Anonymous wrote:Why PP? What is it about this booster just curious?

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Anonymous wrote:My doctor, who has recommended all previous vaccines, suggested I wait. He has researched and is wary of this vaccine. I trust his advice.

My doc told me not to get additional boosters (I am not elderly or obese).

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Anonymous wrote:Forbes: "Covid levels have once again rebounded, hitting their highest levels since last December.."

"..The CDC lists 23 states as having “very high” levels of Covid, according to wastewater data, primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin).
Another 12 states are considered to have “high” levels of Covid, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/21/covid-levels-surge-as-millions-of-americans-plan-holiday-travel-heres-where-its-spreading/?sh=44f8eca441e1

Yes, Forbes, the well-known medical journal...

Setting that aside, and fact that wastewater data is not an accurate, direct measure of cases, covid is a respiratory virus. What did you expect to see in the winter?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home (but you're probably trumpy and don't believe the CDC either, amirite?)

DP Covid cases always rise in winter, so it's not useful to cite week-over-week or month-over-month changes. Of course those latter measures will show growth in winter due to seasonal factors. You want to look at year-over-year growth measures which strip out the seasonal component and thus better show underlying changes. Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they have been for any December and are down 30% relative to last year at this time. We are in a much better position than we have been with covid previously in terms of hospitalizations & deaths this winter, despite minimal uptake of the new booster. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

Always, which you know, because of the...4 winters we've had with it? Covid is trending up. You can put the blame wherever you like, but you can't argue the facts. You can play this weird comparison you've tried to use to downplay the significance, but covid is trending up. I'm glad you're comfortable saying it's better than it was (because people got vaxxed), and it sounds like anti-vax excusemaking. "Cover your face and boost your vax" is the only sensible strategy.

It's a respiratory virus. What do you think happens with respiratory viruses in the winter? There's no great mystery here.

Apparently variant JN.1 is on the rise per a poster in a different strand. Low vax rates...

Not sure what you're point is. Yes, the higher rates of infection of respiratory viruses can lead to new dominant strains, particularly in the face of a partially vaccinated public with greater protection to a different strain.

This shouldn't be surprising or even troubling to you.

Of course it is troubling. Unbelievable.

Did you similarly freak out every winter before covid when influenza and RSV cases would surge? That's some strong anxiety.

Between all the viruses going around, for those of us not blessed with good health like you life can be very difficult when we get sick.

So again, did you freak out every winter? It sounds like you have decades of experience dealing with this. Just do what you always did, whatever that was. But I doubt that consisted of panicked rants on online forums.

Yes I’ve always been careful. I’m not as worried about Covid as other things.

You shouldn't have to worry. Others could simply get the jab.

“Others” are not getting the “jab” so you need to move on with that line of thinking.

Anonymous wrote:My doctor, who has recommended all previous vaccines, suggested I wait. He has researched and is wary of this vaccine. I trust his advice.

Anonymous wrote:Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update
What are we in for???

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/11/18/only-14-of-us-adults-have-gotten-latest-updated-covid-19-vaccine/

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Anonymous wrote:I saw this thread and got my vaccine this morning when I went to pick up a prescription. Thanks for the reminder, DCUM!

I had COVID for the first time in September. It was brutal. Don't want that again.

Stay healthy, everyone!

+1 Good on you

Good job PP. Hope your shot effects are mild. I just had a sore arm! So much better than covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, it is happening. Just read in a different thread that the new COVID variant JN.1 is on the rise!

This is what happens when the majority of people chose not to vax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vaccines are not stopping transmission. This happens when people go out sick and share it and refuse basic precautions.

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Anonymous wrote:Forbes: "Covid levels have once again rebounded, hitting their highest levels since last December.."

"..The CDC lists 23 states as having “very high” levels of Covid, according to wastewater data, primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin).
Another 12 states are considered to have “high” levels of Covid, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/21/covid-levels-surge-as-millions-of-americans-plan-holiday-travel-heres-where-its-spreading/?sh=44f8eca441e1

Yes, Forbes, the well-known medical journal...

