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

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Fat Tyre
I'm feeling very grateful I had three shots, I don't want to imagine how bad it would have been without it.
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Likely really bad and I'm glad you did get your shots. Hopefully, you make a speedy recovery and don't get stuck with this long COVID crap like I've been stuck with.
Touring Mars
Like millions of others in the UK, I'm now expected to go to a shop and buy my own tests at ca. £10-15 a box
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We really need a better way to test for COVID. I know a professor at the university I work for was doing something with microchips where it was sort of like a breathalyzer-type device that could check for COVID. I'm not sure what happened with it though since I haven't seen anything else about it for some time now. Although, I suppose pretty much all COVID news around me has completely dried up. I have no idea how many infections we're seeing daily now, only the hospitalization numbers where I work. We're still doing testing but since the money ran out, we have to charge people for it and without insurance, it's $100.
 
Joey D
Likely really bad and I'm glad you did get your shots. Hopefully, you make a speedy recovery and don't get stuck with this long COVID crap like I've been stuck with.

We really need a better way to test for COVID. I know a professor at the university I work for was doing something with microchips where it was sort of like a breathalyzer-type device that could check for COVID. I'm not sure what happened with it though since I haven't seen anything else about it for some time now. Although, I suppose pretty much all COVID news around me has completely dried up. I have no idea how many infections we're seeing daily now, only the hospitalization numbers where I work. We're still doing testing but since the money ran out, we have to charge people for it and without insurance, it's $100.
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My response to your post is referring to an alternate method of testing for COVID that has been useful in detecting new surges, at least here in CA. Not sure if it's being done at scale elsewhere. Its nice because it does a complete end-run around testing individuals...with the detriment that it isn't super precise.
 
Eunos_Cosmo
My response to your post is referring to an alternate method of testing for COVID that has been useful in detecting new surges, at least here in CA. Not sure if it's being done at scale elsewhere. Its nice because it does a complete end-run around testing individuals...with the detriment that it isn't super precise.
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That is being done all over Ontario too. I know the guy leading the project in my region.
 
I just had my first PCR test.

Very easy to book (booked it this morning and could choose a slot right away) and I showed up 30 mins early but they tested me anyway, and I should have the result tomorrow.

The test centre is only a 25 minute walk away and so the whole thing was done in just over an hour - very impressive.
 
PCR test came back negative :) ... only 11 hours since I took the test, and only 12 since I booked it... pretty impressive stuff from NHS Scotland. Still feel like crap though, and feel like I have chest infection, so I will probably have to see my GP about it, but at least I can now tell them I've tested negative on PCR.
 
Touring Mars
Wishing you a speedy recovery mate.
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Thanks mate.
Joey D
Likely really bad and I'm glad you did get your shots. Hopefully, you make a speedy recovery and don't get stuck with this long COVID crap like I've been stuck with.
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That was really unfair how badly it got you, you have some pricks like the big orange man who walkaway scot free and then you have done so much to give thorough and reliable information and ended getting like that it is really sad. I hope you are feeling better now mate.
Shaun
@Fat Tyre how are getting on mate?
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I am feeling largely the same mate, thanks. Very tired. Although, I just re-read my last post, I should have explained more about the hospital because it sounded more dramatic than what it was. I was taken there because I saw a Dr. through the virtual ED (like a Zoom call) who was not happy with my blood oxygen saturation levels and how faitgued I was and asked me to ring 000 just to double check with their oximeter because my readings were a bit like a yo-yo. But they came and was the same 93% to 97% and dipping to 88% for a couple of seconds when asked to walk. Anyways they took me, I had to wait for about 4 hours to be seen, all the cubicles were full. So I was checked at the waiting room they have in the Covid ward, so, so much for it being over. Apparently my lungs were fine so they were happy to send me home but they put me on a puffer called Budesonide and I am being monitored through daily phone calls. I am still feeling awful and my oxygen level is normally around 95% but it dips a lot more during the night but fever has at least disappeared. I am guessing I just have to wait.
 
Monday we were told that masks were now optional in our company which really only applies to the 4 of us in our department. When we have to go out of our department to the customer areas we've always worn our masks since the start of the pandemic. And surprisingly it was out ultra conservative department manager that told us we had to do it.

But it was just us and the sales department that have stuck with it. The technicians and customer service have never really worn masks except for a few months at the start and when we had our significant outbreak early last fall.

Our owner is an African-American woman in her middle 70's and she has continuously worn her mask and has asked us to wear one when we're around her which I have no problem with but I guarantee the conservative employees still will not do. It's like they've been giving her the middle finger on this from the beginning which really doesn't surprise me either.
 
