It's nuts right now, we've both had it and it feels like everyone I know who hadn't gotten it already is getting it. Luckily I don't know anyone who's had any symptoms that have been more serious than "flu-like". Feels like a good thing now, we'll be at herd immunity soon through a mix of boosters and it blasting through the population, all the while our ICU numbers are dropping.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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That sounds about right. I’ve avoided it so far, or at least never had a positive test so I guess it’s imminent for me. Triple vaxxed so can’t say I’m too worried about it anymore and as nobody else where’s a mask where I live I’ve stopped bothering too as I’ve only ever really worn it for the sake of others.
I had sore throat and treated with whiskey + lemon juice and honey, I demolished a bottle even I had sore throat for 2 days
weeks later I’m coughing but that’s allergies.Just tested positive today for the first time. Amazed I've dodged it to date, tbh. Really annoying cough and sore throat, along with pretty mild flu like symptoms. I thought it was just a bad hangover on Monday (unusually heavy weekend) but when the cough reared is head, I suspected otherwise and test seems to have confirmed, though the line was very light.
I'm in the same boat but haven't tested positive. Was out Sunday, hungover and rough yesterday, then still didn't feel great when I woke up today. This afternoon I've developed a headache, sore throat and a persistent cough/need to clear my throat. Two lateral flows and still negative so could just be a cold.
My partner, her sister and three colleagues have all tested positive within the last week. All unrelated to each other. I think if you’re out living life (as you should) and you haven’t had it, it’s pretty much a certainty at this point.
Cases rising pretty quickly in the UK it seems - presume not equating to overly serious cases, but worth keeping an eye on?
Avoided it all the time, until now. Got me on last day of holiday in Cornwall. Spotted something not quite being right immediately, separated myself and tested for the inevitable. Everyone else in the family testing negative so long may that continue. Just annoying headaches so far. Sigh.
Thanks.
My vaccine sequencing has been a bit strange: 6 month wait between first and second J&J, and now 4 months since my second J&J. I'm wondering whether I should wait till the 6 month mark again, or should I just go for the booster now? Note the omicron wave has peaked where I live (South Africa).
Any advice would be welcome.
Tested positive this morning. Wife works in a hospital so has had to go and do a PCR and assuming its negative I'll be hiding upstairs in my office and a sleeping bag for the next 5ish days!
Avoided it for 2 years and then pick it up now. Stinking head cold symptoms, but not a lot else fortunately. My colleague had 10 days of positive LFTs, which I'm hoping I don't have. So far family have tested negative, so I'm setting up shop in the downstairs office with the sofa bed and the xbox
Definitely don’t wait. Omicron peaked in Europe last month but we’re heading into another huge wave with a new variant of omicron (BA2) which could well hit you guys in the next few weeks.
A practical question. We are COVID positive currently but have not done an official test as we do not want to be forced to take sick leave at work, so we are just self isolating until we return negative in rapid tests.
However, in a months time we are flying out to US who are requiring us to test before our flights. We are free to choose which tests we take - it can be rapid antigen, RT-PCR, RT-LAMP, basically anything.
Apparently it's quite common to test positive a month after infection, however it varies within each test. Can someone with knowledge advise us on whether it's safe to assume we are going to test negative next month on antigen/PCR/whichever? We really wouldn't want to go into 'official' quarantine right now as it's a complete clusterfeck with work or even walking the dog, and we won't be infecting anyone as we are not leaving home (except dog walks) until we are clear.
However, in a months time we are flying out to US who are requiring us to test before our flights. We are free to choose which tests we take - it can be rapid antigen, RT-PCR, RT-LAMP, basically anything.
Apparently it's quite common to test positive a month after infection, however it varies within each test. Can someone with knowledge advise us on whether it's safe to assume we are going to test negative next month on antigen/PCR/whichever? We really wouldn't want to go into 'official' quarantine right now as it's a complete clusterfeck with work or even walking the dog, and we won't be infecting anyone as we are not leaving home (except dog walks) until we are clear.
My understanding is that PCR more likely to test positive for a very long time after recovery. So go with the antigen test. Plus you can do some trial tests with an antigen test at home first before getting the official one. Can’t do that with PCR obviously.
Makes sense. So probably the safest one for us is to do antigen in 7-10 days, if it comes out positive we will have to get an approved PCR and will be cleared as recovered patients within another 7-10 days, so will still be able to travel (without getting tested). As I said, clusterfeck but may be manageable. Just don't get a PCR.
PCR now positive too, slamming headache, cough and weirdly enough, super hot ears.
Just do an LTF. The systems a joke anyway. It’s an at home test and you could get anyone to take one.
Not sure if they offer them online in Poland but will try. There is basically no way we will be reinfected after a month anyway so the only risk is a false positive/residual RNA.
Is there anyone with young kids who is choosing not to vaccinate them? Mine are both under 12 and have had both Delta and Omicron. Everything I've read and heard suggests that natural immunity offers better protection than the vaccines and I'm reluctant to get them jabbed for the sake of it.
Double vaxxed plus infection seems to give about the same protection asxtriple vaxxed in all.age groups.
