dancinstallion
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Yes It can be used as a booster too.
The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc
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Yes It can be used as a booster too.
But it hasn’t been authorized for use as a booster yet. Don’t know what they are waiting for.
dancinstallion
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But it hasn’t been authorized for use as a booster yet. Don’t know what they are waiting for.
Isnt all of the vaccines that are authorized available to be used as a booster? That's what I was told.
lavaflow99
In search of the next vacation
Long thread but good info.
lavaflow99
In search of the next vacation
Yup ultimately. They like to do their research before making the declaration. Hopefully by fall you mix and match all these vaccines.
prettywhitty
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Very sobering. Keep that mask on fam. I was working last week (hospital) and the respiratory therapist disclosed to me that they are keeping count of how many oxygen tanks they have on hand and that they have to ration it for our newborn resuscitations- don’t turn on unless absolutely necessary. Which has never been a issue before. Should we have a surge the way we have in the past keep in mind that resources will become more limited. We can’t just keep having cycles of full hospitals with a still slow supply chain…
I have a feeling this fall/winter season will be another wild ride.
Black Ambrosia
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Lylddlebit
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Those examples are a few of many reasons why I am grateful for the option to avoid exposure all together. Most of the people I know with long covid push through the symptoms and just mention how thoroughly it sucks in passing. So many don't really show how terrible it is unless you speak to them regularly. No one wants to die from covid but you don't want to live through debilitating consequences adjacent to it either. Have I mentioned that covid continues to suck? Not just catching it ....vaccine risk(when you are the one who gets the side effect), long covid, covid itself... there are many areas to suck in. Life is to flourish in not barely make it in shambles. Good enough ain't enough just because death was avoided but I still have hope that standard will be elevated to acceptable.
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snoop
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Slightly off topic: Only 1 man? Do men not make vlog type tiktoks? (Asking because I'm not on Tiktok)
ScorpioBeauty09
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COVID keeps getting closer. Sometimes I wonder how DH, myself, and my family have avoided it.
DH and I are having a wedding ceremony tomorrow to honor his culture. It's at a large outside park, with plenty of space for people to spread out and we're telling everyone to wear masks. People still largely wear masks in the Bay Area but I notice the numbers going down. Last week we find out the couple who's been helping us prepare and play a big role in some of the rituals contracted COVID along with their two toddler daughters and in-laws. Luckily neither DH nor I had seen them in person for at least 3-4 weeks and they are not coming tomorrow.
On Monday my youngest sister went to a funeral for a college classmate who died in a car accident. She gets picked up by a friend. I find out later that the friend's sister currently has COVID and is isolating. Her friend said he didn't realize COVID was still a thing and didn't mention it to my sister until they'd been in each other's company for hours. Luckily she's testing negative. She had contact with my dad who was going to be tested anyway for surgical clearance and that was negative.
And last night my BFF texted me that her sister's (who lives with her and her mom) boyfriend has COVID. My friend's sister was out of state on a work trip when he contracted it and she's repeatedly tested negative.
DH and I are having a wedding ceremony tomorrow to honor his culture. It's at a large outside park, with plenty of space for people to spread out and we're telling everyone to wear masks. People still largely wear masks in the Bay Area but I notice the numbers going down. Last week we find out the couple who's been helping us prepare and play a big role in some of the rituals contracted COVID along with their two toddler daughters and in-laws. Luckily neither DH nor I had seen them in person for at least 3-4 weeks and they are not coming tomorrow.
On Monday my youngest sister went to a funeral for a college classmate who died in a car accident. She gets picked up by a friend. I find out later that the friend's sister currently has COVID and is isolating. Her friend said he didn't realize COVID was still a thing and didn't mention it to my sister until they'd been in each other's company for hours. Luckily she's testing negative. She had contact with my dad who was going to be tested anyway for surgical clearance and that was negative.
And last night my BFF texted me that her sister's (who lives with her and her mom) boyfriend has COVID. My friend's sister was out of state on a work trip when he contracted it and she's repeatedly tested negative.
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Evolving78
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Somebody else just said they didn’t think Covid was a big deal anymore, since they weren’t hearing about it much.. Is it really like that with people?!?!
TrulyBlessed
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Just returned from a week long out of town beach vacation with family. My sister tested positive today, my dad tested positive today, and my mom and I have symptoms. I tested negative yesterday but am bracing myself. We’re all vaccinated and boosted.
Eta: Mom just tested positive. Day 2 and my test is still negative but I have the worst sore throat I’ve ever experienced since strep throat as a kid. I have an appt in a few days for a PCR test. Some people are reporting it took them up to a full week of having symptoms before seeing a positive test with the current strain.
