BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

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Anonymous wrote:Without reading 56 pages, what is BA5 feeling like for most people? I haven't tested yet or have any symptoms, but I've been traveling and up to a whole lot of maskless fun shenanigans (no regrets, had the time of my life on vacation) and I'm bracing myself for testing positive for covid. My last vaccine was my booster in December. I have never knowingly had covid or any covid-like symptoms yet. If I don't get it after this trip, I must have some kind of magical force shield. I'm laying low for a few days and testing this week.

Fever, aches, congestion, sweating, extreme fatigue and dizziness. Some people have a sore throat described as swallowing broken glass. Tired and weak for over 2 weeks.

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The virus can’t even make President Biden feel any symptoms. It’s done.

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Anonymous wrote:Without reading 56 pages, what is BA5 feeling like for most people? I haven't tested yet or have any symptoms, but I've been traveling and up to a whole lot of maskless fun shenanigans (no regrets, had the time of my life on vacation) and I'm bracing myself for testing positive for covid. My last vaccine was my booster in December. I have never knowingly had covid or any covid-like symptoms yet. If I don't get it after this trip, I must have some kind of magical force shield. I'm laying low for a few days and testing this week.

Mostly felt like a typical cold for me- sore throat followed by a couple days of bad congestion/sneezing/coughing. However, while my symptoms improved significantly after that, I feel like they lingered a bit more than a typical cold, and I still get winded from moderate activities. So it seems my lungs are not back to normal yet.

DH and other family members tested positive shortly after me- he had a couple days of fever/chills. My nephew had a day of increased sneezing, but that was it. My parents had reoccurring bouts of fatigue. Seems to vary from person to person.

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Anonymous wrote:Without reading 56 pages, what is BA5 feeling like for most people? I haven't tested yet or have any symptoms, but I've been traveling and up to a whole lot of maskless fun shenanigans (no regrets, had the time of my life on vacation) and I'm bracing myself for testing positive for covid. My last vaccine was my booster in December. I have never knowingly had covid or any covid-like symptoms yet. If I don't get it after this trip, I must have some kind of magical force shield. I'm laying low for a few days and testing this week.

When my preschool-age son got it, he never showed a single symptom. When my wife got it (2 boosters) it was standard cold symptoms for about 3 days. When I got it (1 booster) I could barely lift a heavy dinner plate and was insanely sick until I got on Paxlovid. Different strokes for different folks. Good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:Without reading 56 pages, what is BA5 feeling like for most people? I haven't tested yet or have any symptoms, but I've been traveling and up to a whole lot of maskless fun shenanigans (no regrets, had the time of my life on vacation) and I'm bracing myself for testing positive for covid. My last vaccine was my booster in December. I have never knowingly had covid or any covid-like symptoms yet. If I don't get it after this trip, I must have some kind of magical force shield. I'm laying low for a few days and testing this week.

I had a bad headache on day 1 that I thought was a migraine. Some chills and body aches only a few hours that day. Then it turned into some light congestion and a small nagging cough. Not a deep one, just those ones that always seem to be tickling your throat. Around day 5 this turned to just pure fatigue. I needed so much rest and was incredibly hungry, assuming because my body was fighting hard. I tested negative again on day 11 after symptoms started but still had headaches. Then on day 12, a sore throat that was gone day 14. Today is day 15 since I first had symptoms and I finally have zero symptoms and feel completely normal. It lingers FOREVER and seems to switch up symptoms every couple days. Very weird virus. For my husband and daughter, sore throat was first and main symptom.

I felt a little extra tired and had a sore throat. Tested positive on a Friday morning. Slight cough and felt tired during weekend. Tested again Wednesday and it was negative. Prior infection in January.

Only reason I tested was bc I was going to visit an immunocompromised relative.

Anecdotally- I think people who have a prior infection didn’t have those long drawn out experiences . For myself and others I know who all got it the last few weeks ans were testing positive 10-14 days and dealing with just malingering symptoms, common denominator for all of us was it was our first infection. There’s a lot of variation person to person though but I think people on their 2nd/3rd round this time through have and benefit from some natural immunity that those of us who are running on old vaccines and boosters just didn’t have yet.

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It's been 3 weeks since this post was started and I'm still not seeing a major surge on the wastewater monitoring. When is it supposed to show up again?

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Anonymous wrote:It's been 3 weeks since this post was started and I'm still not seeing a major surge on the wastewater monitoring. When is it supposed to show up again?

