Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #104

[WichitaFalls]

Both my son and daughter-in-law tested positive to rapid tests today. They've sent the PCR tests and should have results in a couple of days. Right now they have all the symptoms of omicron and are in bed very sick.

I know the rapid tests are only 50/50 at the most, but I think in their case, they do have it. I feel terrible about them getting this awful disease.

I'm sorry Jakat. Please keep us posted on how they are doing.

 

[CSIDreamer]

New York state shows 67,129 new cases which is the highest in the US and has high vaccination numbers along with mask mandates.

One dose= 83.99%
Fully vaccinated= 71.68%

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

State-by-state data on COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States

Governor Hochul Announces Major Action to Address Winter Surge and Prevent Business Disruption as COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations Rise Statewide

It kind of seems like this surge is flowing from the northeast again.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

US shatters COVID case records, as experts predict infection rates will continue to grow

Yikes! Nearly half a million cases today. With all the testing problems, how many more are unreported?

Similar story here in the UK except deaths remain unnervingly low. We’ve just had 4 national holiday days here (25th-28th) so today is like a Monday which is usually low. I expect to see the reporting lag wallop us with deaths tomorrow. Will be peeping through my fingers from behind the sofa at 4pm when the numbers are published…

 

[beatrixpotter]

This was the meme that left me laughing today.

 

[jakat]

I have come to the conclusion tnat if you leave your home
and are around other humans, there is a good chance you will
get Omricon-- and I mean casual contact ike grocery shopping
or take out from a restaurant, or really any casual contact with
a.person

Yes. I think about my son and my daughter-in-law and how they both have gotten it after being vaxxed 3 times. I'm actually afraid to go to the grocery store, so I'm plotting and planning how to go about it. Double mask and go very early in the morning before other people do. Unfortunately, I live in a state where masks aren't mandatory and people just don't wear them here anymore.

 

[jakat]

I'm sorry Jakat. Please keep us posted on how they are doing.

Thank you and I will.

 

[jakat]

This was the meme that left me laughing today.

 

[jakat]

One thing my son said to me this evening was because he was vaccinated it meant even if he did get covid he wouldn't be hospitalized. That gave me something to hold onto.

 

[CrimeAway]

Yikes! Nearly half a million cases today. With all the testing problems, how many more are unreported?

Similar story here in the UK except deaths remain unnervingly low. We’ve just had 4 national holiday days here (25th-28th) so today is like a Monday which is usually low. I expect to see the reporting lag wallop us with deaths tomorrow. Will be peeping through my fingers from behind the sofa at 4pm when the numbers are published…

I expect to see a 2-4 week lag before deaths go up, but we will see. JMO.

 

[Sundog]

I'm convinced that if masks weren't compulsory in indoor public places, most people wouldn't be wearing them. They don't wear them any more where there's no inspections (like in apartment buildings for example). People were more disciplined at the beginning of the pandemic, especially in the first wave which was relatively mild here.

I'm in Ohio, and we have no mask mandate here in pubic indoor stores, banks, etc. They are recommended, according to CDC guidelines, but they are not mandated. Universities and schools are permitted by the state to mandate masks if they want to, although they have to offer exemptions if requested. Also, long-term senior care homes and certain other congregant settings are required to wear masks, and some health care settings due to OSHA guidelines (although suspended right now), but other than that, masks are not required.

 

[CrimeAway]

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[WichitaFalls]

This was the meme that left me laughing today.

LOL. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

I expect to see a 2-4 week lag before deaths go up, but we will see. JMO.

Oh yes, that too. But I mean this has not been a typical week and the last properly up to date figures were on Thursday 23rd, so we have quite a few days catch up to add on to tomorrow’s statistics. I don’t think it’ll be pretty.

 

[CrimeAway]

Oh yes, that too. But I mean this has not been a typical week and the last properly up to date figures were on Thursday 23rd, so we have quite a few days catch up to add on to tomorrow’s statistics. I don’t think it’ll be pretty.

Agreed! I almost mentioned the lag in reporting. Good point.

 

[WichitaFalls]

One thing my son said to me this evening was because he was vaccinated it meant even if he did get covid he wouldn't be hospitalized. That gave me something to hold onto.

Yes, hold on to that. We keep hearing the same from many health professionals and they constantly quote numbers that show overwhelmingly the sickest in the hospital aren't vaccinated. You hang in there and take good care of yourself.

 

[mickey2942]

CDC: 5 days is okay folks!
Translation: herd immunity

JMO

Pretty much. It is a matter of when. At least, most of us with triple vax are going to be okay. A few sniffles, headache, five days, back to work. Gotta love that.

At the beginning of the pandemic, last year, people who had covid were off from work for weeks, with pay! So much for that.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

England setting up Nightingale covid hubs again, this time within city hospitals:

Covid: Nightingale surge hubs to be set up in eight hospitals, NHS England says

 

[CrimeAway]

Pretty much. It is a matter of when. At least, most of us with triple vax are going to be okay. A few sniffles, headache, five days, back to work. Gotta love that.

At the beginning of the pandemic, last year, people who had covid were off from work for weeks, with pay! So much for that.

I worked through 2020. I think I was definitely exposed, but it was early on when testing was severely limited (deja vu).

 

[Arkay]

One thing my son said to me this evening was because he was vaccinated it meant even if he did get covid he wouldn't be hospitalized. That gave me something to hold onto.

I was just going to write this to you.

As frustrating and frightening as it is that your son and his wife got Covid after being triple-vaxed, try to find some respite in thinking about how true this is.

I understand they are both sick enough to be bed-ridden, which is awful. But thank God, they are at home. He is able to communicate with you via telephone. He isn’t in the ICU with a ventilator, unable to breathe enough to converse with you, unconscious.

It is probable that the vaccines saved the life of your son and daughter-in-law, and this will be a story they tell in the future.

You’re NOT going to be the mom who says goodbye on an IPad.

Thank God.

 

[ilovewings]

Yes. I think about my son and my daughter-in-law and how they both have gotten it after being vaxxed 3 times. I'm actually afraid to go to the grocery store, so I'm plotting and planning how to go about it. Double mask and go very early in the morning before other people do. Unfortunately, I live in a state where masks aren't mandatory and people just don't wear them here anymore.

Here in Florida hardly anybody is masked-- when you go anywhere
you begin to ask ---: is there really a pandemic?