Setting that aside, and fact that wastewater data is not an accurate, direct measure of cases, covid is a respiratory virus. What did you expect to see in the winter?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home (but you're probably trumpy and don't believe the CDC either, amirite?)

DP Covid cases always rise in winter, so it's not useful to cite week-over-week or month-over-month changes. Of course those latter measures will show growth in winter due to seasonal factors. You want to look at year-over-year growth measures which strip out the seasonal component and thus better show underlying changes. Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they have been for any December and are down 30% relative to last year at this time. We are in a much better position than we have been with covid previously in terms of hospitalizations & deaths this winter, despite minimal uptake of the new booster. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

Always, which you know, because of the...4 winters we've had with it? Covid is trending up. You can put the blame wherever you like, but you can't argue the facts. You can play this weird comparison you've tried to use to downplay the significance, but covid is trending up. I'm glad you're comfortable saying it's better than it was (because people got vaxxed), and it sounds like anti-vax excusemaking. "Cover your face and boost your vax" is the only sensible strategy.

It's a respiratory virus. What do you think happens with respiratory viruses in the winter? There's no great mystery here.

Apparently variant JN.1 is on the rise per a poster in a different strand. Low vax rates...

Not sure what you're point is. Yes, the higher rates of infection of respiratory viruses can lead to new dominant strains, particularly in the face of a partially vaccinated public with greater protection to a different strain.

This shouldn't be surprising or even troubling to you.

Of course it is troubling. Unbelievable.

Did you similarly freak out every winter before covid when influenza and RSV cases would surge? That's some strong anxiety.

Between all the viruses going around, for those of us not blessed with good health like you life can be very difficult when we get sick.

So again, did you freak out every winter? It sounds like you have decades of experience dealing with this. Just do what you always did, whatever that was. But I doubt that consisted of panicked rants on online forums.

Yes I’ve always been careful. I’m not as worried about Covid as other things.

You shouldn't have to worry. Others could simply get the jab.

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Anonymous wrote:Forbes: "Covid levels have once again rebounded, hitting their highest levels since last December.."

"..The CDC lists 23 states as having “very high” levels of Covid, according to wastewater data, primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin).
Another 12 states are considered to have “high” levels of Covid, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/21/covid-levels-surge-as-millions-of-americans-plan-holiday-travel-heres-where-its-spreading/?sh=44f8eca441e1

Yes, Forbes, the well-known medical journal...

Setting that aside, and fact that wastewater data is not an accurate, direct measure of cases, covid is a respiratory virus. What did you expect to see in the winter?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home (but you're probably trumpy and don't believe the CDC either, amirite?)

DP Covid cases always rise in winter, so it's not useful to cite week-over-week or month-over-month changes. Of course those latter measures will show growth in winter due to seasonal factors. You want to look at year-over-year growth measures which strip out the seasonal component and thus better show underlying changes. Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they have been for any December and are down 30% relative to last year at this time. We are in a much better position than we have been with covid previously in terms of hospitalizations & deaths this winter, despite minimal uptake of the new booster. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

Always, which you know, because of the...4 winters we've had with it? Covid is trending up. You can put the blame wherever you like, but you can't argue the facts. You can play this weird comparison you've tried to use to downplay the significance, but covid is trending up. I'm glad you're comfortable saying it's better than it was (because people got vaxxed), and it sounds like anti-vax excusemaking. "Cover your face and boost your vax" is the only sensible strategy.

It's a respiratory virus. What do you think happens with respiratory viruses in the winter? There's no great mystery here.

Apparently variant JN.1 is on the rise per a poster in a different strand. Low vax rates...

Not sure what you're point is. Yes, the higher rates of infection of respiratory viruses can lead to new dominant strains, particularly in the face of a partially vaccinated public with greater protection to a different strain.

This shouldn't be surprising or even troubling to you.

JN.1 is here already. You should brace yourself for a surge.

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Anonymous wrote:Forbes: "Covid levels have once again rebounded, hitting their highest levels since last December.."

"..The CDC lists 23 states as having “very high” levels of Covid, according to wastewater data, primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin).
Another 12 states are considered to have “high” levels of Covid, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/21/covid-levels-surge-as-millions-of-americans-plan-holiday-travel-heres-where-its-spreading/?sh=44f8eca441e1

Yes, Forbes, the well-known medical journal...

