So I’m feeling much better. Except I just had a small amount of like thick dark blood show up in my mouth. At first I felt it with my tongue and thought it was mucus. Then I saw it, and my first instinct was it was from my nose or mouth, but there was no sign whatsoever that it came from either. It was also thicker and darker than what you’d normally see from a nose bleed. So I’m about certain I coughed it up. I did have a sneeze or 2 earlier that shot like a sharp pain through my chest and back, not sure if related.
I called the local er and checked if they thought I should come in and get checked out, but they thought I was safe to hold off with it being the first time and a small amount. They told me to come in if it becomes repeated.
I just wanted to see if the UP docs agreed.
I’m also enjoying a constant chemically taste in my mouth from starting paxlovid today.
Absolutely not a doctor and maybe closer to the opposite of one but it seems reasonable to me that as a one time thing you file it away and don’t sweat it, but if it becomes a repeated thing you probably want a smart person to look at it.
Safeway has both Pfizer and Moderna available. I don’t want to go through the other schedulers to check. Which one is better? I think I selected Pfizer without really knowing.
Well the correct answer is that there isn’t any evidence to show one is significantly better than the other.
There was some evidence to show that the OG Moderna might have induced a bit of a higher antibody response than Pfizer. But even that isn’t sufficient evidence to say it is for sure more protective.
However, based on that, I had a small preference for Moderna. I made an approx 45-60 min drive to get Moderna instead of Pfizer which was available walking distance from my house.
Children aged 10-19y played the greatest relative role in propagating Omicron epidemics, particularly when schools were open, followed by children aged 0-9y and adults aged 20-29y, as well as adults aged 30-49y. Persons aged over 50y played a more limited role in propagating Omicron infection in the community.
Translation: Adults aged 30-49y and persons aged over 50y were the most responsible for propagating Omicron infection in the community.
For the Autumn wave (Sep. 18 – Nov. 12), the highest RR estimate belonged to children aged 10-19y (RR=1.63 (0.72,3.71)), followed by adults aged 30-34y (RR=1.34 (0.8,2.25)) and 20-24y (RR=1.20 (0.65,2.21)).
I think that’s if you’re symptom-free, which she’s not. I also think when the CDC changed that rule they were more concerned about keeping Starbucks etc open than anything else.
If she’s still pozzing on the RAT then she is likely still contagious to some extent. How much hard to say. CDC guidelines aren’t really designed to stop spread. Kind of a you-do-you thing at this point with how long to isolate tbh. Wish there were better guidelines to help you, but we don’t really do public health for COVID in USA anymore.