Vaccination on its own, in the 5-11 age groups, only reduces infections for about a month but still shows very good results in reducing hospitalisations, which are already low but very far from nil.
Everything you’ve read and heard is wrong. The mRNA vaccines give much better and longer lasting protection than COVID infection although vaccine plus infection is even better again.
EDIT - Sorry missed the U-12 context. The above applies for adults.
@Wibble you compared double vaxxed + infection with triple vaxxed, but what about unvaxxed + infection versus triple vaxxed? I'm sure I saw graphs showing no discernable difference.
@Pexbo I will have to dig out my sources so they can be critiqued here but I was under the impression that natural infection provided the same sort of protection against severe disease as triple vaxxed in both adults and children.
@Pexbo I will have to dig out my sources so they can be critiqued here but I was under the impression that natural infection provided the same sort of protection against severe disease as triple vaxxed in both adults and children.
I was a bit wary but changed my mind over the last week. My wife and I are recently boosted. My 13 year old son was double vaxxed but due a booster about now. My 11 year old daughter has had one vaccine dose and was due her second dose a fortnight ago but missed it because we were on holiday. The whole family caught covid this week. My wife and I had mild sniffles. The kids were absolutely fecking miserable. Very high fevers, incredibly sore throat, hacking cough. Bearing in mind adults are supposed to get much worse symptoms than kids this brought home how much a full vaccination course takes the edge off the illness. And that’s with “mild” omicron. Things could get a lot worse if a nastier variant comes round soon.
Obviously, if your kids only had mild symptoms then that changes things. They might be naturally fairly resistant. But I felt bad seeing my kids suffering like they did and will 100% be getting them boosted asap.
Don't have a direct answer to your question, but - my parents recently flew to the US. Both were negative, but more importantly, the only people who verified the negative tests were the airline (at the time of checking in)- US immigration/customs didn't even look at the form or vaccinations or anything.
MIne had high temperatures with Delta and in particular my eight year old son's temperature took ages to come down. Me and the Mrs were equally as ill (double jabbed by then) but with no high temps. Omicron was a lot milder for them and by then me and the Mrs were recently boosted and neither of us caught Omicron.
I'm on the fence at the moment. At seems like one miniscule risk (bad reaction to vaccine) versus another miniscule risk (severe disease from covid). I guess there's also long covid to take into account. Aarrgghh!
If they’ve both had it twice already and didn’t get sick with their second bout I think you could definitely justify not getting them vaccinated.
Having said that, if I was you, I would probably get them jabbed about 6 months after their last illness, just to give a wee boost. Especially if there are nasty variants doing the rounds. I’m generally quick to get my kids vaccinated. I give them the flu jab every year, even though it’s not really necessary.
Don’t get too worried about long covid, by the way. Some people have had bad long term reactions to viruses since forever and that risk never kept parents up at night before so it shouldn’t now.
Here in England the kids get the flu jab at school, so my son gets one yearly too. We also took him for private jabs for things like chicken pox.
It's so easy to overthink things when it comes to your children! I never hesitated to get jabbed myself - it was a no brainer! Will definitely be keeping an open mind about this one but hesitant, for now.
My neighbour is double vaxxed and double infected, just getting over the 2nd infection. She must have total immunity to......error..... fukk all basically
She will have a reduced chance of infection and a much reduced chance of hospitalisation.
Yeah but she will get it again
We have high rates of vaccination in the 5-11 and 11-16 age groups with no reports of any serious side effects. So it looks like the various covid vaccines are proving safer than many of the ones you have already given your kids.
She may. We all might. But we with a massively reduced chance of serious illness or death if vaxxed/triple vaxxed.
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Thanks, got my pfizer booster this morning.
A good intro to long covid
Had a lady come to see me last week angry that I couldn’t help with her long-COVID symptoms. Already referred and seen by the long-COVID clinic, but still astonished that there wasn’t a medicine to help with her cognitive change and on-going fatigue since her COVID illness.
It’s a tough one to actually manage in a surgery. Because there is literally nothing we can do apart from refer to the clinic and just say that hopefully time will make things better. I think some people think there should be a magic pill to cure all ailments.
I go on one stag weekend and I catch it. Two years of dodging it ffs.
Had a dry throat last night and then today I’ve got a headache, dry cough and shivers that come and go. Line was pretty thick.
Had a dry throat last night and then today I’ve got a headache, dry cough and shivers that come and go. Line was pretty thick.
Controversial take but I think one of the most effective ways to cut down the number of long covid cases would be if everyone stopped banging on about long covid.
Same symptoms this end. Think there’s 4 or 5 of us here that have caught it in last few days having dodged it entirely so far. Took my mask off 4 times indoors in Cornwall, all while eating. That was enough.
Mine has been relatively mild with a noticeable decline when paracetamols wear off so I’m basically living my time in 4 hour cycles for the foreseeable future. Hope yours is light case too.
Cheers mate. Yeah my head is not great but I don’t think I need paracetamol yet. Got loads ready in case though.
Probably, but it’s a label isn’t it. People want a reason as to why they are feeling the way they feel. There are plenty of diagnoses we make that I’m sure not all of us feel truly exist but it gives patients closure. I won’t name what I’m referring to in case there’s someone here given the condition.