Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #109

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Thank you. Good to hear that you had access to treatment. Here it's reserved for more serious cases and risk groups. I do remember reading in the past that the antibody cocktail was ineffective against omicron. Although fever is annoying I consider mine a mild case for now. I do hope that there aren't long lasting effects from it and that I can avoid catching the next variant.
IIRC, @WichitaFalls got Bebtelovimab, which is currently the only antibody treatment available that works against Omicron variants.
https://aspr.hhs.gov/COVID-19/Therapeutics/Products/Bebtelovimab/Pages/default.aspx
 

If you want to know at least one reason why we as a country continue to keep this virus around, it is because so many infected people are going rogue and mingling with others.
When they are supposed to isolate: they don't. Sad.
 

If you want to know at least one reason why we as a country continue to keep this virus around, it is because so many infected people are going rogue and mingling with others.
When they are supposed to isolate: they don't. Sad.

“I spent five days in prison – I mean my house – then on Day 6, I got my "get out of jail free" card, which meant I could leave home but should wear a mask in public. Although I was never a Boy Scout, I followed the rules and kept interactions to a bare minimum.

Finally, the calculator handed me the news I had been waiting for: no more masking. I was like a racehorse busting out of the gate. Within three days, I had dinner with two sets of friends and went on a date – all unmasked.”

What? 5 days at home felt like prison?

Yep. Can’t stand it, got to go out no matter what.

“I didn't care. I just wanted to get well fast and get on with my life. I took the Paxlovid.”
 

Doctor: President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID …

Doctor: President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 for 2nd day in a row​


President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the second straight day, in what appears to be a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.

After initially testing positive on July 21, Biden, 79, was treated with the anti-viral drug Paxlovid. He tested negative for the virus this past Tuesday and Wednesday, clearing him to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors.

Research suggests that a minority of those prescribed Paxlovid experience a rebound case of the virus. The fact that a rebound rather than a reinfection possibly occurred is a positive sign for Biden's health once he's clear of the disease.

“The fact that the president has cleared his illness and doesn’t have symptoms is a good sign and makes it less likely he will develop long COVID,” said Dr. Albert Ho, an infectious disease specialist at Yale University's school of public health.
 
One of the stranger symptoms of Covid — the loss of the sense of smell — is a symptom that, well before the pandemic, was considered to be a warning sign for dementia.

The big question for researchers now is whether Covid-related loss of smell might also be associated with cognitive decline. Around 5 percent of Covid patients worldwide — some 27 million people — have reported loss of smell lasting more than six months.

New preliminary findings presented Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in San Diego suggest there may be a link, though experts caution that more research is needed...
 
One of the stranger symptoms of Covid — the loss of the sense of smell — is a symptom that, well before the pandemic, was considered to be a warning sign for dementia.

The big question for researchers now is whether Covid-related loss of smell might also be associated with cognitive decline. Around 5 percent of Covid patients worldwide — some 27 million people — have reported loss of smell lasting more than six months.

New preliminary findings presented Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in San Diego suggest there may be a link, though experts caution that more research is needed...
NOT good news for me! I just keep waiting for it to come back. Oddly enough, I lost it in the final days of my Covid. It’s been 6 months.
 
One of the stranger symptoms of Covid — the loss of the sense of smell — is a symptom that, well before the pandemic, was considered to be a warning sign for dementia.

The big question for researchers now is whether Covid-related loss of smell might also be associated with cognitive decline. Around 5 percent of Covid patients worldwide — some 27 million people — have reported loss of smell lasting more than six months.

New preliminary findings presented Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in San Diego suggest there may be a link, though experts caution that more research is needed...

NOT good news for me! I just keep waiting for it to come back. Oddly enough, I lost it in the final days of my Covid. It’s been 6 months.

I am sorry to hear you haven't gotten your sense of smell back yet. Hopefully you will get it back. The news just keeps getting worse with this evil virus.
 

Confusing messages from CDC re: isolation-- sigh

I think a lot of people are walking around after contracting Covid and thinking it is ok to return to normal life- thereby exposing all of us to Covid
 

I got COVID (again). I'm staying home (again). Why are …


I got COVID (again). I'm staying home (again). Why are so few following the rules?​


Did I really have to cancel all those plans?

According to the CDC, yes.

But here’s why I feel like a schmuck: I initially tested positive within days of two friends of mine. Apparently, we had all been infected while together at a workshop in Mexico. One of them, also a rebound case who had new symptoms, mentioned he was flying to a business meeting one day after retesting positive. (He should have been isolating.) A week later – when he still should have been masked in public – he sent me a photo of himself, unmasked, dancing at a crowded festival. "Not fair!" I shouted to myself.

The other friend had actually tested positive while still in Mexico but decided after three days that she had enough of isolating. Even though she should have remained in lockdown, she flew to Tijuana and walked across a bridge to San Diego – likely still infectious. A mutual friend noted, in quite an understatement, "That didn’t seem right." Uh huh. (This was when we still had to take a COVID test before returning home.)

Transmission risks don't just evaporate​

I was stunned by how bold my friends were about breaking the rules.
 
My husband and I brought our 3 little grandsons to a local diner. We went after the lunch crowd and kept our distance from others.i overheard an employee talking to friends about how he just recuperated from covid, had fever for 2 days and how after the fever broke, he was no longer
contagious.
 
My husband and I brought our 3 little grandsons to a local diner. We went after the lunch crowd and kept our distance from others.i overheard an employee talking to friends about how he just recuperated from covid, had fever for 2 days and how after the fever broke, he was no longer
contagious.
Yeah right- no longer contagious? so many people have no clue--- they walk among us- they sit next to us- they breathe on us-- sigh
 

If you want to know at least one reason why we as a country continue to keep this virus around, it is because so many infected people are going rogue and mingling with others.
When they are supposed to isolate: they don't. Sad.
Now that most places aren’t making isolation mandatory anymore, this is sadly how this will keep spreading…

I mingle with others, but safely. I mask indoors and if I have any cold/flu symptoms, I don’t go anywhere.
 
 
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