Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #109

[anneg]

@ddiamond

TONY FAUCI has tested positive for covid, officials announce. The 81-year-old doctor helping lead US covid response has not previously had a confirmed infection.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1537143513539911680

I expect he will be fine. I wish him a quick recovery and no Long Covid!

From the article:
In January, he predicted the highly contagious Omicron variant will "ultimately find just about everybody," but noted Americans who are vaccinated and boosted will do "reasonably well" given that the shots protect against hospitalization and death.

 

[tabitha111]

It's finally happened here. Here at the retirement home we have two cases of active covid. (One in a 92 year old)

Some, not all residents are back to wearing masks but here's the thing we all are still eating in a common dining room!

 

[Kingsley]

It's finally happened here. Here at the retirement home we have two cases of active covid. (One in a 92 year old) View attachment 349564Some, not all residents are back to wearing masks but here's the thing we all are still eating in a common dining room!

Please stay well!
Thank you for the update from there.

 

[anneg]

It's finally happened here. Here at the retirement home we have two cases of active covid. (One in a 92 year old) View attachment 349564Some, not all residents are back to wearing masks but here's the thing we all are still eating in a common dining room!

Tabitha, I have been reading your posts over the past couple of years (?) with much interest. I don't remember whether all the residents and staff have been vaccinated. Do you plan to switch to having meals delivered to you as I recall you did for a while in the past?

I seem to recall that you suspected that there were Covid cases in the retirement home previously. Maybe this is the first time that management has confirmed cases in the facility.

Take care--I hope you can avoid Covid!

 

[tabitha111]

Tabitha, I have been reading your posts over the past couple of years (?) with much interest. I don't remember whether all the residents and staff have been vaccinated. Do you plan to switch to having meals delivered to you as I recall you did for a while in the past?

I seem to recall that you suspected that there were Covid cases in the retirement home previously. Maybe this is the first time that management has confirmed cases in the facility.

Take care--I hope you can avoid Covid!

I took dinner here tonight in my room, but it's generally frowned upon to keep doing that. We do have residents that never come out to eat but they are elderly and many of them are sickly. Most of us are vaccinated and boosted, but I know of at least two that are not so there's probably more. Yes, I even suspect there are more cases than we know at the moment because there have been at least two residents I have seen coughing their lungs out in the dining room. I don't know what to do, I was eating downstairs for about a month now, I might switch to just eating in my apartment again.

 

[MimosaMornings]

It's finally happened here. Here at the retirement home we have two cases of active covid. (One in a 92 year old) View attachment 349564Some, not all residents are back to wearing masks but here's the thing we all are still eating in a common dining room!

There’s not enough staff to take 3 meals a day to each resident is what we are told plus it’s $5 per meal to have it delivered to your door instead of going to the dining room. $15 per day adds up on a fixed income.
Plus only one elevator that everyone crowds into to go downstairs....sigh.
It’s only a matter of time.

 

[anneg]

There’s not enough staff to take 3 meals a day to each resident is what we are told plus it’s $5 per meal to have it delivered to your door instead of going to the dining room. $15 per day adds up on a fixed income.
Plus only one elevator that everyone crowds into to go downstairs....sigh.
It’s only a matter of time.

Hang in there, MM and @tabitha111! I hope you are able to stay healthy in your respective retirement facilities.

 

[ilovepierre]

It's finally happened here. Here at the retirement home we have two cases of active covid. (One in a 92 year old) View attachment 349564Some, not all residents are back to wearing masks but here's the thing we all are still eating in a common dining room!

Stay safe and healthy, Tabitha!

 

[ilovewings]

It's finally happened here. Here at the retirement home we have two cases of active covid. (One in a 92 year old) View attachment 349564Some, not all residents are back to wearing masks but here's the thing we all are still eating in a common dining room!

Hi Tabitha: You have come too far and been too careful to let your guard down now- Please take care of yourself and do what you can to stay safe

 

[MimosaMornings]

I took dinner here tonight in my room, but it's generally frowned upon to keep doing that. We do have residents that never come out to eat but they are elderly and many of them are sickly. Most of us are vaccinated and boosted, but I know of at least two that are not so there's probably more. Yes, I even suspect there are more cases than we know at the moment because there have been at least two residents I have seen coughing their lungs out in the dining room. I don't know what to do, I was eating downstairs for about a month now, I might switch to just eating in my apartment again.

Are people still gathering in activity rooms or socializing in common areas there?

 

[tabitha111]

Are people still gathering in activity rooms or socializing in common areas there?

Of course they are. Not me though. It's almost like nothing is going on that is unusual. I heard from a very reliable source today that there are THREE with Covid - one is in the hospital with it. I wish management was more transparent, since they only have said ONE person!
We don't have the staff either to deliver meals to everyone but they have done so in the recent past when we had a fire and it flooded the dining room from the sprinklers. I just wonder what the threshold is for that to happen again.
We also have just one elevator that everyone crams into. I am lucky that I can use the stairs all the time, which I do.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

How many times can I get reinfected with Covid?

