oneastrocurlie
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Sounds about right…
*white lol
So the ban of flights from European countries are going into effect right??
Now you better....
Sounds about right…
So the ban of flights from European countries are going into effect right??
Now, a year into a pandemic, our immune systems face a new challenge. The coronavirus has picked up mutations that boost its ability to hop from human to human and thwart some of the antibodies that have reliably conquered it before. The protection offered by vaccines appears riddled with holes. Viruses evolve fast—faster than humans ever could. If the pandemic is a race, the coronavirus seems, at times, on the verge of lapping us.
But the immune system is not doomed to be discombobulated by a never-ending barrage of shape-shifting variants. For every trick the virus plays, the immune system arguably has an equally impressive one. Vaccines remain an essential ally, armoring the body before it encounters the virus. And although the variants have opened up gaps in that chain mail, the pliancy built into our bodies can at least buy time to repair them.
“Yes, we should be concerned,” Ali Ellebedy, an immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis, told me. “But I think we should also be optimistic.”
“We had one very interesting case, a kid, about six years old, with a temperature and a very high pulse rate, and I wondered if I should admit her. But when I followed up two days later, she was so much better,” Dr Coetzee says.
Dr Coetzee, who was briefing other African medical associations on Saturday, made clear her patients were all healthy and she was worried the new variant could still hit older people – with co-morbidities such as diabetes or heart disease – much harder.
“What we have to worry about now is that when older, unvaccinated people are infected with the new variant, and if they are not vaccinated, we are going to see many people with a severe [form of the] disease,” she said.
South African demographics are very different from those in the UK. Only about six per cent of the population are over the age of 65. This means that older individuals who are more vulnerable to the virus may take some time to present.
Like the vaccines, ya mean?after discussing concerns the drug could cause the virus to mutate
I heard a presentation in which there was some very preliminary information about the Omicron variant, based on 67 (? not sure how many) symptomatic cases. So far, the main symptom is debilitating fatigue. Unlike the Delta variant, oxygen levels do not seem to drop, and unlike the Alpha variant, there is little/no loss of smell or taste. The presenter thought that might be a hopeful sign, in that mutations may be developing a less lethal form of Covid.
Yep, that's exactly the reason there was a new flu vaccine every year before Covid was a twinkle in a bat's eye.Like the vaccines, ya mean?
The Biden administration is tightening travel rules to and within the U.S., requiring all in-bound international passengers to test for Covid within 24 hours of departure and extending its mask requirement on all domestic flights and public transportation through March 18.
So basically he was NO WHERE near or in Africa....much less South Africa?
U.S. tightens travel testing requirements, mask mandates as part of broader plan to fight Covid
The Biden administration is tightening travel rules to the U.S., requiring all in-bound international passengers to test for Covid within 24 hours of departure.www.cnbc.com
They need to add domestic travel testing also. I saw a contact tracer on social media and he stated that he would call folks, tell them they are positive, the person would tell them about the flight they were catching and would call back. Other contact tracers chimed in having the same experience.
If in home test will be made available for free. I don't see what the issue is. I think some people like the panasonic.If I remember correctly the airlines were big mad at that even being suggested.
If in home test will be made available for free. I don't see what the issue is. I think some people like the panasonic.
Its rough out in these streets.^^^^ I’ve been delaying mine as well and had a somewhat similar close call with a friend who is seeing a new guy. Both are fully vaccinated and she has the booster. We met up for brunch for the first time in 4 months after Thanksgiving and she wanted me to meet her new man as he lived a few blocks from the restaurant. He never reported so we went elsewhere for a while. He finally responded saying he was quarantined because his brother (unvaccinated) tested positive for COVID for the second time and apparently wasn’t doing so well. Apparently he was symptomatic at Thanksgiving. Her man was feeling tired himself. We go back to her place for tea. She reveals that she was with him on Black Friday. I’m like:
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I ask her to take me home and immediately give them both some spare rapid home test kits and tell her to keep me posted. Her boyfriend did end up testing positive and she’s feeling fine and continues to test negative and I’m feeling fine a little stuffy nose here and there but I’m not playing with these people and getting my cross brand Moderna booster this week.
Reimbursed by insurance is what I heard.If in home test will be made available for free. I don't see what the issue is. I think some people like the panasonic.