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

Preston said:
Interesting study about that recently.

(1) there is female predominance in the patients seeking care for LC (n=81 [75%]);
(2) women are more likely than men to have an elevated IL-6 (69% vs 28%);
(3) ongoing fatigue is the most common phenotype in women (n=58 [72%])


Of course, it's still far too early to call Ms. Wayward or babe's cases "long covid" (it's typically defined as having symptoms 3+ months post infection) but there does appear to be a gender bias for the lingering symptoms.
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Ms. ParaDP too :(
 
So for real.
My wife works at a drug store, there is a Canada Post outlet at the very back…
Dude walks in.
Stands in line.
And proceeds to tell everyone:
“Just letting everyone know…you should keep your 6 feet from me.. my wife and son are in the car and have both tested positive for Covid”
 
Kritter said:
So for real.
My wife works at a drug store, there is a Canada Post outlet at the very back…
Dude walks in.
Stands in line.
And proceeds to tell everyone:
“Just letting everyone know…you should keep your 6 feet from me.. my wife and son are in the car and have both tested positive for Covid”
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People.......man.
 
We've defanged the death bit. Barring another more severe variant we could be in the clear with regards to that.



Next.. We need to solve long covid. Immediately. With so many infections this research has to be priority #1, especially if 10-20% infected will have long covid even if vaxxed and maybe 2-5% will still have symptoms after a year. That's a lot of disabling. And a virus 60% more deadly than the flu that transmits at this rate is still not ideal so suppressing transmission is still obviously worthwhile. Innovate, nerds. Variant-proof intramuscular vaccines should be around in 1-2 years. Intranasal vaccines that suppress transmission could be sooner. There is a way out and a way to get this thing to true, lower risk endemicity. We just need moar tools.
 
Kritter said:
So for real.
My wife works at a drug store, there is a Canada Post outlet at the very back…
Dude walks in.
Stands in line.
And proceeds to tell everyone:
“Just letting everyone know…you should keep your 6 feet from me.. my wife and son are in the car and have both tested positive for Covid”
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I mean, on the one hand, what an epic asshole.

On the other hand, kudos for trying to be considerate?
 
I mean, on the one hand, what an epic asshole.
Wayward DP said:
On the other hand, kudos for trying to be considerate?
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I guess?

Pretty sure, 99.99% if that was me in his shoes (and I can’t imagine in any scenario where I’d be bombing around town with my infected wife and kid in the car), I would have simply kept my pie hole shut..
my actual first thought when my wife told me the story was that this was someone looking for some sort of confrontation.
 
trujaysfan said:
I would put money on the vaccine passport being gone by the end of February... he caved, just not public yet.
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I think this was decided a long time ago tbh. And with Omicron around and nearly everyone being either infected or vaccinated at this point... I'm not as aggressively FOR a vax mandate as I used to be. I will hop back on board once better transmission-suppressing vaccines come on board potentially.
 
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