03-15-2023, 08:59 AM | #10951 |
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…and if the H5N1 avian flu does, somehow, transmit to humans more easily… then the covid body count could, indirectly, explode. Because if our political division around covid causes half of Americans to skip getting a vaccine, taking precautions, and following treatment guidance… we could have an enormous wave of otherwise avoidable casualties. (Losing over a million Americans has already been awful… but that’s with a disease that has a <1% fatality rate).
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03-15-2023, 09:06 AM | #10952 |
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I dunno.
50% fatality rate (if holds true from the small sample size) will get people on board. There'll still be some crazies but a vaccine won't get here fast enough for 95% of the population. |
03-16-2023, 10:06 PM | #10953 | ||
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This sounds like a no brainer to me.
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03-20-2023, 06:52 PM | #10954 | |||
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03-21-2023, 07:33 AM | #10955 | |||
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Nice move Joe. It's evident there is significant disagreement on how it started so don't expect any smoking gun info. But the FBI seems to have a higher confidence and it'll be interesting to read their rationale.
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04-06-2023, 11:18 PM | #10956 | |
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Good news if it pans out. Should make the annual bivalent dose (same time with flu shots?) a lot easier.
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04-11-2023, 09:19 AM | #10957 | |
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Guess it's official.
I do want an congressional investigation/hearing, not to primarily focus on the origins but more lessons learn. There'll be some inevitable finger pointing and blame placed, but lessons learn is pretty important. Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency | CNN Politics. Quote:
For closure on this chapter of the book > 12 is at 77.4% (Primary series, 2 shots) > 12 is at 90.4% (Primary series, at least 1 dose) > 12 is at 19% (Bivalent) 77.4% is a pretty good number. But it took forever (2 years) and prob less impactful than it seems. |
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04-11-2023, 09:43 AM | #10958 |
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It's a bit of a disappointing number, though I guess, in the political climate maybe better than can be expected. It was perhaps less impactful from a containment standpoint but it probably took a large chunk off of the hospitalization and death numbers
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04-15-2023, 02:53 PM | #10959 |
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Both my in-laws have been dealing with medical issues in the past year. I got a $76 Spirit airline flight from Atlanta to Dallas for FIL birthday (can't beat the price but catch is only allowed a reasonable sized carryon backpack).
Wife drove me to the airport but said she wasn't feeling great. At Sat 6am, took me 22 min to get through security. A lot of people in line but it moved briskly. Got to the gate and wife calls me. She took the Covid test and came back positive. So we cancelled my plans as the in-laws are in a fragile state. She had been dealing with runny nose and throat clearing. We thought allergies as we've been doing yard work, but she was worried enough to take the test. I called Spirit and told them I was at the gate but cancelling my flight. They said get a doctors statement and I can get my $76 refund. I'm thinking fair chance we'll never go to the doctor. She's gotten all the vaccination shots available so we'll monitor her. I'll really get worried if there is respiratory issues vs sniffling and throat clearing. I get Spirit needing a doctors note otherwise there would be abuse. For a split second, I was tempted to be a smart ass and say "nevermind, I'll get on the plane then" and see what she would say. But I just told her I wanted her to let gate agents know I cancelled so they won't be looking for me and possibly inconvenience the flight. So after 2+ years, me travelling internationally in the past year, her working as a teacher in 2021 and 2022, and neither of us testing positive ... wife now has Covid. Last edited by Edward64 : 04-15-2023 at 02:56 PM. |
04-15-2023, 03:38 PM | #10960 |
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oof Edward, how horrible to get it after all this time. Hope you are all okay, and get your money back somehow from Spirit
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04-15-2023, 03:57 PM | #10961 | |
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Thanks. I'm feeling fine ... for now at least. The dilemma I have is we are on the backend of our groceries (milk, bread, cokes etc.). Question is should I drop by Kroger late at night, wearing a mask, do self checkout, and stock up. Funny how these questions come up when you test positive. |
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04-15-2023, 04:06 PM | #10962 |
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Wait - did you test positive, or just your wife?
