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I have the sore throat / runny nose thing that I'd normally associate with some sort of "cold". Despite twice testing negative for Covid I'm going to assume the tests are shit and behave as if they were positive anyway.
I think I have had worse hayfever. Luckily it was just a small infrequent cough but took a week before being negative. I'm in the at risk group too.
OH's works party in spain seems to have resulted in a covid outbreak at her work. Most only found out because they've tested so a lot of superspreading now (if you're not symptomatic chances are you wont test). Seems to be a lot more superspreaders with this latest variant so going to be a big wave so to speak.
My youngest (15) has just received their booster yesterday. I have no idea what the plan is for vaccinations going forward from here... are we just accepting waning and doing little about it for the majority of us... just topping up the elderly and those apparently more at risk? Vaccinations is something we've mostly got right up to now (ignoring the nonsense about conflating that with Brexit by a government looking hard for benefits of that process)... without anyone holding the governments feet to the fire... will they consider it job done mass vaccination wise?
MoreCashThanDash
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I’m not a Tour rider, but it’s finally caught up with me.
Only just read this. Get well soon matey and fingers crossed the rest of your family dodge it.
I have no idea what the plan is for vaccinations going forward from here… are we just accepting waning and doing little about it for the majority of us… just topping up the elderly and those apparently more at risk?
My wife just had her 4th vaccination yesterday (recovering cancer patient).
Hope that goes well. I also know people receiving and expecting further boosters for age or medical reasons, I was just wondering out loud about what we'll be doing/offering the rest of the population, as existing protection wanes and new variants continue to show up.
I should have had my 4th by now but was saving it for autumn as I have no idea what the government is planning. Should just be included as a flu shot. Hope so and a lot cheaper than lockdowns.
My booster was in November so at it's limit now and covid really wasnt anything to write home about for me.
There is supposedly an Omicron-specific jab coming for the autumn, but I think the strategy will depend on what type is floating around at that point. We seem to have had multiple waves of Omicron variants now, so who knows what the cumulative level of population immunity will be in terms of serious disease/hospitalisation? Omicron seems to have this remarkable ability to present with ever more transmissible variants, so would a resurgence of Delta be able to outcompete it?
I guess the key measurement will be the rise in hospitalisations for the current wave given that immunity is waning a little from the previous boosters.
My booster was last June. sadly the attention span of both Boris and the media has moved on.
Wow. Mine was November and I'm thinking the efficacy of that will be diminishing daily.
Latest research in the Lancet looked at vaccine protection over time.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00146-3/fulltext
The evidence suggests that the thing you really want, protection against serious illness/hospitalisation etc, is not falling off a cliff even after several months.
So hopefully although you may be more likely to get infected, be symptomatic, you are not necessarily more likely to need medical intervention after the same period post-vaccine.
Bloody hell, round two for me!
Got me yesterday, post a ride felt like I'd ridden 200 miles on mtb not 40 and low and behold cough, hot and cold shuffle and a positive test. Oh well .. had done well to avoid it for so long I guess.
I have the sore throat / runny nose thing that I’d normally associate with some sort of “cold”. Despite twice testing negative for Covid I’m going to assume the tests are shit and behave as if they were positive anyway
Yeah that was me last week! Felt very similar to when I had covid before, plus I'd been in contact with someone who tested positive, so I self isolated
Just had my last ONS swab test and came back negative. Last month my last blood test produced a higher antibody result. My booster was just before Christmas.
And another first-timer here!
Stayed entirely COVID free until my first work trip to Germany in over two years last weekend.
Back home late Friday night (feeling pretty normal) and then full-on flu-like symptoms by Saturday morning.
I blame the 6 hour wait I had in Schiphol - despite finding a quiet empty corner away from people to plonk myself in.
Feeling much better already, but still producing very angry-looking test results!
A Life Scientific on Radio4 this morning was with Landray, so lots on the Recovery trials… (warning, also contains Morris Dancing content)…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0018ns0
It’s hit the Lister household after getting this far without it.
All my fault; I either got it in a very hot and crowded gig in Bristol or from hospital when I was having my shoulder put back in the right place.
