BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May
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Anonymous
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NY poster here - the point I was trying to make with the school stats is that the government numbers are very inaccurate at this point because most testing is happening at home and isn’t being officially reported. It’s actually hard to report it unless you get tested at a public facility, and since most of us have at home tests now it just isn’t worth it especially when people feel ill. Obviously there isn’t a large surge at my children’s school and nowhere else - they’re just one of the few places getting more accurate data because families are testing regularly. After the 2020-2021 schoolyear was a disaster because of mostly remote school most parents in the community will happily test and do whatever it takes to preserve in-person school for our kids.
I currently have 3 friends who had COVID over December/January and now have it again despite being vaxxed and boosted. So reinfection with this new mutation is possible. |
Anonymous
| My vaccinated dh tested positive with an at home rapid swab to his throat, the nasal one was negative. PCR test is scheduled for this afternoon, required by work. He thought he had allergies starting Sunday (congestion, sore throat) but last night he had some chills. My digestion has been off since Saturday and I woke up with a sore throat today. We have 2 unvaccinated kids at home. Not sure what we're supposed to do, other than isolate and stay home. Should I get a PCR? I wah. |
Anonymous
| Just stay home and isolate. |
Anonymous
I wouldn't bother testing if your husband is sick and positive. You probably have it too, just stay home until everyone is better. |
Anonymous
Eric Ding is an opportunistic Twitter fearmonger and nobody should follow him. He shares actual misinformation or in many cases exaggerates the truth to keep people terrified. For example if there hasn’t been anything scary enough for his liking, he will dredge up a study that’s a year old and share it with five alarm bells. Seriously do yourself a favor and stop following him. |
Anonymous
I originally felt that way but when we realized we had covid, the one we thought also caught turned out to be a negative and a few we thought were in the clear were not. We knew thanks to a PCR. It's also good to keep track of the last time you had it. |
Anonymous
My dh went for his PCR and they informed him that using a nasal swab test on your throat produces a high number of false positives. I will wait for his results and will get a PCR if his is positive. The kids are fine, currently. |
Anonymous
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Can we please just stop testing! The less we continue to talk about Covid , new case numbers, etc... the more we will normalize getting it. Your kid is probably going to get sick 5 or 6 times a year. If one of those times it happens to be covid... it statistically and scientifically likely won't matter.
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Anonymous
This is what we did with omicron. Testing just prolongs the hysteria. |
Anonymous
| I have covid right now. I'm a healthy person in their 30s with no underlying conditions, I exercise regularly and am a healthy weight. I am fully vaccinated and boosted (booster was @6 months ago). I currently feel like crap. Yes, "statistically" i'm probably going to be fine but my 78yo MIL who I saw on Sunday before I knew I was sick may not be if I inadvertently passed it to her. I went from feeling fine on Sunday to feeling yucky yesterday and pretty damn miserable today. |
Anonymous
Wrong. If your 78yo MIL that you saw on Sunday is also vaccinated and booster she will also "statistically" be fine. |
Anonymous
Yet she “statistically” has a much higher chance of severe illness or death regardless given her age (and more if she has other underlying health conditions or risk factors). |
Anonymous
You really have no way of predicting what will happen in an individual case. My son inadvertently gave Covid to my 76 year old MIL and she was sicker than the rest of us for longer but nowhere near needing to go to the ER or anything. P.S. If you're here posting, you are better off than I was 2 weeks ago with a non Covid virus. I couldn't get out of bed for 2 days. Sending emails to work to tell them I'd be out literally took all the energy I had. I could barely type on my phone and slept most of the day. We are going to get sick throughout our lifetime. Some illnesses will be very mild others will completely take us out for a few days or more. Covid isn't the only thing can make us really sick and for many people it is not any different from other times they've been sick. There is just so much focus on it and everyone wants to pick apart every little symptom. With your age and health history the odds are overwhelming that this will be just another one of those illness that suck for a few days. Covid isn't going away. All of this talk about it isn't helping anyone and doesn't change that reality. I agree with PP that we need to start normalizing it. Not because we want people to get Covid, but because it is really going to be very hard to avoid it if you live anything resembling a normal life where you visit with family, share meals with others, go to school and work, etc. Those who haven't gotten it yet are fooling themselves that they will avoid it forever or will be able to avoid it until some day in the future where we have treatments that guarantee no one gets super sick or dies from it. That day isn't coming anytime soon. It is a coronavirus that mutates constantly. There will always be some segment of the population that is vulnerable to its worst possible effects. |
Anonymous
Peoples jobs are not supporting that without a positive PCR. It is April 2022. |
Anonymous
That’s odd. My employer follows CDC guidelines. You stay home for the appropriate period of time if you test positive, then you can come back without any test. |