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COVID numbers exploded over XMAS - 23K in GA in 3 days. Omicron is battering the South now. One of our sister hospitals has 20% of its staff out due to exposures or positives. Now comes the 5-day wait to retest.
 
Yes, lots of speculation; there hasn't been enough time or data to make solid scientific conclusions. But the increase in cases here in NY has been quite remarkable:

I just recently was talking to a friend who's a high-level manager at Cornell University; the big spike in new cases last week in Tompkins County was due entirely to Cornell students who were attending off-campus gatherings. Cornell has strict rules about student gatherings on-campus and the case rate in Tompkins county has been relatively low until lately, but the rate had jumped from typically only a dozen a day to hundreds a day just prior to the Christmas holiday. So while previous variants had been most infectious to middle-age and older people, Omicron is much quicker to infect the younger generations.
 
Pete.D said:
Yes, lots of speculation; there hasn't been enough time or data to make solid scientific conclusions. But the increase in cases here in NY has been quite remarkable:

I just recently was talking to a friend who's a high-level manager at Cornell University; the big spike in new cases last week in Tompkins County was due entirely to Cornell students who were attending off-campus gatherings. Cornell has strict rules about student gatherings on-campus and the case rate in Tompkins county has been relatively low until lately, but the rate had jumped from typically only a dozen a day to hundreds a day just prior to the Christmas holiday. So while previous variants had been most infectious to middle-age and older people, Omicron is much quicker to infect the younger generations.
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Yes. We have a large group of 5000 students returning after the New Year. I am worried.
 
rocketsaway said:
Funny, just read an article, related to S Africa study stating the opposite. More contagious, less milder cases. Whatever..
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The point of the article is that there is no evidence that the infections are milder. In fact the evidence is to the contrary. The only thing we know is that there are less admissions, but can we truly say that at week 2?
 
From the way it reads, everybody is going to contract the Omicron variant eventually.
It doesn't seem to matter whether you have or haven't been vaccinated, you will get it.
Some people will die from it, but most won't.
Whether being vaccinated will or won't improve your odds of not dying from Omicron is yet to be determined.
Having contracted Omicron once doesn't appear to immunize you from contracting it again . . . and again . . . and again.
If that is indeed the case, then does each new case you suffer from increase your chances of dying?
If so, this is going to get ugly real fast unless we can produce a true vaccine for Covid19 in all its variants.
 
boomtube-mk2 said:
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If that is indeed the case, then does each new case you suffer from increase your chances of dying?
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Or, does each new case you suffer strengthen your immune system to effectively make this another "cold" causing Corona? I dunno, just positing a thought.
 
boomtube-mk2 said:
From the way it reads, everybody is going to contract the Omicron variant eventually.
It doesn't seem to matter whether you have or haven't been vaccinated, you will get it.
Some people will die from it, but most won't.
Whether being vaccinated will or won't improve your odds of not dying from Omicron is yet to be determined.
Having contracted Omicron once doesn't appear to immunize you from contracting it again . . . and again . . . and again.
If that is indeed the case, then does each new case you suffer from increase your chances of dying?
If so, this is going to get ugly real fast unless we can produce a true vaccine for Covid19 in all its variants.
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We really don't know. They think it will be milder.
 
mo2872 said:
Or, does each new case you suffer strengthen your immune system to effectively make this another "cold" causing Corona? I dunno, just positing a thought.
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Maybe. Maybe there won't be another variant of concern.
 
cwbullet said:
Maybe. Maybe there won't be another variant of concern.
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It‘s the maybes I hate most about this……maybe it will fizzle out……maybe we’ll find a better treatment…..maybe, maybe, maybe. Ugh. My frustration is showing, apologies.
 
I had Covid, got vaccinated with both doses. I believe we will experience side effects like this. I am prone to bronchitis, a z-pac will knock it out by the time I am finished the antibiotics. Not any more. I am slowly getting better since Thanksgiving. The long term effects of both the virus itself and the vaccine will take a year or so to know. My pastor has had Covid, vaccinated, got the Omnicron variant and has a worse time this time around.
 
Were getting over it. My wife, myself and 12 year old daughter all got it and tested positive about 2 weeks ago. Our son was forced to get vaccinated because he works as a DOD contractor, he's been staying at his girlfriends house. Took a few Tylenols. None of us are vaccinated. It was a big #nothingburger for us. Daughter got over it quickly. Doc said that the hospitals around here are admitting folks that don't need to be in the hospital because they get paid more and full hospitals mean more money. I trust him, he's been our GP and a good friend for 35 years. I've had a good life, when it's my time to go, it's my time to go.
 
