There’s some thought it might be resistant to one of the treatments that worked for Omicron but doesn’t seem to be nearly as much of a game changer to this point.
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I got mine awhile ago.
I placed my order on January 19 and got the email today that they should arrive by February 14.
Placed order Jan. 18, nothing yet.
So my wife and I have been living in a lockdown like it’s 2020 since she started some strong immunosuppressants last year. Her doctor said she should assume her vaccine and booster are not effective and she’s at high risk if she contracts Covid.
It’s been extremely hard on her, as friends were starting to venture out into the world again and work has been pestering her about being in the office.
Then we found out about a drug that provides protection for the immunocompromised. Problem is, it’s pretty rare and hard to get ahold of.
Her hospital just called out of the blue and said they have a dose for her. Getting it on Sunday. Don’t know if she won a lottery or if UCLA had her highly ranked on some list, but either way we feel pretty lucky.
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Students and teachers in the CR will not be obligated to notify their school if they test positive for COVID after next week. Also, only a small number of teachers will need to be tested. Those who haven’t tested positive for COVID in the past 6 months and the unvaccinated will still be tested. Student testing will stop completely. Masks are still required.
At least in Prague, cases in my school have been in the single digits this week. I can see why they’d want to roll back restrictions. However, they’re just asking for another spike in cases. But I suppose they don’t care since hospitalizations have actually started to go down despite hitting at least 20,000 cases per day everyday for the past few weeks.
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This is good news. Hopefully it won’t be relevant, but if her work continues to be a problem, check this out:
K.11. What should an employer do if an employee who is fully vaccinated for COVID-19 requests accommodation for an underlying disability because of a continuing concern that the employee faces a heightened risk of severe illness from a COVID-19 infection, despite being vaccinated? (5/28/21)
Employers who receive a reasonable accommodation request from an employee should process the request in accordance with applicable ADA standards.
When an employee asks for a reasonable accommodation, whether the employee is fully vaccinated or not, the employer should engage in an interactive process to determine if there is a disability-related need for reasonable accommodation. This process typically includes seeking information from the employee’s health care provider with the employee’s consent explaining why an accommodation is needed.
For example, some individuals who are immunocompromised might still need reasonable accommodations because their conditions may mean that the vaccines may not offer them the same measure of protection as other vaccinated individuals. If there is a disability-related need for accommodation, an employer must explore potential reasonable accommodations that may be provided absent undue hardship.
Thanks. Yeah, she’s requested and received an accommodation to allow continued telework. They’re just subtly being dicks about the importance of in-person camaraderie and other such bullshit. Nothing that she wants to make a big stink about yet, but enough to add to her stress and sense of isolation.
Anybody else’s employer keeping COVID positives super secret and only notifying people of possible exposure by guessing who the person may have worked around? My company’s done a full 180 from being overly cautious (we shut the entire company down for a week in 2020 after a positive test, and that employee hadn’t been in for the week beforehand) to only notifying people they think someone has worked around. We had someone report a positive test this morning and a coworker who works pretty close to them wasn’t notified and is justifiably pissed off.
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Pfizer-BioNTech is postponing its rolling application to the Food and Drug Administration to expand the use of its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years.
The move means that vaccines for this age group will not be available in the coming weeks, a setback for parents eager to vaccinate their young children
Pfizer said on Friday that it will wait for its data on a three-dose series of the vaccine, because it believes three doses “may provide a higher level of protection in this age group.” Data on the third dose is expected in early April, the company said.
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Early on, the teachers were not aware of who had covid and who didn’t (this was after the first lockdown ended). I suspect that the school administration knew but didn’t want to risk locking down the school again so they kept it hidden from as many people as possible.
In a couple of weeks, nobody will know if anybody has covid because there won’t be any testing.
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fuck
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people who recover from the infection have substantially higher risks of developing any of 20 serious cardiovascular disorders in the year following their recovery. Those disorders include heart failure, stroke, atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, myocarditis (inflammation of the heart), and blood clots in the lungs.
Cardiovascular risks increase witseverity of an infection—that is, people who need intensive care for COVID-19 face the highest cardiovascular risks. But, overall, the pandemic virus appears to be indiscriminate, wreaking havoc on cardiovascular systems and increasing risks in all groups of patients, from those with mild disease, to the young, to those without underlying conditions or pre-existing cardiovascular diseases.
Well one thing about the fda and Pfizer not pushing things further on the 6mo-5y vaccine is that it turns out the concerns about the vaccine being unsafely pushed through ended up completely unwarranted
Very true, that was always a silly criticism, FDA has been too conservative of anything so complaining they were going to rush through a vax approval never made much sense. I’m personally disappointed this changed. By the time this gets approved my kid will be almost eligible for the next size dose so maybe just end up waiting for that. Given we are ending public health response in the US he’s most likely going to end up getting that natural immunity anyways, government has gone ahead and made that choice for us. We are all Florida when it comes to protecting the young unvaxxed, it is a rare moment of bipartisan agreement.
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The result is not surprising, but the optics are a bit weird. Why would the FDA make Pfizer submit the data when they weren’t going to approve it? Why would Fauci be on TV talking about under-5 vaccines in February if it wasn’t going to happen? I suspect there’s some kind of bureaucratic turf war that’s making policy so discombobulated. It’s a bit reminiscent of the booster debacle.
Perhaps appointing an FDA commissioner is an idea worth investigating?
I never ended up lying and getting my daughter vaxed early. She turned 5 today. We called her pediatrician a week or so ago to get it scheduled. They “aren’t offering the vaccine yet.”
It’s time to find a new pediatrician right?
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Awesome thread. He’s getting it from both directions, though more when he says despite all these “booster side effects” it’s still worth it.
https://twitter.com/keenanpeachy/status/1491886078990581775?s=21
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I’d just call some pharmacies
Anyone who caught the cron experience lower back tightness with it? Maybe I’m just not sleeping right or that well, but my back has been bothering me all week since getting sick. Other than that I’m doing pretty well. Mild cold symptoms are almost gone.