I figured it was the election, but he also expressed dismay at the new website. I thought about the virus peaking in AZ as well and hope he's ok. Maybe he'll check back in.
I asked at work when the next phase of vaccines will be rolled out. Dr Curley referred me to the NH web site which didn’t say much
The daylong rally & assault on the Capitol had to have been a superspreader event. Not a mask in sight. Granted a lot of events were outdoors, but exertion in climbing walls, roaming around the Capitol, including chambers and offices, while screaming & shouting seems like a spreader event.
@cyclone88 not to mention all that coughing from the mace and tear gas! 😉
It's been 10 days since my Mom was exposed and she is fine. Ohio says to quarantine for 10 days if you show no symptoms. CDC still has 14 days I believe. Both say you cut your quarantine shorter if you get a negative test, but my Mom did not test.
The lady is home too after 6 days in the hospital. She needed IVs and oxygen. They told her not to go anywhere for 20 days. I am not sure why or what that means, it's all second hand to me.
Nurse told her that some of the workers at the hospital have gotten covid for a second time.
It's been 10 days since my Mom was exposed and she is fine. Ohio says to quarantine for 10 days if you show no symptoms. CDC still has 14 days I believe. Both say you cut your quarantine shorter if you get a negative test, but my Mom did not test.
The lady is home too after 6 days in the hospital. She needed IVs and oxygen. They told her not to go anywhere for 20 days. I am not sure why or what that means, it's all second hand to me.
Nurse told her that some of the workers at the hospital have gotten covid for a second time.
Healing vibes and much love to your mother.
I've finally got an appointment for my aunt to get her shots - the first in a little over two weeks from today.
Just heard on TV that Johnson & Johnson's ONE SHOT vaccine has passed all testing - 100% with no setbacks or appreciable side-effects. I'm hoping that it's available when my number comes up ... hopefully by early Spring? Hopefully.
Glad your mom is doing well. There are at-home tests that can be ordered/delivered/results in about 3-5 days. I'd think that would be great for the elderly. The people I know are 40-50 who've used them have been to get out of quarantine after travel, but it saved waiting in line w/potentially sick people. Don't know the cost or how reliable they are. They're not sent to just anyone - there's a questionnaire about age, exposure, symptoms - before it will be sent overnight.
My Mom is getting her first vaccination shot tomorrow. She was able to get an appointment fairly easily by calling a hospital hotline and then actually the board of health called her back about a previous message she had left before it was her time to schedule so if she hadn't already made the Mercy Health appointment the county was going to arrange one for her. Two of my good friends in Colorado who have basically lived like hermits and done holidays via zoom instead of seeing local family members got their first shot last week.
UK and South African variants getting a lot of attention. Is it ok to say South African variant or is that racist? Vaccines may not be as effective. Variants will continue to develop.
Good luck to your mom! I'm taking my aunt to get her part 1 injection in the morning. I have no idea exactly what the format or nature of the event will be. Drive-thru? Standing in long lines? Single, walk-up appointments? I'm hoping that it runs smoothly and doesn't turn out to be a spreader event in and of itself.
Perhaps a stroke of good luck - taking my aunt for her Pfizer #1 this morning, the nurse asked if I was her caregiver. Typically, this involves living in the same house. My aunt lives across the street and I take her to all doctors, do her shopping, cook for her etc. Close enough, they decided. So this morning, I also got my first dose. I am 63 1/2 years old - 18 months shy of the mandated age of 65. First, they told me I was old - then they said I wasn't old enough! I have considered getting a fake ID to get the vaccine! Okay, one down and one to go. Now, for the remainder of the population to get theirs! I'm breathing a little easier today!
Good for you! Forgive me if this is too personal, but do you have a spouse? I'm was wondering the surprise reaction when you come home vaccinated!
