Symptoms started late Thursday. Cough, congestion, headache, chills, chest discomfort.
Isolating in my bedroom. Fun.
Isolating in my bedroom. Fun.
Happy 2022 to me….I have the Rona :(
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my wife had it last week. she said it like a bad cold; scratchy throat, runny nose but no fever, lasted about 5 days.
I'm out of isolation now. Had to go to Texas for three days two plus weeks ago. So lined up for test several times after returning. Fourth day PCR test showed positive. Otherwise completely asymptomatic. Most Texans supported Gov. Abbott and thought mask wearing was sort of silly. Outside the airport, no one was doing it. Number of new cases in Texas now up 240%. Probably lots of asymptomatic, mask-less infected passing it around. What goes on in Texas doesn't stay in Texas.
Feel fortunate you weren’t in New York whose seen over 140k new cases in the last two days with their mask mandates. Texas has reported 35k cases over that same time frame btw. Masks obviously making a significant difference.
I wore masks for the first year plus and will still do it now to be polite, but we’ve done a large scale real world experiment with masks in this pandemic and it’s pretty clear the effects were extremely minimal. Whether that’s because masks are never worn at home or because they’re just not effective idk, but it’s apparent at this point that what we’re doing is theater.
Get well poke
Get well poke
I feel as though something needs to be about the difference in population density here.
Well, Texas has 110 people per square mile, while NY state has 421 people per square mile. NYC more specifically has 27000 per square mile while none of Texas' cities has a population density over 4,000 per square mile. The fact that Texas has fewer cases overall, despite having a large population makes sense because that population is more dispersed physically. Comparatively few in Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso have to ride crowded subways to move around their cities or walk on densely packed streets and shop at densely packed grocery stores.
The really astounding thing is that Florida is nearly matching NY in terms of cases despite having a lower population density. (Though, to be fair with the facts, cities like Miami and Ft. Lauderdale are in fact pretty densely populated at 6-13K / square mile.
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As of about 6 months ago population density only had a very weak correlation with case / death rate globally and in the US. Wasn’t a good predictor. Doubt it has changed much since. Probably matters a little but not as big a factor as I would have thought
I also wonder about the accuracy of those reported numbers. The older you are the more likely you are to have symptoms and presumably get tested. 33% of Florida’s population is 60 and over compared to 22% of New York’s. I believe we are missing a lot of omicron cases in testing simply due to its relatively mild symptoms in a lot of people.
My symptoms are much better today. Still some mild congestion but cough has all but gone away as well as chest issues. I even walked 2 miles this afternoon.
My symptoms are much better today. Still some mild congestion but cough has all but gone away as well as chest issues. I even walked 2 miles this afternoon.
Get well soon Lawpoke ! When I had it , I was coughing up blood last year about this time ! Glad you have minimal symptoms !
Damn. Glad you’re ok. The weird thing about this virus is how differently it affects people. Get vaccinated and get healthy
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Yes sir !Damn. Glad you’re ok. The weird thing about this virus is how differently it affects people. Get vaccinated and get healthy
The insights from those numbers get muddled greatly when you introduce vaccines that prevented previous strains from both sever consequences and from transmission to some degree. Rural areas could appear to have greater case / death load because of a lack of vaccine availability or a general hesitancy. That was certainly the case for Delta. If you want to compare case rate / death rate you either have to normalize for vaccine counts if the vaccine is preventing transmission, or use data from when vaccines weren't effective at preventing transmission.
Also, you would have to be careful when comparing the population density of countries. Some densities can be misleading because of the overall size of the country. If the entire country lives in one city but the country has huge swaths of open land, that's different than a country with a more evenly distributed population spread out over an area, even though they might both have the same national density.
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this is why "one size fits all" solutions/mandates from dc dont work, and should be left to the local level.
To some degree I agree. I don’t think a couple farmers on the ranch should be forced to wear a mask as they brand cows… but there is a fine line.
I have something - I doubt is is covid because symptoms are like my recurrent sinus infections. Still have testing scheduled tomorrow just in case.
No fever. A little fatigue and some congestion. A bit of productive coughing.
Will see soon enough.
No fever. A little fatigue and some congestion. A bit of productive coughing.
Will see soon enough.
I get it. I had an in home text so mine was very easy. The cough was the odd thing for me. I get sinus issues all the time but never accompanied by a cough. Figured something was up.
I’m on day 5 now. Still congested. Cough is better but is still lingering. Chest discomfort is gone. All in all it’s been like a mild sinus infection with a dry cough and chest discomfort. Ready to be out of quarantine.
…and I just lost my sense of smell. Assume taste will quickly follow. What a weird sensation.
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In before we start hearing talk about the feds blocking Monoclonal antibodies from states like Florida and Texas who are blaming the feds for not giving them enough help…. While simultaneously passing opposition to vaccine and mask mandates.
Before anyone talks about the efficacy of Monoclonal Antibodies and the non-efficacy of masks or vaccines, I would like to point you to the fact that we have hard data that several of the previous monoclonal treatments have shown a signs that they aren’t effective at preventing severe symptoms in omicron cases so the feds said they were reducing their distribution.
