mrbotus posted:

Various people I know are all headed to Florida right now. Is something special going on? It feels like when japan opened to tourism and everyone I knew or watched on TV was like, "OMG, I finally can go to Japan! Poggers, soy!"

mrbotus posted:

Various people I know are all headed to Florida right now. Is something special going on? It feels like when japan opened to tourism and everyone I knew or watched on TV was like, "OMG, I finally can go to Japan! Poggers, soy!"

Pingui posted:

Getting in on the ground floor of malaria infections maybe? Possibly leprosy?

Zugzwang posted:

lol if we are ever able to make a post-Sturgis-like map of malaria spread after people visit Florida or Texas

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go eliminate pockets of standing water in my backyard.

Zugzwang posted:

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Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go eliminate pockets of standing water in my backyard.

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

Pockets of standing water is 100% not a problem in Texas at the moment.

Pingui posted:

Why do you want to dismantle the public malaria vaccination program??

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/ecdc-classifies-xbb15-lineages-amino-acid-change-f456l-variants-interest-following posted:

In 2023, after several months of very low rates of infection, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission has started to increase in some EU/EEA countries. Although this has coincided with increasing detections of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) XBB.1.5-like lineages carrying the F456L mutation, there are other drivers that can contribute to the increasing transmission rates. This includes large gatherings during seasonal holidays and lower levels of immunological protection against infection after several months of very low disease incidence. There is currently no sign of increased hospitalisations or pressures on healthcare systems.
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The mutation is also increasing globally, with the World Health Organization (WHO) classifying EG.5, which is the most prevalent lineage with this mutation, as a VOI as of 9 August 2023 [4] and the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) classifying EG.5.1 as a variant as of 31 July 2023 [5]. ECDC classifies EG.5 within the group of lineages carrying F456L, since all 456L-lineages exhibit elevated growth rates, and the likely source of the elevated growth rate is mainly the F456L change itself.
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Zugzwang posted:

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I have some fun news for you about long-term immunity to malaria after an infection, friend:

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Raskolnikov2089 posted:

Pockets of standing water is 100% not a problem in Texas at the moment.

Johnny Cache Hit posted:

these are TotK temple names and you won’t convince me otherwise

Nothus posted:

A nice little nuance of the American healthcare system is that if something happens on a weekend, you're poo poo out of luck until Monday.

Pingui posted:

It doesn't have to be permanent to achieve heard immunity.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Heard immunity is when they stick their fingers in their ears and pretend covid is over

Steve Yun posted:

hey uhh

is the Walgreens Covid Index down

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The warning comes after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health identified an hepatitis A virus infection in a food handler who worked at the restaurant at 44411 Valley Central Way in Lancaster, department officials said.

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Hepatitis A vaccinations are available through some local pharmacies or physicians' offices. In addition, the county health department will be offering free hepatitis A vaccinations to exposed persons at Antelope Valley Health Center, 335 E. Ave. K, between 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. on Monday, and between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

yikes I been wondering about how you fared, sorry goon

huge sympathy for people with young children, there's no path that's easy

hope you feel better soon. oh lol also christ you're in florida too god drat

Harik posted:

how fast can you get re-infected? Because if I've got a "get out of plague" pass for the next couple weeks I'm going to loving use it.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Heard immunity is when they stick their fingers in their ears and pretend covid is over

Harik posted:

florida, new york, california, there's no real difference in governance when it comes to reminding everybody that it's their sacred duty to go to work so their kids have to be sent to the plague pits and also Chilli's happy hour is self care.

desantis is loud and squeaky about it but every state government and the feds follows the exact same playbook.


Not enjoying the new thread vibe of "do not say anything bad about the people who've piled millions of rotting corpses in an offering to mammon" tbh.

Harik posted:

The schoolyear started with a bang. First kid picked it up thursday or friday (1st or second day of school) and by sunday they were running a fever and their test instantly came back positive.

Despite having their own room and staying in there everybody else got it anyway, so over the next week it tore through the entire family. RIP. Forsaken by my corsi cube...

3 years into the endemic now, guidance for schools has been banned by Desantis so when we asked the school they said "uh, dunno i guess when their fever goes down send them back in?" they start sending you nastygrams about truancy if your kid is out for more than a day or two. Lol. We told them on no uncertain terms to go gently caress themselves and kids stayed out for the whole week. i wonder if anybody in their classes is going to show up tomorrow?

and a week later i caught it despite locking myself away in my gooncave for 16 hours a day and sleeping on the couch. eris sucks, OP, would not recommend. I've got 9 of the 10 symptoms of eris, everything but 'altered smell'. Is that even a thing? It's like <1% of infections.

E: Oh and my doggo picked up an ear infection at the same time so he's conked out on the treatment and has barely moved all day. Poor boy. At least he's not headshaking and pawing at his ears now.

Harik posted:

Harik posted:

Not enjoying the new thread vibe of "do not say anything bad about the people who've piled millions of rotting corpses in an offering to mammon" tbh.

Why Am I So Tired posted:

I'm obviously not an expert and not really sure what to advise, but from what I understand it's better to take Paxlovid sooner rather than later - like, the approved window is 1 to 5 days, but there's nothing magical going on that makes all five days equivalent. The whole point is that it stops viral replication, and kind of by definition it's better to stop the virus replicating right away than it is to let it build and get a foothold in and damage your body for four additional days.

Petey posted:

so there's that intuition, but then there's the countervailing intuition: that letting your body's immune system recognize and get revved up after 1-2 days might be better than zeroth day. i've heard both arguments made by immunologists and i don't know if there is any settled science on the matter.

what did show up in the clinical data is that if you wait longer and do it in the second week — the inflammatory phase — it's too late. in fact, we almost lost paxlovid because pfizer designed the drug trial wrong the first time around and was administering an anti-viral in the second week, after the viral replication phase was over, and it didn't show efficacy. there were a group of infectious disease docs — daniel griffin from twiv was one of them iirc — who intervened and pointed this out.

so i don't know either. but in the context of glumwheels' question, the reason i was saying this is: glumwheels does not currently have access to pax, and waiting 24 hours to see if you can get pax might in principle have a higher expected value of protection than starting molnupiravir 24 hours sooner given how much lower the latter's efficacy is (moot because molnupiravir is out of stock too lmao)

Gunshow Poophole posted:

Leana says go get vaaax immunity
soon it will protect the herd
so I can't help but be confused
when messaging becomes blurred

oh the herd is gonna be fine
will we lockdown for the first time?
oh the herd is gonna be fine
and accumulating clots in your mind

honey honey

Petey posted:

what did show up in the clinical data is that if you wait longer and do it in the second week — the inflammatory phase — it's too late. in fact, we almost lost paxlovid because pfizer designed the drug trial wrong the first time around and was administering an anti-viral in the second week, after the viral replication phase was over, and it didn't show efficacy. there were a group of infectious disease docs — daniel griffin from twiv was one of them iirc — who intervened and pointed this out.

nexous posted:

still well over a month until I can get treatment for cancer. I love US healthcare

VomitOnLino posted:

Oh my god, what the gently caress I am so sorry. How are you dealing mentally?

nexous posted:

it’s been back and forth between just ignoring it and freaking out. Another goon in the goon doctor thread really helped, he had the same thing (renal cell carcinoma) and it’s like the easiest cancer to treat so I’m not gonna die or anything it’s just very tedious waiting to do anything about it. I am quite concerned about getting Covid during the surgery tho. it’s gonna be close to see if I can get the updated booster before.