Paracetamol pretty much shifts all mine apart from the damn blocked nose!
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Paracetamol pretty much shifts all mine apart from the damn blocked nose!
Yeah, sure. Fair enough. I’m not denying its existence. But there’s a cohort of influential medics online drumming up an absolute hysteria about long covid, when post viral malaise has been known about forever and isn’t a big deal (for the vast majority of people). With the big psychological element in the prognosis I don’t think it’s helpful to prime everyone for a bad outcome the way they’re doing.
I’m down with it at the moment too. I tested positive with no symptoms on Sunday, by Monday had the symptoms you describe then Tuesday it had improved to just headaches, Wednesday just aches and at this point I just have an incredibly raspy voice and occasional coughing but feel absolutely fine.
I agree with you.
Hoping for the same! Luckily I can smell the dinner currently being cooked so I still have my senses. We’ve separated the house as my gf is still negative. I’ve somehow landed the living room and the main bedroom.
100%, and granted I’ve only been working as a doctor for 5-6 years - but I wouldn’t have known “post-viral” malaise/fatigue to last >4months. At least it wasn’t crammed into us at Med-school.
Correct, they rely on the airlines to do the check that you’re negative within the last 24 hours. Makes sense.
I just came back from Ireland on Tuesday and had to take an antigen test at a local pharmacy there on Monday. The airline checked it at check in.
There’s also an attestation form the airline collects as you get ready to get your boarding pass checked, at the gate.
On the other hand there are lots of people with long term symptoms and we also already have a habit of largely ignoring people with long term symptoms from other viral infections.
Seriously. It's like we as a species are enjoying our demise into full on ignorance.
*Snort*That takes me back
Are you still talking about the stag?
A couple people at my work are off with long covid. Has it been identified as distinct from other post viral issues? I had really bad flu a few years back and struggled after for a few months.
South Korea just reported their worst daily deaths. With it rising again in China it looks like we could be in for another wave. It’s only a matter of time here given the dropping of restrictions.
Wahey!
We're in a wave now, it's just being ignored. Zoe app recorded the highest ever UK covid cases yesterday.
Today was an exam for the course I'm a TA for, with a bonus question about whether students would prefer returning to in-person (for lectures, the labs I teach are in-person). I don't know the final tally, but from the papers I collected, it seemed split exactly down the middle.
Neither decision (continuing virtual or going in-person) is going to be a widely popular one.
Question was prompted because a parent (this is a university, not a school!) emailed the professors demanding to know why teaching isn't in person, plus a threat to sue.
Neither decision (continuing virtual or going in-person) is going to be a widely popular one.
Question was prompted because a parent (this is a university, not a school!) emailed the professors demanding to know why teaching isn't in person, plus a threat to sue.
I feel like I’m having the best naps with Covid. I usually can’t nap in the day time.
Among the 1486 vaccinated COVID deaths in Hong Kong, 87% of them took CoronaVac, 12% of them took Pfizer. An effective vaccine matters.
My wife is still testing positive on an antigen test eight days after her first positive result. She hasn’t had any symptoms for about four days now. I’m trying to find the correct guidelines in Ireland - HSE says only seven days isolation is required after a positive test but doesn’t state what to do if you’re still testing positive after those seven days. Anyone here know what the procedure should be?
Stats need context of proportion of the population that took respective vaccines. For example, if ~ 80% in HK took CoronaVac only then effectiveness of both vaccine is similar.
58% of the vaccinated population took Pfizer, 42% took CoronaVac.
Not 100% sure but I think I read that you should still isolate until you return 4(?) negative tests on different days
Official guidance is don’t test! 7 days isolation and you’re done. No test before or after (unless >55 or vulnerable)
If you're still testing positive on a LFT are you still infectious though?
I stopped testing positive on my LFT after 5 days
I'm having some wild dreams, one where I turned into a dinosaur and one where my partner painted the front of my mountain bike blue.
Are you sure that's paracetamol that you're taking
It will be a factor, but overwhelmingly for HK it's failure to vaccinate enough of the highest risk groups that is making omicron hit so hard. In particular it's the low vaccination rates amongst the over 80s that are disturbing. I see that takeup in the higher age groups is starting to rise now - obviously that has come too late for thousands of people in HK but maybe it will have an impact in China.
The figures coming out of HK do seem to confirm that for the unvaxxed over 80s, Omicron severity is similar to what was seen in the rest of the world in the first wave, with the original Wuhan virus. The vaxxed are safer, even if the vax was CoronaVac (Sinovac) though Pfizer is more protective again.
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Like I've said before, the local uneducated elderly is very resistant to vaccination. There's nothing much the government could do to raise vaccination rates other than mandatory vaccination, which is unethical in my opinion. What it could do, however, is to ensure every vaccinated person has been given the maximum protection. This seems a greater failure to me.
Yes the 5th wave has hit Hong Kong hard, but many citizens would rather be hit once and for all than the endless, strict "dynamic zero-COVID strategy". It is estimated that half of the population has been infected and hopefully the social distancing measures can be loosened soon.
I feel mostly fine except being a bit heady with a dry cough, but every time I go upstairs I feel absolutely knackered. I start breathing like I've just done a light jog.
I lived in Hong Kong during SARS.
I'm not surprised given population density sadly of what's happening. I remember compliance to masks being very high and I can't wrap my head around population being vaccine hesitant unless there is anti-china sentiment/suspicion in the mix. Really sad though what's happening given the political turmoil there too. I think population immunity will help for a bit but it wears off soon. Whether breakthrough/re-infections will be less severe remains to be seen.
I have explained the situation a year ago. The vaccine hesitancy indeed originates from anti-US sentiment from the pro-China campaign.
Absolutely shattered here. Just woken up and feel like I could sleep all day though not sure that I should.
7 days of this yeah?
7 days of this yeah?
I'm the same today. Left the house once for a short walk round our garden and been horizontal the rest of the day.
How are the case numbers looking in London, are they completely out of control? I may need to be in London for work at the beginning of April, so I'm getting stressed. Shoutout to @Pogue Mahone who told me to get my booster ASAP, looks like I may need it.
I told work I had Covid and both my managers were like "yeah we've got it too".
Currently about 1:20 people in London would test positive for covid using a PCR test, maybe half of those are currently infectious. Of course, many of them will realise that they've got it and will be staying home and away from other people. That's still a lot of infectious people wandering around though.
Out of control? I don't know how to answer that. The UK is more or less only looking at hospitalisations and deaths right now, and while neither of those are great, they're not outside the "prepared for/expected" range.
The boosters are doing their jobs. If you're under 70 and don't have a serious underlying condition then your chances of being hospitalised are very low once vaccinated, and extremely low after a booster. If you're worried about it interfering with your work and meaning you get stuck in a hotel room, sleeping yourself better - yep, it could, and the same will be true of the people you're working with.
You can protect yourself further by wearing a N95/FFP2 mask, they do work. But you will need to wear it consistently - which will mean wearing it at work, avoiding eating out in crowded indoor spaces etc. Omicron is hard to dodge if it's in the office or at the dining table with you.
Whole family has had it over the last week. I’ve not tested as we’ve ran out of tests and feel fine. Wife tested positive and my son negative. Spent the whole time holding the fort and taking care of my wife and kids. It’s hard but I’m managing. My son was bad one night last week but fine otherwise. Wife was bed ridden for a few days. To be honest they’ve all just been poorly with a covid stamp. No big deal.
We all just need to live with it now.
We all just need to live with it now.
Yeah, same here, mostly mild but a few people with decent doses.