Wookie has made a compelling case that his kid had covid, based on other exposure risks and the fact that testing is far from 100% sensitive, especially when you account for how the kid could have been over covid by the time symptoms presented elsewhere in the family.
That is obviously different from someone claiming to have long covid who can’t even prove they had covid. That doesn’t meant the person who possibly has long covid has zero percent chance of ever having covid, just that it reduces the chances of that being true. Stop pretending you don’t understand this. No one thinks you’re that dumb.
Wookie’s compelling case is that the kid/s were grouchy - that wasn’t even reported by the CROWD-FUNDED app. On the other side, tests were negative. Go figure. No peer review though, so I’ll give him that. Almost like he thought it, so it must be. That evidence doesn’t usually hold up in the world’s best covid thread but I’ll let it pass.
Germ theory continues to exist. You can’t use a survey of adults to rule out a symptom in children. You supposedly have children, so you should be able to figure out that little ones don’t exactly come in saying exactly what’s going on.
Prefacing this with the statement that I’m not educated enough to know if this is a good study but I’m assuming it’s decent since I think Nature is a respected journal: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06629-2
Seems like mRNA vaccines provide better protection against variants than a previous infection.
rut roh, China? By my count they have a higher 7DMA than they have since February 2020.
According to my GF absolutely nobody wants to get tested in China, ever. Getting pozzed means you won’t be able to leave your house for weeks, along with anyone you’ve had close contact with. So people let themselves get extremely sick before reporting to a treatment facility. Doctors cannot treat people with fevers to prevent cases from slipping through the cracks.
A population with mediocre vaccination and little prior infection to Covid facing a brutally inflexible control regime and a mild, fast-spreading variant seems like a dam that will break at some point.
I was just listening to an interview on The Press Box podcast with Jason Gay, a WSJ reporter. He had been in Beijing covering the Olympics before flying back to LA just in time to cover the Superbowl.
The Beijing experience:
being met at the airport by officials in full hazmat suits and having to pass a PCR test before being allowed to leave
getting on a special bus directly to a media hotel that had secured access preventing the reporters from leaving and any random outsiders from entering
only leaving the hotel to board special buses that went directly to/from sporting venues
-daily testing with mandatory quarantine / contract tracing for posses
KN 95 mask required in all common areas, well enforced by employees
Well my youngest got COVID. Good news is was super mild I guess, at least initially, only did it as a formality to return to school, only had symptoms for a day. Hopefully no long-term effects.
They’re well-vaccinated, but the vaccine isn’t great compared with mRNA vaccines.
This was pretty widely reported prior to Omicron, and more nowadays it looks like best possible case is that it has Omicron efficacy near mRNA (likely lower), which is obviously nowhere near good enough to prevent a huge spike.
One Morro lesson seems particularly relevant to where we are now in the pandemic: He often said that late in a game, when both teams are tired, some players get sloppy while others somehow concentrate even more, focus more, push more — and win.
I’m not sure if this has been posted here yet, but I don’t think it has. Moderna plans to have boosters ready in August, which will either be Omicron specific, OG, or bivalent with both. It’ll depend on trials between now and then.
They also say their fastest timeline on the pan-respiratory vaccine against flu, rsv, and covid would be August 2023.
