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[rgG]

Glad you and the family are better!

[Acer]

Not wanting to post a new thread. But i think this is a story that needs to be entered into the record, when someone claims 'young people don't get COVID" or "it's just the flu". The speaker is Simone Giertz, of "Sh*tty Robot" internet fame, and I follow her on YouTube. The subject of the video is her friend who also has.a channel, which I was not familiar with until this video came up in my feed. It's a scary story about how Long COVID can ruin a young life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydgkCCXbTA

(There is a plea for donations. Do with that what you will, that is not the purpose of this post.)

[Ted King]

New York Times (pageview works):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/healt...mised.html

“I think it’s reasonable to boost immunocompromised people and people in nursing homes every six months,” Dr. Gounder said. “I do not think that annual boosters for everyone makes sense.”

Some Americans who got their latest boosters in the fall are asking their doctors when they should get the next dose. Britain and Canada have already recommended additional shots for older adults and immunocompromised people starting this spring.

It’s unclear whether the Food and Drug Administration will follow suit. In a bid to simplify what had become a bewildering array of guidelines on vaccination, the agency said in January that it would move to a single shot offered each fall to all Americans, as is the case for flu.

[RgrF]

Not sure about the FDA but CDC is still laboring to get out from under the wreckage to their credibility and function that was a result of the Trump administration.

For now at least I'd be more inclined to follow European and Canadian recommendations.

[Speedy]

My daughter, a kidney transplant recipient, could not get a second booster because the CDC/FDA recommend only that the first bi-valent booster be given a single time. Actively immunosuppressed people have only four months of protection from the booster but her transplant center has to follow the recommendations, same for her local doctor. She got her single dose the first day it was available September 3, 2022.

I got my first dose Sept. 20, 2022 in my home state at CVS and my second on Feb. 6, 2023 in another state at a clinic. Got flu shots both times, too.

[Speedy]

We Should Have Known So Much About Covid From the Start
Oct. 5, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/opini...GnI-ZnsR4Z&smid=url-share

America has begun to treat Covid-19 like just any other disease — boosters are now arriving on an annual fall cycle, on the flu model, with large portions of the country not bothering with them, also on the flu model.

But, objectively, Covid is not just another disease — not yet. Last year, it was the only infectious disease among the country’s top 10 causes of death. We are obviously on an off-ramp from the pandemic emergency, since even though many more Americans have gotten Covid over the last year, many fewer are dying than did in the first two years of Covid-19. But while the worst is behind us, it’s also not quite right to see the disease as epidemiological wallpaper.

This is precisely the long transition from emergency to normality that the immunologist and epidemiologist Michael Mina has predicted since almost the beginning of the pandemic. Beginning in 2020, Mina took pains to describe Covid-19 as a “textbook virus,” with features that may have startled lay people — long Covid and post-acute sequelae, waning immunity and reinfection — but were, in his view, simply what could be expected from a new pathogen spreading through a global population with no immunity.

I spoke to Mina about what seeing Covid as a textbook virus tells us about the nature of the pandemic off-ramp — and about everything else we should’ve known about the disease from the outset. I’ve edited and condensed our conversation for clarity, and added some material from a follow-up interview.

[Harbourmaster]

Excellent article! Thanks very much for posting that here!

[wurm]

You can add me to the 'up-to-date' list. Just back from a COVID and flu shot appointment. Hoping for as smooth sailing as all my previous ones.

[Speedy]

A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptoms

https://www.aol.com/news/covid-variant-hv-1-now-023335640.html

What are HV.1 symptoms?

The symptoms caused by infection with HV.1 are similar to those caused by recent variants, says Schaffner, which include:

Sore throat

Congestion or stuffiness

Runny nose

Cough

Fatigue

Headache

Muscle aches

Fever or chills

“Congestion, sore throat and dry cough seem to be the three most prominent symptoms right now,” says Schaffner.

Increasingly, doctors report that COVID-19 symptoms appear to follow a pattern of being concentrated in the upper respiratory tract, starting with a sore throat and followed by congestion or a runny nose, NBC news reported.

Coughing isn't typically a primary symptom, but it can persist. "The virus seems to produce a kind of a chronic bronchitis, so that you can have a cough syndrome that lasts beyond the period where you’ve recovered from other symptoms," says Schaffner.

Another trend is that COVID-19 seems to be causing milder infections, likely because people have some prior immunity. “By milder, we mean it doesn’t require hospitalization even though you can feel quite miserable for several days,” says Schaffner.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-summary

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After reading the symptoms and seeing they matched the ones I had been experiencing, I took a Covid test which was positive. I felt miserable for about three days and now just have a sore throat and resultant cough. My wife had it, we suspect, and had recovered several days before I became symptomatic. Her case wasn’t quite as miserable. We are fully boosted and this was our first time with Covid.

[rgG]

Speedy wrote:
A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptoms

https://www.aol.com/news/covid-variant-hv-1-now-023335640.html

What are HV.1 symptoms?

The symptoms caused by infection with HV.1 are similar to those caused by recent variants, says Schaffner, which include:

Sore throat

Congestion or stuffiness

Runny nose

Cough

Fatigue

Headache

Muscle aches

Fever or chills

“Congestion, sore throat and dry cough seem to be the three most prominent symptoms right now,” says Schaffner.

Increasingly, doctors report that COVID-19 symptoms appear to follow a pattern of being concentrated in the upper respiratory tract, starting with a sore throat and followed by congestion or a runny nose, NBC news reported.

Coughing isn't typically a primary symptom, but it can persist. "The virus seems to produce a kind of a chronic bronchitis, so that you can have a cough syndrome that lasts beyond the period where you’ve recovered from other symptoms," says Schaffner.

Another trend is that COVID-19 seems to be causing milder infections, likely because people have some prior immunity. “By milder, we mean it doesn’t require hospitalization even though you can feel quite miserable for several days,” says Schaffner.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-summary

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After reading the symptoms and seeing they matched the ones I had been experiencing, I took a Covid test which was positive. I felt miserable for about three days and now just have a sore throat and resultant cough. My wife had it, we suspect, and had recovered several days before I became symptomatic. Her case wasn’t quite as miserable. We are fully boosted and this was our first time with Covid.

Sorry to hear that. Aren’t you the one who is more than fully boosted, like you had several extra shots?
Glad you and your wife are both better.