Tested positive on the Saturday afternoon but today has been really bad; just no energy and snoozing all the time. Taste and smell have gone completely.
MrsL also has it and is wiped out but so far both teenagers are clear. I’m sure it’ll only be a matter of time though…
We’ll see a wave of BA4/5. Hospitalisation rate is about 1% of cases, which is at least 5x lower than previously. How much of that is strain, and how much is immunity, is moot. The covid dashboard will soon be updated only weekly, living with covid, but you can see the rise in admissions and on a log scale, it’s about the same rate as omicron. 1000 admissions per day currently.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England
Argh this bloody cough!!!
Wales me up. 4/5am. Dry, tickly and bloody annoying. Even more so to my poor wife who's telling me I need to go see a gp today. No arguments.
Trouble is, I'm in Paris so it'll just be a random doc I've never met. We're not back home until Sept. What's a GP likely to offer, on a one-off appt?
What's the GP going to say, there isn't any GP prescribed treatment, unless you've got serious symptoms (then it's hospital time) stay home and don't risk infecting more people.
Infecting more people with my cough? Err... OK. This has been going on for a few weeks now. What people seem to be suggesting as "long" covid.
(not covid +ve by the way) More residual symptom than current diagnosis.
"We’ll see a wave of BA4/5. Hospitalisation rate is about 1% of cases,”
is that 1% of reported cases or 1% of the weekly ONS survey cases?
there must be plenty of unreported and unknown cases out there with little or no symptoms.
I was on a shoot on Friday and the set stylist had covid twice, both times with zero symptoms and only picked up by testing by the production company before a shoot commences.
‘there’s a lot of it about’ as they say..
is that 1% of reported cases or 1% of the weekly ONS survey cases?
I think (delays in reporting are more confusing than ever) hospitalisations are running at about 7% of reported cases... but as you say, the reported cases figure isn't as meaningful as it was while we were testing far more.
I still think this will lead to additional complications for those elderly with complex health issues. MIL caught it about 3 months ago, recovered OK, but then had recurring issues with pneumonia - mild, but enough for trips to hospital and anti-biotics which 'didn't agree with her' - it got progressively worse until a month ago where we had to decide to stop invasive treatment (IV anti-biotics, saline and blood transfusion). She passed a week later (horrendous watching her slowly die).
I think it's still serious enough to be a big problem for those suffering CV illness already, and it's not going away.
If you look at hospitalisation rates on travelling tabby it looks like a wave is coming. Particularly Scotland. New variant combined with complete relaxation of restrictions/ inhibitions?
Really sorry to hear that fossy. Thoughts with you and yours.
Really sorry to hear that my friend.
Resigned to the fact that whilst Covid is still so prevalent that I'll be wearing masks, limiting my interactions for the foreseeable now. Recently a simple UTI put mum in a bad place so goodness knows what Covid could do. I'm utterly exhausted by it all now.
My condolences Fossy.
So, I had a small tickly cough yesterday that’s developed into a proper tickly cough, mild head and neck ache, and my lungs have a very slight dull aches to them today. I have an resting HR of 63 - up from 47 - over the last few days However, I’ve tested negative.
I’m praying this doesn’t end my MTB race entry on Sunday, so far I’m 1 for 3 and some hard training this year could be about to go down the tubes. Still, that’s a first world issue.
1% of reported cases or 1% of the weekly ONS survey cases?
It's 1% of At Risk patients. One can estimate the ONS rate and convert to at risk patients (elderly, overweight, immunocompromised...). Previously it was about 2% of reported cases, but cases are now unreliable. Real World Evidence observational studies have confirmed this rate too for later strains. For WT it was about 6% of at risk patients.
From relatives that have caught it, you are most at risk indoors/confined places where you are with the same people for a period of time - e.g. airport/flights and long rail travel. All have caught it after these.
Mrs100th just tested positive. Guess when my holidays start, yep tomorrow. Round 1 hit me pretty hard don't fancy another round.
