Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #112

[Stunned]

Most likely but let me also say I also had all those diseases in the pre-vaccine 60s as well BUT I have still gotten those vaccines as an adult and you should get a shingles vax if you've had the chicken pox.

I've gotten the shingles Vax. I'm RFK JRs nightmare, I get all the shots!

 

[meanmaryjean]

I've gotten the shingles Vax. I'm RFK JRs nightmare, I get all the shots!

Same!

 

[IceIce9]

I also had the measles, mumps and chicken pox in the early 60s, so does that mean I'm immune to them now?

Your doctor can order a lab draw to check titers for all three of these. Most people develop lifetime immunity, on others the immunity wanes over time. All three tests can be done with one tube of blood, total.

I’ve had titers drawn several times, as the hospitals where I have worked have required it.

If your immunity level would happen to be low you can get a booster.

 

[TexLil]

Tested positive today. Symptoms started wed. Negative test Thu. Positive test Sat. Feel horrible. Highest fever 102.5. Have not had it before. My luck finally ran out. I think i caught it Monday at indoor pickleball.

 

[Gemmie]

Tested positive today. Symptoms started wed. Negative test Thu. Positive test Sat. Feel horrible. Highest fever 102.5. Have not had it before. My luck finally ran out. I think i caught it Monday at indoor pickleball.

Really sorry to hear that and I hope you get better soon.

Question for you - were you wearing a mask out in public? I can't imagine wearing a mask while playing pickleball so thinking not.

Cases are on the rise again so be cautious. I posted about that a few posts up.

 

[Sundog]

Should We Be Concerned About the XFG COVID Variant?

The newcomer isn't raising red flags with the WHO, and current vaccines will likely be effective

www.medpagetoday.com

 

[TexLil]

Really sorry to hear that and I hope you get better soon.

Question for you - were you wearing a mask out in public? I can't imagine wearing a mask while playing pickleball so thinking not.

Cases are on the rise again so be cautious. I posted about that a few posts up.

Correct... No mask while playing pickleball but i have always been overly cautious in other ways (not sharing my paddle, using hand sanitizer, not standing around talking close up, etc.) One unique characteristic of Monday's play was the number of students there as summer camps were over and school had yet to begin. Probably just comes down to bad luck and the odds finally catching up with me.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

CDC staffers voice frustration over Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric in wake of shooting

The health secretary visited the agency's Atlanta headquarters Monday after last week's shooting.

www.nbcnews.com

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffers are voicing frustration over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past vaccine comments, following Friday’s shooting at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta that left one police officer dead.

Although the motive of the suspected shooter — Patrick White, 30, from Kennesaw — remains unknown, he told a neighbor that he believed the Covid vaccines had made him sick, a source told NBC News on the condition of anonymity.

Kennedy is expected to visit CDC’s headquarters later Monday to speak with staff, according to a person familiar with the matter...

 

[Inthedetails]

CDC staffers voice frustration over Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric in wake of shooting

The health secretary visited the agency's Atlanta headquarters Monday after last week's shooting.

www.nbcnews.com

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffers are voicing frustration over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past vaccine comments, following Friday’s shooting at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta that left one police officer dead.

Although the motive of the suspected shooter — Patrick White, 30, from Kennesaw — remains unknown, he told a neighbor that he believed the Covid vaccines had made him sick, a source told NBC News on the condition of anonymity.

Kennedy is expected to visit CDC’s headquarters later Monday to speak with staff, according to a person familiar with the matter...

And staff is working remote today. Is he asking shaken employees to come in to their shot-up workplace to meet with him?


jmopinion

 

[Gemmie]

I found this to be an interesting study.

A recent common cold may nearly halve risk of COVID-19, study suggests​

Participants infected with rhinovirus in the previous 30 days were at a 48% lower risk for COVID-19 (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.52). Among COVID-infected participants, recent rhinovirus infection was tied to a 9.6-fold lower SARS-CoV-2 viral load, or amount of virus in the body, an indicator of infection severity.

A recent common cold may nearly halve risk of COVID-19, study suggests

Among COVID-infected participants, recent rhinovirus infection was tied to a 9.6-fold lower SARS-CoV-2 viral load, or amount of virus in the body.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

 

[Lilibet]

Dr. Michael Osterholm was on Rachel Maddow just now discussing the danger of RFK’s defunding MRNA research. Very interesting and chilling. I’m sure there will be a link later. We remember Dr Osterholm from the Covid pandemic.

