Evan
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Wow... Delta is so contagious
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Wow... Delta is so contagious
I had the rapid diagnostic test, also called the rapid molecular test, through Walgreen's. Results could take up to 24 hours but I had mine in about 2 hours. They really could not have made it any easier. I couldn't get a same day appointment but had plenty of options at several locations for next day.
I was likely exposed a week ago and have shown no symptoms. I think I'm good. In the meantime, I'm getting paid to stay home and wait to hear from HR.
I did end up getting a little sick. I felt like I had a pretty bad cold Saturday and buy Sunday morning my left eye was swollen shut. By Sunday evening I was back to about 90% and the same this morning.
I strongly feel like the vaccinations mitigated my reaction to the virus because unvaccinated coworkers had it much worse that me. I highly encourage everyone to get vaccinated.
Man... I am so sorry that you are dealing with this again. You and all you work with are heroes to all you serve and all of us who admire you and appreciate all ya'll do. God BlessWe're practically back to last December before the vaccine was available as far as it goes at the hospital, the numbers have exploded and they may not be statistically as high now as they were then, but we're very understaffed in every department and every job, perhaps with the exception of doctors. There's a serious shortage of nurses, techs, housekeeping (environmental services), transporters, radiology techs, secretaries, registration, etc etc etc.... We're hurting bad, and it was already bad without the current covid surge, now it's terrible. They've been offering +16.50/hr incentive for all overtime and a $500 payout for working 2 extra days within 2 weeks for probably about a year now and hardly anyone is taking it anymore. Major burnout + shortage in staff across the board, it's quite literally a borderline disaster... Now we have a surge of unvaccinated covid-19 patients to deal with as well.
It's back to working in the covid unit wearing an N95 all day. I haven't personally seen a single vaccinated patient get admitted. Seen several unvaccinated with life-threatening pneumonia, blood clots, respiratory failure and dead on arrival. I wish the 66% of Alabama residents who aren't fully vaccinated could experience this pandemic, in that setting, for 1/4th of a day. It's not even the critical patients that would influence them the most, it's that nearly or more than half of the patients aren't just non-vaccinated but they completely disregard the effectiveness of masks so we spend half the day with covid-19 patients constantly pulling down their masks or not wearing it at all and coughing on and at us while we try to care for them, give them medicine, food, toiletries, draw labs, do procedures, check monitors, assess their wellbeing.
I want a third shot so so so bad.
I expect the peaks to be lower, everywhere is starting from a much lower baseline and the amount of immunity present should significantly help.
I'm taking a wait and see approach on "Delta" and how much of an effect it will have on the spread here in the US. We heard the exact same warnings for the UK variant (UK/Alpha/B117) back in the spring, and it became the dominant strain here while the winter wave faded away. Conditions are more favorable in the southern parts of the country during summer than the spring, hence last year's spread and this year's as well, so perhaps with Delta becoming the dominant strain during a favorable time period for spread we'll see a larger than expected bump during the summer.
It's worth noting that the Delta variant is estimated to only be around 35% of cases in the Deep South (as of 10 days ago), where the spread has been most pronounced. In the mountain West region (Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Dakotas), the amount of spread has been less than the south yet the Delta variant makes up over 75% of cases.
Checking in on you Jason... let us know how you are doing. Praying that you are betterI'm on day 9 in the ICU at Redmond in Rome GA. Sunday/Monday a week ago DR's told my family that I might not make it. Double Covid pneumonia is not easy to clear up and I'm still having a difficult time breathing. I have been on a high flow mask receiving 7L of HF oxygen with the machine set on 100%. I have zero pre existing conditions to boot.
My adventures started the Tuesday after July 4th. My wife was diagnosed and I didn't take it serious. 3 days later I had a average high temp of 102+. And health was dwindling fast.
Long of the short, my Wife, her mother and myself have all been admitted to ICU with my stay being the longest so far.
Second that. Hang in there, and thank you for all you do. ❤Man... I am so sorry that you are dealing with this again. You and all you work with are heroes to all you serve and all of us who admire you and appreciate all ya'll do. God Bless
These studies were conducted before the spread of the Delta variant, for which real-world data on asymptomatic infection are still lacking. But lab studies are promising, suggesting mRNA vaccines may inhibit asymptomatic Delta infection, too. Last week, separate groups at New York University and Yale University posted preprints analyzing blood serum from people vaccinated with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Antibodies generated by those vaccines lost little of their potency against the Delta variant.
And Topol notes that a large real-world study from the United Kingdom, published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that the Pfizer vaccine outperformed the Astra Zeneca vaccine at preventing symptomatic infection by the Delta variant that has taken over in that country by 21 points, 88% to 67%.
That substantial margin “likely translates to better suppression of transmission, unlike the similarities for the vaccines in reducing hospitalizations and deaths,” Topol says.
Many scientists suspect the mRNA vaccines outperform others at preventing infection because of the high levels of virus-blocking antibodies, called neutralizing antibodies (nAbs), that they generate.
Not good...
Is the % vaccinated the % of population? Or % of people in hospital? I sure hope it's the former and not the latter
Do you know what the UK's vaccination rate% was back when they were experiencing their peak?