Not enough OBs to handle all the routine labor/delivery, especially in outstate areas. The ones who mind their scope are great
A girl I graduated from high school with is on day ten of her 4th round of covid which included a hospital stay. She was pro mask/vaccine but no idea if she got the most recent booster. On the other hand I have a friend that’s had it 3 confirmed times and it’s never been more than sniffles, fatigue and a headache. It is going to be interesting if they ever nail down why some people are more susceptible to getting it and also having severe cases.
They have for long covid, but idk for susceptibility for bad infections https://www.medscape.com/viewarticl...-who-most-likely-get-it-2023a1000wq4?form=fpf
I have had COVID 4 times now…I got lazy and didn’t get a second booster when I should have. 4th time was by far the worst. First 3 times I had very minor symptoms…4th time I didn’t feel right for two weeks. Notable exhaustion and decreased lung function. Def staying up to date on boosters from now on.
Yep. "It's a vaccine that prevents your child from ever getting cervical cancer and if everyone got it, there'd be no more cervical cancer at all." "Hmmmmmm still not as good as abstinence"
More like: “Hmmmmmm you know, if my daughter is ever raped, she should also have to suffer with the fear of developing a cancer from that experience”
Was there ever any definitive proof that a baby would be born with some antibodies if the mother had Covid while pregnant? I remember reading some stuff about it but wasn’t sure if it was tested and true or not. My SIL found out she was expecting and got Covid 2 weeks ago. I’m not sure if she’s fully boosted or not but I know both her man’s my brother are vaccinated.
antibodies protect the fetus and the newborn for a period of time, probably about 30-60 days after birth correlated to the half-life of IgG.
Wife took a test this morning cause she feels sick but it was negative. Went to urgent care but they said to test again tomorrow just to make sure. Negative on flu and strep tests as well. May just have some “crud” like I had a few weeks ago.
Had this shit for a 2nd time over the weekend. Just like first in set in very quick, like feeling fine to feeling like death in 3-4 hours, and then went to sleep for basically 24 hours. That was my Friday afternoon to Saturday evening. Feel much better now.
Tested negative this weekend after a positive last Friday (9 days). I got "sick" this time with a cough and some congestion. Never ran a fever never got the flu like symptoms. I would've gone to work the monday after the positive test in a pre-covid world. I had been on a 11 day 7 airplane work trip and the cough triggered the test to be safe for my in office co-workers. Same thing happened 2 years ago and I was completely symptom free that time. Only tested back then as it was office protocol. I would've been walking around with it completely unaware I had it. So weird how it affects people differently. I am fully vaxed.
Gonna see the same insane push back against the RSV vaccine if there hasn't been already, even though I don't think any are mRNA based. That would be such a god send for little kids.
It’s literally child abuse but the country would never charge a parent for that but will have them imprisoned for getting life saving gender affirming care for their kids
Wife was told to take another Covid test this morning because they didn’t want her to take 2 in the same day yesterday at the dr. Positive. I feel fine and kid is fine as well. I feel bad because I was in the office all day talking to people because she took the test and it was negative before I went to work.
I'd say it's no ideal, but if she wasn't popping positive and you're up to date on your boosters, then it's likely you weren't exposing people as much as if you haven't gotten a shot in the past six months. I'm not an expert though, but I'm guessing that makes somewhat of a difference.
I feel fine. I haven’t gotten to take a test yet because we only had 1 left and she took it this morning. Ordered some more. Hell, I went and worked out yesterday. Kid has a little bit of sniffles but he’s acting fine. Obviously we kept him home from daycare. I’m fully boosted. She isn’t but she’s not really that sick. She’s still working from home.
I’m gonna take a test today when they get here and another in the morning. She’s masked up since the positive test and staying in our bedroom
My friend seems to be full on immune. She's had a room mate that was sick several times, my friend hasnt ever caught it, nor has she tested positive after full on caring for the sick roomie with no mask. Also never been vaxxed
it sucks my mom just had Covid and I thought she was gonna die. She had to go to the ER had some sort of treatment there and was given meds to take at home. Luckily she has had all the updated shots and is doing well now. Covid is still a thing and I hate that people act like it’s done. I make sure my wife and kids get it every year too
most recent I believe. I’ve gotten “the updated one” every time there has been an update. But, I don’t think they go back and give you a previous version.
Haven’t they identified a specific gene sequence (something in the HLA neighborhood) for which there appears to be some sort of heightened natural immunity? edit: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih...gs suggest that T,it could cause any symptoms.
Yeah I don't think you need to get a "series" of shots anymore, they didn't even write the latest booster on my vaccine card when I got it.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2300644120 At present, there are no criteria to evaluate whether a coronavirus can cause pandemics with severe inflammation or just common colds. We provide a possible answer by considering the virus not only as an infectious agent but as a reservoir of replicated peptide motifs that are not themselves pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) that specifically bind to pattern recognition receptors but are nevertheless capable of drastic immune amplification via self-assembly with PAMPs. We show evidence that viral peptide fragments from SARS-CoV-2 but not harmless coronavirus homologs can “reassemble” with dsRNA into a form of proinflammatory nanocrystalline condensed matter, resulting in cooperative, multivalent immune recognition and grossly amplified inflammatory responses. Someone asked earlier if a mechanism was sussed out to determine whether someone would have very bad covid or sniffles. This could point in such a direction. The viral proteins for covid 19, but not other coronaviruses may be relatively inert until they team up with other infection signals and make the response way way way worse
there is also data emerging related to immunoproteosome genomic differences between people (e.g., HLA and ERAP1 and ERAP 2 differences) that can account for differences in inflammatory responses to SARS-CoV2 and therefore severity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914632/
So the severity of covid 19 disease is (possibly) determined by how much an individuals immune system over responds?
Insofar as the cytokine storm reactions are concerned. I don't recall if the mechanism for the earlier effects of covid were described, like if the found why people's lungs turned in to hamburger. During the delta wave in india, there was a really common and very bad co-infection with like black fungus spores where the only treatment they had was scooping out half your face - where the black mold wouldnt normally innoculate grow so much in their sinuses until that infection. Like, did covid make these peoples' immune reactions less reactive instead? So, like, these papers for over-active immune responses would explain how some people ended up reacting like they were getting septic, but only that