COVID-19/Coronavirus Information and Support Thread (see OP for useful links)

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Danoff
Bummer. Keep us up to date on how you get on with the illness.
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Based on when I had what I now know are symptoms, I should be near the tail end. I have asthma. Recognizing breathing issues is difficult because any breathing issues immediately makes me think asthma. Fortunately, using my inhaler seemed to take care of the shortness of breath. My head felt like a head cold or sinus/allergy headache. With the front end of the big cold front that moved in last week, I thought it was sinuses/allergies because I tend to have some sinus/allergy issues with weather fronts; the stuff they bring in do not tend to agree with me. I also woke up a few days with a a sore throat, but that would disappear quickly after drinking water. At any point, I have not felt like I have had a fever, chills, or loss of taste/smell.
 
Brett
That was not pleasant. I got the swab far enough up in my nose to make my eyes water.
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My first one was the worst. I could have sworn she said it would be all up in there for 5 seconds then she just kept on counting to 10. Massive eye watering ensued.

It's gotten better and better for the other, I think, 11 tests. Still no spit test available here, though.

Hope you're over the worst of it, Brett. How is your partner doing?
 
TB
My first one was the worst. I could have sworn she said it would be all up in there for 5 seconds then she just kept on counting to 10. Massive eye watering ensued.

It's gotten better and better for the other, I think, 11 tests. Still no spit test available here, though.

Hope you're over the worst of it, Brett. How is your partner doing?
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I had a ton of eye watering. I felt a sneeze coming on towards the very end of the second nostril.

Thanks for asking! I seem to be mostly over it. I have had a headache most of the day, but that could be from any number of things.

She is tired and still cannot smell or taste anything. She is also stressing because we may have also infected her mom.
 
Boris Johnson has announced a 'road map' for the UK to end 'lockdown' in four 5-week stages, ending June 21st... 4 months from now :ill:

In many ways I'm glad, because he is standing up to the nutjobs, including those in his own party, who would rather we dropped all lockdown restrictions now, but this 'phased' approach seems eminently sensible... if also painful at the same time.

Boris's schtick is that he wants this current lockdown to be the last, and hence he is selling this road map as 'irreversible', in an attempt to appease the nutjobs. I sincerely hope it works, though, because nutjobs aside, there is still no guarantee that this plan is going to work, and if it doesn't, then it will be back to square one and the nutjobs will get even angrier. It would, however, be ironic if they get a taste of their own medicine in having Boris promise them something only for it to turn out to be BS, which they otherwise fully endorse him doing.
 
Touring Mars
Boris Johnson has announced a 'road map' for the UK to end 'lockdown' in four 5-week stages, ending June 21st... 4 months from now :ill:

In many ways I'm glad, because he is standing up to the nutjobs, including those in his own party, who would rather we dropped all lockdown restrictions now, but this 'phased' approach seems eminently sensible... if also painful at the same time.

Boris's schtick is that he wants this current lockdown to be the last, and hence he is selling this road map as 'irreversible', in an attempt to appease the nutjobs. I sincerely hope it works, though, because nutjobs aside, there is still no guarantee that this plan is going to work, and if it doesn't, then it will be back to square one and the nutjobs will get even angrier. It would, however, be ironic if they get a taste of their own medicine in having Boris promise them something only for it to turn out to be BS, which they otherwise fully endorse him doing.
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Wow that's a long time down the road, hopefully it works.

I found out a few days ago a cousin of mine in Glasgow is in hospital with Covid and just yesterday was transferred to ICU.
 
Dennisch
Our needle wielders are able to vaccinate a million people per week, so we should be able to vaccinate the entire country in 18 weeks. The current limiting factor is the delivery of the vaccines.
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Yeah, so, our government is now gloating about itself that they made it possible for 2.5 million vaccinations per week.

Slight problem in the maths though. After 6 weeks of poking they barely managed to get 1 million people poked.

Every single ****ing thing they do is too late and too slow. It is getting ridiculous. We have politicians setting a bad example by not following their own set rules, and yet they dare to piss over people who do the same. Scientists advice a 3 week gap between shots, politicians decide 6 weeks are fine too. And the worst part is that people keep on forgiving them. This is ****** management. Nothing more or less. I hope that the extended curfew that definitely is coming will wake people up about these current set of clowns in charge for the coming elections. We need stronger people in charge, especially when it comes to vaccine delivery because that once again hit a snag as another 250k shots will be delivered later than expected.
 
Touring Mars
Boris Johnson has announced a 'road map' for the UK to end 'lockdown' in four 5-week stages, ending June 21st... 4 months from now :ill:

In many ways I'm glad, because he is standing up to the nutjobs, including those in his own party, who would rather we dropped all lockdown restrictions now, but this 'phased' approach seems eminently sensible... if also painful at the same time.

