Corona Virus

[Anthony Bonner]

That's really terrible about the person who lied.  Glad to hear your daughter is ok. Hope her boyfriend has a great recovery.

Our kids school is turning into a quasi super spreader event. 6 kids in one grade ( which is 25% of the grade) at least three of whom are the older siblings of my son's classmates.  Our kids have just hit the two week post second shot mark so fingers crossed.  I might be eating lots of prime rib.

Very low vax rate in the under 12s out here. Less than 30% with one shot vs 95% on the same metric for >18.

[Wilfrid]

59 minutes ago, voyager said:

Can you expand?

No, that’s just what I’ve seen online from good sources. Maybe I’m wrong.

[Wilfrid]

40 minutes ago, Anthony Bonner said:

That's really terrible about the person who lied.  Glad to hear your daughter is ok. Hope her boyfriend has a great recovery.

Our kids school is turning into a quasi super spreader event. 6 kids in one grade ( which is 25% of the grade) at least three of whom are the older siblings of my son's classmates.  Our kids have just hit the two week post second shot mark so fingers crossed.  I might be eating lots of prime rib.

Very low vax rate in the under 12s out here. Less than 30% with one shot vs 95% on the same metric for >18.

Thank you. Wishing your children the best.

[bloviatrix]

I am pleased to say that as of this afternoon the kid is fully vaccinated. Now we just have to wait 2 weeks for the antibodies to kick in.

[Lippy]

21st birthday!   Where did the time go?

[prasantrin]

I'm sorry about your daughter and her boyfriend, and any others who may have been infected by the a-hole liar. Thankfully your daughter's case was not too serious, and hopefully neither she nor boyfriend suffer any long term effects. I wonder if liar will emerge from all this with friends intact      

 

My brother, who was double vaccinated and quite fit and healthy, also recently contracted covid along with the rest of his family. The sucky part is that his wife who claims she's vaccine hesitant, but she perfectly fits the profile of an anti-vaxxer, was the least ill of the family. My brother was probably the most seriously ill, and although he was not hospitalized, he ended up getting Regeneron. Their children are also not vaccinated because although they were told they could decide for themselves, they were following the lead of their mother. No word to date on whether they finally decided to get the jab (I'm quite sure sil won't, but maybe there's still hope for the kids). 

[Orik]

19 hours ago, voyager said:

Can you expand?

Here you go:

" Assuming an incubation period distribution of mean 5.2 days from a separate study of early COVID-19 cases¹, we inferred that infectiousness started from 12.3 days (95% CI, 5.9–17.0 days) before symptom onset and peaked at symptom onset (95% CI, –0.9–0.9 days) (Fig. 1c). We further observed that only <0.1% of transmission would occur before 7 days, 1% of transmission would occur before 5 days and 9% of transmission would occur before 3 days prior to symptom onset. " 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5

 

[Tubbs]

Everything I've been seeing (plus anecdotally the speed that this is going through NFL teams, colleges, etc) implies that delta/omicron are MUCH quicker. 

[sweatshorts]

Have a number of positive tests within my social circle today, everyone vaccinated, some vaccinated plus boosted. It's weird, it feels like March 2020 again. Everyone is freaking out.

[Tubbs]

3 minutes ago, sweatshorts said:

Have a number of positive tests within my social circle today, everyone vaccinated, some vaccinated plus boosted. It's weird, it feels like March 2020 again. Everyone is freaking out.

But are any of them, you know, sick?

[Orik]

7 minutes ago, Tubbs said:

Everything I've been seeing (plus anecdotally the speed that this is going through NFL teams, colleges, etc) implies that delta/omicron are MUCH quicker. 

Omicron is almost certainly much quicker, not sure about Delta. 

[sweatshorts]

5 minutes ago, Tubbs said:

But are any of them, you know, sick?

Some people have colds!

[Wilfrid]

1 hour ago, Lippy said:

21st birthday!   Where did the time go?

A very good question.

[Tubbs]

Just now, sweatshorts said:

Some people have colds!

Yeah I have no idea how to feel about this. On the one hand it seems like it's just ripping through everywhere now, vaxed or not, then again I don't know if I should actually be worried! 

[Wilfrid]

7 minutes ago, Tubbs said:

But are any of them, you know, sick?

Also a good question. I heard a medical expert arguing persuasively that the increase in cases we’re seeing is no longer the crucial metric. We should be looking at hospitalizations and other measures of severe disease, because a lot of these new cases are relatively mild.