Lots of kids got RSV this year because lots of kids didn’t get RSV last year so the solution is that lots of kids should get RSV every year doesn’t quite pass the smell test.
I think it’s also been mentioned that there’s been a lot more testing for RSV, because they often do it at the same time as the COVID test. May not apply in CZ, of course.
Meh it’s very ymmv on this one. We do RSV for everyone admitted along with flu and Covid, but we’re not supposed to do it if it’s someone not being admitted for respiratory symptoms or if they’re <2 years.
It was a bad RSV year according to our local data and all the pediatricians I work with.
I imagine we may get some interesting studies on this in a few years but it seems to me like it’s been a bad everything year and that the tradeoff for locking down for a cold and flu season is a weaker immune response the next year to all the normal viruses and bugs circulating.
Obviously it’s worth it when the other side of the trade is avoiding COVID.
I really doubt it. Flu was not bad this year at all. RSV is just bad sometimes. A lot of the sick RSV kids weren’t even alive last year.
Can’t get elective surgery, but at least you can eat popcorn in a movie theatre! Priorities, people!
“Elective” surgery is a real fucking messaging fail. “Oh, boy, I’m bored, maybe I’ll get some surgery today.”
Went to a gas station here in Tucson. About 7 people. My N95 was the only mask. Cloth masks no longer allowed at the hospital.
Dad is back to about 80%. When fresh he can walk with balance and his language is all back. But when tired or stressed he falters. (They had him count by 3s and walk). So tomorrow it’s off to inpatient rehab.
He got lucky. No full blockage. They determined a heart a fib episode likey threw the clot. Responded to afib treatment. But he has injured brain cells recovering vs trying to compensate for tons of dead brain cells (my layman’s understanding). Full recovery or pretty close expected.
Brother is coming tomorrow to relieve me. I’m heading home sometime this weekend depending on weather back east.
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Looks like the worst of the storm is going to miss the Philly area, so hopefully your travel isn’t impacted! Glad they are expecting a full recovery or close to it!
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Can now get paxlovid to anyone as long as you have some sort of preexisting condition. I can get it now
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tested negative on PCR today. vacation is apparently on.
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As someone with asthma, this is great news. So if I were to test positive, I should just be able to call my doctor and get it prescribed? (Obviously availability may vary by region, I assume.)
Thanks for sharing! I follow Moderna closely and didn’t know about that one, that’s great news!
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I have an abnormal need to stalk doctors that can get me paxlovid. Does that qualify?
Ha I actually can’t directly write it yet. I have to refer to a central person to approve it.
Appears that the chaperones for the field trip passed their covid tests. So, I am not going on it. But it’s nice to know that they aren’t ill.
Also, less than an hour before my first class, a student reported testing positive for covid and listed the entire class as close contacts. So, I had two people in class today and one only came in because they weren’t aware of the quarantine.
So yeah, another day with 50,000+ covid cases in the CR.
Is being fat a pre-existing condition?
Labor protest:
^_^
But they’re anti-vax weirdos:
v_v
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Our schools have solved this due to parental pressure to defeat COVID and have eliminated contact tracing in school environments. Still have to isolate if unvaxxed close contact outside school, but everyone knows that u cant catch COVID in school so no close contacts in school (per state guidance). Testing twice a week instead. Parents have been MAD at quarantine this month.