If you don't have symptoms or haven't tested positive, you're not restricted other than you should wear a mask for 10 days from exposure. It's your wife who is supposed to isolate for 5 days from first symptoms. After that, it doesn't even matter if she's still testing positive, she just has to wear a mask for another 5 days but can go out in public. So to answer your question, you can do whatever, just wear a mask.
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04-15-2023, 04:08 PM | #10963 |
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Just my wife. I don't have symptoms but I haven't taken the test (just happened this morning) but will later today.
Didn't know about the current protocols. Okay, so I take the test and it's negative, I can still go to Kroger but with mask on. |
04-15-2023, 04:16 PM | #10964 |
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You don't really need to test before you go to the store, if you don't have any symptoms. Just mask up. You're supposed to test day 6 (after 5 full days from first exposure). If negative, you've got another 5 days with mask. If positive, isolate.
Even if you decide to test today, you still need to test in 5 days - unless you come up positive today, then your 10 days begins and you and your wife are pretty much on the same schedule (5 days in isolation, 5 days in mask).
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04-15-2023, 04:17 PM | #10965 |
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Okay, thanks.
Assuming no symptoms, I guess I'll go shopping tonight. |
04-15-2023, 04:44 PM | #10966 |
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I think it's worth saying that you and your wife deserve a lot of credit for thinking of others here. It's one thing to learn and to talk about all of this and have opinions. It's another to behave as if the results mean you should take responsibility and walk the walk as well.
Guard is definitely down now. I went to a doctor's office yesterday that I had visited three months ago. In January, signs were up, a box of paper masks at the front desk. I saw two people reminded to wear masks. Yesterday, no boxes, no one wearing masks, except the actual doctor himself. Which had me wondering if nothing has changed except perception. I will take another look into what boosters are available and when they should be taken. |
04-16-2023, 08:04 AM | #10967 |
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Went to Kroger and did my thing last night. Not that busy and non eventful. Took the Covid test this morning and came back negative.
Got wife some Mucinex, she slept pretty well and is feeling somewhat better. She has nose congestion and not chest congestion. Assume this is like the flu where it peaked yesterday and is now all downhill to recovery now. (On another note, ordered pickup from our local Indian restaurant. Their pulled chicken pepper, medium spicy is pretty darn great) re: doctors. I go to the dentist multiple times a year, and my doctor last year only to get non-Covid vaccinations (Tetanus, Shingles, Hepatitis). Both doctors & staff were still pretty good with requiring masks and disinfectant gel everywhere. My dentist also has me gargle with something which makes sense. They have done away with temperature gun reading though. Overall, happy with the level of Covid monitoring & prevention both are doing. |
04-16-2023, 09:01 AM | #10968 | |
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04-16-2023, 09:12 AM | #10969 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Same for my first shingles shot (although I combined it with dTap and Covid booster). Good news is that I didn't have a single issue with the 2nd shingles shot 3 months later. Hopefully the same for you.
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04-16-2023, 09:34 AM | #10970 |
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That's good to hear.
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04-16-2023, 10:21 AM | #10971 |
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I think the three medical places I go to (Dentist, kidney doctor, regular doctor) have all moved to whatever you feel comfortable with in regards to masks, and I think most of them have gone maskless too when I visit)
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04-17-2023, 08:18 AM | #10972 | |
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Wife is feeling much better. Pretty quick ... onset on Fri, peaked on Sat, felt better on Sun, almost back to normal Mon.
It was like a flu/allergies, no excessive symptoms. All she took was Mucinex to help with decongestion. We had Indian food on Sat, she could taste and smell it so no issues then. Had all her vaccinations. She's a runner so much more fit than me. Glad it was a mild case. She retired from teaching but is doing part-time work with special needs kids. CDC does say she can return on day 6 (Thu) assuming no more symptoms. Coincidently, our 90lb lab was wheezing a lot yesterday. Had a couple spit ups of sticky phlegm. Didn't eat her food. Very lethargic all day. Also feeling much better today. No idea if she caught it from wife but CDC says its possible What You Should Know about COVID-19 and Pets | Healthy Pets, Healthy People | CDC. Quote:
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04-20-2023, 09:11 AM | #10973 | ||
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Good that they are offering this up.