Eta: Mom just tested positive. Day 2 and my test is still negative but I have the worst sore throat I’ve ever experienced since strep throat as a kid. I have an appt in a few days for a PCR test. Some people are reporting it took them up to a full week of having symptoms before seeing a positive test with the current strain.
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Everything Zen
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DH brought it home yesterday with symptoms but a negative test. I knew this would happen eventually as he is unvaccinated. At times his fever has gotten up to 105- and I admit that I’m indifferent. Both my stepdaughter and I are vaccinated and boosted- but he is also careless with masking and now he’s being apologetic about his choices and trying to be protective of me- now it’s too late. I have opened the windows of the house and he is isolating in the stepkid’s room. He didn’t test positive until today. I am symptom free and calm. I am wearing my fit tested N95, taking my supplements (elderberry, ErmergenC) spraying the house down with Lysol, and sitting on the deck with my wine.
Plushottie
Thicc and fione
Honey your name suits this so well. I have always wondered how those coupled/married deal with a partner who isn’t being cautious.
vevster
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You could test for antibodies. I’m doing great with a big spoon of cod liver oil a couple times a week. Zinc too. Still testing A, D, and zinc every six months.
Black Ambrosia
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I don’t think antibodies stay in the body indefinitely. If I get tested today will it tell me if I had Covid anytime since the start of the pandemic? And are the antibodies unique for each variant where I’d need to be tested for each individual variant? I assume so but I’ve never looked into it.
ETA: Wouldn’t I have antibodies from being vaccination? If so, testing won’t tell me if I’ve ever had Covid.
Everything Zen
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Another thing I started today and will do daily is the Navage saline nasal rinse even though I have no symptoms. I need to remember to do this for my allergies and the new longer haired cat that we adopted. This may also help clear and reduce any potential expose viral load to DH.
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vevster
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Oh yeah, I forgot you got vaxxed. Never mind.
Seattle Slew
WinterinAtl
I really like the NeilMed one. Please be sure to use distilled water. Not from the tap! Your post reminds me to get back on my flushing routine.
I will share that on and off through the pandemic I have been smelling cigarette smoke that isn’t there. It wasn’t until this year someone told me, that is a symptom of king COVID. I have never had a positive test. I am convinced I start smelling smoke whenever I’ve been exposed and maybe that’s my primary symptom. I am vaccinated and once boosted. Waiting a little bit to get number two.
Edit: not “king” COVID. LOL LONG COVID.
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Black Ambrosia
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If anyone gets the coupons from CVS, their 30 or 40% off coupons are probably the best discount you can get on the Navage.
Everything Zen
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I have no idea and apparently she’s on hospitalization number five now but now she’s staying in because of multiple organ decline. Her chance of dying on a scale of 1-10 is a 6. Sadly, she’s vaccinated and boosted. Bless her.That’s really awful; why do they keep discharging her though?
I attended a [Catholic] funeral this past weekend. It was way too crowded. The priest referred to the deceased as a “saint” during the service. Since it will be a miracle if no Covid cases emerge from this event, I guess that could count as her first miracle, which could put her on the path to canonization.
DH is doing fine. Fever is gone and he’s mostly asymptomatic but he’ll be in isolation until Thursday. He asked for some popcorn and snacks so I went to Mariano’s and got that good popcorn they make in house- caramel and movie theater rich butter. He’s like this must be a bad batch bc the popcorn tastes all burned. I’m like you know COVID effects your sense of taste and smell. He was like
and he asked me to smell it. I’m like yeah it smells like caramel. Naw ninja that’s your diseased 
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Black Ambrosia
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Reminds me of that post about all the negative reviews some candle site was getting about the candles not having any scent. I think it was during the height of the first wave.I have no idea and apparently she’s on hospitalization number five now but now she’s staying in because of multiple organ decline. Her chance of dying on a scale of 1-10 is a 6.
DH is doing fine. Fever is gone and he’s mostly asymptomatic but he’ll be in isolation until Thursday. He asked for some popcorn and snacks so I went to Mariano’s and got that good popcorn they make in house- caramel and movie theater rich butter. He’s like this must be a bad batch bc the popcorn tastes all burned. I’m like you know COVID effects your sense of taste and smell. He was like
TrulyBlessed
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Evolving78
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That popcorn smells good, but taste dry and bland when you get home and eat it! Popcorn from hood at the gas station is better or Garrett’s! LolI have no idea and apparently she’s on hospitalization number five now but now she’s staying in because of multiple organ decline. Her chance of dying on a scale of 1-10 is a 6. Sadly, she’s vaccinated and boosted. Bless her.
