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I decided early on to be proactive about COVID and to stay balanced, which has not been easy.
I realized this morning I have not read any of the usual reports by the media about Eastern equine enchephalitis or West Nile disease this summer. Maybe they have gone away this year or aren’t enough of a story to report on.
report when I live about the prevalence of west nile in mosquitoes. not much about EEE or human cases like a couple years ago.
Being healthy, exercise and whole foods certainly won't be a negative, but other factors, that we have no control over, seem to have greater impact.
Such as an increased level CD47 seeming to be a contributing factor to severe covid. While we can't do anything about that, they can develop therapeutics that target such things.
There have been other things similar they found that seems to make the individual more susceptible to severe covid, but generally speaking, the conversations are above my pay grade, and there is nothing I can do with info anyway.
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Well, if you are apolitical but state that you believe in vaccines, you're apparently automagically transformed into a Democrat!
Wonderful word!
My sister who was on the ventilator with COVID is a conservative. She got sick in March, when she was waiting to be able to get a vaccine. She got it from my brother, who didn't believe he would get COVID if he believed he couldn't get COVID. He's not political whatsoever. I doubt he has ever voted.
He had mild symptoms despite a bad heart. She almost died. I know it sounds crazy, but the virus doesn't actually care about the host's politics.
I saw this morning on the national news that new cases are down 18% in the last 2 weeks nationally. Most are now saying we've turned the corner on this latest wave. One of the CEOs (maybe Pfizer) predicts within a few months new cases will be very low, reason being that almost everyone now has already caught it thanks to the Delta variant or been vaccinated and most vaccinated have very mild cases if there is a breakthrough. Other pharma big wigs were saying things will be back to normal by summer of 2022.
I saw this morning on the national news that new cases are down 18% in the last 2 weeks nationally. Most are now saying we've turned the corner on this latest wave. One of the CEOs (maybe Pfizer) predicts within a few months new cases will be very low, reason being that almost everyone now has already caught it thanks to the Delta variant or been vaccinated and most vaccinated have very mild cases if there is a breakthrough. Other pharma big wigs were saying things will be back to normal by summer of 2022.
In local Boston news, Harvard Business School moving classes back online due to a new covid spike. I assume that vaccine boosters will be approved eventually for international travel, and I would get a booster if it were available for a healthy 61 year old (I guess 62 by the time international travel becomes possible).
In local Boston news, Harvard Business School moving classes back online due to a new covid spike. I assume that vaccine boosters will be approved eventually for international travel, and I would get a booster if it were available for a healthy 61 year old (I guess 62 by the time international travel becomes possible).
Localized outbreaks in schools don't really mean very much except one person had it and it spread to others. It happens everywhere.
Localized outbreaks in schools don't really mean very much except one person had it and it spread to others. It happens everywhere.
Right, one person has it, and spreads it to others, and it happens everywhere. It is called an epidemic (schools are not rare, and students are young active folks who interact with many people inside and outside of their school). On the contrary, an outbreak of something in school has very little chance of staying localized. Vaccines do not reliably prevent transmission of the virus, particularly not delta, as good as they are in preventing critical illness.
I saw this morning on the national news that new cases are down 18% in the last 2 weeks nationally. Most are now saying we've turned the corner on this latest wave. One of the CEOs (maybe Pfizer) predicts within a few months new cases will be very low, reason being that almost everyone now has already caught it thanks to the Delta variant or been vaccinated and most vaccinated have very mild cases if there is a breakthrough. Other pharma big wigs were saying things will be back to normal by summer of 2022.
A national number is very much like talking about an "average" person. IOW, a national number doesn't fit any specific location.
From the beginning, Covid has been about the local experience. Remember when NYC was ovewhelmed, even had a federal hospital ship parked there "just in case" and the heartland had few cases?
We all hope some point will come where people stop dying, stop getting long covid. How will we get there, though, and when? And where? And for how long will we be one mutation away, of a bug that escapes existing immunity, taking us right back to the beginning?
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