Something has changed in China since a couple of months. We got little to nothing during most of the epidemic out of the country but lately there is a lot of footage of people, in what seems to be Shanghai, fighting back against the drastic measures.
 
For the love of god, just let health systems buy the stock they think they need:
www.cnbc.com

U.S. will limit next-generation Covid vaccines to high-risk people this fall if Congress doesn't approve more funding

The White House has warned that it does not have enough money to buy next-generation Covid vaccines for all Americans ahead of a possible fall infection wave.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com

It's not like we need enough vaccines for every American either, so many people outright refuse to get vaccinated that if the target was 100 million doses (roughly a third of the US population) it would likely be more than enough. We probably don't even need that many either.
 
“'It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future'” is attributed to a baseball-playing philosopher, Yogi Berra...

 
Danoff
Doesn't belong in this thread. This is almost entirely about supply chains and shipping.
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I think it is justified in here, since COVID is the primary cause and it has been a legitimate concern for some time.

That said, China has been here before and although I expect that the disruption that COVID is causing in China is likely to be bad (and likely to have global consequences), I don't think that it is going to cause anything like a noticable 'crisis'.

Indeed, the current COVID wave sweeping through China is Omicron and the rest of the world has already suffered huge waves of the same variant, but with far less severe consequences per infection than previous waves, thanks to a number of factors. I don't really see why China should be any different, other than their horrifically over-zealous (and yet strangely ham-fisted) lockdowns.
 
Touring Mars
I think it is justified in here, since COVID is the primary cause and it has been a legitimate concern for some time.

That said, China has been here before and although I expect that the disruption that COVID is causing in China is likely to be bad (and likely to have global consequences), I don't think that it is going to cause anything like a noticable 'crisis'.

Indeed, the current COVID wave sweeping through China is Omicron and the rest of the world has already suffered huge waves of the same variant, but with far less severe consequences per infection than previous waves, thanks to a number of factors. I don't really see why China should be any different, other than their horrifically over-zealous (and yet strangely ham-fisted) lockdowns.
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Wasn't the Sinopharm vaccine deemed to be less effective than Pfizer or Moderna? Also, it is definitely due to the zero-COVID rules Xi has implemented.
 
Blitz24
They made it so long without the virus! Alas.
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Didn't Rocket Man make some tear-filled speech last year apologising to the public for failing to keep the virus out?

Which would be the first time he or his predecessors have shown the slightest bit of compassion or welfare for the people they rule over.
 
318,981.
www.npr.org

Pro-Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls

As Americans commemorate a million deaths due to COVID-19, the partisan divide of who has gotten sick and died continues to grow, mostly due to disinformation about the vaccines.
www.npr.org www.npr.org

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TB
Guess I'm stopping in for a test on my way into work this morning. Boss emailed that he has a sore throat and tested positive. My sore throat started Saturday night/Sunday morning.
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Are you exhibiting any other symptoms? I do hope your office has a generous and fairly broad WFH allowance.
 
Blitz24
Are you exhibiting any other symptoms? I do hope your office has a generous and fairly broad WFH allowance.
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Sore throat, low grade headache.

Admittedly the campus' WFH policy is kind of hit and miss. Custodians and police can't do much from home but professors can still teach class remotely. I'm kind of somewhere in the middle but I hate working from home.
 
TB
Guess I'm stopping in for a test on my way into work this morning. Boss emailed that he has a sore throat and tested positive. My sore throat started Saturday night/Sunday morning.
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I hope you are OK @TB

My Auntie tested positive on Saturday after returning home from an overseas holiday with a friend, who also tested positive the previous day. They are very lucky they didn't take ill while still away, as I doubt the airline would have let them on the plane, and then they would have been stuck in Spain. My auntie has had heavy cold symptoms but fortunately she has received her 4th COVID shot shortly before travelling, so I'm hoping she will ride it out, although she is 75.

My Mum was also meant to be on the trip but pulled out, citing the fact that she considered it too much of a risk at a time when she is already helping to look after my Dad after his cardiac arrest. It's not often one makes a decision to 'err on the side of caution' that later proves to turn out to have been a very wise call, however this has to be one such example.
 
TB
Negative test.

The sore throat doesn't care, though. Still hurts like crazy.
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I had a nasty sore throat followed by a chest infection for over a week a few weeks ago - negative LFT and PCR tests too.

Nice to have a good old-fashioned, non-life threatening cold for a change!
 
Good news on the negative result, @TB. Get well soon.


A month has passed since masks stopped being mandatory here (expect in healthcare facilities) and right from the get go everyone ditched theirs. So, as expected, numbers are rising pretty quickly... Even so, I am much surprised how people who were infected just 3 to 4 months ago are once again testing positive.

I say surprised, I mean worried.
 

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