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Bogart wrote:As the title states, this thread is for discussion surrounding Covid and how it has affected us, our communities, others, and the world, while the updates thread is for information/updates about the virus itself.
Cite your sources and don't post bad or wrong or dishonestly-framed information; mod patience for this kind of thing is especially thin right now.
We've all had a terrible time of the past year, so try not to be jerks to each other.
Tl;dr: Be kind, be truthful and cite things, and if you're going to post in the updates thread with something that is not an update, post it here instead.
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It doesn't thrill me but here we are.
Mine doesn't, and my partners doesn't, that's how we got Covid Omicron edition, which seems to have permanently damaged my lungs and probably did something to my sinuses too, and made me anemic
But at least the odds are theoretically in our favor
I think this will just be how life is for the foreseeable future.
Basically the same. Although if case numbers drop low enough I think I'll be comfortable unmasking in a fairly larger number of places.
I think, for me, it'll ultimately depend on how often I'm around that person and how much I trust them. If I go to a grocery store? Mask up. I don't trust anyone I'm around there. But if I'm going to a friend's house who I know is vaccinated and has been treating it seriously then no more masks.
Doesn't really work, trustworthy people catch it almost as much as people who take no precautions. That's why it sucks
Sure but I have a few friends that still haven't even caught it. I find them to be trustworthy enough to hang around with haha.
I fucking love this lol
Test Case: A politician yells at high school kids to remove them.
Yup, holds up.
True, but if case counts are down to double digits for the whole of the county I'm pretty confident they don't have it.
Cases are dropping steadily but it's another declaring victory way too early thing
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Positivity rate is also dropping most areas as is wastewater.
You could still use hospitalizations as a proxy, and those are down to where they were last April, too. I figure there's going to be a slight bump this month since everywhere is ending countermeasures, and then also with Easter, but if trends continue overall downward we should be in a really good spot in May.
But predictions are hard. Especially about the future.
That's nice to know. Also god bless to the people who have to collect and test sewage to figure this stuff out.
So like in Oregon over the last 30 days we're down 15% on testing, but down 63% on positive cases, and our testing is still far higher than it was during the summer lows over the last couple years.
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We had ~500 child deaths a day at the beginning of September last year and ~1000 child deaths a day at the beginning of February this year.
Twice the casualty rate is more than "a slight bump," but then again we should have expected larger numbers for child deaths when remote learning, social distancing, and mandatory masking in schools are all discontinued.
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No we did not. The total number of under 18 dead is under 1000.
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3
Edit: worldwide is around 12800.
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-survival/covid-19/
You're right, sorry, he number of children under 18 reached ~1000 in total at the beginning of February this year, a doubling of the total from September 2021.
The daily deaths in total in the United States are at ~1000 a day, got my data points crossed.
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So I know it's just echoing what everyone else is saying, but just so weird to be completely be at odds with the public mentality.
I mean, I'm going to guess most of here on PA always have been, but it's just very visible now.
today it dropped to 18k.
But we're largely relying on self reporting right now on RAT tests because the PCR centers just fucking can't even.
So
I am distrustful of that number.
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However, our hospitalizations and ICU space have been dropping for weeks, it *seems* like the current situation is getting to a better place.
Whether that holds up or not remains to be seen. I’m optimistic, but I’ll probably give it another month or two to be sure. Work is going back to the office, but the department head has said he has no expectation for us to be in like nothing has happened anytime soon. Come in if we feel safe doing so, once or twice per week if that works for us, etc. a very reasonable and gradual time line with no set pressure and a wholly realistic view that shit could go sideways on us on short notice. Again.
But there are other departments that are already full time back in the office, so…
I am a little annoyed about catching it but I guess it is very hard to avoid after all.
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Given various changes lately, including the recent trends, the existence (and general availability?) of an antiviral pill, boosters, and the general sense of the complete dissolution of a general effort to mitigate the spread of the virus, we are disinclined to sacrifice so much to do our part of a collective action problem that has no collective action. So, we are looking to possibly change our risk assesment.
Our biggest thing has always been fears of long covid. My partner already has one, likely two autoimmune disorders that have prevented her from working or living a normal kind of life for the past ten years. We feel like if she were to get long covid, it would be a terrible outcome for us, and more likely than for most. So, in figuring out how we will handle our behavior, we are going to be focused on risk of long covid.
I'm hoping some of you might have seen research or resources that help us assess the risk. Specifically, has anyone seen any research on prevalence of long covid in people with vax + boost? Also, prevalence of long covid in people who already have autoimmune disorders? Finally, any research about how antiviral pills might effect the autoimmune outcomes? I assume there isn't anything about the antivirals with long covid specifically, but if there are any related cases, (such as antiviral and limes, or antiviral and the epstein barr family of autoimmune disorders). I would appreciate anything along these lines that folks can point to. Thanks!
So much for the Omicron wave being the last wave until autumn.
This town in particular doubled the 7 day incidence since Thursday.
So totally unexpected. Who'd though that having 10s of thousands of unmasked drunk people partying for carnival would result in this.
Please read and consider as your interest dictates.
I appreciate that this series is making it clear that Long Covid likely does not have a single cause. As it says, a combination of autoimmune response, persistent virus, organ damage, and micro clots are the four primary causes identified so far, and they can appear individually or in some combination. Treatment for long Covid is going to vary with how and why the person has the disease. As well, I appreciate that it’s making clear that we have no clear definition - I recall there was one recent study that had instances of long Covid among vaccinated people being similar to rates observed among people who had never caught Covid, since Long Covid for the purposes of that study was identified by having a certain set of symptoms.
I’m curious if this series will talk about risk factors or factors that seem to mitigate risk.
<le sigh> I miss Tom & Ray & Car Talk.
I know Biden says this will change, but we also know that things that are said in SoTU are mostly pie in the sky bullshit, and timelines on that may be many months, not like weeks.
https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/covid-19/covid-pill-cost-availability
Has anyone had any direct experience with antiviral treatment, specifically Paxlovid?