Before anyone talks about the efficacy of Monoclonal Antibodies and the non-efficacy of masks or vaccines, I would like to point you to the fact that we have hard data that several of the previous monoclonal treatments have shown a signs that they aren’t effective at preventing severe symptoms in omicron cases so the feds said they were reducing their distribution.
Bitching about the feds and public health has become endemic for parts of the population.
Yup….started roughly two years ago. However, much of the criticism is warranted imo. We have gone a poor job handling this pandemic as is evidence by the current case numbers and test shortages we are now experiencing.
You mean… not the deaths? Deaths seem like the hard evidence to me. Of course how many of those deaths can you attribute to people who committed literal political suicide by refusing vaccines?
I’m not worried about the number of cases of any illness unless they’re effecting society via deaths, permanent debilitations, or lost economic prosperity, and my priorities are in that order.
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New case numbers are hard evidence as well. As I’ve said many times we are simply fortunate this strain is not as lethal as past strains. The US will report over ONE MILLION new cases today. That’s a staggering as well sobering number. Deaths will begin to rise with that high of new case count even with the blessing of a relatively mild strain.
The lack of available tests is going to cost people their lives.
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Hospitalizations will soon surpass their 2021 highs across the country. Punting this to the states in the middle of a crisis makes for bad optics. Surely Biden has to reverse course at this point and set forth some type of plan to combat what is unfolding. The number of children being hospitalized is particularly troubling
amp.cnn.com
A record-high number of kids are getting hospitalized with Covid-19 as overall Covid-19 hospitalizations soar past the Delta peak
In just four weeks, Omicron jumped from an estimated 8% of new Covid-19 infections to an estimated 95% of new infections, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
amp.cnn.com
He joust doubled the number of Pfizer pills and spread up the delivery date, but it will still be June before we see them widely distributed… also, evidence from NY is showing that the unvaccinated are still making up the large majority of hospitalized cases.Hospitalizations will soon surpass their 2021 highs across the country. Punting this to the states in the middle of a crisis makes for bad optics. Surely Biden has to reverse course at this point and set forth some type of plan to combat what is unfolding. The number of children being hospitalized is particularly troubling
A record-high number of kids are getting hospitalized with Covid-19 as overall Covid-19 hospitalizations soar past the Delta peak
In just four weeks, Omicron jumped from an estimated 8% of new Covid-19 infections to an estimated 95% of new infections, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This wave will be over by March. Not sure what Pfizer pills hitting homes in June accomplishes. Looks like deaths reported today could reach well over 2000. Assume that number will continue to rise. I can see schools being an issue with the increasing number of children being hospitalized.
So I have at least 1 day reprieve until the test results are back and (if positive) I get banished to my detached garage office/stuffy guest loft for several days. I hate that bed.
Maybe. The social distancing certainly works though. Going back to last year, lowest number of flu cases/deaths in a long long time. Whether it was masking or the distancing, the combined made a difference.
I do think as we move along in this, and I don't think we'll ever be completely free of the SARS2 Coronavirus (COVID), I think we'll start seeing new variants with great transmissibility, with lesser and lesser effects...it'll be more and more like the flu. It does not behoove the virus to kill off its hosts...when the host dies, the virus ceases to exist as its means of replication disappears. It doesn't pay for the virus to create serious illness. It's going to find a strain that is hyper transmissible and not lethal in large numbers as that will encourage a condition where it can continue to replicate...it is essentially moving the way of the flu and common cold (which is also caused by a virus in the corona virus family).
Still get vaccinated and practice proper hygiene. I'd rather us just be able to eliminate COVID and not have to worry about it.
Warning on the at home tests...effectiveness in detecting the omicron variant is about 50/50. Current data seems to indicate the current wave is about 57% omicron infections and 43% delta.
I’ve heard this as well. In my case based on my symptoms and a positive in home test I felt fairly confident.
Still a bit congested today but other symptoms have greatly lessened. Biggest complaint is general fatigue late in the day.
I think distancing likely helped a bit, but we also haven’t done much social distancing in quite a while and the flu has been virtually eliminated the entire time in nearly all countries regardless of covid policies. Viral interference could be an explanation. Flu has ticked back up just a tad this winter. It will be interesting to see if it roars back as covid eventually fades into being just another cold
Your case sounds a lot like a friend of mine, also a lawyer (WTH are you all doing to catch the COVID?). His hit right at Christmas so he had to maintain distance from his wife and kids. Said he got a slight cough and fatigue, then a congestion in the chest that felt heavy. He said in total his worst symptoms lasted about 2-3 days but he never ran a fever. He said he wouldn't have thought anything of the original symptoms as he said he usually suffers from "Texas cedar fever" this time of year alluding to the allergies most of us have to endure around here. He only went to get tested when he was told someone in his office/courtroom had tested positive. He said he did 2 at home tests that showed negative only to have the PCR come back positive.
I did see something from a nurse about using the at home test and to do a pharyngeal swab and then the nares swab on the at home tests as it seems to do better at picking up omicron infections.
Flu has picked up quite a bit this year. THD just reported their first flu death as well which is about avg. for when flu deaths start picking up.
