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I had a flu as a teenager that infected my heart and gave me a multiple year bout of recurring pericarditis. Totally fine nothing major Second time I had the flu (I thought!) was twice? in a month. Jan-Feb 2020
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 04:54 |
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Fansy posted:Anyone know of a good deal for RATs? Found on amazon the other day, but have not used it yet so YMMV. Under $3 per test. https://www.amazon.com/FaStep-Rapid-Minutes-COVID-19-Antigen/dp/B0BQXB8W5T
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 04:58 |
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Steve Yun posted:did you get your free 2023 tests Yes, but you reminded me to tell my family. mahler_biryani posted:Found on amazon the other day, but have not used it yet so YMMV. Under $3 per test. https://www.amazon.com/FaStep-Rapid-Minutes-COVID-19-Antigen/dp/B0BQXB8W5T Hell yes thank you.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 05:49 |
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People who’ve had Covid at least 5 times describe how the illness changed with each reinfection https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-5-times-people-describe-illnesses-rcna118132 quote:Nearly four years after Covid’s emergence, plenty of people have tested positive at least twice. But an unlucky group has been hit with reinfection after reinfection.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 06:02 |
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clean hands I swear to christ
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 06:03 |
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mahler_biryani posted:Found on amazon the other day, but have not used it yet so YMMV. Under $3 per test. https://www.amazon.com/FaStep-Rapid-Minutes-COVID-19-Antigen/dp/B0BQXB8W5T that is legit fuckin impressive they are able to drive an consumer lab developed test that low, bravo
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 06:17 |
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Lol, I don’t think the box takes selfies? I could be wrong
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 06:28 |
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My biopsies all came back negative I went to an outdoor event this weekend and wore a mas but saw a family member who had covid last week there Said she was testing negative withRAT while still taking paxlovid and after she finished. I just don’t know anymore.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 06:29 |
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Indoor Dying posted:
hey man they skimped on advertising that makes sense and passed the savings on to you Glumwheels posted:My biopsies all came back negative If you’re masked outdoors and if they’re honest about being on antivirals your risk of infection is incredibly low
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 06:38 |
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pack in close everyone, let's enjoy reading the back of this box together!
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 06:40 |
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Glumwheels posted:I just don’t know anymore. If it's any consolation, neither does she.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 09:16 |
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Speaking of diseases we had when we were kids, I had whooping cough when I was really young which must have been late 70s or very early 80s. I don't remember a lot about it except coughing until I couldn't breath and then panicking because I felt like I was was asphyxiating, and having that happen when I was in the bathroom at the local mall and getting real scared because I was alone and didn't know where my parents were and I thought I was dying. It wasn't until much much much later that the thought occurred to me "Wait, if I had loving whooping cough why did my parents bring me to the mall?"
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 10:49 |
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mahler_biryani posted:Early in the covid days, https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus used to be a good source. Surprised to find it still exists tbh. Thanks, I'll have a look and see But also - you don't have to comment on the article (I only started adding comments, because without something to distinguish quoted posts it became a mess).
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 11:34 |
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Live virus titer study: "Neutralisation of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.2.86 and EG.5.1 by antibodies induced by earlier infection or vaccination" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.01.560365v1.full posted:Abstract Danish CDC (whom made the study) quotes the lead scientist as saying this is "good news" because it demonstrates that the updated vaccines will work (with XBB.1.5 as a proxy). But I gotta say, looking at the titer levels I probably wouldn't put it like that and it seems the Danish CDC is similarly reluctant using the ambiguous and atypical word "virksom" which can either mean "works" or "does something".
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 11:54 |
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Bastard Tetris posted:If you’re masked outdoors and if they’re honest about being on antivirals your risk of infection is incredibly low Especially if you make sure to wash your hands.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 11:57 |
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WaPo sending some mixed messages here:https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/10/09/long-covid-in-children-rare/ posted:BIG NUMBER Archived link: https://archive.li/00DQq
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 12:16 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It wasn't until much much much later that the thought occurred to me "Wait, if I had loving whooping cough why did my parents bring me to the mall?"