Michael T. OsterholDm, PhD, MPH

www.cidrap.umn.edu

Also on X—

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953484109621141821

 

[Betty P]

And staff is working remote today. Is he asking shaken employees to come in to their shot-up workplace to meet with him?


jmopinion

Shouldn’t he be someone who understands PTSD from personal experience? Maybe he has difficulty feeling empathy for other people. Maybe that’s the result of his own PTSD that was never addressed . Times were sadly different in the 1960s and 70s.

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[Betty P]

Re COVID tracking, I’ve returned to regularly checking the CDC map for tracking COVID 19 in wastewater

NWSS Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S.

 

[Inthedetails]

Re COVID tracking, I’ve returned to regularly checking the CDC map for tracking COVID 19 in wastewater

NWSS Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S.

That is a cool map, though I wish it were more detailed. I see my state has four reporting sites, but I can't tell where they are. I live in an urban area and I assume if it's spreading, it will be spreading here. But still kinda wish I knew.

I love maps.

jmopinon

 

[Inthedetails]

The head of Health and Human Services was asked about the CDC shooting:

Although law enforcement officials have made clear the shooter was targeting the public health agency over the COVID-19 vaccine, Kennedy said in the interview that not enough was known about his motives.

He described political violence as “wrong” and said his job is to protect employees.

He went on to criticize the public health agency’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“One of the things that we saw during COVID is that the government was overreaching in its efforts to persuade the public to get vaccinated and they were saying things that are not always true,” Kennedy said.

After the shooting at CDC, RFK Jr. criticizes agency's pandemic response

President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also described political violence as “wrong” and said his job is to protect employees.

www.pbs.org

 

[Gemmie]

That is a cool map, though I wish it were more detailed. I see my state has four reporting sites, but I can't tell where they are. I live in an urban area and I assume if it's spreading, it will be spreading here. But still kinda wish I knew.

I love maps.

jmopinon

They used to be more detailed till they stopped reporting all the info they used to. I want the detail. I want the info. I used to track it in a spreedsheet, but no more since the detailed info stopped being reported.

 

[Inthedetails]

They used to be more detailed till they stopped reporting all the info they used to. I want the detail. I want the info. I used to track it in a spreedsheet, but no more since the detailed info stopped being reported.

You might be able to find local detail. I found info about water testing in my city (since my last post).

I just wanted to know if wastewater in my area is being tested, and it is, as I expected it would be. The info is available through open data but it was too techy and cumbersome for my interest. I want a summary showing levels are going up, down, etc. local to me.

Anyway, thought I'd encourage you to dig locally if you haven't already, especially if you're into data.

jmo

 

[Gemmie]

You might be able to find local detail. I found info about water testing in my city (since my last post).

I just wanted to know if wastewater in my area is being tested, and it is, as I expected it would be. The info is available through open data but it was too techy and cumbersome for my interest. I want a summary showing levels are going up, down, etc. local to me.

Anyway, thought I'd encourage you to dig locally if you haven't already, especially if you're into data.

jmo

I wasn't real clear with my post. I didn't mean wastewater info that I was no longer able to have access to, I mean Covid details that they stopped sharing with the public. Here are the headers of my spreadsheet:

THAT is the info I want, but can no longer get.

 

[Inthedetails]

I wasn't real clear with my post. I didn't mean wastewater info that I was no longer able to have access to, I mean Covid details that they stopped sharing with the public. Here are the headers of my spreadsheet:

View attachment 608195

THAT is the info I want, but can no longer get.

Aha! I hear ya.

 

[Stunned]

The head of Health and Human Services was asked about the CDC shooting:

Although law enforcement officials have made clear the shooter was targeting the public health agency over the COVID-19 vaccine, Kennedy said in the interview that not enough was known about his motives.

He described political violence as “wrong” and said his job is to protect employees.

He went on to criticize the public health agency’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“One of the things that we saw during COVID is that the government was overreaching in its efforts to persuade the public to get vaccinated and they were saying things that are not always true,” Kennedy said.

After the shooting at CDC, RFK Jr. criticizes agency's pandemic response

President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also described political violence as “wrong” and said his job is to protect employees.

www.pbs.org

Who exactly is he referring to as not speaking truthfully during the pandemic?