Are you seeing a covid uptick?

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Anonymous wrote:I watch COVID statistics carefully. There is definitely an uptick, but cases don't seem to be rising as fast as with other surges and there still isn't much serious disease. I continue to mask indoors because we are either in or on the cusp of substantial spread in our area, and I don't want to waste time being sick. Still, I am cautiously optimistic that were won't see a massive increase in cases, but who really knows?

I'm cautiously optimistic that we've finally entered the new normal. People get sick and then just deal with it like they always have. Unfortunately, I think it took Ukraine to distract the media away from this storyline.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

Do they have other health conditions? The most COVID cautious people I know (including me) either have themselves or have family members who have medical conditions like POTS, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, or Hashimotos, or any medical condition with which they struggled for years without a diagnosis or effective treatment, and who are afraid that contracting COVID could result in piling more debilitating symptoms on top of what they already live with. If that isn't you, you are lucky.

My endocrinologist said COVID has no impact on my Hashimoto. What impact do you think it has?

DP. I also have Hashimotos, and my endocrinologist says I am not high risk.
I’m asthmatic, though, so I check the high risk box there…supposedly. Depends on which doctor I talk to!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

Pcrs were positive.

Ha PP. In my circles of pretty COVID cautious people, many people are getting "colds" that are, in fact, COVID as confirmed by testing. This is in contrast to the fall when everyone seemed to have a cold and no one was testing positive for COVID. I guess it speaks to the higher transmissibility of this variant.

But if the variant is indistinguishable from a cold, what is the issue? Why are we still so concerned about this? We have vaccines that still are doing very well against severe outcomes. I get that there are people that have chosen to be unvaccinated, so there are a bunch of them at times overtaking hospitals. But in areas where hospital capacity is not being overwhelmed, what's the deal with a large number of people getting even a week-long cold?

Do we really have to get into this again? It's not mild for those who are unlucky not to have good immune response, or who have high risk conditions, and the vaccines don't cover these new variants very well.

It’s not mild for some people who are immunocompromised. Not all. My dad is undergoing in hospital chemo and got COVID (at the hospital!) and he is fine (well, fine from COVID, but feeling shitty from chemo). A lot of people in the cancer group we are apart of got it and are fine (I actually have not heard of one bad outcome in the group).

I am not disputing those who are immunocompromised are at a higher risk, but stop making it sound like everyone has a bad outcome. Most don’t.

+1. My mom has several high risk factors. Heart disease, COPD, asthma, and others. She thought if she caught COVID, she would die.

She did catch COVID. And, it was mild and she's fine.

You really don't know.

+1 So many people who think they are "helping" are needlessly causing panic. Increasingly, COVID is mild for people across the risk spectrum. Because of vaccines, different variants, natural immunity and more recently Paxlovid. This is great news! Of course our public health authorities should be concerned about future variants, but if you are an adult who can work from home and doesn't have young or school-age kids, stop panic posting on DCUM about how we need to shut everything down "to protect the immunocompromised". Stop insisting on restrictions that don't affect you.

I am the PP whose dad has cancer and the “shut everything down” mantra caused significantly greater harm to my dad’s health, and many of those in the cancer group I mentioned, than COVID. People with serious illness during COVID were screwed on the healthcare front. And it wasn’t due to hospitals being overwhelmed- it was due to other restrictions that limits testing, diagnosis, and proper treatment and care. I think we are going to look back years from now and see we killed an awful lot of people due to these restrictions. I know at least two people who passed from cancer due to delayed diagnosis and treatment during COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:My teen with symptoms tested positive. Took over the basement. The rest of the family has no symptoms and tested negative PCR and rapid. Do we must avoid public places even if wearing n95 masks (post office/grocery stores)? Everyone in the family is boosted.

Pretty sure exposure is five days at home and then five days in masks. As long as you don’t start to exhibit symptoms.

Nope, exposure is 10 days in masks and no days at home if you do not have symptoms. COVID itself is 5 days at home and 5 days in masks (if your symptoms are resolving by day 5 and you are fever free for 24 hours).

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Work at a local private. We’ve been slammed the last week. Mcps better buckle up

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Anonymous wrote:Work at a local private. We’ve been slammed the last week. Mcps better buckle up

Yawn

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Anonymous wrote:Work at a local private. We’ve been slammed the last week. Mcps better buckle up

Yawn

Thanks for your riveting contribution. Keep sticking that head in the sand and chanting “LA LA LA I CAN’T HEEEEAR YOOOOOOU.” Fool.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Final Four tournament in NOLA. Didn’t wear a mask for five days of drinking on Bourbon Street and was in a stadium with 10,000 of my closest unmasked friends. Did I get COVID? Eh, maybe? Who knows. I’m feeling fine and have no plans to test. Only in DC (and maybe Portland?) are people so uptight about COVID now.

I think the people who are most concerned are those of us:

-Caring for an elderly or immunocompromised loved one
-Have an infant or toddler with health issues
-Can’t travel if we test positive

LOL no the most uptight people I know don't fall into those categories at all. They're way too Covid-cautious to travel!

Do they have other health conditions? The most COVID cautious people I know (including me) either have themselves or have family members who have medical conditions like POTS, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, or Hashimotos, or any medical condition with which they struggled for years without a diagnosis or effective treatment, and who are afraid that contracting COVID could result in piling more debilitating symptoms on top of what they already live with. If that isn't you, you are lucky.

My endocrinologist said COVID has no impact on my Hashimoto. What impact do you think it has?

DP. I also have Hashimotos, and my endocrinologist says I am not high risk.
I’m asthmatic, though, so I check the high risk box there…supposedly. Depends on which doctor I talk to!

I have two different neurologists and both say very different things in terms of treatment plan....

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Anonymous wrote:Work at a local private. We’ve been slammed the last week. Mcps better buckle up

Yawn

Thanks for your riveting contribution. Keep sticking that head in the sand and chanting “LA LA LA I CAN’T HEEEEAR YOOOOOOU.” Fool.

Snore

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Anonymous wrote:Work at a local private. We’ve been slammed the last week. Mcps better buckle up

Bore off. Nobody’s buying into your hysteria anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Work at a local private. We’ve been slammed the last week. Mcps better buckle up

Bore off. Nobody’s buying into your hysteria anymore.

Be real, of course there will be a surge for a few weeks.