Covid-19 News/Discussion

[BobbyPhil1781]

2 hours ago, DontTazeMeBro said:

I know I’m going to be met with hostility for this. But if Omicron isn’t very deadly and it’s super contagious, isn’t this the one we should all get? 

Won't matter, really. Have you seen the videos the White House is releasing with the Jonas Brothers and that choir about getting the boosters? I'm shocked there's not people lining up across the country after seeing those!! Everyone will be boosted in a day...................................

[MWil23]

I’m far from a scientist here, but this is my take:

I have gotten Covid twice, once after full vaccination and since then I’ve gotten boosted. The first bout, I had 90-120 day post Covid ramifications with an extremely elevated heart rate, loss of appetite and major fatigue, inability to workout, brain fog, etc. The second time I was asymptomatic with almost zero symptoms aside from an elevated heart rate, and that was the Delta variant surge timeline.

This variant looks promising in that the virus could be mutating to a much milder strain (less deadly) very similar to the Spanish Flu post 1918.

So, I still get my annual flu shot, I’ll likely continue to get an annual Covid shot, and I’d encourage others to do the same. Yes I’ll still get the flu and Covid occasionally, but it’s very likely I’ll have milder symptoms and that I won’t require hospitalization, and hopefully this will be the societal norm and we return to normalcy here soon.

[TVScout]

Free articles:

Masks and covid-19: Explaining the latest guidance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/08/02/covid-mask-guidelines-faq/

 

Parents will have to wait for a coronavirus vaccine for their young children after Pfizer and BioNTech announced Friday that they are modifying their clinical trial to include a third shot at least two months after the initial two-dose regimen for children under age 5.

The companies reported that two doses of the pediatric vaccine failed in 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to trigger an immune response comparable to what was generated in teens and older adults. The vaccine did generate an adequate immune response in children 6 months to 2 years old.

 

Is it the cold, the flu or covid? What to know as omicron spreads rapidly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/13/worst-cold-ever-covid-flu-season/

[mission27]

23 hours ago, DontTazeMeBro said:

I know I’m going to be met with hostility for this. But if Omicron isn’t very deadly and it’s super contagious, isn’t this the one we should all get? If it offers the same natural immunity, I have no idea if it does or doesn’t. And keep in mind I’m vaccinated. But it seems like Covid is never going away and we’re all probably getting it eventually. So idk. And I do realize you don’t know which variant you’re getting when you get it(so I might actually be answering my own question here.)

Here's the question: we know a prior Delta infection provides very little protection from contracting Omicron, would a prior Omicron infection provide protection from contracting Delta?

If so, and if Omicron is less severe (which IMO there is very strong evidence right now to suggest is true), then I would agree with you and eventually Omicron will outcompete Delta out of existence which is probably a good thing 

A less optimistic take is that Omicron infection does not provide much cross-immunity against Delta and therefore all of these Omicron cases will only further burden hospitals and sicken people, without actually slowing down Delta. That would be bad.

[WizeGuy]

On 12/18/2021 at 12:33 AM, mission27 said:

 

 

This guy should honestly be banned from twitter, he's literally no better than the people pretending JFK Jr is going to come back from the dead 

Disinformation fear porn is not helping this situation

He loves his 5 minutes of fame. That's for sure. Even if it is at the expense of his followers mental health. Scumbag. 

[mission27]

 

 

[TVScout]

Among people with covid-19, those who have certain sleep disorders (including sleep apnea) face a 31 percent greater chance of developing a severe case that requires hospitalization, or dying from the disease, than do people who have covid-19 but do not have sleep-disturbed breathing, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

 

A booster dose of Moderna’s vaccine — half the dose used in the original shots for adults — increased antibody levels against omicron by 37 times, the company said in a statement, citing preliminary data. Moderna is still pursuing an omicron-targeted vaccine, though its statement said that given the variant’s rapid spread, the company’s “first line of defense against omicron” would be a booster of its existing vaccine. Its omicron-specific vaccine candidate will advance to clinical trials early next year, the company said. Moderna also announced that a dose double the size of a normal booster, equivalent to that used in the main shots and in the third dose given primarily to immunocompromised people, raised antibody levels by 83 times.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends this third, “primary shot” of the vaccine for people who are moderately or severely immunocompromised, such as those undergoing cancer treatment, taking immunosuppressing medication, or living with advanced or untreated HIV.

 

 

 

[Xenos]

7 hours ago, mission27 said:

 

 

[mission27]

Unfortunate, but we'll see what happens in a few weeks.  Would expect it to take a little bit to drive down Delta cases if it does.

[mission27]

5 minutes ago, mission27 said:

Unfortunate, but we'll see what happens in a few weeks.  Would expect it to take a little bit to drive down Delta cases if it does.

Region by region there's a little more evidence that Delta is declining in areas with significant Omicron spread - in London in particular 

Question is, is this actually a result of a decline in Delta OR is the UK's sequencing capacity capped out and Omicron is such a high % of cases in these areas that it looks like Delta is decreasing? 

[mission27]

More data on Omicron vs Delta spread just now.  CDC says 73% of US cases and 90%+ of cases in New York last week were Omicron. 

Last week of November there were 85k cases per day in the US, ~99% Delta (84k Delta cases)

The past week there were 133k cases per day, of which CDC says ~73% were Omicron, ~27% Delta (36k Delta) 

Delta is down 57% in two weeks 

In New York, the drop is similar.  1,500 Delta cases per day the last week of November to 7,683 per day today.  If we assume 10% are Delta, that's a decline of 49%

[TVScout]

17 hours ago, mission27 said:

More data on Omicron vs Delta spread just now.  CDC says 73% of US cases and 90%+ of cases in New York last week were Omicron. 

Last week of November there were 85k cases per day in the US, ~99% Delta (84k Delta cases)

The past week there were 133k cases per day, of which CDC says ~73% were Omicron, ~27% Delta (36k Delta) 

Delta is down 57% in two weeks 

In New York, the drop is similar.  1,500 Delta cases per day the last week of November to 7,683 per day today.  If we assume 10% are Delta, that's a decline of 49%

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

[WizeGuy]

17 hours ago, mission27 said:

More data on Omicron vs Delta spread just now.  CDC says 73% of US cases and 90%+ of cases in New York last week were Omicron. 

 

Is that NY state or NYC? If it's NY state, then my county must not have been hit by it yet because our cases have been falling the past two weeks. 

[Blackstar12]

Between the flu and omicron don’t know how I’m not sick yet.

[BobbyPhil1781]

1 hour ago, Blackstar12 said:

Between the flu and omicron don’t know how I’m not sick yet.

Do you generally get sick every winter or multiple times out of the year?