Question: What is the definition of fully vaccinated, and has that changed?
Used to mean two jabs of Pfizer or Moderna or one of J & J.
Does it now include the booster shot?
Actually two questions:
Pfizer has said that their preliminary study shows that people who received all three shots of their vaccine are fairly well protected against Omicron. Something like 70 or 80% IIRC.
Whereas those who only got two shots were 20 or 30% effectively protected.
So what do you think our policy should be: Full speed ahead with an Omicron specific vaccine or pushing for booster shots of the original vaccine?
 
I got the Moderna booster Monday. No huge side effects so far compared to the previous shots. Although I did feel a little warm in the wee hours of this morning. Pharmacist said it was half the dose of the first two.
 
Wife and I both got Pfizer 2 shot back in the June time frame. She got the Moderna booster on Sunday and felt bad-ish on Monday, decent on Tuesday and fine today. I got a Moderna booster today and expect to feel bad tomorrow, but we'll see.

One thing I noted was the way the injection was delivered. The first 2 Pfizer shots were 300mg and they stuck the needle in, squeezed and the needle was out in under 2 seconds. Today, I got the 250mg of Moderna and the needle was in my arm for 9 seconds. I can only give good time estimates and I practice counting time due to work and needles make me feel 'icky' so I look away and start counting to keep my brain busy once I feel the needle.

Is there any reason 2 injections seemed fast and this one took so long?

Sandy.
 
BABAR said:
Strongly disagree.

the ideal is both are the same person.
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Sort of agree. Your wife should be your friend.

drgarymartinez said:
I had Covid, got vaccinated with both doses. I believe we will experience side effects like this. I am prone to bronchitis, a z-pac will knock it out by the time I am finished the antibiotics. Not any more. I am slowly getting better since Thanksgiving. The long term effects of both the virus itself and the vaccine will take a year or so to know. My pastor has had Covid, vaccinated, got the Omnicron variant and has a worse time this time around.
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Some do have worse infections. We're still understanding omicron.
 
kuririn said:
Question: What is the definition of fully vaccinated, and has that changed?
Used to mean two jabs of Pfizer or Moderna or one of J & J.
Does it now include the booster shot?
Actually two questions:
Pfizer has said that their preliminary study shows that people who received all three shots of their vaccine are fairly well protected against Omicron. Something like 70 or 80% IIRC.
Whereas those who only got two shots were 20 or 30% effectively protected.
So what do you think our policy should be: Full speed ahead with an Omicron specific vaccine or pushing for booster shots of the original vaccine?
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No change to the definition of fully vaccinated but I think it will. It is 2 of the mRNAs and 1 of the J&J.

For Omicron, Booster shots protect 48% or so for infections and 80% against serious infection (varies based on the study). Prior COVID infection is about 19% for omicron.

No date on vaccines but they are working on both a Delta and Omicron. I have not heard anything on a combined vaccine.
 
Sandy H. said:
Wife and I both got Pfizer 2 shot back in the June time frame. She got the Moderna booster on Sunday and felt bad-ish on Monday, decent on Tuesday and fine today. I got a Moderna booster today and expect to feel bad tomorrow, but we'll see.

One thing I noted was the way the injection was delivered. The first 2 Pfizer shots were 300mg and they stuck the needle in, squeezed and the needle was out in under 2 seconds. Today, I got the 250mg of Moderna and the needle was in my arm for 9 seconds. I can only give good time estimates and I practice counting time due to work and needles make me feel 'icky' so I look away and start counting to keep my brain busy once I feel the needle.

Is there any reason 2 injections seemed fast and this one took so long?

Sandy.
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Probably just technique.
 
Huge bump today - record spike in US and Georgia. More cases than any one day prior. I knew it was coming but this is bigger than expected. CDC says they over-estimated the number of omicron and unestimated Delta numbers in recent days. We will determine what that means.
 
If you have recently gotten a booster (Sunday) and find out you had fairly close contact on Monday with someone who tested positive on Wednesday, is it still valid to try to get a test on Friday or is the test less valid due to the booster? I'm asking for a friend. . . :(

Sandy.
 
Sandy H. said:
If you have recently gotten a booster (Sunday) and find out you had fairly close contact on Monday with someone who tested positive on Wednesday, is it still valid to try to get a test on Friday or is the test less valid due to the booster? I'm asking for a friend. . . :(

Sandy.
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Vaccination won't cause false positive test results.
 
Marc_G said:
Vaccination won't cause false positive test results.
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Very true.

The numbers keep skyrocketring. 17K in GA. US keeps a similar pace. In 3 hours, one site with a single physician and staff tested 130 patients.
 
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