Pingui posted:

I enjoyed this (very short) read, which is about the uncertainty and information concerning what to do when you get COVID (when you haven't been hanging out here for years):

Archived link: https://archive.li/bvbDS

eXXon posted:

Or, you know, if they explained why the standard regimen is for 5 days when everything I know about antivirals/antibiotics is that you're supposed to take them long enough to eliminate the infection.

Maed posted:

she also mentioned that they aren't doing the whole cdc vaccine card stuff anymore so it'll just go to the normal vaccine database which should make booster banditing much easier, I plan on just getting whatever is newest every 4-5 months

NeonPunk posted:

How did you manage to get the shingles vaccines? They're still refusing to give that out until you're 50+ down here in Texas

I tried to get it after seeing my little brother get a nasty case of the shingles at the only young age of 32.

NeonPunk posted:

Wouldn't that mean the opposite? I thought all of the major chains shared the same databases so you can't just simply get it at Walgreens then go to CVS a month later

Geight posted:

My brain is porridge (without any help from covid!) and I have trouble keeping all the variant names in order - which one is the Pfizer/Moderna booster supposed to be targeting? I know it's said to perform adequately against the others but there's one specific variant it's supposed to be good against, right?

Shageletic posted:

Just popped up when i was in the exit screen for applying for an appt at Riteaid here In NY. No idea why.

e: did your brother have chicken pox when he was younger?

NeonPunk posted:

Nice, lucky you

Yeah, we both caught it when we both were very young before the chickenpox vaccine rolled out. I might not necessarily need it, but it sure would be nice to have so I wouldn't have to worry about that in case I get got. My brother caught Covid twice (officially once in winter 2022 while denying the first one in late 2020)

Gunshow Poophole posted:

this might be highly regional / state-based, because nobody has EVER turned me down from banditing

Tulip posted:

I've helped 3 people get paxlovid and had...not sure how many others go "no thanks, don't need it" but definitely more than 3.

It's a fascinating little thing since the stereotype of Americans is that all they want for any medical problem is just a pill, with the joke being that lots of medical issues can't be dealt with with a straightforward medication regime, and this is probably the single best example I can think of where a very straightforward, easily acquired medication makes a huge difference in your life, and people are still going 'ehhhh no thanks I'll just suffer.'

eXXon posted:

I presume a lot of the reluctance to use Paxlovid is from fear of rebounds and generally confusing guidelines and advice, something illustrated nicely in this article:

... and on that note, I definitely have a rebound. D+0 I had little besides a sore throat, started pax in the evening after positive RATs, D+1 fever all day, D+2 fever broke and with it basically all symptoms besides general fatigue, D+5 finished pax in the morning and tested negative in the evening, kept testing negative on RATs consistently until D+8 when the sore throat came back with occasional cough and throat tightness (that I didn't even have before) and now I have a super faint line on a FlowFlex test. Of course I have no way of knowing what would have happened without Paxlovid but it would be a lot easier to decide if there were good advice on, for example, whether to try to get a second round or not. Or, you know, if they explained why the standard regimen is for 5 days when everything I know about antivirals/antibiotics is that you're supposed to take them long enough to eliminate the infection.

Teabag Dome Scandal posted:

My friend who got covid at the same time as I did refused to get pax and now she's slowly working through her sense of taste and smell coming back. Seems to have a positive attitude about it so that's good.

Maed posted:

got my joose at walgreens today in Brooklyn a

eXXon posted:

... Or, you know, if they explained why the standard regimen is for 5 days when everything I know about antivirals/antibiotics is that you're supposed to take them long enough to eliminate the infection.

Baddog posted:

Sorry you're getting the rebound!

Yes, just bullshit that there just hasn't been anything close to an official explanation, and in that vacuum the public opinion has trended to "paxlovid causes rebounds".

I'm not an uneducated dumbass either, and yep, everything I know says that this really sounds like 5 days is often not enough to completely eliminate the infection, and if its not eliminated the infection exponential again defeats the immune system defense exponential. Would be great to have better data/guidance for how common that is, if its better to just do 10 days rather than risk it, if you should do another 5 days if you get a rebound, should it be 10 days if you have a stubborn case? etc etc.

redreader posted:

Anyone know where I can get a shot for two kids, one 5, one under 5, in the Denver area? Willing to drive extra, if needed!

HallelujahLee posted:

NeonPunk posted:

Wouldn't that mean the opposite? I thought all of the major chains shared the same databases so you can't just simply get it at Walgreens then go to CVS a month later

Ihmemies posted:

Again this year boosters seem to be restricted for 65+ year olds. So even money can’t buy you vaccines here, although we live in a capitalist system. Very annoying.

mdemone posted:

here's another question nobody will know the answer to:

is there any guidance on how long to wait after an active Covid/Paxlovid to get the updated boosters? a month? six weeks?

bobtheconqueror posted:

The standard last year was 2 months from most recent infection, which is based on antibody concentrations and probably a pretty good standard. I think they dropped that this year, though, presumably because convincing people to get boosted but also wait two months since your last infection depressed some of the uptake last year, so the standard this year is like, "You might want to wait but you don't have to."

Gunshow Poophole posted:

yeah

if you have cleared an infection you have (relatively) raging torrents of circulating antibodies that wane along a similar curve to those elicited by the vaccine itself, so I'd wait a couple months and then go get boosted

Louisgod posted:

I may be wrong but could've sworn COVID caused long COVID but I'm willing to be swayed

Oracle posted:

they want to figure out what combination of severity, comorbidities, vaccination status, genetics, where infection set up shop, chronic infection vs post-infection damage etc.