Well Dad finally tested positive after a week of symptoms, 3 antigen tests and 2 PCR tests - on 2nd PCR test.Sibling’s family in Netherlands all have Covid except one kid. Parents with breakthrough infections. Suspected that kids brought it home from school as parents have been out very little and taking precautions. Dad was first to experience unusual symptoms but hasn’t yet tested positive in spite of testing several times, however three others in household recently tested positive all with symptoms. Dad has same symptoms as one of the kids - really bad headaches. Considering everything they don’t seem to be doing too badly - knock on wood! Considering everything that don’t seem to be doing too badly - knock on wood!
Well Dad finally tested positive after a week of symptoms, 3 antigen tests and 2 PCR tests - on 2nd PCR test.
Here’s hoping that his symptoms don’t get any worse and don’t last too long.
Here's the page I'm looking at to decide whether to go to Florida or not. It's looking pretty tame at the moment. If there is capacity at the hospitals, no matter how many talking heads are freaking out over it, I'm going to stick with the numbers.
Here’s hoping that his symptoms don’t get any worse and don’t last too long.
I’d be much less concerned with hospital capacity and much more concerned with overall case load and transmission rate in the area. I’m fully vaxxed and boosted so the chances of me landing in a hospital are slim. It’s just getting COVID that I’d to avoid.
Here is a weird anomaly I've noticed:
Deaths in USA from Covid ~819,315 so far vs Spanish Flu ~725,000
Deaths in World from Covid ~5,332,147 so far vs Spanish Flu ~17->100 million (with 25->50 million the widely accepted number).
Very strange that here we have had more deaths, but the entire world has had only 10% or 20% of the comparative deaths.
Did they simply grossly mistake the Spanish flu numbers so grossly for the world numbers ? Here in USA I think the numbers would be fairly accurate due to the historical records, the photos of coffins in the streets and piled on the sidewalk.
This is totally separate from the issue of currently Covid has killed less percentage of the population in the USA, compared to the Spanish Flu, which frankly one would expect now that we have better hospital care, vaccines, and knowledge of transmission vectors.
So many stories of the "long haul" patients (as I have recounted about my SIL).
A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at his home and there was a flooring guy working there. He had left the job unfinished for about a month and a half after he contracted and was hospitalized with COVID. He was trying his best to work but could tell it wasn't easy for him. He told us that he isn't sure how he will keep w*rking because he can barely breathe. He had an inhaler that he used a few times and had a pulse oximeter strapped to his wrist/hand that kept going off...apparently when his O2 sat got below 88% or so. He asked if we had been vaxxed and we confirmed that we had...then he said he really wish he had taken the vaccine because now he's in bad shape and doesn't know what that future holds and is scared for his kids. The guy is 43 years old.
It was very awkward to chat with him while he was trying to w*rk yet telling us how miserable his life is.
That’s so awful, and so unnecessary. One wonders if he will end up on government Disability support.
Based on how fast it's tearing through various countries where surveillance is being done and being fairly reported, it does look like a challenge to remain uninfected. It would mean going back to the days of not doing anything, anywhere. I was all about that highly restrictive life when the consequences of taking the dirt-nap were high. But the rate of hospitalizations and deaths compared to numbers getting infected are minuscule with omicron compared to before. And being vaccinated and boosted, you have nothing to worry about. Even just being double vaccinated, the T cell response is expected to be very effective against omicron as indicatec by this MD (and actively practicing clinician). In this 1 minute video, he talks through the various 'flavors' of T cell epitopes and how they stack up in vaccinated and natural immunity people against the omicron variant:same hereI’d be much less concerned with hospital capacity and much more concerned with overall case load and transmission rate in the area. I’m fully vaxxed and boosted so the chances of me landing in a hospital are slim. It’s just getting COVID that I’d to avoid.
But omicron looks like a challenge for remaining uninfected.
I think saying "nothing to worry about" isn't really accurate. My wife has asthma, hypertension, and is a cancer survivor. I sure don't want her getting COVID even fully vaccinated. Even though I have no comorbidities that I know of, just the hassle of having to miss 10 days of work and isolate from my family is something I'd like to avoid.Based on how fast it's tearing through various countries where surveillance is being done and being fairly reported, it does look like a challenge to remain uninfected. It would mean going back to the days of not doing anything, anywhere. I was all about that highly restrictive life when the consequences of taking the dirt-nap were high. But the rate of hospitalizations and deaths compared to numbers getting infected are minuscule with omicron compared to before. And being vaccinated and boosted, you have nothing to worry about.
That's true. Saying "nothing to worry about" was not accurate. You certainly do have many things to worry about. That's quite a list of worries. I'd be worried too, in your shoes.I think saying "nothing to worry about" isn't really accurate.
That I agree with. Even in my case, I'm not nearly as concerned as I was a year ago.I'd say that a generalized member of this board has "a heck of a lot less to worry about" than the days when a relatively large fraction of people in the same cohort of this board were not making it out of the hospital if they acquired the disease.
The 1918 data is probably inaccurate, and incomplete, to only count the "developed" world, which was much smaller then. Centralized reporting out of Asia, Africa, and S.America was probably not included properly, or as well collected. It's really impossible to compare, especially when you also account for population changes in the different parts of the globe.