I don’t think that’s correct.
Sorry you’re going through this. I can’t imagine.
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With ~30,000 cases yesterday it doesn’t sound like this was over weeks ago.
Surge usually refers to an upward trend, from where I’m from anyway
Anyway, UK adults at 75% double vaxxed - USA better hope our surge is over
Also, UK still tests 5x more than USA so maybe we’re a little bit better at counting them…
small world. lived in fairport for a year.
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Got home last night from 3 days in Vegas. Slept maybe a little less than usual out there and no crazy partying. Feel run down today - main symptom is gastrointestinal, so possibly just dehydrated. Also feel a little achy/feverish but temp is 98.4. Rut roh? Hoping it was just bad meat in the sub at LAS.
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7 day average in the U.K. troughed on 8/4 and is back up again the last four days. Hopefully this surge not as bad as the last one but not super optimistic.
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Christ that’s terrible. I’m sorry.
Ya, with 75% (adults) double vaxxed and a further 16.4% (under 18yrs?) with antibodies from infection - mind you we just fully OFB (nightclubs) a week or so ago so it was expected.
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Even if kids are less likely to die, that doesn’t mean the little disease vectors aren’t going to spread the hell out of it. And if we keep letting it circulate then we are just going to select for a mutant that is even more impactful to kids. Clearly seeing an age shift for Delta. So it’s already happened and we are running the PERFECT selection scenario to keep generating and selecting for undesirable mutants.
Chicken Little Spring: mutants mutants mutants the sky is falling
Chicken Litte now: f that. Time for school, mutants be damned.
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Womamsplaining
https://twitter.com/drkristenkc/status/1424575255952068610?s=21
Her Infectious disease expert
Him Computer AI expert.
Huh
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dr frank is a pretty legit winery, and the whole region is likely undrrrated.
Haha, nerd fight.
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I did mean to reply earlier but was having issues logging in for some reason.
1000x? Reported in many places…
We report the first local transmission of the Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant in mainland China. All 167 infections could be traced back to the first index case. The investigation on daily sequential PCR testing of the quarantined subjects indicated the viral load of the first positive test of Delta infections was ~1000 times higher than that of the 19A/19B strains infections back in the initial epidemic wave of 2020, suggesting the potential faster viral replication rate and more infectiousness of the Delta variant at the early stage of the infection.
“Everybody with a brain says I should get this vaccine. Suspicious how they all say the same thing. Irksome!”
Washington state: all state employees, health care workers, and contractors having to enter state facilities required to be vaccinated by Oct 18 as condition of employment.
ETA: I’ll add a link as soon as Gov Inslee news conference is over.
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Just a reminder from someone who is not on the front lines battling this thing.
Thank you so much for all that you and your fellow medical staff are doing. I have an enormous amount of gratitude and respect and don’t know how I can fully convey it to you other then just saying thank you and trying to talk as many unvaccinated people as I can to get vaccinated.
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Update from 37 year old friend on day six of covid.
“I’m doing ok. Just feel really out of it. Eyeballs hurt and am sleeping a lot. Muscles are still really sore but that’s it. No breathing issues. I get hot and cold real easy. Body can’t regulate temperature it seems. The wife and kid tested positive but just cold symptoms as of now.”
Didn’t ask, but I’m guessing he wishes he had gotten the vaccine.
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Affected workers will have until Oct. 18 to get fully vaccinated, and show proof, or face “non-disciplinary dismissal” for failure to meet job requirements, according to Inslee’s office. Employees will be allowed to seek exemptions for religious or medical reasons.