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

Preston said:
Plenty of confirmed reinfections from BA.1 and BA.2 in both the UK and Denmark. I mean all you have to do is look at the antibodies generated on omi infections. It's not quite the same as prior variants so you've either got OAS or less immunogeneticity in Omicron. Rare but not impossible and definitely more likely for unvaxxed folks and children (many of which do not generate detectable antibodies at all after infection). If boosted, you should be good for awhile though, though as evidenced by Denmark data nothing is a lock.
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No doubt it happens. But im skeptical AF about a 3 week turn.
 
I'm less skeptical about it happening to children. Falls in line with a decent portion of them not generating any or barely any antibodies after infection + if one was BA.1, they're likely almost fully susceptible to BA.2 if they're not vaxxed and have high exposure to a positive (as was the case with beta vs og covid). 3 weeks is hilarious luck though and yeah it could be a LC flare-up thing which sounds worse to me.
 
Hearing that the first phase 3 trials for an intranasal vaccine will be completed by the end of this month. Indian company, Bharat Biotech, but they used technology licensed from Washington University. Data should come out around then.

Will be a big test since this is using the OG covid spike. Could be a gamechanger, probably more likely to be dud... But Canada better be quick to order a fuckton of doses asap if the results look good. Nothing will stop transmission like a functioning intranasal product.
 
And like clockwork, I have covid.

I knew that the hockey tournament was going to suck.

I even wore a mask there and while in the dressing room - not on the bench though.

So far the only symptoms are a positive covid test taken out of an abundance of caution.
 
Mrs. Wayward's PCR confirmed the rapid test. She's on day four of symptoms. Pretty consistent sore throat, fatigue, congestion has built up, body aches have come and gone. Ripped through a bag of Ricola and Gatorade.

I have two negative RATs since Friday. I actually felt worse last week than I do currently so suspect I may have given it to her but doubt we'll ever know.
 
Covid is everywhere right now. Second largest wave so far in the pandemic at least for the GTA. Highest was only 3 months ago of course and our lows were higher than every other peak. Gonna be near impossible to escape it entirely and to not be infected at least twice per year. Hope Mrs. DP gets better soon and makes a full recovery.
 
Stinky said:
And like clockwork, I have covid.

I knew that the hockey tournament was going to suck.

I even wore a mask there and while in the dressing room - not on the bench though.

So far the only symptoms are a positive covid test taken out of an abundance of caution.
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How are you feeling today?
 
Update on covid carrousel featuring Presto's family:

My one brother who caught it at the wedding appears to be recovered - his wife isolated once she knew and appears to have escaped it
My dad is ok, but still really fatigued
My mom caught it from my dad, feeling like shit currently, on day 2 of symptoms
The groom (my other brother) took his kid to my parents house last week before my dad realized he was positive. His kid tested positive on the weekend.
The groom and his wife are now positive as well as they caught it from their son. The groom has long covid already so this will be interesting.

So 2 people in these three housesholds caught it at the wedding, but in the end 5 people got infected as a result. I appear to have been spared and I did not allow my family to attend the wedding with me (and even isolated after just in case) so they were spared as well.

We didn't survey everyone but from calling around maybe about 15-20% of people at the wedding tested positive. So maybe it was a staff member that wasn't super customer-facing that had it and/or maybe it was someone who was not in a very infectious stage yet. It wasn't as much of a superspreader event as it could have been!
 
Brother in Law just tested positive. Sister feels fine. He's been kicked downstairs to the AirBNB apartment to isolate. They are both pretty cautious, but he's a Bell Tech so could have caught it at work.
 
This came at a good time. Slow week at work. Just finished a big project.

Son's hockey season is finished.

Daughter finished her Rider level course with horses.

Was supposed to start learning to ride on Saturday.

That will have to wait.

Stoked to have this space to hide in while the rest of my people stay healthy.

Glad I kept my parents away from the hockey tournament.
 
east coast update...

Mrs. Wayward is on day five of symptoms. Sore throat seems to have mostly resolved (many cough drops later) and now its more congestion. Fatigue ongoing. Body aches at the beginning. Still off work, hoping to do a half day tomorrow.

I have tested negative twice. No real symptoms. Was super fatigued last week but that could be explained by work stress (or covid...). I feel pretty good today but still some lingering fatigue. Did make it through a full day of discovery without incident so guess I am doing okay.

My working theory is that I had a mild/asymptomatic case and gave it to Mrs. Wayward. But could be a number of permutations on that... her symptoms first popped up on Friday so I am assuming at this point that I am very nearly in the clear but who the hell knows. My colleagues are also bizarrely reckless about masking, which is frustrating (but something I know my boss will not support me in...)

Defence counsel today had a wife and kid with covid last week but never got it himself despite living in the same household. The mysteries of science...
 
Time for me to chime in... after avoiding the plague for 2 years, I finally caught it about a week and a half ago... started feeling really shitty (head cold assortment, chills & low grade fever) on Friday the 25th, had a hunch and started isolating at home and took a self-test at home the next day .. bingo. Fever didn't go above 101 though, was always reduced with OTC meds, and was gone by Tuesday last week. And thankfully no symptoms worse than that.. breathing, O2% was fine, etc.. so doc was satisfied with just 1 TeleHealth visit Sunday, told me to keep doing what I was doing. Felt better and better each day starting around Wednesday, and now other than being tired and still having some drainage, and really tired of these 4 walls in our guest room, pretty much through it.



Wife started feeling bad that Tuesday my fever broke, tested + on Wednesday after a couple - tests before that. She had a really crappy weekend but is starting to come out of it too. Our adult kid still living with us has managed to avoid us, and it, so far (knock wood).



Sucks because we've been 2 of the more careful all along with masking, and still do (KN95) as the mandates here disappear and masking drops to single-digit% levels, we're triple-vaxxed, etc.. Had to have picked it up at the Canes arena (only place we'd really been) Ya drop the mask for just a minute here and there to eat/drink and then back on with it. Sneaky little bastard of a virus. But certainly glad the vax seems to have done its job keeping this from being too rough a ride.
 
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Pretty much everyone at work sounds like they have a terrible cold. Just me and the anti-vaxxers sound normal. My brother-in-law just tested positive, so I expect my sister will soon. My sister-in-law is sick but it's "just a cold". She won't put one of Justin's Trackers in her nose. 🤷‍♂️
 
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