The Indomitable Covid Virus
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I’ve got the European Respiratory Society in a month in Vienna. Thousands of people in a huge conference room. I’m going to try to get another booster beforehand.
The fact that it’s mostly pulmonologists doesn’t make it any safer. The US equivalent (American Thoracic Society) was a superspreader event in 2022.
@jon-nyc said in The Indomitable Covid Virus:
The fact that it’s mostly pulmonologists doesn’t make it any safer. The US equivalent (American Thoracic Society) was a superspreader event in 2022.
Physicians, heal thy selves!
Yeah, I've been waiting for the updates shots to become available too.
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Too late. Never saw that T line turn red so fast. Feel like a truck hit me. Vaxxed up until about last fall, had it I think this is either the third or fourth time. I should be able to mount a pretty robust immune defense.
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Too late. Never saw that T line turn red so fast. Feel like a truck hit me. Vaxxed up until about last fall, had it I think this is either the third or fourth time. I should be able to mount a pretty robust immune defense.
Bummer. Hope it doesn't get any worse/last very long.
Mr wtg is having knee replacement on Monday. We've been masking when we go out, and I decided to just completely avoid stores for the next week or so. We both got sick last year around this time, our first time. I'd prefer to skip a second iteration, especially since he'll be recovering from surgery and doesn't need a case of COVID on top of TKR to feel extra-miserable.
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Wise approach. According to the test I have a very high viral load. Cannot for the life of me figure out where I may have gotten it. We’re pretty careful.
@Mik said in The Indomitable Covid Virus:
Cannot for the life of me figure out where I may have gotten it. We’re pretty careful.
That was us last year. We were still masking in stores back then and weren't going out to restaurants or other indoor venues with people. We had gotten together with a couple of friends shortly before I came down with it. None of them were sick or got sick.
It's a mysterie.
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Free COVID test kits will be available in September.
U.S. households will be eligible to order 4 free COVID-19 tests at COVIDTests.gov. The COVID-19 Tests will detect current COVID-19 variants and can be used through the end of the year.
That second part sounds like they're getting to the end of their shelf life.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Free COVID test kits will be available in September.
U.S. households will be eligible to order 4 free COVID-19 tests at COVIDTests.gov. The COVID-19 Tests will detect current COVID-19 variants and can be used through the end of the year.
That second part sounds like they're getting to the end of their shelf life.
@wtg Looks like they won’t be available to order until the end of September.
We’ve used all but ONE of our tests, including the party pack of 30 that must have been intended for school or workplace. I just ordered more from Amazon, but they won’t arrive til the end of next week.
Our kids are Covid virgins, and we all test before they come for dinner.
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Yep. Turned deep red within a few second. Feeling better today. Not great, but not like I’d been hit by a truck.
@Mik said in The Indomitable Covid Virus:
Yep. Turned deep red within a few second. Feeling better today. Not great, but not like I’d been hit by a truck.
That’s what surprised me when we got Covid last October, how fast the positive line turned dark red. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
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I was able to get the updated Covid jab today along with my usual flu shot.
I know so many people who’ve gotten Covid in the last 3 or weeks that I was starting to feel stupid for having waited for the new shot , so this is a relief.
I hardly noticed the Covid shot, but my flu shot arm hurts like hell…
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The CDC says it's safe to get the shots together but they don't say it's optimal. I think the "one visit and done" recommendation targets people who might get one shot and then not go back and get the other.
From what I read, for best protection, get COVID now because there's a lot of it going around. And hold off on the flu vaccine till September/October, because that season is later.
This article from Yale goes over all of the above, plus RSV.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/updated-2024-2025-covid-vaccines
