Zaku3 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Changed my appt to 5pm so I can play HOi4 but I will have my booster today. A bit confused because I am really excited about it and I don't know why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 8 hours ago, marioandsonic said: Is this you? He was doing it to help antivaxxers get bogus proof of vaccination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Jason said: He was doing it to help antivaxxers get bogus proof of vaccination. Whereas you simply wanted to become a covid vaccine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 4 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Whereas you simply wanted to become a covid vaccine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Myocarditis risk higher after Covid infection than Pfizer or Moderna vaccination, CDC finds WWW.CNBC.COM Even among the highest risk group, teenage boys, the risk of cardiac conditions was higher after Covid infection than Pfizer or Moderna vaccination. Quote People infected with Covid-19 face a higher risk of myocarditis and other inflammatory heart conditions than those vaccinated against the disease, according a large study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday. The CDC found the risk of myocarditis, pericarditis and multisystem inflammatory syndrome was higher after Covid infection than after Pfizer or Moderna vaccination in males and females ages 5 and older. However, these cardiac conditions are rare after infection and vaccination alike, according to the CDC. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle and pericarditis is an inflammation of the outer heart lining. Multisystem inflammatory is a condition associated with Covid infection that affects multiple organ systems. Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines have been associated with an elevated risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after the second dose, particularly among boys ages 12- to 17-years-old. However, even in this group the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis was higher after Covid infection than after vaccination, according to the CDC. Among teenage boys, the rate of myocarditis or pericarditis after infection was at least 50 cases per 100,000 people, compared to at least 22 cases per 100,000 after the second vaccine dose. The overall risk of heart conditions after Covid infection was up to 5.6 times higher compared to the second vaccine dose. The risk was up to 69 times higher after infection compared to the first shot. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 UK hits record COVID-19 levels; nearly 5 million infected | AP News APNEWS.COM LONDON (AP) — The prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week, according to the latest figures from Britain's official statistics agency. Quote The prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week, according to the latest figures from Britain’s official statistics agency. Some 4.9 million people were estimated to have the coronavirus in the week ending March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded in the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. The latest surge is driven by the more transmissible omicron variant BA.2, which is the dominant variant across the U.K. Hospitalizations and death rates are again rising, although the number of people dying with COVID-19 is still relatively low compared with earlier this year. Nonetheless, the latest estimates suggest that the steep climb in new infections since late February, when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrapped all remaining coronavirus restrictions in England, has continued well into March. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Hong Kong’s Completely Avoidable Covid Catastrophe APPLE.NEWS The city kept the pandemic at bay for two years. Why didn’t it take measures that would help in an inevitable outbreak—like an all-out campaign to vaccinate the elderly? HK wasted an incredible opportunity to prevent many many deaths. This article really does a great job of laying out the failure. Tragic for the people there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CitizenVectron Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 My province (with still near-record hospitalizations and high deathrate) just switched from weekly reporting (we were the first in North American to do so) to monthly reporting of data. They've also removed all COVID-related numbers (including total use of ERs, hospital beds, etc) from the government internal health dashboards. So healthcare workers can't even see it. Yet the government says that we have no restrictions at all at this point because people need to make decisions based on their own perceived risk tolerance...but we can't do that since we don't know about anything at all except for anecdotal evidence around us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 8:36 PM, sblfilms said: Hong Kong’s Completely Avoidable Covid Catastrophe APPLE.NEWS The city kept the pandemic at bay for two years. Why didn’t it take measures that would help in an inevitable outbreak—like an all-out campaign to vaccinate the elderly? HK wasted an incredible opportunity to prevent many many deaths. This article really does a great job of laying out the failure. Tragic for the people there. Their failure to get older people vaccinated is borderline criminal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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silentbob Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 I went one day without my mask at work. Now one of my managers informed us he has Covid. . . again. So my mask is staying on at work for now, but I haven’t been feeling the greatest either. Stomach sucks, no energy/motivation, appetite gone again and can’t get a fucking wink of sleep. So maybe I have it or it’s the long hauler shit again and it’s different and yet not. If I get some sleep I’m tired for the day, but energetic when I know I’ve just tossed and turned all night. Fun shit still a happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 I guess this is the best thread to voice my frustration. Mom comes home early because she had to vomit. It continued when she got home to the point she decided to go to the ER. I couldn't go with her because a friend dropped her off since she couldn't drive and I have no time at work. She comes back at almost 1030pm and I go over the paper work they gave her and it just gives her instructions on the meds the gave and not much beyond that. The diagonises was acute nausea and she has been having vomit issues on and off for a few months and I was hoping they'd figure out what's wrong. But no just "hey you have nausea?" And I'm left going tell me something I don't know. I wish I was with her because she tends to just passively accept things. Am I missing something or is the focus of ERs now just stablize you, bill obscene amounts of money to you or your insurance, and then send you home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 11 minutes ago, Zaku3 said: Am I missing something or is the focus of ERs now just stablize you, bill obscene amounts of money to you or your insurance, and then send you home? No you’re right on the money here 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 12 minutes ago, Zaku3 said: But no just "hey you