Coronavirus All Purpose Thread: moving on?

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

I believe UK was saying that over 10% of all their infections currently are people who had Omicron in the past 90 days so it's somewhat common with this strain.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rise-c...ry?id=83809079

Isn't that 90+ days?

Provisional data shows that, as of the week ending March 20, 2022, laboratory-confirmed reinfections -- two positive tests taken more than 90 days apart -- have surpassed 50,000 per week in England, 10.7% of all cases, according to a weekly report from the U.K. Health Security Agency published Thursday.

That would presumably include anyone who had OG/Alpha/Delta in the past and then had an Omicron infection.

[peter12]

So to be fair, my reinfection is past the 90 day mark.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by peter12

Slept 11 hours, woke up feeling like I had a bad cold. Definitely a fever, chills, and dry cough. Feeling pretty damn tired too. Thank god scientists for the vaccines.

fixed.

[CroFlames]

Is this newest wave still Omicron or has a new variant emerged? I have to admit, I have 100% checked out of Covid news and have been living life normally.


I've been traveling very regularly since Dec 1 to the US and so I have been tested regularly including NAAT and PCR. No hits.

I'm surprised I haven't had it yet because in the US, many places have been mask free much long than us.

[ZedMan]

The current uptick looks to be caused by a more contagious sub-variant of Omicron.

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Is this newest wave still Omicron or has a new variant emerged? I have to admit, I have 100% checked out of Covid news and have been living life normally.

Different variant of Omicron (BA.2 vs. the earlier BA.1 variant). The consensus seemed to be that infection from BA.1 would protect against BA.2 quite well, but that might not be the case for everyone.

I've been traveling very regularly since Dec 1 to the US and so I have been tested regularly including NAAT and PCR. No hits.

I'm surprised I haven't had it yet because in the US, many places have been mask free much long than us.

Yeah, somehow I've avoided it too (unless I've caught it asymptomatically) despite a fair number of likely exposures and spending about 1/3rd of the Omicron period in the US where restrictions were less stringent than in Canada until recently.

[sa226]

We have been very careful for 2 plus years with a 2 year old and a 6 month old at home. It came to the point where it was time to open things up a bit. My wife was going back to work and I travel for work. We luckily got our oldest into daycare pretty quickly.

With our daycare (and I would assume others as well) they do about 4-5 day adjustment period where the parents stay around for 1 day to help them adjust etc. On day 1, we had him there for 90mins just as a nice little intro. Bam, COVID.

Went through everybody. the 2 yr old had to be taken to childrens for breathing issues, but wasn't admitted or anything.

Complete speculation and anecdotal symptoms but we're wondering if we had BA.2 as our symptoms lined up more with the reportedly more common symptoms of BA.2

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by opendoor

Different variant of Omicron (BA.2 vs. the earlier BA.1 variant). The consensus seemed to be that infection from BA.1 would protect against BA.2 quite well, but that might not be the case for everyone.

Yeah, somehow I've avoided it too (unless I've caught it asymptomatically) despite a fair number of likely exposures and spending about 1/3rd of the Omicron period in the US where restrictions were less stringent than in Canada until recently.

There is a subset of people who have never gotten COVID and may never get COVID (some have even avoided getting it in challenge trials). This is an interesting article on it:

https://businesstech.co.za/news/life...ing-the-virus/

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

There is a subset of people who have never gotten COVID and may never get COVID (some have even avoided getting it in challenge trials). This is an interesting article on it:

https://businesstech.co.za/news/life...ing-the-virus/

Other studies suggest blood types could be a factor.

The authors found that individuals with type O blood were less likely to contract SARS-CoV-2 compared with non–type O blood groups (ARR = 0.88; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.84–0.92). Rhesus (Rh)-negative individuals were also less likely to be diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 (ARR = 0.79; 95% CI, 0.73–0.85).

Study of blood types for Covid-19

[calgaryred]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Other studies suggest blood types could be a factor.







Study of blood types for Covid-19

My wife is type 0 she got covid alot worse than me and im type A, guess depends the person.

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[Buff]

I have a family member who missed a family event last week due to having Covid. They also missed a family event near the end of February due to having Covid. Oh, and they missed Christmas because they had... Covid!

...maybe I need to go to post this in the Morons thread?

I guess if you don't want to be around family and you potentially lie about, then no loss to the family?

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by opendoor

Different variant of Omicron (BA.2 vs. the earlier BA.1 variant). The consensus seemed to be that infection from BA.1 would protect against BA.2 quite well, but that might not be the case for everyone.

Yeah, somehow I've avoided it too (unless I've caught it asymptomatically) despite a fair number of likely exposures and spending about 1/3rd of the Omicron period in the US where restrictions were less stringent than in Canada until recently.

I mean do we unfurl the Mission Accomplished banner on a carrier now?

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by opendoor

Yeah, somehow I've avoided it too (unless I've caught it asymptomatically) despite a fair number of likely exposures and spending about 1/3rd of the Omicron period in the US where restrictions were less stringent than in Canada until recently.

We've avoided it too. Especially funny since my wife and I now treat it completely differently yet have the same outcome. She still double-masks going into virtually every building, I go out and do whatever I want and don't even carry mine with me unless I'm going to the doctor. Both of us have either never caught it, or been asymptomatic if we have. Both of us have our three shots, too.

[peter12]

Well really three days into this bastard and my symptoms are already improving. I can only say that these vaccines really do work!

[Barnes]

My son's been sick for two days but testing negative. Little bit of a sore throat, cough, and stomach issues. Wife and I feel fine.

C'mon positive test, we got #### to do next week.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Barnes

My son's been sick for two days but testing negative. Little bit of a sore throat, cough, and stomach issues. Wife and I feel fine.

C'mon positive test, we got #### to do next week.

Or, y'know, he has a cold. Or the regular flu. That sh-t didn't go away.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Or, y'know, he has a cold. Or the regular flu. That sh-t didn't go away.

A cold is certainly a possibility but the flu has been decimated

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/influen...cs.htm#summary

1/10th the cases of non pandemic yearsb but up from 0 last year.

[GordonBlue]

A lady at my work said she caught Covid only a month after previously getting it.

[GreenLantern2814]

I’ve noticed in the last month the degree of separation has shifted from “a friend of a colleague of a family member’s friend got COVID” to “my friend got COVID” or “my wife got COVID” or “our friends and their one year old got COVID” or “all the moms in our healthy birth choices group chat and their babies have had COVID”.

Absolutely ####ed.

[Cowboy89]

Calgary volunteer fair paused their plans for an in-person fair on April 30 citing rising covid cases. This seems like a massive overreaction given that workplaces are now returning to the office, Flames games are running at full capacity etc.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-v...bers-1.5850624