DH is doing fine. Fever is gone and he’s mostly asymptomatic but he’ll be in isolation until Thursday. He asked for some popcorn and snacks so I went to Mariano’s and got that good popcorn they make in house- caramel and movie theater rich butter. He’s like this must be a bad batch bc the popcorn tastes all burned. I’m like you know COVID effects your sense of taste and smell. He was like
BonBon
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@Black Ambrosia I've had both tests.
The one that tells you your level of antibodies (which will pick up both natural infection caused or the effects of vaccination) and that result put me in the "high" category which I was happy with as I was 6 months post vax.
I went in to have the one which indicates if you've had a previous infection within the past year. It's specific - (I have to dig out the test name and what it looks for) so vaccination wont set it off. That came back as negative.
TrulyBlessed
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Has anyone here taken Paxlovid antiviral medication for Covid? I’m trying to decide if I should ask my doc for it or just power through.
I just powered through. My symptoms weren't too severe. It felt like I had a bad cold.
lavaflow99
In search of the next vacation
I have heard from a colleague as well as read many cases of people having rebound symptoms after taking Paxlovid. They get better after the meds but then all the symptoms return.
I declined it when it was offered. If your symptoms are mild (like a bad cold), I would just power through.
lavaflow99
In search of the next vacation
A new virus wants to come out and play!!
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By Tim Stelloh
Health care providers in multiple states have reported a virus that can cause seizures, meningitis and other severe illnesses in infants under 3 months old, federal officials said Tuesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert notifying doctors and public health departments that cases of parechovirus have been seen in newborns and young infants since May.
The alert doesn't say which states have seen infections in young children or how many cases have been reported.
The advisory notes that because there is no systematic surveillance for parechovirus it isn't clear how the number of cases compares to earlier seasons. But increased testing in recent years could account for a higher number of cases, the agency said.
Every positive case recorded by the agency has involved PeV-A3, the type of parechovirus that most often causes severe disease, the CDC said.
The virus, a common childhood pathogen thatcirculates in the summer and fall and spreads through sneezing, coughing, saliva and feces, causes less serious illness in children older than 6 months, the agency said. Symptoms include a rash, an upper respiratory tract infection and fever.
Experts who have examined the spinal fluid of babies with severe parechovirus infections have found that their white blood cells have vanished or nearly disappeared.
There is no treatment for the virus.
The alert encourages doctors to test for the virus and to keep infants hospitalized with infections together to avoid spreading the disease to nurseries or neonatal intensive care units.
CORRECTION (July 15, 2022, 12 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert about cases of parechovirus. It was Tuesday, not Thursday.
Virus that can cause severe illness in babies seen in multiple states, CDC cautions
Cases of parechovirus have been seen in newborns and young infants since May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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By Tim Stelloh
Health care providers in multiple states have reported a virus that can cause seizures, meningitis and other severe illnesses in infants under 3 months old, federal officials said Tuesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert notifying doctors and public health departments that cases of parechovirus have been seen in newborns and young infants since May.
The alert doesn't say which states have seen infections in young children or how many cases have been reported.
The advisory notes that because there is no systematic surveillance for parechovirus it isn't clear how the number of cases compares to earlier seasons. But increased testing in recent years could account for a higher number of cases, the agency said.
Every positive case recorded by the agency has involved PeV-A3, the type of parechovirus that most often causes severe disease, the CDC said.
The virus, a common childhood pathogen thatcirculates in the summer and fall and spreads through sneezing, coughing, saliva and feces, causes less serious illness in children older than 6 months, the agency said. Symptoms include a rash, an upper respiratory tract infection and fever.
Experts who have examined the spinal fluid of babies with severe parechovirus infections have found that their white blood cells have vanished or nearly disappeared.
There is no treatment for the virus.
The alert encourages doctors to test for the virus and to keep infants hospitalized with infections together to avoid spreading the disease to nurseries or neonatal intensive care units.
CORRECTION (July 15, 2022, 12 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert about cases of parechovirus. It was Tuesday, not Thursday.
Crackers Phinn
Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
I hope your dh gets better. The loss or alteration of taste and smell isn't going to kill anybody but people really take for granted how Covid can change your brain. I would be beside myself if I had to go from regla smell and taste to what some of the Covid people go through especially the ones where everything smells and tastes like garbage.DH is doing fine. Fever is gone and he’s mostly asymptomatic but he’ll be in isolation until Thursday. He asked for some popcorn and snacks so I went to Mariano’s and got that good popcorn they make in house- caramel and movie theater rich butter. He’s like this must be a bad batch bc the popcorn tastes all burned. I’m like you know COVID effects your sense of taste and smell. He was like
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