Hospitalizations haven’t been that bad here. The number of people on life support for COVID has stayed the same despite the huge spike in cases over the last two weeks.
It might not be the case everywhere in the world but omicron has been way weaker and less fatal in the CR compared to delta.
You go first jingoist
Welp, looks like the CRON has made it to the Wookie household. I started getting a runny nose two nights ago, tested negative yesterday morning on one of the Roman tests. Developed a bit of a cough, sore throat, figured it was just a cold. MrsWookie developed cold-like symptoms last night and tested herself this morning just to be safe. Roman test came back positive, and we ran another brand that confirmed it. Girls are both asymptomatic (for now), but they’re almost certainly the vector. MrsWookie hasn’t been out of the house except to drop off the girls at daycare (always in a tested KF94) since last Saturday, and my excursions have only be pickups, once getting takeout, and a grocery run to Costco and Safeway on Saturday, again in a KF94. Older girl is pretty good about wearing her mask, but daycare doesn’t enforce nose peekers very much. Younger girl doesn’t wear hers very much, and they’re not required at her age level at all. Neither wear masks when eating or napping, so there’s ample time to get sick there.
So, we get to keep them home for the rest of the week, at least. We’ll see if they bother doing a bunch of testing at daycare, and how long they may shut down for.
Pandemic over in MA:
Feel bad for my school administrators who are now going to have to referee a battle between parents who want to keep masks and those who dont after just going through this with the looser isolation rules.
Will be a particular battle at preschool where they just moved to suggesting KN95 masks or w/e the kids ones are labelled like a month ago.
Apparently any covid still circulating in the UK is either non-contagious or completely harmless - it’s over at last 
Preprint alert. Science bros, does this pass the smell test? If so it could explain some of the long COVID problems, and mean an increase in MS going forward.
https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1491169257639788546?t=nlZslpe2Lp6eHyvc-io7Pw&s=19
Looks like bullshit just based on the summary. But I’m too tired to read it right now.
UK ending self isolation for Covid positive patients.
Fucking hell
That’s already the case here, societally speaking. People do what they want after they test positive.
Novax going to get into England and France?
Czech government states that masks will be a thing going into March but that otherwise the remainder of the restrictions will be gone by March 1st.
Not sure if posted already but it would be awesome if this works and we can just start pumping it into malls and stores and whatnot.
I’m hopeful, but I’m also very skeptical that there’s some huge advantage of inhaled vaccines. There might be, but their phase 1 study doesn’t show that. Nifty idea though.
I thought the phase 1 study was underway now. Are you saying it’s done and didn’t show that? Or that it’s not designed to show that?
I just completely spaced. There’s a few of these out there, including a phase 1 in the lancet.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00396-0/fulltext
I may have been up from 11p-7a last night.
Looks like it’s reasonably well tolerated and there are pros and cons in terms of antibody response, but it didn’t measure efficacy in that study. It’ll be interesting to see what they find once they get to Phase 2.
Nasal flu vaccines are a thing.
but it’s a live attenuated virus so there’s some clear downsides