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 12:16 |
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Pingui posted:Live virus titer study: Not just “live”, but wholly authentic strains isolated from clinical samples. Usually assays even when done with active coronaviruses use chimæras—where sections of genetic code, particularly that of the spike, are splice into a venerable strain such as “D614G”. The chimæra approach probably works pretty well in most cases, certainly is better than grafting just the spike onto a virus from a totally different family, but for some of the more out there strains, and BA.2.86 is one of them, there are genuine questions about whether missing mutations in places other than the spike may affect results. These scientists put the effort to use the most accurate but most difficult method, and for that I salute them. As an example, they couldn’t get BA.2.86 to grow in monkey cell lines, only human ones. This is the sort of headache that working with authentic and novel viruses presents, but it’s an interesting finding in and of itself. e: My take on those titers are that imply poor protection for you, me, and everyone from infection and PASC, but they’re high enough to suggest that Eris and Pirola are not “Omicron reborn”. I would have liked to see Fornax in the panel. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 12:27 on Oct 9, 2023 |
# ? Oct 9, 2023 12:20 |
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Pingui posted:WaPo sending some mixed messages here: Alternate title: four hundred thousand American children are suffering from long COVID.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 12:23 |
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hey thats less than a million, I bet capitalism won't even notice.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 12:45 |
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Platystemon posted:(..) Sure, but a 1.4-2-fold reduction ain't exactly nothing when compared to something already low To the core point: I think it is too soon to say if it is or isn't Omicron reborn. I've mentioned before that it seems like we detected BA.2.86 very early and I really don't like some of the mutational spread it has shown, considering how few cases have been detected and the time frame. It seems (to me, as a layman) that it is still far from optimized. Case in point: https://www.nicd.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Update-of-SA-sequencing-data-from-GISAID-06-Oct-2023.pdf posted:Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA)
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 12:45 |
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Pingui posted:WaPo sending some mixed messages here: I did not realize the CDC's definition is symptoms three months after infection. Good to know it's normal to be symptomatic for up to 12 weeks.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 13:57 |
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I’m never leaving my house again.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 14:17 |
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what the gently caress. I tested positive exactly two weeks ago, was sick for 10 days, during which I took Paxlovid (which didn't make me feel better one bit), felt great for 3 days and then felt sick again and tested positive this morning. Back to back infections or the same one?
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 14:26 |
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Bastard Tetris posted:hey man they skimped on advertising that makes sense and passed the savings on to you She had finished paxlovid on Thursday and she said she was testing negative as well as others in her household. I don’t know if that was still the case by Sunday or not but I hope so. Supposedly no one else got sick in her house. My wife was negative by day 6 too and never tested positive again by rat, I was the only one who rebounded. My family member knew my situation so I hope she was testing before going out in public. Lots of old people where we were.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 14:27 |
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blue squares posted:what the gently caress. I tested positive exactly two weeks ago, was sick for 10 days, during which I took Paxlovid (which didn't make me feel better one bit), felt great for 3 days and then felt sick again and tested positive this morning. Back to back infections or the same one? You're almost certainly experiencing a rebound of the same infection, sorry. Well, that's probably better than consecutive infections, anyway. I don't remember seeing recorded cases of completely separate reinfection within two weeks but from a quick search three weeks is possible. Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 14:46 on Oct 9, 2023 |
# ? Oct 9, 2023 14:44 |
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lmao
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 14:49 |
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eXXon posted:You're almost certainly experiencing a rebound of the same infection, sorry. Well, that's probably better than consecutive infections, anyway. Yeah 21 days is the shortest reinfection period I've seen from stuff in this thread. That being said, with the way the variant soup stuff is now and that recombinant strains are a thing, meaning folks are infected with two variants at the same time, I don't think getting two separate infections in two weeks is impossible. It's unlikely, though, especially if you've been isolating/masking at all while sick and have an otherwise healthy immune system.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 14:59 |
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eXXon posted:You're almost certainly experiencing a rebound of the same infection, sorry. Well, that's probably better than consecutive infections, anyway. My wife is out of town and coming back tonight. She and I were sick at the same time, her a few days ahead of me. She is currently totally healthy. Since she infected me, and she’s doing well, should we be worried that I could reinfect her right back, or would it not work like that since she was the original source of my infection? trying to decide if she should isolate from me or just come home if it’s the same infection and she’s fully cleared it I’ve gotta imagine she will be fine, otherwise cohabitating people would just be infecting each other back and forth constantly on the same infection blue squares has issued a correction as of 15:17 on Oct 9, 2023 |
