Corona Virus

[Buster's Uncle]

Dawn Wells, dead of crows today, age 82.

They killed Mary Ann talking moron politics.

[Geo]

Yeah, but you can't delay the 2nd shot or you might as well not get the first one to begin with

This was proposed by some of the medical experts in my country.
Appearantly they based this proposal on antibody response data on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccin. They seem to think the level of protection doesn't diminish much after only one shot for a long time (100+ days).
OTOH, they don't propose this for the first phase (care center residents in particular, and I assume their caretakers and medical personnel as well) of the vaccination program.
IIRC, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccin is the one who had the least number of doses ordered in Belgium (somewhere between 1-2 million).
The general population is expected to be injected with the AstraZeneca vaccin.

[E_T]

which was just recently approved by the UK, but haven't heard anything from EU sources as to how soon they will approve it...

[E_T]

US: C-19 is now the 3rd leading cause of Death (following Heart Disease & Cancer).  In Florida, it beats out the deaths due to Stroke (from all the retirees here), but is still in 3rd place.

CDC warns of possible death tolls of over 425,000 (US) by Jan 24

New Variants of c-19 confirmed in US

Many Hospitals and local healthcare centers have sufficient supplies of C-19 Monoclonal Antibody Medications to treat patients but have only been using approx 20% of supplies available on hand.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/31/covid-monoclonal-antibodies-unused/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F2e02083%2F5fedfd159d2fda0efb99fed2%2F5fe613239bbc0f251214ccf8%2F12%2F68%2F5fedfd159d2fda0efb99fed2

But for hospitals already strained by a surge of covid-19 cases, the outpatient pharmaceutical treatment presents a major logistical challenge as exhausted staff scramble to care for patients and race to inoculate front-line workers with the first coronavirus vaccines.

[Rusty Edge]

So at this point in the Christmas Eve debacle...
SIL and my wife's brother = Sick and tired, confirmed Covid.
Their youngest daughter and her boyfriend= Sick and tired, confirmed Covid.
Their middle daughter and her husband, healthy and tested normal.
Their oldest daughter and her fiance', allergy type symptoms and tired,  tested normal.
My wife's sister and her daughter = Cold type symptoms , confirmed Covid.

Me- got a brain swab today, should get results in 3 or 4 days. My wife will get a rapid test on Saturday.
We both have cold symptoms. According to Facebook posts from years past, that seems to be quite normal for us at the beginning of January. I have some aches and pains. It might be from shoveling wet snow. I was 97.8 degrees earlier today, which is my normal. Now I'm 99.6

Well, it's about an hour short of a week from when this started. I'll feel better once everyone has passed
the 10 day post-infection mark without hospitalization.

[E_T]

I'm hoping ya'll are clean, but no matter what, too freaking close for comfort!!  Hope everyone gets better and ask around about the Anti-body treatment (See above)

[E_T]

New Strain of C-19 confirmed in Martin Co, Florida, a mostly Rural County that is between Lake Okeechobee and the Atlantic Ocean.  The infected person has not traveled, so it's in parts of South Florida and will be showing up more in Florida

[Geo]

which was just recently approved by the UK, but haven't heard anything from EU sources as to how soon they will approve it...

Ptobably within a month then.

[E_T]

Op Warp Speed is stalling out due to lack of leadership
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/current-rate-it-ll-be-10-years-americans-adequately-vaccinated-n1252486

[Rusty Edge]

So at this point in the Christmas Eve debacle...
SIL and my wife's brother = Sick and tired, confirmed Covid.
Their youngest daughter and her boyfriend= Sick and tired, confirmed Covid.
Their middle daughter and her husband, healthy and tested normal.
Their oldest daughter and her fiance', allergy type symptoms and tired,  tested normal.
My wife's sister and her daughter = Cold type symptoms , confirmed Covid.

Me- got a brain swab today, should get results in 3 or 4 days. My wife will get a rapid test on Saturday.
We both have cold symptoms. According to Facebook posts from years past, that seems to be quite normal for us at the beginning of January. I have some aches and pains. It might be from shoveling wet snow. I was 97.8 degrees earlier today, which is my normal. Now I'm 99.6

Well, it's about an hour short of a week from when this started. I'll feel better once everyone has passed
the 10 day post-infection mark without hospitalization.

I'm feeling nearly normal. Temp is 98.2. Wife's rapid test was negative today. My results from my lab test came in positive.

Dumbass SIL has a son who was there. He has aches, has a test scheduled for Monday.
My wife's sister and her daughter have lost their sense of smell. So has Dumbass SIL's youngest daughter.

Covid, the gift that keeps on giving.

[E_T]

Your feeling normal but tested pos?  Asymptomatic?  and your wife tested neg.  How is she feeling?

Dang, hope yall will get through it

[Rusty Edge]

Your feeling normal but tested pos?  Asymptomatic?  and your wife tested neg.  How is she feeling?

Dang, hope yall will get through it

She's been sleepy, had a few cold allergy type symptoms when I did. We normally have cold or flu this time of year, probably from signing for deliveries. The family went on a cruise a year ago, and there's the theory that what we thought was a bad flu at the time was actually Covid. Several of us had it. Some are going to get blood tested for antibodies to support that theory. They started testing all blood donations for antibodies, and I've come up negative twice.

My symptoms were  cold/allergy type, a low fever, a headache, and some body aches, some of them fairly acute with no other explanation.

I feel pretty normal today, but I noticed that my sense of smell & taste was impaired yesterday. We're keeping our fingers crossed until we pass day 11.

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I may have more to say about my SIL in the future, after everyone is safely out of the woods.

[E_T]

In LA (as well as a few other areas of California) more than 8 hour wait time in Ambulances to get into a Hospital

[Geo]

She's been sleepy, had a few cold allergy type symptoms when I did. We normally have cold or flu this time of year, probably from signing for deliveries. The family went on a cruise a year ago, and there's the theory that what we thought was a bad flu at the time was actually Covid. Several of us had it. Some are going to get blood tested for antibodies to support that theory. They started testing all blood donations for antibodies, and I've come up negative twice.

My symptoms were  cold/allergy type, a low fever, a headache, and some body aches, some of them fairly acute with no other explanation.

I feel pretty normal today, but I noticed that my sense of smell & taste was impaired yesterday. We're keeping our fingers crossed until we pass day 11.

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I may have more to say about my SIL in the future, after everyone is safely out of the woods.

When I let my blood tested for covid antibodies last month, the doctor made it clear to me he didn't think it would show up if I hadn't been infected up to several weeks to perhaps 2 months earlier. So showing antibodies for a Covid infection a year ago should not be possible.
Glad to see you don't seem affected (too) much.

[Rusty Edge]

Thanks, Geo.

Today I don't feel as well. Mostly sinus problems, snot in my lungs, and body aches. My temp has it's ups and downs. My sense of smell/taste is off. My pulse and oxygen levels have been fairly steady. Still, it's nothing worse than the usual winter sicknesses, although scarier.

I hear more about the South African strain which is suppose to have mutated "spike/hooks",  enough so that the existing vaccines probably won't protect against it. Well, I have had a feeling that Corona virus is here to stay. In the future we will probably have to get a shot, much like the flu, only twice a year due to the higher mutation rate compared to DNA viruses.