Boris's schtick is that he wants this current lockdown to be the last, and hence he is selling this road map as 'irreversible', in an attempt to appease the nutjobs. I sincerely hope it works, though, because nutjobs aside, there is still no guarantee that this plan is going to work, and if it doesn't, then it will be back to square one and the nutjobs will get even angrier. It would, however, be ironic if they get a taste of their own medicine in having Boris promise them something only for it to turn out to be BS, which they otherwise fully endorse him doing.
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Of course with the caveats of being "hopefully" irreversible, and "at least" 5 weeks between steps. Having said that, I think it does sound realistic - I might pick some things to open faster (seated dining) and some slower (schools) than in the plan, but broadly I'm OK with what's been announced.

The biggest challenge might come in a couple of months, when hopefully hospital admissions are minimal. IF cases don't surge with all students back in school there would be a reasonable case to be made for opening up faster... but probably the only thing that will hold cases down is good weather, so... toss a coin! If cases do surge then what to do? Reverse and close schools again? Could be too late by then, if it spreads amongst them until Easter and then outward over the school holiday.

More worrying is that the pace of vaccination seems to have slowed, notable decline over the last couple of weeks and only 141k today (always a dip on Mondays, but hasn't been that low since beginning of Jan). For a while it looked like it was going to build up to an average of 500k a day, now it looks on its way to an average of 300k - not good when people are starting to need their second doses soon.
 
North Dakota House passes bill forbidding mandatory mask wearing

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...passes-bill-forbidding-mandatory-mask-wearing

The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Jeff Hoverson* (R), called mask mandates “diabolical silliness,” characterizing them as a conspiracy run by “unelected, wealthy bureaucrats who are robbing our freedoms and perpetuating lies,” the Herald reported.
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Hopefully the Senate has more intelligence and rejects it. But I wouldn't count on it.

*Apparently his Masters of Divinity makes him the expert. Makes me wonder if his almost Jehovah email address is intentional.
 
Dennisch
Yeah, so, our government is now gloating about itself that they made it possible for 2.5 million vaccinations per week.

Slight problem in the maths though. After 6 weeks of poking they barely managed to get 1 million people poked.

Every single ****ing thing they do is too late and too slow. It is getting ridiculous. We have politicians setting a bad example by not following their own set rules, and yet they dare to piss over people who do the same. Scientists advice a 3 week gap between shots, politicians decide 6 weeks are fine too. And the worst part is that people keep on forgiving them. This is ****** management. Nothing more or less. I hope that the extended curfew that definitely is coming will wake people up about these current set of clowns in charge for the coming elections. We need stronger people in charge, especially when it comes to vaccine delivery because that once again hit a snag as another 250k shots will be delivered later than expected.
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haha same as our government only ours is worse in every aspect ... and people are stupid too, looks like initial good response in early 2020 was due to fear, not understanding.
 
Joey D
The FDA has deemed the Johnson & Johnson vaccine safe and effective, authorization for use should be soon:

FDA says J&J 1-dose shot prevents COVID; final decision soon
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South Africa has started administering the J&J vaccines recently. The president got inoculated on TV and all. Only the frontline health workers like doctors and nurses are getting the shots at the moment, though. The report I read said that this vaccine works great against the SA variant, so here's hoping.
 
I'm butchering all the details since my wife was telling me while texting someone she works with but...

Last Wednesday they had a patient in that tested negative then positive the next day (might be the other way around) and something something she wasn't wearing an N95 mask. She's had both shots and is asymptomatic but the hospital still told her to not come back until next Wednesday so she has the next 4 days off.

:shrugs:

She's coming up to campus tomorrow to get tested.
 
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TB
I'm butchering all the details since my wife was telling me while texting someone she works with but...

Last Wednesday they had a patient in that tested negative then positive the next day (might be the other way around) and something something she wasn't wearing an N95 mask. She's had both shots and is asymptomatic but the hospital still told her to not come back until next Wednesday so she has the next 4 days off.

:shrugs:

She's coming up to campus tomorrow to get tested.
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See, I told you you don't listen!
 
TB
I already said that. Now who's not listening?!?
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I am confused though why this situation would have come up. It seems like someone was not following protocol (if I'm reading this correctly the patient was tested and then was not wearing a mask because.... something)?
 
Blitz24
I am confused though why this situation would have come up. It seems like someone was not following protocol (if I'm reading this correctly the patient was tested and then was not wearing a mask because.... something)?
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Got clarification from her.

Protocol is to wear an N95 mask during aerosol events on Covid positive patients.

