Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[dublinbluenose]

So got a positive covid test today - have been feeling crap for 2 days. I've literally been nowhere for the past 2 weeks other than dropping kids to achool. I've been double jabbed since July. No idea how I got it.

Nightmare - Mrs Dublinbluenose has no symptoms but have to get the kids tested as they're too young for vaccine.

Cases high here the last 3 or 4 weeks so it's everywhere at the moment.

 

[LinekersLegs]

So does that say that previous infection is the best?

As with a lot of things with Covid the re-infection data I’ve seen seems a bit confusing and subject to change!

Overall having both a natural infection plus a vaccine seems to convey the best protection against reinfection although of course that needs to be balanced with the increased hospitalization risk of a natural infection vs vaccine.

@cooperman wow, two vaccines and two infections, your antibodies are hopefully very high now!

Coronavirus Disease 2019

CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.

www.cdc.gov

In today’s MMWR, a study of COVID-19 infections in Kentucky among people who were previously infected with SAR-CoV-2 shows that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus. These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections.

 

[LinekersLegs]

So got a positive covid test today - have been feeling crap for 2 days. I've literally been nowhere for the past 2 weeks other than dropping kids to achool. I've been double jabbed since July. No idea how I got it.

Nightmare - Mrs Dublinbluenose has no symptoms but have to get the kids tested as they're too young for vaccine.

Cases high here the last 3 or 4 weeks so it's everywhere at the moment.

Hope you have a swift recovery mate x

 

[MikeH72]

Haven't heard about this new variant.

Bloody bird flu, swine flu, bin flu, what next.

 

[PhilM]

So got a positive covid test today - have been feeling crap for 2 days. I've literally been nowhere for the past 2 weeks other than dropping kids to achool. I've been double jabbed since July. No idea how I got it.

Nightmare - Mrs Dublinbluenose has no symptoms but have to get the kids tested as they're too young for vaccine.

Cases high here the last 3 or 4 weeks so it's everywhere at the moment.

I hope that you don't get it too bad - hopefully having the vaccine keeps it mild in your case.

My daughter had it a few weeks ago after not going out for a few days, but I'd been in a meeting with four other people three days before, who all tested positive.

Even with a negative PCR and no symptoms myself (I'd had it at the start of the year and vaccinated), I couldn't help but think that perhaps I'd passed it on.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I was told by a friend in Greenwich that it’s about 50/50 on the tube there for mask wearing. Not sure how true that is across the board. Honestly don’t know how people can’t just wear a mask in public transport. Not the hardest thing to do.
I was on a train the other day and when the conductor left the lad in front not only pulled down his mask but purposely pulled down his girlfriends also. Not sure if people think they’re rebelling or something. Was tempted to have a word with him but he looked pretty hard so I just festered then posted about it on here. I win I reckon.

Sounds charming, a real catch.

 

[dublinbluenose]

I hope that you don't get it too bad - hopefully having the vaccine keeps it mild in your case.

My daughter had it a few weeks ago after not going out for a few days, but I'd been in a meeting with four other people three days before, who all tested positive.

Even with a negative PCR and no symptoms myself (I'd had it at the start of the year and vaccinated) I couldn't help but think that perhaps I'd passed it on.

I know - I called into my folks for a few mins a couple of days ago and am worried sick now even tbough they've both had boosters a few weeks ago.

Hoping the kids are all negative so they're not stuck indoors for the next 10 days.

 

[BlueToff]

So got a positive covid test today - have been feeling crap for 2 days. I've literally been nowhere for the past 2 weeks other than dropping kids to achool. I've been double jabbed since July. No idea how I got it.

Nightmare - Mrs Dublinbluenose has no symptoms but have to get the kids tested as they're too young for vaccine.

Cases high here the last 3 or 4 weeks so it's everywhere at the moment.

Probably have been your family passing it on mate.

Hope you feel better soon! If you can book time off work, do so, and just rest. Should only last 4-5 days mate but it can hit you hard, the fatigue I mean.

 

[BlueToff]

Heard yesterday that the UK is one of the only countries in Europe still offering free tests (to the general public en masse).

Is this true?

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[maccavennie]

So got a positive covid test today - have been feeling crap for 2 days. I've literally been nowhere for the past 2 weeks other than dropping kids to achool. I've been double jabbed since July. No idea how I got it.

Nightmare - Mrs Dublinbluenose has no symptoms but have to get the kids tested as they're too young for vaccine.

Cases high here the last 3 or 4 weeks so it's everywhere at the moment.

Hope you recover quickly mate and all the family are well.

 

[Wat Tyler]

What do you think the chances of going to Plan B?

It looked like the cases were going down last 2/3 days but they have gone up a tad today but they said that might be cos they have 3 days worth of wales stats in there because of a delay.
But deaths and hospitalisations are going up

 

[Billy Dean]

Heard yesterday that the UK is one of the only countries in Europe still offering free tests (to the general public en masse).

Is this true?

I think Germany stopped offering this recently. Don't know about the rest of Europe.

 

[BlueToff]

I think Germany stopped offering this recently. Don't know about the rest of Europe.

Fair enough. I find that surprising, thought everywhere would just keep testing and testing.

I imagine there'd be uproar (on here from some but in the wider social media) if the UK stopped offering free tests altogether.

Do you have to be vaccinated/have a negative test result to do stuff in Germany? Maybe the logic is if people have to pay for testing, then they might be more inclined to get vaccinated for a covid pass or whatever?

 

[scratchnsurf]

Fair enough. I find that surprising, thought everywhere would just keep testing and testing.

I imagine there'd be uproar (on here from some but in the wider social media) if the UK stopped offering free tests altogether.

Do you have to be vaccinated/have a negative test result to do stuff in Germany? Maybe the logic is if people have to pay for testing, then they might be more inclined to get vaccinated for a covid pass or whatever?

Call me a cynic but, whilst they may be 'free' in one regard, they aren't actually free and will no doubt actually be paid for through taxation to the firms that make them via some Tory linked middle man getting rich along the way.