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So forever we’ve been told hospitalization lags infections by two weeks. Right now we are told there may be less severe disease with Omicron but we have to wait out that lag to be sure. As revised by the CDC a few days ago, when is that two weeks up? It’s starting to feel like a moving target.

Sure.

Agreed. Should read as “vaccination works. See? We’ve reduced hospitalization to the point the kids have caught up.”

If you can hook in with a doctor at the Sunset Clinic they do 3 hr result and the longer tests for their patients with a one-day wait right now. Mchllp.com.

A bit of a CSB, but also a bit of a weird Covid thing. Wife and I had horrible cases of food poisoning last week. Sunday and Monday are a total blur of Exorcist-level projectile vomiting and worse. Highish (103) fever, chills, extreme fatigue, body aches, extreme headaches, etc. Sickest I personally have ever been in my life. But then the kids (15 yo) got it on Tuesday and Wednesday (about 3-4 after us), even though they didn’t share a meal with us in the relevant time. Christmas was fantastic for them. Kids opening presents laying on the bathroom floor and that sort of thing. And, 10 days in, the wife and I still have intermittent low-grade fever and fatigue during the day. Kids have periods of extreme fatigue but no fever we’ve seen. Weirder still, my 74 yo MIL who lives with us has no symptoms still - despite lots of contact immediately prior to illness, especially with the kids. So my doc made us go in and take a Covid test at our day 4 when the kids got sick. Negative. Kids took home tests. Negative. Same for day 7. But he still suspects Covid. Wife’s doc, who practices at the same place, has all but said that’s not possible. It’s a norovirus, albeit a worse one than usual. But before the kids got sick she was also equally adamant that it was absolutely foodborne. My doc has thought Covid basically from the jump. He says in a month I will show positive for N antibodies and he will be vindicated. Neighbor who is a epidemiologist feels like my guy is probably right. So I am never coming in contact with anyone else ever again. But has anyone else ever seen symptom profile like this from Covid?

This happened to me with Applewhite. He was just out of college and much more built than expected - the women I wouldn't stop talking about it. When I met him again later as UH coach, though, he was...diminished.

So I've decided I'm just going to get a Moderna full shot every day until I glow

Some weird folks if they are that afraid of Covid but not afraid to go to the hospital. My wife is probably more afraid of Covid that she should be due to my immunocompromised MIL who lives with us. But I don't think she'd go to the hospital right now if she lost a leg.

Don't say things like that

in the NYT "update" article there's a chart of cases by state and it sure looks like some are already leveling off. I decided to believe that. Sorry to be this incompetent at posting the graph, but here's the article. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/27/world/omicron-covid-vaccine-tests/us-covid-cases-omicron

Yeah, even my high school took a note from my mom. You should try that.

Yeah, I'm at 8 weeks and I don't like what I'm seeing on that graph. May go to israel and get the 8-shot regimen.

Well, we did beat them down pretty badly, so...

It means a lot of things. The booster is effective at 1 week. With Delta, it maintains effectiveness. With Omicron, it wanes really fast- more so for Pfizer, but the Moderna sample was very small so that data has more of a metaphorical asterisk by it. Without booster, you’re basically unprotected from Omicron infection with standard vax regimen.

If Syd Barret’s not there it’s not weird enough

I mean, when you’ve got nothing and five pages left on the brief limit…

The only thing that limits this to “some” aggies is the fact that they were around for Jackie Sherrill and the 90s. They’re all like that.

I'm not sure this was written exactly how you meant it.

Exactly. The British say no.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/omicron-infections-appear-no-less-severe-than-delta-covid-19-lowers-sperm-count-2021-12-20/ The old good news/bad news.

So my wife just told me that apparently a girl I went to high school with is on this show dating a younger guy. She was one of those folks you barely remember when you see her picture in the yearbook. Now I have to watch it just to confirm.

Any word on Moderna approval for the little ones? Wondering if my 15yos should wait until Feb when they're 16 to get a booster at 8 months out, get a "booster" now, or not worry about it. Some of the stuff about "broader" protection - like the set of tweets from Balazs Lab above - makes me think they need one now if at all.

Yeah I'm just gonna do it myself.

What the fuck is HEIC? Gotdamn iphone.