Setting that aside, and fact that wastewater data is not an accurate, direct measure of cases, covid is a respiratory virus. What did you expect to see in the winter?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home (but you're probably trumpy and don't believe the CDC either, amirite?)

DP Covid cases always rise in winter, so it's not useful to cite week-over-week or month-over-month changes. Of course those latter measures will show growth in winter due to seasonal factors. You want to look at year-over-year growth measures which strip out the seasonal component and thus better show underlying changes. Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they have been for any December and are down 30% relative to last year at this time. We are in a much better position than we have been with covid previously in terms of hospitalizations & deaths this winter, despite minimal uptake of the new booster. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

Always, which you know, because of the...4 winters we've had with it? Covid is trending up. You can put the blame wherever you like, but you can't argue the facts. You can play this weird comparison you've tried to use to downplay the significance, but covid is trending up. I'm glad you're comfortable saying it's better than it was (because people got vaxxed), and it sounds like anti-vax excusemaking. "Cover your face and boost your vax" is the only sensible strategy.

It's a respiratory virus. What do you think happens with respiratory viruses in the winter? There's no great mystery here.

Apparently variant JN.1 is on the rise per a poster in a different strand. Low vax rates...

Not sure what you're point is. Yes, the higher rates of infection of respiratory viruses can lead to new dominant strains, particularly in the face of a partially vaccinated public with greater protection to a different strain.

This shouldn't be surprising or even troubling to you.

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"..The CDC lists 23 states as having “very high” levels of Covid, according to wastewater data, primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin).
Another 12 states are considered to have “high” levels of Covid, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/21/covid-levels-surge-as-millions-of-americans-plan-holiday-travel-heres-where-its-spreading/?sh=44f8eca441e1

Yes, Forbes, the well-known medical journal...

Setting that aside, and fact that wastewater data is not an accurate, direct measure of cases, covid is a respiratory virus. What did you expect to see in the winter?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home (but you're probably trumpy and don't believe the CDC either, amirite?)

DP Covid cases always rise in winter, so it's not useful to cite week-over-week or month-over-month changes. Of course those latter measures will show growth in winter due to seasonal factors. You want to look at year-over-year growth measures which strip out the seasonal component and thus better show underlying changes. Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they have been for any December and are down 30% relative to last year at this time. We are in a much better position than we have been with covid previously in terms of hospitalizations & deaths this winter, despite minimal uptake of the new booster. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

Always, which you know, because of the...4 winters we've had with it? Covid is trending up. You can put the blame wherever you like, but you can't argue the facts. You can play this weird comparison you've tried to use to downplay the significance, but covid is trending up. I'm glad you're comfortable saying it's better than it was (because people got vaxxed), and it sounds like anti-vax excusemaking. "Cover your face and boost your vax" is the only sensible strategy.

It's a respiratory virus. What do you think happens with respiratory viruses in the winter? There's no great mystery here.

Apparently variant JN.1 is on the rise per a poster in a different strand. Low vax rates...

Not sure what you're point is. Yes, the higher rates of infection of respiratory viruses can lead to new dominant strains, particularly in the face of a partially vaccinated public with greater protection to a different strain.

This shouldn't be surprising or even troubling to you.

Of course it is troubling. Unbelievable.

Did you similarly freak out every winter before covid when influenza and RSV cases would surge? That's some strong anxiety.

Between all the viruses going around, for those of us not blessed with good health like you life can be very difficult when we get sick.

So again, did you freak out every winter? It sounds like you have decades of experience dealing with this. Just do what you always did, whatever that was. But I doubt that consisted of panicked rants on online forums.

Yes I’ve always been careful. I’m not as worried about Covid as other things.

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Anonymous wrote:Forbes: "Covid levels have once again rebounded, hitting their highest levels since last December.."

"..The CDC lists 23 states as having “very high” levels of Covid, according to wastewater data, primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin).
Another 12 states are considered to have “high” levels of Covid, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/21/covid-levels-surge-as-millions-of-americans-plan-holiday-travel-heres-where-its-spreading/?sh=44f8eca441e1

Yes, Forbes, the well-known medical journal...