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04-20-2023, 09:27 AM | #10974 |
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I am glad that the trend is downward. Hopefully this is the direction that sticks.
Hopkins has stopped gathering data. Nearly everyone has stopped masking in all but the most sensitive areas. I get it. That said... we still had over 1,300 Americans die of COVID last week. I know we have decided it's over and everything, but that's still an awful lot of actual people to just collectively round to zero. |
04-20-2023, 09:54 AM | #10975 | |
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Well, you can round it to zero when they all really died in a car accident or from the vaccine. /s |
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04-20-2023, 10:25 AM | #10976 |
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At the risk of sounding like an anti-vaxxer/MUH FREEDOM dude from 3 years ago, the US was averaging about 1K deaths a week from the flu less than 5 years ago (it varied from year to year but 50K+ deaths was not out of the ordinary and the average was around 35K a year) and no one so much as batted an eye at that.
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04-20-2023, 11:18 AM | #10977 | |
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I think that's a reasonable question, particularly couched that way. What I'd counter with is that we're in one of the lowest lulls we've seen in the pandemic and you're comparing it to the peak of flu season so it's comparing highs with lows. The preliminary data from flu gives a range of 19K-56K deaths this past season (yes, I know it's a laughably large range but it's what we've got so far). Meanwhile, COVID logged over 70K so it's still worse than even the top flu projection, but using the mid-point, it's "only" twice as much as opposed to close to an order of magnitude different. For comparison, we had 270K COVID deaths last year over that same time period. 2022-2023 U.S. Flu Season: Preliminary In-Season Burden Estimates | CDC CDC COVID Data Tracker Currently, things have been mercifully quiet on the variant front so we haven't had any surges lately. And the surge this past winter was lighter than previous winters, but, again, still around double flu's usual damage. Hopefully we're in the tail end of the COVID pandemic and if it "just" becomes like the flu, then it's not ideal but so much better than we've been. SI
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04-20-2023, 12:03 PM | #10978 |
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Genuine question: Did we ever come up with a reasonable way to assign covid to deaths? For instance, if someone dies with late stage cancer, congestive heart failure or another deadly disease - but tests positive for covid - do they still count as a "Covid death"? IIRC, a lot of the flu deaths in the past have been people in extremely fragile condition getting the flu and it tipped the scales against them.
I'm not saying they shouldn't count, but if the "somewhat healthy person gets covid and dies" cases are pretty much over - then I can see reducing the threat level. |
04-20-2023, 09:56 PM | #10979 |
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I don't think we ever did, and I don't think we ever will because that well's been so poisoned that no one's going to agree on anything.
Which will make the next pandemic even more fun. |
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IIRC it's the same as anything else. It comes down to what the medical examiner determines and considering the number of medical examiners in the country I don't there's ever going to be clear consistency and, outside of the obvious political issues, I'm not sure there's reason to change anything. |
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04-23-2023, 05:10 PM | #10981 | |
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Yes. Covid must be listed in the primary cause of death chain on the death certificate. This was decided within a couple of months of the pandemic starting and a retroactive correction was made to the counts at that time. You will sometimes see people saying "there's video of [xyz] saying if someone dies in a car crash and tests positive for covid, it counts as a covid death," but that was before the CDC standardized this. You can see the guidelines here: COVID-19 Coding and Reporting Guidance - National Vital Statistics System |
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04-23-2023, 06:29 PM | #10982 | |
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Every Covid doubter/denier I've talked to knows someone that knows someone that's brother/uncle/friend/grandma died in a car accident and the death certificate said Covid. Are you telling me they're all liars? |
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04-23-2023, 07:36 PM | #10983 | |
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04-23-2023, 07:46 PM | #10984 | |
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04-26-2023, 11:37 AM | #10985 | |
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From the DailyMail so take it FWIW. Interesting story. Anyone live (or knows anyone) in Washington Court House and works in Columbus?