Having Covid once is no guarantee you won't get it again. Here's the latest on reinfections.

www.nbcnews.com

In 2020, Covid reinfections were considered rare.

In 2021, breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals could occur, but again, the risk was low.

In 2022, that's no longer the case for either. As more immune-dodging coronavirus variants emerge, reinfections and breakthrough infections appear increasingly normal...

“I would not be surprised if we see people get infected more than once per year,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said in an interview with NBC News last week, though he added that he feels optimistic that it will eventually settle into becoming just a seasonal occurrence, like the flu...

 

[ilovepierre]

How many times can I get reinfected with Covid?

Having Covid once is no guarantee you won't get it again. Here's the latest on reinfections.

www.nbcnews.com

In 2020, Covid reinfections were considered rare.

In 2021, breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals could occur, but again, the risk was low.

In 2022, that's no longer the case for either. As more immune-dodging coronavirus variants emerge, reinfections and breakthrough infections appear increasingly normal...

“I would not be surprised if we see people get infected more than once per year,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said in an interview with NBC News last week, though he added that he feels optimistic that it will eventually settle into becoming just a seasonal occurrence, like the flu...

I’ve had it 3 times, so reinfection definitely isn’t as rare as it was once thought to be.

I had the original strain in 2020, and then variants after that.

Twice before being vaccinated and then once just after getting a booster.

I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve had it again already. I stay home when sick, so my chances of infecting anyone’s else are very slim. I wear a mask when I go out still and at work as I don’t really want to keep getting COVID.

 

[cujenn81]

I’ve had it 3 times, so reinfection definitely isn’t as rare as it was once thought to be.

I had the original strain in 2020, and then variants after that.

Twice before being vaccinated and then once just after getting a booster.

I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve had it again already. I stay home when sick, so my chances of infecting anyone’s else are very slim. I wear a mask when I go out still and at work as I don’t really want to keep getting COVID.

You poor thing!!!

 

[tabitha111]

Watch this space! I am assuming we may well go on lockdown here at the retirement home....if not, then "they" don't really care about us. We have MORE infected people today and quite a few who are "sick" but not taking tests...(sigh) I am taking my meals in my room....I don't understand why the powers that be are letting this virus run rampant among us.

 

[tabitha111]

Addendum to my other post: the most recent person with Covid here has dementia and roams around the building at all times and all hours. She is very hard to keep in her room- let alone keep a mask on. I don't see how an independent living situation can babysit her and keep tabs on her all the time (not enough staff for one thing) This is not assisted living even though we have residents that desperately need to be in that type of care!
Concerns are always raised to the staff about these residents but the staff does nothing....now in this situation...what can be done? You can't lock this person in her room. It's just a bad situation all around.

 

[Teche]

Addendum to my other post: the most recent person with Covid here has dementia and roams around the building at all times and all hours. She is very hard to keep in her room- let alone keep a mask on. I don't see how an independent living situation can babysit her and keep tabs on her all the time (not enough staff for one thing) This is not assisted living even though we have residents that desperately need to be in that type of care!
Concerns are always raised to the staff about these residents but the staff does nothing....now in this situation...what can be done? You can't lock this person in her room. It's just a bad situation all around.

Maybe you could notify the county/state department of health and hospitals to make a formal complaint or contact the local media. I bet that the company that owns the retirement home would address this critical issue.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

FDA authorizes Covid vaccines for the youngest kids

The agency also authorized Moderna's vaccine for children ages 6 to 17.

www.nbcnews.com

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna's Covid-19 vaccines for young children, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still needs to sign off before shots can be administered.

The Pfizer vaccine was authorized for children ages 6 months to 4 years, while the Moderna vaccine was authorized for children ages 6 months to 5 years, the FDA said in a statement. It also authorized Moderna's shot for kids ages 6 to 17.

The agency's authorization brings the roughly 18 million children under age 5 in the United States one step closer to getting vaccinated. Children in the age group are the only remaining group in the country ineligible to get the shots...

 

[ilovepierre]

You poor thing!!!

It’s been a roller coaster ride these last 2 years that’s for sure!

 

[MimosaMornings]

Addendum to my other post: the most recent person with Covid here has dementia and roams around the building at all times and all hours. She is very hard to keep in her room- let alone keep a mask on. I don't see how an independent living situation can babysit her and keep tabs on her all the time (not enough staff for one thing) This is not assisted living even though we have residents that desperately need to be in that type of care!
Concerns are always raised to the staff about these residents but the staff does nothing....now in this situation...what can be done? You can't lock this person in her room. It's just a bad situation all around.

She needs to be in memory care. Maybe call DSS and report it as an impaired elderly person who is not being cared for in an appropriate facility? Especially if she has Covid?

The kitchen probably isn’t locked up/dining room doors unlocked?
Independent living - so she could leave the premises at any time? Exercise room too? That is dangerous for the poor lady.

I called last month when my aunt started calling me in the middle of the night - she was being awakened several nights a week by a resident banging on her door because she thought it was her room. She would yell and knock on the door scaring my aunt then she would call me because she couldn’t go back to sleep. She is moving out this weekend according to the administrator.
JMO