Surprisingly air travel, as long as passengers wear masks and follow the necessary precautions, is apparently actually low covid transmission risk
https://www.iata.org/en/youandiata/travelers/health/low-risk-transmission/
I'm pretty confident my recent COVID infection was picked up on a flight! If not the plane (full of people coughing their tits off) then the queue for passport control where we snaked back and forth past people coughing their tits off.
Hospital I work at is reintroducing face masks as of today, they got rid of them about 4 weeks ago.
When you're sitting on plane, with the engines running (they power the ventilation) is low risk, but check-in queues etc will be high risk.
Sadly masks on flights has nearly disappered.
When you’re sitting on plane, with the engines running (they power the ventilation) is low risk, but check-in queues etc will be high risk.
In general if passengers or crew are on board at the moment the air conditioning will be running.
If you're going to catch COVID it'll be on the way to the airport or at security.
Covid positive first timer here tonight.
Felt bit tired this morning but ok, by lunchtime quite a painful headache right above the eyes, then by early evening completely wiped out with lachey knees and shoulders, red raw throat, and minor tickly cough.
LFT tonight went positive within 1 minute of adding the sample!
I've attended 3 public meetings as part of work during the past week so am certain it is from one of those.
Flu season down under. We’re back to high level PPE in hospitals now, although restrictions on visitors have been relieved. All people still have to wear masks on hospital premises.
Sadly masks on flights has nearly disappered.
I flew with Ryanair over the weekend and they insisted on masks at Stansted, no such insistence at Barcelona. Many masks were lowered after take off.
Besides that, I’ve now full on coughing, fatigue sore throat and a Garmin body battery that hasn’t been above 5 since Monday, todays test will be in an hour or so. If it’s not Covid I definitely have some kind of full on chest infection. Guess I’m saying goodbye to Sundays National Marathon MTB.
Positive. Oh well, there’s a lot of sport on telly this weekend….
That sucks, hope you're feeling better soon. It's better that you get the positive now rather than feel slightly better and risk competing on Sunday, and totally screw yourself. Rest up.
Just back from hols (Malta). A lot more masks in airport/on plane coming back. On the way out, me, my wife and about 2 others. We bought proper FFP2 masks for this trip. Being asthmatic, I really don't want to catch it. Have had the tickly cough/cold symptoms for a couple of weeks now, but LFTs remain negative.
What struck me on the plane was how many people were coughing/sniffing and not even putting their hand to their mouths. I was very glad to have the mask on.
i had it for the first time at start of june - mrs 2nd time
we went a party and sat on a table with 6 other friends on a saturday night then back to a house with them all after - by tuesday 3 had tested positive and then me and another friend 2 days later - so out of our group of 8- 6 of us tested positive within 3-5 days
felt fairly rough and had a couple days off work - luckily it fell on the bank holiday weekend so i had 4 full days feeling crap and sofa ridden all the days, but then just felt pretty much back to normal after that - mrs had cold like symptoms (shes had it before) and same with everyone else
it wiped me out, but luckily at no point i felt any more ill than mild flu , not nice but not as bad as id imagined, thankfully all of us triple jabbed (got to assume this has helped) and none of us any form of breathing difficulties at all (ive and 2 others have asthma)
was back on the bike by about 2 days after starting work, and felt fine, a little laboured but no worse than ive felt after having a cold in winter
it spreads very very easily once your around someone who is infected and or close contact, if your in a household with some one with it you'll be very very very very lucky not to pick it up (especially if you have not had it before)
i was still testing/showing positive on a LFT after day 13 which seemed odd, give everyone was clear after day ~5ish - i gave up checking and wasting tests after day 13
im glad to get a good dose of it out the way, least can kinda relax abit more going on holiday this year, and same with mrs given both had it at the same time
dantsw13
Free Member
Sadly masks on flights has nearly disappered.
Depends on who you fly with. Have just flown UK to BCN, BCN to Ibiza and Ibiza to Paris and all flights advised mask still need to be worn as we boarded. What I'm definitely not seeing is and need to show proof of vaccination ANYWHEWRE I've been since March (including leaving Aus, arriving in UK and leaving UK to Europe).