He was negative (at the time) and she wasn't in the room while he was being intubated but since she was in the room TWENTY MINUTES LATER, she has to stay home.

Again, the CDC disagrees but whatever. Paid to stay home is the hospital's order.
 
Well, good news first:

1. No more quarantine!! Yay!! ♥
2. 204,000+ people, most of them medics, have been vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine (79% of effectiveness) to this date :D

Bad news now:

1. For "Two weeks", again, starting March 1, extreme-risk-focused-areas night lockdown from 9 pm to 4 am, Metropolitan Lima (my area) included... That's good, if it wasn't for the fact it also affects whole Sundays... Oh boy, I already see the street's Mayhem...

Btw, my government is still useless...
 
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So Australia been slow to roll out the vaccine program under the premise that we are going ok with Covid cases (I can get behind that a bit) so that the vaccination program can be implemented in the most careful manner after also a bit more time to sign off the vaccines.
You would expect with that being said after watching the World it would go smoothly but no.

Some Muppet of a Doctor has managed to give two patients a quadruple dose of the Pfizer vaccine, turns out he hadn't even completed the training required. You would think with the attention the vaccine roll out is getting at the moment as a Doctor you would be 100% clear you are good to go on qualifications and procedures.
 
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Question, if someone gets Covid 19 and then recovers, is there any effects? Permanent ones?

Also if I got two shots of Vaccine, will I still get Covid 19, right?
 
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ToyGTone
Question, if someone gets Covid 19 and then recovers, is there any effects? Permanent ones?
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Some do, some don't. There are people who've ended up with breathing issues, loss of taste/smell, cardiovascular problems, neurological issues, rashes, hair loss, and a number of other things. As for whether or not they're permanent, we don't know yet, however respiratory and cardiovascular problems are more likely to be long-term than the others.
 
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Joey D
Some do, some don't. There are people who've ended up with breathing issues, loss of taste/smell, cardiovascular problems, neurological issues, rashes, hair loss, and a number of other things. As for whether or not they're permanent, we don't know yet, however respiratory and cardiovascular problems are more likely to be long-term than the others.
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Oh I see, thanks.
 
kikie
http://doctorvivekjoshi.com/

Interesting and good infromation.
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Not bad I guess, basic stuff that can get you over a fever or viral quickly - fasting and warmth to reduce the work your body is doing apart from fighting the infection, and vitamins to give it resources.

It's a bit unclear on the vitamin D though, which, as I understand it, takes a while to be processed and made available in a form useful to the immune system (and can also just prefer to be held in fat), so taking it once a fever is on its way is probably too late. There have been conflicting studies on its use as a preventative (re covid) but generally they are now in favour on balance. Certainly there is no harm in making sure it is at recommended levels in the blood, and since most people away from the equator are deficient this means supplementing in some way.

There's also been much debate over whather to take anything to suppress a fever, like ibuprofen, or not. John Campbell believes that for a mild fever it's better to let it run, and that will make recovery faster, and I doubt he'd say that if there weren't studies to support that opinion.

Now clearly none of this will prevent catching covid. However, since for mild cases (in other words, most cases) the biggest risk is long covid, I'm wondering if following such advice rather than "powering through" makes a difference there. It may be that we find a correlation between how people behaved once they caught it and getting long covid. (Just a random thought... I'm not a doctor!). It's hard to believe that getting over it as quickly as possible wouldn't be beneficial, maybe meaning it doesn't spread as much around the body.
 
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TB
Got clarification from her.

Protocol is to wear an N95 mask during aerosol events on Covid positive patients.

He was negative (at the time) and she wasn't in the room while he was being intubated but since she was in the room TWENTY MINUTES LATER, she has to stay home.

Again, the CDC disagrees but whatever. Paid to stay home is the hospital's order.
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Not surprisingly, we both tested negative yesterday.

She still has to stay home.
 
TB
Not surprisingly, we both tested negative yesterday.

She still has to stay home.
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Better keep her happy then. I would be surprised after she's received both doses for her to exhibit any symptoms as is.
 
So with a little math, GA has hit the 20K a week vaccinated rate at 85% capacity it's gonna be a minute to get approx. 9M people vaccinated.

* my review of what I heard on the radio.
 
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Brett
I had a ton of eye watering. I felt a sneeze coming on towards the very end of the second nostril.

Thanks for asking! I seem to be mostly over it. I have had a headache most of the day, but that could be from any number of things.

She is tired and still cannot smell or taste anything. She is also stressing because we may have also infected her mom.
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I am still having a headache here and there, but that is probably mostly related to other issues. My partner has regained a bit of her taste and smell, but she is still mostly not tasting or smelling anything. Fortunately, we did not infect her mom.
 

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