I think the vaccines have blunted the surge.

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My mom had Covid 6 weeks ago and has it again now ... not much immunity time

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Anonymous wrote:We are at a pivotal point in the pandemic as it become endemic. We are all going to get it and some us multiple times. We don’t know the long term effects of multiple infection. We do no that for many that isolation, distancing, mask wearing also comes at a societal cost. Just look at airlines, incidents plummeted once mask mandate lifted. Everyone can get vaccinated and others will always be moresusceptible and vulnerable. What kind of society and life do we want to live? I’m willing to take the risks of long COVID and unknown long term risk to live a normal life and give my kids a normal childhood. I’m sorry for those that are not able to take that risk. I mean that sincerely.

I agree with you.The downside is more frequent illness. I've had Covid twice since December. I've read you can get reinfected 30 to 60 days later with this variant. While I don't fear getting Covid, I can't see how my family will function if we keep getting Covid any more often than once or twice a year. But I'm not willing or able to quarantine.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom had Covid 6 weeks ago and has it again now ... not much immunity time

How sick was she? I have a theory that the tradeoff with milder illness due to the vaccines comes with blunted immune response & antibody production/protection.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom had Covid 6 weeks ago and has it again now ... not much immunity time

How sick was she? I have a theory that the tradeoff with milder illness due to the vaccines comes with blunted immune response & antibody production/protection.

Well opinions are like... buttholes, to quote another thread. Everyone has one.

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Anonymous wrote:Without reading 56 pages, what is BA5 feeling like for most people? I haven't tested yet or have any symptoms, but I've been traveling and up to a whole lot of maskless fun shenanigans (no regrets, had the time of my life on vacation) and I'm bracing myself for testing positive for covid. My last vaccine was my booster in December. I have never knowingly had covid or any covid-like symptoms yet. If I don't get it after this trip, I must have some kind of magical force shield. I'm laying low for a few days and testing this week.

I had a bad headache on day 1 that I thought was a migraine. Some chills and body aches only a few hours that day. Then it turned into some light congestion and a small nagging cough. Not a deep one, just those ones that always seem to be tickling your throat. Around day 5 this turned to just pure fatigue. I needed so much rest and was incredibly hungry, assuming because my body was fighting hard. I tested negative again on day 11 after symptoms started but still had headaches. Then on day 12, a sore throat that was gone day 14. Today is day 15 since I first had symptoms and I finally have zero symptoms and feel completely normal. It lingers FOREVER and seems to switch up symptoms every couple days. Very weird virus. For my husband and daughter, sore throat was first and main symptom.

I felt a little extra tired and had a sore throat. Tested positive on a Friday morning. Slight cough and felt tired during weekend. Tested again Wednesday and it was negative. Prior infection in January.

Only reason I tested was bc I was going to visit an immunocompromised relative.

Anecdotally- I think people who have a prior infection didn’t have those long drawn out experiences . For myself and others I know who all got it the last few weeks ans were testing positive 10-14 days and dealing with just malingering symptoms, common denominator for all of us was it was our first infection. There’s a lot of variation person to person though but I think people on their 2nd/3rd round this time through have and benefit from some natural immunity that those of us who are running on old vaccines and boosters just didn’t have yet.

Yes. We’re at a beach house and one of the families are all positive with their first infection. Other two families both had omicron in January. We’ve tested adults a few times and kids every other day. Maybe some very slight symptoms, but all negative tests. I guess our immune systems will be well primed for going back to school in a month!

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Family of 5. Still haven’t caught COVID. We’ve never stayed home (work open, catholic schools open, traveled to Vegas mid pandemic).
When we do catch COVID, whichever variant actually gets us, I’m calling that one the final variant to surge through.

Because, we’ve been exposed and never tested positive on PCRs which we’ve done multiple times.

The virus and all the variants really doesn’t have a 100% consistent pattern.

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Anonymous wrote:The virus can’t even make President Biden feel any symptoms. It’s done.

You need better news sources.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5. Still haven’t caught COVID. We’ve never stayed home (work open, catholic schools open, traveled to Vegas mid pandemic).
When we do catch COVID, whichever variant actually gets us, I’m calling that one the final variant to surge through.

Because, we’ve been exposed and never tested positive on PCRs which we’ve done multiple times.

The virus and all the variants really doesn’t have a 100% consistent pattern.

I thought that too until 2 weeks ago when my whole family got it. Really thought we were mutated super immune freaks and then it snatched our azz.