have nausea?" And I'm left going tell me something I don't know. I wish I was with her because she tends to just passively accept things. Am I missing something or is the focus of ERs now just stablize you, bill obscene amounts of money to you or your insurance, and then send you home? I think this is generally true unless you come in with a specific issue they’ll have to sniff out for liability reasons or something is immediately and obviously life threatening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Shot: Elite D.C. appears to be getting pummeled with Covid - POLITICO WWW.POLITICO.COM There's been lots of buzz in recent days about people being infected after attending the Gridiron Club dinner and a few other events. Chaser: Attorney General Merrick Garland tests positive for Covid WWW.CNBC.COM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 UK has detected a new Covid variant. Here’s what we know so far about omicron XE WWW.CNBC.COM A new omicron sub-variant has been detected in the U.K. as the country faces a renewed surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations. Quote A new omicron subvariant has been detected in the U.K. as the country faces a renewed surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations. The XE variant, as it is known, has so far been detected in 637 patients nationwide, according to the latest statistics from the U.K. Health Security Agency, which said there is currently not enough evidence to draw conclusions on its transmissibility or severity. XE contains a mix of the previously highly infectious omicron BA.1 strain, which emerged in late 2021, and the newer “stealth” BA.2 variant, currently the U.K.’s dominant variant. It is what’s known as a “recombinant,” a type of variant that can occur when an individual becomes infected with two or more variants at the same time, resulting in a mixing of their genetic material within a patient’s body. "XE" sounds like the designation for the mid-tier version of an automobile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Protection against infection offered by fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose wanes quickly, Israeli study finds WWW.CNN.COM A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but protection against severe illness did not wane for at least several weeks, according to a new study. Quote A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but protection against severe illness did not wane for at least several weeks, according to a new study. The study, published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at the health records of more than 1.25 million vaccinated people in Israel who were 60 or older from January through March 2022, a time when the Omicron coronavirus variant was the dominant strain. The rate of severe Covid-19 infection in the fourth week after a fourth dose of vaccine was lower than in people who got only three doses by a factor of 3.5. However, protection against severe illness did not seem to wane in the six weeks after the fourth shot, though the study period wasn't long enough to determine exactly how long this protection lasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 9 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Protection against infection offered by fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose wanes quickly, Israeli study finds WWW.CNN.COM A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but protection against severe illness did not wane for at least several weeks, according to a new study. Not even two months of infection protection means I probably won’t get anything more frequently than annually with my flu and pneumonia vaccines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Imma reup with a booster here in a week before I go to Mexico in May Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Moderna boosted 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Also that photo is from yesterday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 President Kamala Harris 🤮 please no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Covid: Blood clot risk higher for six months after having virus WWW.BBC.COM Lung and leg clots were much more likely in seriously ill patients, but mild cases can be affected. Quote After a Covid infection, there is an increased risk of developing a serious blood clot for the next six months, a study from Sweden suggests. The research found people with severe Covid, and those infected during the first wave, had the highest clot risk. This highlights the importance of being vaccinated against the virus, the researchers say. Blood clots can also occur after vaccination but the risk is far smaller, a major UK study found. People who have had Covid-19 are more likely to develop a blood clot - particularly patients who have needed hospital treatment. Scientists wanted to find out when that risk returns to normal levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 15 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Also that photo is from yesterday. They have to stop taking their masks off for photo ops. It's so stupid. It bugs the shit out of me when watching a press conference, and whoever comes up to the mic takes their mask off, even though everyone else in the room is still not very far away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 tl;dr: If the pattern holds (which it appears to be, so far), the 6th wave (or whatever it's called in Ontario) is going to possible match the Omicron wave in hospitalizations and death. Hospitalizations are at about the same place they were in the same part of that wave, and deaths are already higher: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 So lockdown coming soon, or are we just done with those now...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 minute ago, Brick said: So lockdown coming soon, or are we just done with those now?... No way that Ford is locking anything down before the election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Just now, CitizenVectron said: No way that Ford is locking anything down before the election. Sadly, those are my thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 I got my booster back in November. Should I try to get a second one, or do I have to wait another month yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 minute ago, marioandsonic said: I got my booster back in November. Should I try to get a second one, or do I have to wait another month yet? If you want to mitigate infection risk, you probably don’t want to get one yet. The boosters ramp up infection protection relatively quickly compared to the initial doses, but the infection protect falls off dramatically in the 6-8 week range, so if you plan to get boosters moving forward you are really looking to do it as case counts begin to climb so that you are getting infection protection when it makes the most statistical sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Los Angeles Without Masks, More LA Students Test Positive As School Outbreaks Triple LAIST.COM Health officials say the BA.2 subvariant and lax quarantine requirements contributed to the rise in school outbreaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Florida doesn’t wear masks. Covid is over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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