# ? Oct 9, 2023 15:09 |
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blue squares posted:My wife is out of town and coming back tonight. She and I were sick at the same time, her a few days ahead of me. She is currently totally healthy. Since she infected me, and she’s doing well, should we be worried that I could reinfect her right back, or would it not work like that since she was the original source of my infection? trying to decide if she should isolate from me or just come home Yes, since she just beat down an infection, her antibody levels should be able to combat the same variant easily. Even If you somehow got infected with a different variant or had a co-infection resulting in a recombinant this would overwhelming likely be the case.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 15:32 |
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I would err on the side of caution, but that's mostly because I've got a hosed-up immune system. Current evidence is that while as little as three weeks between infections has been reported a few times, two or three weeks is just about your prime antibody window, and so if there's a time to be less worried, it's right in that tiny window.The Oldest Man posted:Your mistake was believing most of the people around you hold any kind of ideology or philosophy at all. GRANTED. However, Most people think they do, which is often a useful lever for encouraging better behavior (or any desired behavior, look at propaganda generally lol). However, masking I guess is just irritating/weird-looking enough that it didn't have a prayer there, at least not the nano-instant capital interests came to the conclusion covid wasn't the immediate world-ending threat of the virus from Carriers or whatever
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 18:00 |
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blue squares posted:what the gently caress. I tested positive exactly two weeks ago, was sick for 10 days, during which I took Paxlovid (which didn't make me feel better one bit), felt great for 3 days and then felt sick again and tested positive this morning. Back to back infections or the same one? welcome brother
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 18:03 |
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My local supermarket has cut hours again. It used to be open 24/7 then a few years ago it started closing at midnight, then because of the pandemic it started closing at 11pm, then tonight when I dashed over there to buy a loaf of bread for my morning toast I found out too late that they now close at 10pm. I tried the local 7-11 and the 24hr gas station which has a store attached but it turns out they don't sell loaves of bread any more, even though they definitely used to.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 18:38 |
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There is a small format hmart in my neighborhood that has signage that its "morning to midnight." They close at 9:30pm.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 18:42 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:My local supermarket has cut hours again. It used to be open 24/7 then a few years ago it started closing at midnight, then because of the pandemic it started closing at 11pm, then tonight when I dashed over there to buy a loaf of bread for my morning toast I found out too late that they now close at 10pm. The CDC recommends you only eat a very small amount of white bread, it's bad for your cardiovascular health. Public health wins again
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:12 |
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A customer was just telling me about his daughter's recent destination wedding that turned into a huge super-spreader event that sent a few people to the hospital and I couldn't even feign shock or surprise. Like who could have ever imagined or predicted something like that happening in this day and age. Then we talked about motorcycles for a while so that was cool at least
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:16 |
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I would totally get a triumph if I didn't thing I would get pasted by some covidycepted ram driver
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:26 |
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https://twitter.com/mryoung151/status/1711211908638843317?s=46
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:40 |
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Shady Amish Terror posted:GRANTED. However, Propaganda works by giving people ideas and then repeating them so often and in so many forms and venues that people internalize them, not by playing on their ideological values or commitments in some kind of rationalized "you believe x, therefore you should be believe y" way. It's literally the same thing as convincing people that smoking is cool by bombarding them with images of cool people smoking and the seminal works of modern propaganda and public relations draw that connection explicitly. People have been and are still being bombarded with a mass media campaign that covid is mild (for people like them who matter), that the losses are acceptable (because they're already sick and weak and implicitly better off dead), and that respirators are weird and/or don't work and they internalize that. That's it, that's the entire story. There is no moral calculus occurring there, just budgetary calculus about how big the campaign needs to be to manufacture the consent required. You think you're talking to people who have some commitment to the idea of justice and solidarity as a free-standing principle but 99 times out 100, you're talking to someone who has adopted an aesthetic because it was marketed to them. That's why "progressivism" is a popular self-described ideology even though it means absolutely nothing. That's why the DSA is able to recruit people despite being an utter loving joke that climbers like AOC use as toilet paper. Aesthetics don't ask anything at all of their adherents. So of course they don't give a poo poo, they never did. You might as well be trying to use someone's hot topic shirt as a "lever" over their behavior, it's got exactly the same level of bearing on what they do and don't do as a self-applied "progressive" or "leftist" label.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:42 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 03:33 |
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Is there a good piece out there detailing what a shill / propagandist David Leonhardt is? I swear there was one. My MIL just sent my wife his latest Hamas article and it's like oh yeah, that's where she's getting her COVID takes from.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:51 |