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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

do you think we need to be getting vaccinated every 2 months???

No, but a yearly shot and actually testing if sick and most importantly, staying home/masking if you are sick. Basically, giving a shit about others. Fact is covid is "mild" for some, but for many it is not. And even for those that it's "mild", they have a 30%+ chance of getting long covid.

I know people who refuse to test. Because they dont' want to be told "don't go to the office". THey'd rather just go with a "cold" and infect everyone. But that is a bit too self centered for me. If I'm sick, I'm not going to expose everyone else to it.

30%? Where do you get your numbers from. Sounds way too high. Don't spread misinformation.

6%. Why do people just make stuff up?

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/what-is-the-risk-of-long-covid-/2023/09

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article/00015-eng.htm


After 3+ bouts of covid, 38% of Canadians have long covid symptoms.

Your chances of having long covid increases with each case of Covid you have.

Your link doesn't work. Long covid is more tied to those who had severe cases from the earlier, more virulent strains. However, Omicron is milder and generates far fewer reports of long covid: "compared with earlier phases of the pandemic, the report found that a much smaller proportion of those infected since the Omicron variant hit Canada late last year reported such long-term symptoms." And here's the most relevant point in the article: "Because the survey data is based on people's self-reports of post-COVID symptoms and isn't compared with a control group of uninfected people, Razak and other physicians said the results should be interpreted with some caution." https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/long-covid-statistics-canada-1.6619649

Studies that have a control show that people both with and without covid report similar amounts of long covid symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, depression, and difficulty sleeping. Covid is not unique in that regard.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

If you got Covid 2 months ago that is probably a more up to date strain compared to the vaccine.

New pp here. I also got covid 2 months ago by coincidence. We aren’t even supposed to get the new vaccine for three months so I get it in February at the earliest.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

do you think we need to be getting vaccinated every 2 months???

No, but a yearly shot and actually testing if sick and most importantly, staying home/masking if you are sick. Basically, giving a shit about others. Fact is covid is "mild" for some, but for many it is not. And even for those that it's "mild", they have a 30%+ chance of getting long covid.

I know people who refuse to test. Because they dont' want to be told "don't go to the office". THey'd rather just go with a "cold" and infect everyone. But that is a bit too self centered for me. If I'm sick, I'm not going to expose everyone else to it.

30%? Where do you get your numbers from. Sounds way too high. Don't spread misinformation.

6%. Why do people just make stuff up?

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/what-is-the-risk-of-long-covid-/2023/09

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article/00015-eng.htm


After 3+ bouts of covid, 38% of Canadians have long covid symptoms.

Your chances of having long covid increases with each case of Covid you have.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

do you think we need to be getting vaccinated every 2 months???

No, but a yearly shot and actually testing if sick and most importantly, staying home/masking if you are sick. Basically, giving a shit about others. Fact is covid is "mild" for some, but for many it is not. And even for those that it's "mild", they have a 30%+ chance of getting long covid.

I know people who refuse to test. Because they dont' want to be told "don't go to the office". THey'd rather just go with a "cold" and infect everyone. But that is a bit too self centered for me. If I'm sick, I'm not going to expose everyone else to it.

30%? Where do you get your numbers from. Sounds way too high. Don't spread misinformation.

6%. Why do people just make stuff up?

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/what-is-the-risk-of-long-covid-/2023/09

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

do you think we need to be getting vaccinated every 2 months???

No, but a yearly shot and actually testing if sick and most importantly, staying home/masking if you are sick. Basically, giving a shit about others. Fact is covid is "mild" for some, but for many it is not. And even for those that it's "mild", they have a 30%+ chance of getting long covid.

I know people who refuse to test. Because they dont' want to be told "don't go to the office". THey'd rather just go with a "cold" and infect everyone. But that is a bit too self centered for me. If I'm sick, I'm not going to expose everyone else to it.

30%? Where do you get your numbers from. Sounds way too high. Don't spread misinformation.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

do you think we need to be getting vaccinated every 2 months???

