Coronavirus (home, living, vs.)

[sav858]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Please read the original post, which referred to lockdowns.

You mean the one that mentioned masks and mask mandates too? What is your point?

[CA4Now]

“If your test turns out to be positive after five days, don’t be upset because the majority of people still test positive until at least Day 7, to Day 10 even,” Dr. Clayton Chau, director of the Orange County Health Care Agency, said during a briefing Thursday. “So that’s the majority. That’s the norm.”

Why some Californians are testing positive for so long after infection:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...than-you-think

[goodheathen]

Mild? Maybe not.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/...f-e2b4dc2fdb79

[cleosmom]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

Mild? Maybe not.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/...f-e2b4dc2fdb79

I thought anecdotes weren't your wheelhouse

[goodheathen]

When that's all we're likely to ever get, I will take it. It is better than anecdotes from anonymous Internet strangers. It's long been clear to me that many non-severe cases aren't mild, even in fully vaccinated, reasonably healthy, non-elderly people, and I haven't heard any respected medical personnel disputing that, even re breakthrough infections. I say it wouldn't make sense that there's little middle ground between mild infections and the cases that are still putting many people in the hospital.

[cleosmom]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

When that's all we're likely to ever get, I will take it. It is better than anecdotes from anonymous Internet strangers. It's long been clear to me that many non-severe cases aren't mild, even in fully vaccinated, reasonably healthy, non-elderly people, and I haven't heard any respected medical personnel disputing that, even re breakthrough infections. I say it wouldn't make sense that there's little middle ground between mild infections and the cases that are still putting many people in the hospital.

So an opinion in a rag has more validation because you see a picture than folks here in this forum? That makes zero sense! Both of my husband's parents, who are in their early 90s, had Covid last year and both are still alive and well today. Why? Because of no comorbidities, but more due to the power of prayer. Before you ask, yes they both got their jabs and wore masks.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by cleosmom

I thought anecdotes weren't your wheelhouse

It's called confirmation bias.

[cleosmom]

Originally Posted by joosoon

It's called confirmation bias.

That's what I was thinking!

[sav858]

Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu?

Death rates, or case fatality ratios, reflect the number of reported deaths as a percentage of known cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an estimated 29 million flu illnesses and 28,000 deaths nationally in 2018-19, a death rate of 0.1%. For the season before that, there were 41 million flu-related illnesses and 52,000 deaths, a rate of 0.13%.

Lemp said California Department of Public Health data show that California’s COVID-19 death rate early in the pandemic, from February 2020 to May 2021, was 1.7% overall and dropped to 1.11% when the delta variant hit from July to December 2021.

When the even more transmissible omicron variant BA.1 hit from December through February, the rate fell to 0.34%. The most recent data with the omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 from June and July show a rate of 0.38%.

That’s still about three times deadlier than the official flu rates for recent pre-COVID seasons. But Lemp noted that many people use rapid at-home antigen test kits and don’t report the results, so experts estimate true case numbers likely are two to four times higher.

That would conservatively put the death rates from the current omicron BA.5 variant around 0.19%, a more flu-like level, he said. Though death rates are progressively higher with age, they have declined in all age groups.

[Carpenter858]

Originally Posted by sav858

Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu?

Death rates, or case fatality ratios, reflect the number of reported deaths as a percentage of known cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an estimated 29 million flu illnesses and 28,000 deaths nationally in 2018-19, a death rate of 0.1%. For the season before that, there were 41 million flu-related illnesses and 52,000 deaths, a rate of 0.13%.

Lemp said California Department of Public Health data show that California’s COVID-19 death rate early in the pandemic, from February 2020 to May 2021, was 1.7% overall and dropped to 1.11% when the delta variant hit from July to December 2021.

When the even more transmissible omicron variant BA.1 hit from December through February, the rate fell to 0.34%. The most recent data with the omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 from June and July show a rate of 0.38%.

That’s still about three times deadlier than the official flu rates for recent pre-COVID seasons. But Lemp noted that many people use rapid at-home antigen test kits and don’t report the results, so experts estimate true case numbers likely are two to four times higher.

That would conservatively put the death rates from the current omicron BA.5 variant around 0.19%, a more flu-like level, he said. Though death rates are progressively higher with age, they have declined in all age groups.

Or even less than the flu. My 82 year old mother tested positive and had a runny nose and was nauseous the first day. Next day she was exercising with no symptoms. She has a propensity to get blood clots, but Covid was nothing for her. Twice vaxxed and said no way she's getting any booster. Since being vaxxed, she's had a few colds which she had never got before. Tested negative for Covid each time. Colds were worse for her than this latest Covid a couple weeks ago.