The process to analyze sewage for Covid must be pretty weird. How does one person's poop, presumably mixed in tons of other poop, show up in a lab analysis? Scientists launch manhunt for 'longest ever' Covid patient in Ohio | Daily Mail Online Quote:
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04-26-2023, 11:54 AM | #10986 |
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Maybe they can do the genealogy DNA thing and track the person down like they do serial killers.
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04-26-2023, 12:19 PM | #10987 |
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It would be amazing if this ends up being a married guy who has his side piece exposed due to his COVID poop.
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04-26-2023, 12:40 PM | #10988 |
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Thanks, Ohio.
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Don't ask me why but I'm fascinated by poop sampling for covid. The article is from Jan 2023.
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04-29-2023, 10:11 AM | #10990 |
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You just wanted to say "poop."
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04-29-2023, 10:13 AM | #10991 |
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Yes, but actually poopy.
Been a long time since I've said that since kids went diaper free. |
04-30-2023, 08:59 AM | #10992 | |
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Could go under Random but this is probably created largely because of Covid.
I can see this becoming popular in another/next pandemic (needs a v2 where it looks better and is lighter) but doubt it'll take off where things are. I like the concept & effort though. Dyson Zone Review | PCMag Quote:
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05-16-2023, 02:44 PM | #10993 |
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Just took a test, this is legitimately the first time I think I may have it. I get terrible seasonal allergies and I thought it was just that. Woke up today tired and sore. We are supposed to have my nieces graduation party here Saturday so I powerwashed the deck. Made it about an hour then came in and slept for 3 hours. Woke up feeling like my head was going to split in half so I took a test. I went to her indoor graduation Friday so I easily could have picked up something there.
I really hope it is negative. Between the party and my sons band competition Friday that he has worked all season for the timing couldn't be worse. |
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05-16-2023, 03:11 PM | #10995 |
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Negative. Whew.
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05-16-2023, 04:03 PM | #10996 |
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05-17-2023, 08:13 PM | #10997 |
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PSA.
My wife had Covid about a month ago. She's a runner and hasn't been feeling 100% while running, which we attributed to Covid remnants. She went to the doctor and confirmed my wife's airways sounded blocked some. Wife got some steroids and Z-pack. She is feeling much better after a day of treatment. Wife said she didn't think it was that bad but the steroids & antibiotics were really noticeable. So if you've had Covid and think you've recovered, haven't seen your doctor, and feel "off" ... make an appointment. Bonus. The steroids and Z-pack were free, no co-payment at CVS. I'm not sure why, I remember always having a small $5-$10 co-payment. Something must have changed and not complaining. |
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Not Covid related but poop related so thought it kinda fit here.
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05-26-2023, 10:33 AM | #10999 |
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There's a reason that the development of reasonable sanitation practices was a gating element to civilizational growth.
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05-26-2023, 12:58 PM | #11000 |
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So I finally got Covid last week - in the middle of a trip, no less - and the symptoms still aren't fully gone. I think I went through every possible symptom you could have. Started with mild allergy-like symptoms - tickle in the back of the throat, sinus headache - which is why I didn't think much of it. That progressed to a bad sore throat and chills/hot flashes (no menopause jokes please!) for a couple of days (when I finally realized I had something more than just allergies). By Saturday, sore throat was gone and I started feeling better, but a lot of congestion and persistent cough. By early this week, my smell/taste was muted. Those symptoms have continued, more or less, until today.
I finally said fuck it and went for a run this morning. I'm just going to power through it and if I'm still not seeing any progress by Tuesday, I'll message my doctor to see if he'll prescribe something stronger. I've already gone through an 80-count bag of cough drops and 4 bottles of Mucinex and Dayquil/Nyquil. Today is day 10 so I'm finally leaving the house for the first time since we got back from our trip on Sunday.
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