No, but a yearly shot and actually testing if sick and most importantly, staying home/masking if you are sick. Basically, giving a shit about others. Fact is covid is "mild" for some, but for many it is not. And even for those that it's "mild", they have a 30%+ chance of getting long covid.

I know people who refuse to test. Because they dont' want to be told "don't go to the office". THey'd rather just go with a "cold" and infect everyone. But that is a bit too self centered for me. If I'm sick, I'm not going to expose everyone else to it.

Likely a new shot each year with an additional booster several months later because C19 is around more year round than flu, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

do you think we need to be getting vaccinated every 2 months???

No, but a yearly shot and actually testing if sick and most importantly, staying home/masking if you are sick. Basically, giving a shit about others. Fact is covid is "mild" for some, but for many it is not. And even for those that it's "mild", they have a 30%+ chance of getting long covid.

I know people who refuse to test. Because they dont' want to be told "don't go to the office". THey'd rather just go with a "cold" and infect everyone. But that is a bit too self centered for me. If I'm sick, I'm not going to expose everyone else to it.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

If you got Covid 2 months ago that is probably a more up to date strain compared to the vaccine.

You can never really know. Even if you got tested, they don’t test for specific streams. You should talk to your doctor about getting the most up-to-date new Covid vaccine.

The new booster is based on the XBB.1.5 strain. While common in the spring/summer, XBB.1.5 had largely disappeared by the fall, accounting for less than 3% of covid cases in October. The dominant variants in October were newer strains than XBB.1.5. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

The CDC recommends the new vaccine. That remains unchanged.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

If you got Covid 2 months ago that is probably a more up to date strain compared to the vaccine.

You can never really know. Even if you got tested, they don’t test for specific streams. You should talk to your doctor about getting the most up-to-date new Covid vaccine.

The new booster is based on the XBB.1.5 strain. While common in the spring/summer, XBB.1.5 had largely disappeared by the fall, accounting for less than 3% of covid cases in October. The dominant variants in October were newer strains than XBB.1.5. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

If you got Covid 2 months ago that is probably a more up to date strain compared to the vaccine.

You can never really know. Even if you got tested, they don’t test for specific streams. You should talk to your doctor about getting the most up-to-date new Covid vaccine.

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Anonymous wrote:I got COVID two months ago. I got the flu vaccination last week. I'm good.

But how do you know which strain you got? You might need the new Covid vaccine for the current strains.

If you got Covid 2 months ago that is probably a more up to date strain compared to the vaccine.

Anonymous wrote:Shirley there is other data than just the CDC phone survey? I mean most people are getting shots at Walgreens, CVS, etc. I’m sure they have some data.

When the latest shot first came out, private health groups provided estimates of vaccine uptake, including breakdowns between Pfizer & Moderna. Their totals did not include vaccines administered at community vaccination sites and doctors' offices, so their figures likely underestimated uptake. Since the CDC started emphasizing NIS survey data, the press now just references survey data. That is unfortunate, as a truer picture of uptake could have been obtained by looking at both the likely underestimated private tallies of actual vaccination data and the overestimated NIS phone survey data.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/around-18-mln-americans-received-covid-shots-last-week-iqvia-2023-09-29/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=276567438

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Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of anti-vax posting on here. I think it's against the rules of the forum.

You can report the posts, if you wish. See if Jeff wants to remove them, or if he wants to reconsider his policy.

Why would he reconsider his policy when he's an intelligent, well-informed person who understands that vaccines save millions of lives?

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of anti-vax posting on here. I think it's against the rules of the forum.

You can report the posts, if you wish. See if Jeff wants to remove them, or if he wants to reconsider his policy.

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Anonymous wrote:Anectodally speaking the only people I know getting COVID right now are those that have gotten their 4th, 5th and n boosters. My cousin just got her booster last week and has COVID this week. Quite an effective vaccine.

I think there is a real bias there though… It’s quite possible and very likely that the folks that are still testing for Covid are also the folks that got the shot. Think about it if - you are not concerned about Covid why would you test if you had a cold?

News flash. We don’t.

That is exactly my point!

You can’t say a certain group of people is less likely to get COVID if that same group people is not testing for COVID.