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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Mother-in-law has covid too. She works at a LT care home and I know outbreaks in those homes have increased quite a bit recently, so not surprised. She caught it once pre-vax (I think it was Alpha) and was barely symptomatic. She's a bit of a mess this time around.
 
Yeah, no idea if she’s lying or not just wondering how good the numbers actually are. Seem dicey as soon as everyone decided we’re never PCR testing and the ability of this strain to evade RATs.
 
hockeylover said:
Yeah, no idea if she’s lying or not just wondering how good the numbers actually are. Seem dicey as soon as everyone decided we’re never PCR testing and the ability of this strain to evade RATs.
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Yeah, the reinfection numbers can't be relied on at all. Think it's pretty much open season if you were infected by anything pre-Omicron; there's no immunity left there. I do wonder what the omicron-omicron reinfection numbers look like though. BA.1 (Dec-Feb infections) likely has minimal protection vs BA.5 due to immune evasion and time since infection. BA.2 (March-June) might have better cross-protection + that wave was more recent.

But DPs paralegal was infected in late December I believe... so it seems feasible to have another round by now. I just wonder about how she managed to get hit twice pre-Omicron in a spot where transmission was quite low.
 
Wayward DP said:
yup. I think this is infection number four?

was also injured by a drunk boater on Canada Day and needs surgery (not at all her fault). rough year for her.
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Most people don't have enough sick days to stay home... companies asking staff that can work from home to come in because of "suspicion that they aren't working hard enough" are run by egomaniacs. If they're really worried about that then they should provide their staff with unlimited sick days...
 
hockeylover said:
Seems kinda unreliable given that you can’t even get a PCR to confirm unless you meet pretty strict criteria right now so there’s likely a lot of reinfections going completely undocumented.

Like my likely second infection and current infection.
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Not really. You are still getting population level data - which will skew to more infection than average vs less - because ltch residents are still pcr tested.
 
zeke said:
All I know is I have supergenes.
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Ya of course. 40-45% reinfection rate per wave when 25-35% of the population is getting infected is a crazy high amount tho. But yes theirs is higher because their delta, alpha, Wuhan infections provide very little, if any protection vs omi. And we didn't have as many Wuhan, delta or alpha infected ppl.

But the estimates are all low anyway. Many first infections were never recorded. UK will have the best data because their testing was good but it'll never be close to perfect and be huge underestimates. And their testing has dropped off since January anyway.
 
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Preston said:
Mother-in-law has covid too. She works at a LT care home and I know outbreaks in those homes have increased quite a bit recently, so not surprised. She caught it once pre-vax (I think it was Alpha) and was barely symptomatic. She's a bit of a mess this time around.
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She's still struggling pretty badly. How are the rest of you doing? HL?
 
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