Setting that aside, and fact that wastewater data is not an accurate, direct measure of cases, covid is a respiratory virus. What did you expect to see in the winter?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home (but you're probably trumpy and don't believe the CDC either, amirite?)

DP Covid cases always rise in winter, so it's not useful to cite week-over-week or month-over-month changes. Of course those latter measures will show growth in winter due to seasonal factors. You want to look at year-over-year growth measures which strip out the seasonal component and thus better show underlying changes. Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they have been for any December and are down 30% relative to last year at this time. We are in a much better position than we have been with covid previously in terms of hospitalizations & deaths this winter, despite minimal uptake of the new booster. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

Always, which you know, because of the...4 winters we've had with it? Covid is trending up. You can put the blame wherever you like, but you can't argue the facts. You can play this weird comparison you've tried to use to downplay the significance, but covid is trending up. I'm glad you're comfortable saying it's better than it was (because people got vaxxed), and it sounds like anti-vax excusemaking. "Cover your face and boost your vax" is the only sensible strategy.

It's a respiratory virus. What do you think happens with respiratory viruses in the winter? There's no great mystery here.

Apparently variant JN.1 is on the rise per a poster in a different strand. Low vax rates...

Not sure what you're point is. Yes, the higher rates of infection of respiratory viruses can lead to new dominant strains, particularly in the face of a partially vaccinated public with greater protection to a different strain.

This shouldn't be surprising or even troubling to you.

Of course it is troubling. Unbelievable.

Did you similarly freak out every winter before covid when influenza and RSV cases would surge? That's some strong anxiety.

Between all the viruses going around, for those of us not blessed with good health like you life can be very difficult when we get sick.

So again, did you freak out every winter? It sounds like you have decades of experience dealing with this. Just do what you always did, whatever that was. But I doubt that consisted of panicked rants on online forums.

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"..The CDC lists 23 states as having “very high” levels of Covid, according to wastewater data, primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin).
Another 12 states are considered to have “high” levels of Covid, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/21/covid-levels-surge-as-millions-of-americans-plan-holiday-travel-heres-where-its-spreading/?sh=44f8eca441e1

Yes, Forbes, the well-known medical journal...

Setting that aside, and fact that wastewater data is not an accurate, direct measure of cases, covid is a respiratory virus. What did you expect to see in the winter?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home (but you're probably trumpy and don't believe the CDC either, amirite?)

DP Covid cases always rise in winter, so it's not useful to cite week-over-week or month-over-month changes. Of course those latter measures will show growth in winter due to seasonal factors. You want to look at year-over-year growth measures which strip out the seasonal component and thus better show underlying changes. Covid hospitalizations are the lowest they have been for any December and are down 30% relative to last year at this time. We are in a much better position than we have been with covid previously in terms of hospitalizations & deaths this winter, despite minimal uptake of the new booster. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

Always, which you know, because of the...4 winters we've had with it? Covid is trending up. You can put the blame wherever you like, but you can't argue the facts. You can play this weird comparison you've tried to use to downplay the significance, but covid is trending up. I'm glad you're comfortable saying it's better than it was (because people got vaxxed), and it sounds like anti-vax excusemaking. "Cover your face and boost your vax" is the only sensible strategy.

It's a respiratory virus. What do you think happens with respiratory viruses in the winter? There's no great mystery here.

Apparently variant JN.1 is on the rise per a poster in a different strand. Low vax rates...

Not sure what you're point is. Yes, the higher rates of infection of respiratory viruses can lead to new dominant strains, particularly in the face of a partially vaccinated public with greater protection to a different strain.

This shouldn't be surprising or even troubling to you.

Of course it is troubling. Unbelievable.

Did you similarly freak out every winter before covid when influenza and RSV cases would surge? That's some strong anxiety.

Between all the viruses going around, for those of us not blessed with good health like you life can be very difficult when we get sick.

So again, did you freak out every winter? It sounds like you have decades of experience dealing with this. Just do what you always did, whatever that was. But I doubt that consisted of panicked rants on online forums.

Covid is by far the most contagious. Not apples to apples here.