No update from my Mom. She's been there for 3 hoursthis morning but isn't one to text or use her phone in public
@nebish It's almost funny! My wife actually made these arrangements for my aunt. When doing so, she asked if she and I could be considered caregivers for my aunt - because we pretty much are. They told her (phone) that to be considered a caregiver, you'd have to live in the same house. As stated, my aunt lives across the street. So this morning, my wife opted to sleep-in - rather than go to this event that we all feared would be a mad-house (like the ones seen on TV in Florida, California and other places).
This event (Brunswick, GA) was very efficiently and professionally run! No long lines, no chaos and evidently, plenty of the vaccine on hand. After my aunt had been dosed, we were sitting off to the side (you have to wait 15 minutes to be sure you haven't suffered allergies or side-effects). Right before we stood to leave, one of the nurses walked over and asked if I was the caregiver. I told her the situation and she said to wait. She left and came back to get me - told me to fill out the form and roll up my sleeve! The 2nd dose is in 2 weeks. I feel very lucky this morning!
But yeah, I came home and told my now-woke wife that I had been given the vaccine. I kinda felt like a "cheater" ... still grateful for the opportunity! 😉
I asked @Rusty because my wife has been wanting this vaccine from day 1. She didn't even care about any of the testing or trials, as soon as she heard the word vaccine she's like I want it. I am younger than her and if I were to come home and say 'hey guess what I got vaccinated' she'd be super jealous.
My Mom was given the Pfizer vaccine. She was there almost 2 hours while and said while everyone was nice there wasn't much ability to social distance with a couple dozen people waiting in a room.
One thing that nobody knows that I've read or heard and she asked the people administering vaccine today...just how long is this expected to be good for in one's body to protect from serious covid illness? They said they don't know. I haven't heard anyone who knows. They don't know how long the antibodies in recovered people are good for either. So figure that one out as we go I guess. Wonder if everyone will have to get another shot in....say 7 months? - seems like for all anyone knows right now that is possible if the vaccine protection wears off with time.
In Ohio, people hospitalized with Covid peaked about 5200 a day mid December. We are now down under 3000 which is the lowest it's been since mid November. Same with cases, this recent surge, our peak was over 12,000 new cases a day first couple weeks of December. We are now averaging under 5000 a day on a 7-day average and under 6000 on a 21-day average - the lowest it's been on those metrics in months. Still a long way to go to get back down to our best numbers at the trough (our best 7-day avg was early June at under 400 cases a day....so we are still 10+ times that high right now).
@nebish You raise a lot of interesting questions. How long is the vaccine good for? I honestly hadn't thought in terms like that. I'm hoping that in a year the Covid vaccine and the annual flu shot get incorporated. I'm guessing that some sort of "booster" will be needed.
This is not a scientific statement at all - more wishy-washy on my behalf. I do think that if enough people get vaccinated, the virus runs out of "hosts" and either dies off or fades to the point that it's no real, major threat. I've just gotten to the point - having three friends DIE from Covid - becoming afraid to be around people - the seeming end of concerts and music events (so important to all of us here) that I am willing to try anything that has some degree of scientific proof or merit behind it.
To digress very slightly - and intending absolutely no politics - over the past 50 years, we've vaccinated several horrible diseases into near extinction. Only the rise of the "anti-vaxers" has prevented some of these from being obliterated altogether. I'm not interested in spending my remaining years in a box with no social contact. For me, this vaccine works or it doesn't. Go down in a sinking ship or drown trying to swim to shore ... I'm a pretty good swimmer.
Peace!
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They’re for sure still manic about covid in Calif, where protesters gathered at the entrance to Dodger Stadium & temporarily shut down vaccinations there
no, with the difficulty of distributing the vaccine, & w/the virus now growing new heads & mutating, the pandemic is going to be with us for a long time yet
@stephen Yeah, but the sooner everybody does their part in the fight - the sooner it becomes obscure.
I think we're all saying the same thing - the virus is mutating, vaccinations were not rolled out as optimistically planned, we're not really sure of the effectiveness & for how long, and the anti-vaxxers are a double threat by shutting down vaccine sites for those who want them (why should they care?) & not getting it themselves. There isn't going to be a "sooner" if there is a significant population who are thwarting the only prevention we have beyond masks & distancing.
