worrisome new variants capable of evading immunity landed in the United States. The variants are still coming, but as their share of total infections has grown, hospitalizations remain relatively stable.

This suggests the new mutated virus is not causing more serious illness — a welcome change.


Nationwide, the BA.5 variant that was prevalent in recent months has now shrunk to 29.7 percent of total infections, according to the latest model-based forecast by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In its place is a “soup” of new variants, some of which contain mutations that in laboratory experiments proved far more evasive of antibodies than earlier variants.

The Food and Drug Administration warned that some new variants might not be neutralized by the monoclonal antibody Evusheld, an important therapy for the immunocompromised.


In particular, BQ.1.1 and its offshoots now amount to 44.2 percent of total infections and are growing. But as professor Eric Topol has pointed out, “worry about this highly immune evasive” variant “has not played out” with a significant wave of new cases.

New York state, which is experiencing the nation’s highest level of BQ.1.1 infections, has not seen a parallel rise in hospitalizations.

This could signal the pandemic has reached the phase in which infections still spread, but do not claim such an enormous toll as did the omicron and delta waves.

One reason could be that new variants have simply evolved to cause less severe illness.

Another explanation is the population has finally erected an immunity wall to keep the virus at bay, the cumulative result of natural infection, vaccination and other treatments.

More studies are necessary, and any tentative conclusions could be overturned if a nasty new variant appears…….

 
gboudx said:
Is that the one updated with the omicron variant? My 1st 3 jabs were Pfizer, and this one was Moderna. It may be coincidence, but I had the “worst” side effects with this one. I quoted “worst” because it’s relative; the 1st 3 were basically not much for me. With this updated I had low grade fever, mild chills and body aches. It all lasted about 16 hours. Glad I got it. With my wife being a teacher we’re preparing for a surge in cases after Thanksgiving, and then Christmas/New Years.
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My wife got Covid for a 3rd time 2 weeks ago, but due to her body's overreaction to the vaccine, her PCP advised against the boosters. Yes, the schools are breeding grounds.

I got my second booster a month ago and the only side effect was fatigue for 24 hours, which started exactly 24 hours after the booster.
 
good read that probably could be it's own thread
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In February 2020, few would have predicted the wave of dissatisfaction that was about to roll over the American workplace. The United States, it was common to say, was a nation of workaholics — and we seemed to like it that way.

Our professional lives had taken on the overtones of a secular religion; they were a primary way to find meaning in the world and a crucial part of our identity. We were “married to the job,” in the words of therapist and author Ilene Philipson. Even precarious, low-paying gigs were valorized as “hustle culture,” representing freedom to perform labor on our terms.

Fast-forward to fall 2022. The number of people quitting, while down from the peak, remains at the highest level since the 1970s. White-collar workers don’t want to give up working remotely. Low-paying sectors such as the hospitality industry can’t find enough people willing to work for the wages on offer. Union organizing and strikes have been on an upswing.

Myriad commenters have tried to name the collection of trends underway: The Great Resignation. The Great Renegotiation. Quiet Quitting. The Great Reevaluation. It’s not easy to nail down a movement that spans striking nurses and unionizing strippers, Amazon warehouse workers and work-from-home Wall Street bankers.

But what’s increasingly clear is that the March 2020 decision to partially close down the American economy shattered Americans’ dysfunctional, profoundly unequal relationship with work like nothing in decades.

And even if there was great discomfort in a shutdown that severed almost every one of us from assumptions about how we earn a living, we also found an unexpected opportunity: to remake our relationship with the labor that fills our days.

To understand what happened, it’s helpful to divide the 164 million Americans who were in the labor force in February 2020 into three rough categories.

There were the millions who thought they possessed a secure job, only to be laid off or furloughed as the pandemic lockdowns set in. There were white-collar office workers who continued to work 40 or more hours a week, but now from home.

Then there were the workers — grocery store employees, food service workers and utility workers, as well as police officers, postal workers, teachers and health-care providers — whose work was suddenly dubbed “essential,” without whose efforts society as we know it would cease to function..............

 
Optimus Prime said:
good read that probably could be it's own thread
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In February 2020, few would have predicted the wave of dissatisfaction that was about to roll over the American workplace. The United States, it was common to say, was a nation of workaholics — and we seemed to like it that way.

Our professional lives had taken on the overtones of a secular religion; they were a primary way to find meaning in the world and a crucial part of our identity. We were “married to the job,” in the words of therapist and author Ilene Philipson. Even precarious, low-paying gigs were valorized as “hustle culture,” representing freedom to perform labor on our terms.

Fast-forward to fall 2022. The number of people quitting, while down from the peak, remains at the highest level since the 1970s. White-collar workers don’t want to give up working remotely. Low-paying sectors such as the hospitality industry can’t find enough people willing to work for the wages on offer. Union organizing and strikes have been on an upswing.

Myriad commenters have tried to name the collection of trends underway: The Great Resignation. The Great Renegotiation. Quiet Quitting. The Great Reevaluation. It’s not easy to nail down a movement that spans striking nurses and unionizing strippers, Amazon warehouse workers and work-from-home Wall Street bankers.

But what’s increasingly clear is that the March 2020 decision to partially close down the American economy shattered Americans’ dysfunctional, profoundly unequal relationship with work like nothing in decades.

And even if there was great discomfort in a shutdown that severed almost every one of us from assumptions about how we earn a living, we also found an unexpected opportunity: to remake our relationship with the labor that fills our days.

To understand what happened, it’s helpful to divide the 164 million Americans who were in the labor force in February 2020 into three rough categories.

There were the millions who thought they possessed a secure job, only to be laid off or furloughed as the pandemic lockdowns set in. There were white-collar office workers who continued to work 40 or more hours a week, but now from home.

Then there were the workers — grocery store employees, food service workers and utility workers, as well as police officers, postal workers, teachers and health-care providers — whose work was suddenly dubbed “essential,” without whose efforts society as we know it would cease to function..............

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That's a bunch of garbage. Boomers are retiring, and we went nuts with shutting down immigration, and the generations to fill their shoes are smaller meaning that there aren't as many workers to fill the jobs. The jobs will still be necessary until the population begins to decline.

Employers are finally on the wrong side of supply/demand and they're crying like petulant children. They just keep demanding more production and scheduling more hours to fill the gap. Sooner or later there won't be more to give. It looks like we're about there. If employers want good people they're going to have to compete.
 

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