Covid Getting Closer to Home

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Chalk my family up for four breakthru cases. My 10-year-old daughter got flu-like symptoms on 1/17 that lasted 2-3 days. The rest of us were all sick within a week. The other daughter had the same 2-3 day experience. My wife and I had a week of flu symptoms and another week or so of lingering cold symptoms. I still have a hint of cold symptoms ( I often have lingering colds, or did before Covid), but am basically back to normal and am testing negative.
 
Sorry to hear that. Hope you're all back up to feeling good in short order.
 
Gumby said:
Sorry to hear that. Hope you're all back up to feeling good in short order.
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We’re fine. My close friend’s family is now going thru the same thing, but their kids and his wife are unvaccinated because his wife read something on Facebook and he wasn’t up for the fight with her. His daughter’s fever got up to 104 degrees before Tylenol knocked it back down to 101. She’ll probably be fine, but Omicron has put a decent number of unvaccinated kids in the hospital around here, so he’s not real happy right now.

Get your kids vaccinated if you haven’t yet folks.
 
My brother in Australia is now recovered well enough to start work again next week. This weekend he saw his wife for the first time in a month. He had a pretty hard time of it and is really grateful for his double vaccination status otherwise he reckons his symptoms could have been much worse. As it was he said it was very much worse than when he had pneumonia a few years ago. (He got his booster a few days before getting sick with Covid). They work over 200 miles away from their main home so when he tested positive he drove back home, his wife stayed at their second house, and his son and a good friend brought him shopping etc.

His company provided him with home test kits to test every day and middle of last week he said he was finally testing negative but still felt terrible. His doc put him on antibiotics for a secondary infection and he soon picked up. He will be working from home for a week at least until he feels up to physically going back.
 
Update--My 90 year old mother had Covid about 3 weeks ago. She is doing OK and recently tested negative but she still has a stuffed up head and some brain fog (seems to be getting better). She finally got into see her doctor and the doctor thinks the Covid may have caused a sinus infection and is now prescribing antibiotics. Her doctor said she (the doctor in her 50s, fully vaxxed and boosted) had exactly the same problem--had Covid a month or so ago and continues to have a stuffy head and brain fog.

My 68 year old sister who caught Covid from DM is recovered. But she has asked everyone to not tell my mother that she caught covid from my mother as that would upset mother. Complicated.

I am just grateful to the scientists who developed the vaccine--I think without the vaccine my DM would likely have been much sicker and could have died.
 
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That’s good news harllee, I’m sure you all must be relieved that recovery is well under way.
 
harllee--so glad to hear your Mom is doing better!
 
A friend of a friend died of Covid on Friday. I had met him a couple times -- he was 62 but prided himself on being fit. I'm curious whether he was vaccinated (the rate is about 64% here) but it would be indiscreet to ask. It's none of my business anyway.
 
That is great news, harllee.
 
Lots of good news overall. I am glad so many of you are doing better.

I was recently in StateX where wearing a mask and getting vaccinated are not a high priority compared to where I live. I think I also dodged a bullet, thanks to 2 Vax shots and the Booster. Wearing the N95 probably helped also. Belts and suspenders.
 
Just changed the mask rules in Vegas. Indoor mask wearing just changed from around 60% to perhaps 10%.
Heading back home today and so far so good.
 
Just found out that someone we know has contracted COVID. He's diabetic and is probably considered obese or pretty close to it. I assume he had the booster shot recently. I hope he'll be OK...
 
Well, I just heard from one of my friends, who had COVID, for the THIRD time, now! He says he's under quarantine til the end of February.

He caught it the first time back in early 2020, during the first outbreaks. He got vaccinated in early 2021, but caught it again, over the summer. He said that the first time it was just like getting the flu, but the second time, he actually had to go to the hospital.

This time, he says he doesn't feel too bad. So hopefully, it's a mild case.
 
Illinois is lifting its mask mandate, except for schools, health care facilities, planes. Supposed to happen by the 28th. Just got back from Walmart, Jewel, Menards and a small local grocery store. Lots of people in the stores getting a head start to maskless.
 
Great news Harlee. I suspect some of the brain fog is just due to a reduction in the amount of human interaction. My MIL is in nursing home and DW and I see a strong correlation between her sharpness and the amount of human interaction. Every time the amount of human interaction picks up after a lock down, so does MIL mental sharpness (i.e. lack of fog).
 
Alan, great news on DB.
Harlee, I'm happy to hear that your mom is doing well.
 
Ronstar said:
Illinois is lifting its mask mandate, except for schools, health care facilities, planes. Supposed to happen by the 28th. Just got back from Walmart, Jewel, Menards and a small local grocery store. Lots of people in the stores getting a head start to maskless.
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Getting more and more studies indicating long-term problems may lie ahead for recovered patients.

We know about long covid, a lot of complaints of symptoms lingering for months, maybe over a year.

But we've had reports about increase risk of heart disease, even in young and fit non-smokers.

CDC also posted a study about increased risk of diabetes type 1 in children under 18. It may be possible that covid attacks the pancreas or causes fat cells to go haywire.

So in these cases, people could recover, not feel symptoms, not even long covid. But the disease could still leave a mark inside, something one isn't aware of until later.

At the very least doctors may have to increase monitoring for heart disease markers and diabetes in former covid patients.
 
Turbo29 said:
If a student in a high school science class did an experiment and compared test groups with statistics for each group being collected in as varied a manner as the covid statistics are collected in different areas (cities, counties, states, and even countries) and then used those comparisons to draw conclusions, they would get a failing grade.
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W2R said:
As someone with four advanced STEM degrees who spent decades collecting and analyzing data, and overseeing its usage in valid and significant scientific studies, I don't think there is such a thing as being overly critical of Covid data and studies based on these data that are presently available to the public.

No matter what response this post gets, that's all I'll say about it... except this is why I don't engage in data analysis discussions here on the forum.
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Sorry to be late to the party.

The discussion takes me back to some of my favorite sayings on data manipulation.


There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics

Statistics can be made to prove anything — even the truth

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital


There are many more, but those were my favorites back at Megacorp so YMMV.
 
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Wife came down with symptoms and tested positive earlier this week. I, somehow, had no symptoms and tested negative. Go figure...
 
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Wife came down with symptoms and tested positive earlier this week. I, somehow, had no symptoms and tested negative. Go figure...
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The same happened last month with my sister but her husband and adult daughter living in the same house didn’t catch it.

I hope your symptoms are mild and you recover quickly.
 
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