Pillowpants posted:

In this post i up my game...and make an UGLY GIF

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/12/long-covid-pandemic-kaine-treatment/ posted:

Covid is here to stay. That means long covid is, too.
By Leana S. Wen

Covid-19 is now endemic, meaning the coronavirus is here to stay and health officials must pivot from treating it like a one-time emergency to managing the disease in perpetuity. The same must be true of long covid.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that about 6 percent of American adults have lingering symptoms from covid infection. But despite the condition’s prevalence, much about long covid remains a mystery. Most distressing is the fact that there is no cure for it.

This needs to change. Key to living with covid is reckoning with its consequences, which includes having a plan to treat those afflicted with post-covid conditions.
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In the meantime, researchers must make it a top priority to find lasting relief for patients suffering from post-viral conditions, ME/CFS and related illnesses. Those who question continued investment should keep in mind that long covid could one day impact them, too. Taking it seriously is the price we must pay for returning to life without pandemic-era restrictions.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/covid-vaccine-booster-experts-ucsf-wachter-18359877.php posted:

Why UCSF’s Bob Wachter says COVID subvariant BA.2.86 is the ‘scariant of the moment’

Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF’s chief of medicine, hosted his first COVID roundtable discussion since June late last week, aiming to assess the current pandemic trajectory amid a summer wave of infections and hospitalizations in the Bay Area.

For the introductory Grand Rounds of the new academic year, he brought together three well-known UCSF infectious disease experts with “different but mutually respectful perspectives” — Dr. Monica Gandhi, Dr. George Rutherford and Dr. Peter Chin-Hong.
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Nevertheless, the consensus emerged that there is “a small COVID surge” underway based on changes in hospitalization metrics and wastewater surveys.

Over the past month, hospitalizations in California jumped by more than 83%, rising from a daily average of 209 admissions to 383, according to state health department data published Friday. The state’s test positivity rate is also up to 13.7% after falling as low as 3.4% at the beginning of the summer. Wastewater samples from Bay Area sewersheds indicated a doubling of the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 virus since July, underscoring a steady upward trajectory.
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Considering variant threats
The panelists expressed little concern about the EG.5 variant — an omicron descendent that accounts for about 22% of cases nationwide — because its spike proteins are similar to those on XBB.1.5, which the forthcoming booster shots target. The vaccine could be available as early as Wednesday.

Turning their attention to the latest variant of concern, BA.2.86, Wachter described it as “the scariant of the moment,” noting that if you look at the spike protein, “it looks like it’s mutated up the ying-yang.”

Chin-Hong said while the new variant has more than 30 mutations on its spike protein — equivalent to the evolutionary leap between delta to omicron — its prevalence remains low worldwide, and at least four recent international studies have found that existing antibodies can neutralize it.

“People are calling it a paper tiger now because it looks really scary, but it’s just made of paper,” he said, emphasizing that there is still much to learn about the virus.
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Complications posted:

Unfortunately, having just checked, it looks like the test2treat site has actually disabled all of the registration buttons and replaced the enrollment page with a shut down notice. I chose to believe a massive goon rush was responsible. Well done getting those tests everybody.

Pingui posted:

"Key to living with covid is reckoning with its consequences, which includes having a plan to treat those afflicted with post-covid conditions."

bedpan posted:

remembering things is a conspiracy theory

Pingui posted:

Pretty normal to see the greens change to shades of orange and red in the fall though.

Pingui posted:

On the other hand this is as completely idiotic as you would expect:

Nocturtle posted:

lol just noticed that the economic analysis presented at ACIP evaluating the benefit of boosters in terms of cost per QALY is assuming the boosters cost the private market price-gouging $120 amount instead of the previous $30 / dose. So the tradeoff for another round of boosters in the 18-49 year old age range should be something more like $28750 / QALY. That would be a bargain for society but less profit for pharma so instead the price per dose was set high enough that the cost-effectiveness is questionable.

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

I made an appointment for next tuesday at CVS and it's saying that it's for the Phizer Bivalent- is that the correct new one?

Insanite posted:

Are they even allowed to put those bivalents in arms anymore at this point?

Failson posted:

I can report a 100% increase in COVID cases. After three years, I let y mask discipline slip. Started feeling lousy Sunday, tested positive today.

ONLY MASK TRUST

NeonPunk posted:

Nope, cancel it. You want the monovalent XBB. The bivalent is the old one they brought out last year

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

This is crazy what the hell

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

I made an appointment for next tuesday at CVS and it's saying that it's for the Phizer Bivalent- is that the correct new one?

Nocturtle posted:

lol just noticed that the economic analysis presented at ACIP evaluating the benefit of boosters in terms of cost per QALY is assuming the boosters cost the private market price-gouging $120 amount instead of the previous $30 / dose. So the tradeoff for another round of boosters in the 18-49 year old age range should be something more like $28750 / QALY. That would be a bargain for society but less profit for pharma so instead the price per dose was set high enough that the cost-effectiveness is questionable.

Baddog posted:

Ehh, you can prolly keep the appointment and hope that they have the right stuff by then.

Might be smart actually to look around to book something! Although I'm kinda hoping my local public health has already ordered some in (orders were open a month ago!) and we can trundle down there tomorrow.

Insanite posted:

Are they even allowed to put those bivalents in arms anymore at this point?

The Oldest Man posted:

They are until the ACIP vote

an owls casket posted:

I don't know if anyone else looks at the garbage clickbait news stories that pop up when you click the weather on your Taskbar in Windows, but every single Covid related story has a huge number of downvotes. I can just envision someone sitting at their computer, silently turning red as they angrily click the thumbs-down button, veins bulging dangerously out of their foreheads. Have fun at Applebee's, fuckers.

TheDestructinator posted:

how soon after an exposure should i be testing? I have 1 lucira and some rapids, I assume the rapids are less accurate if I have no symptoms.

an owls casket posted:

I don't know if anyone else looks at the garbage clickbait news stories that pop up when you click the weather on your Taskbar in Windows, but every single Covid related story has a huge number of downvotes. I can just envision someone sitting at their computer, silently turning red as they angrily click the thumbs-down button, veins bulging dangerously out of their foreheads. Have fun at Applebee's, fuckers.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

TheDestructinator posted:

how soon after an exposure should i be testing? I have 1 lucira and some rapids, I assume the rapids are less accurate if I have no symptoms.

The Oldest Man posted:

6 months-4 years get one but the recommendations about which one are more specific to what if anything they've already received.