Insanite posted:

I remember getting a rep as a problem sicko in middle school for being out nine days in one year.

I’d really like to see historical data on school attendance—aren’t a huge number of districts now seeing at least a quarter of kids missing 10% or more of the year?

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what the gently caress is the us government good for if they can just ask domestic companies to pretty please do things??? kleptocracy

Platystemon posted:

smh so much denigration of hard‐working scientists in the COVID thread

Bastard Tetris posted:

lol the only diagnostic covid poo poo I worked on was frantically converting labs into PCR testing centers because no health departments had their poo poo together in March 2020

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Love seeing all the folks making GBS threads on labs for not having full genetic sequences in under a loving day from when the patient arrives in country.

I mean come on, it’s one thing to constantly go after political figures, but maybe loving lay off the lab techs. I’ve done infectious disease work in a professional lab setting for a number of years in the past, and sometimes poo poo takes time. Sometimes you need to run a test again, especially when you have to be sure. And yes, that includes genetic sequencing and outbreak tracking. Are the lab techs now just brunch-eating lanyard shitlibs now?

Maybe lay off the constant complaining, hearing nothing but venting is obnoxious.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

speaking of pax rebounds, did we ever find out if you are contagious during those?

The Oldest Man posted:

if you can turn a RAT strip red, you're contagious.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

aren't you also contagious during the asymptomatic period during which you might not test positive

Cup Runneth Over posted:

aren't you also contagious during the asymptomatic period during which you might not test positive

Platystemon posted:

But have you considered that it was actually very normal that it took more than a week for the U.S. to find Omicron in November/December 2021?

(No one was laying it on the lab techs.)

Ragaduffin posted:

Loving all these animals!

Not loving that I got my booster yesterday and the only effect is a sore arm! WTF. How do I know my body is working right?! For the last 6 (7?) It's been very obvious, both physically and in my watch readouts like HRV and HR.

Now I'll have to be worried that I just recently had secret super mild COVID

Ragaduffin posted:

Loving all these animals!

Not loving that I got my booster yesterday and the only effect is a sore arm! WTF. How do I know my body is working right?! For the last 6 (7?) It's been very obvious, both physically and in my watch readouts like HRV and HR.

Now I'll have to be worried that I just recently had secret super mild COVID

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

any reason to not get flu shot at same time as covid shot?

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

any reason to not get flu shot at same time as covid shot?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vacccine-booster-flu-shot-for-fall-2023-fda/ posted:

How FDA's top vaccines official is timing his COVID booster and flu shot for fall 2023
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"Some people are saying, 'Well, could I get RSV, COVID and the flu vaccine on the same day?' Yes, indeed, you could. But honestly, I might not," said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

Instead, he said he intended to get the COVID shot right away and the flu shot in early October. [ed. it's been a few weeks, so now and now]

Marks, who was speaking during a recent call with FDA stakeholders, stressed that he did not disagree with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which allows giving multiple different routine shots during the same visit. Doctors refer to this as "coadministration" or "simultaneous administration" of vaccines.

However, he acknowledged that getting up to three of the different vaccines at the same time could lead to more side effects — like stronger fatigue or a small fever — in the days after getting the shots.

Spacing out the shots by around two weeks could "minimize the chance of interactions, and minimize confusing side effects from one with another," he said. They might be a good option for people who did not mind multiple trips to the pharmacy or their doctor's office.

"I might just want to space them out a little bit. But if you had to drive a lot of miles to get the vaccines, then it might not be unreasonable to get all three of them at once," said Marks.
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Steve Yun posted:

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bedpan posted:

never going to stop lolling that the variant naming system has forever ended

dew worm posted:

Mom has covid...doctor gave her Lagevrio? How does that compare to pax?

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“The 21-22 school year we saw 43% of students were chronically absent,” said Antonio Gonzales, Chief Academic Officer for Albuquerque Public Schools. “Last school year the 2022-2023 school year we saw 34% of our students who were chronically absent so it kinda decreased by about 9-10%.”

Testvan posted:

chronically absent is defined as being out 10+% of the year, about 18 days per school year

NeonPunk posted:

That doesn't make sense to me. School is only open 5 days a week right? 18 days absent is nearly almost a month of missing school. How is that just 10% of a school year?

Soap Scum posted:

my cat-loving friends are allergic to cats but got this very luxurious-looking hypoallergenic siberian thing that i visited this week

Steve Yun posted:

that’s actually a good question. I wonder if being vaccinated means you mount enough of an immune response to be symptomatic for the first couple days while also holding viral shedding at bay for a little bit

but that’s just a guess. might be worth consulting an expert

euphronius posted:

two days off of pax and I’m just kind of low level sick

I can see how this should have been 10 days

Maed posted:

very pretty but hypoallergenic cats aren't real, sorry for your friend's noses

RC Cola posted:

Everyone is my office basically got covid this week/last week. Back to in office masks which is good but also lol way to wait for over 50% of the office to be out sick