#covid infection

[willowreader]

I was surprised by the results of this study, because the narrative (wherever it came from) has always blamed lockdowns.

[theradicalscholar]

🌡️⚖️ Bacterial Pneumonia: Lessons from the Past, Relevance to COVID-19 🦠🔍

The 1918 influenza pandemic taught us about the significant role of bacterial pneumonia, overshadowing the primary viral infection. This knowledge remains relevant to COVID-19.

🧪 Unveiling the Evidence: Autopsy findings showed that secondary bacterial infections were the primary cause of death during the 1918 pandemic.

⚙️ Viral-Bacterial Interplay: Combining influenza viruses with bacteria led to severe disease, highlighting their synergistic effects.

💡 Pandemic Preparedness: Recognizing the importance of bacterial pneumonia is vital in preparing for future outbreaks. Preventing, diagnosing, and treating bacterial pneumonia should be prioritized.

😷 Finding Balance: While masks are essential in curbing the spread of COVID-19, excessive and indiscriminate usage may have drawbacks. Research has raised concerns about certain mask types potentially increasing respiratory infections.

💪 Navigating Complexity: We need a comprehensive approach that balances mask usage with overall health considerations to create a resilient society.

🌍🤝 Building a Healthier Future: By learning from history, we can prioritize public health, prepare for future pandemics, and minimize unintended consequences. Let's stay vigilant and #StopTheSpread.

[thistlecrimes]

Things I've learned from getting covid for the first time in 2023

I wear an N95 in public spaces and I've managed to dodge it for a long time, but I finally got covid for the first time (to my knowledge) in mid-late November 2023. It was a weird experience especially because I feel like it used to be something everyone was talking about and sharing info on, so getting it for the first time now (when people generally seem averse to talking about covid) I found I needed to seek out a lot of info because I wasn't sure what to do. I put so much effort into prevention, I knew less about what to do when you have it. I'm experiencing a rebound right now so I'm currently isolating. So, I'm making a post in the hopes that if you get covid (it's pretty goddamn hard to avoid right now) this info will be helpful for you. It's a couple things I already knew and several things I learned. One part of it is based on my experience in Minnesota but some other states may have similar programs.

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The World Health Organization states you should isolate for 10 days from first having symptoms plus 3 days after the end of symptoms.

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At the time of my writing this post, in Minnesota, we have a test to treat program where you can call, report the result of your rapid test (no photo necessary) and be prescribed paxlovid over the phone to pick up from your pharmacy or have delivered to you. It is free and you do not need to have insurance. I found it by googling "Minnesota Test to Treat Covid"

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Paxlovid decreases the risk of hospitalization and death, but it's also been shown to decrease the risk of Long Covid. Long Covid can occur even from mild or asymptomatic infections.

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Covid rebound commonly occurs 2-8 days after apparent recovery. While many people associate Paxlovid with covid rebound, researchers say there is no strong evidence that Paxlovid causes covid rebound, and rebounds occur in infections that were not treated with Paxlovid as well. I knew rebounds could happen but did not know it could take 8 days. I had mine on day 7 and was completely surprised by it.

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If you start experiencing new symptoms or test positive again, the CDC states that you should start your isolation period again at day zero. Covid rebound is still contagious. Personally I'd suggest wearing a high quality respirator around folks for an additional 8-9 days after you start to test negative in case of a rebound.

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Positive results on a rapid test can be very faint, but even a very faint line is positive result. Make sure to look at your rapid test result under strong lighting. Also, false negatives are not uncommon. If you have symptoms but test negative taking multiple tests and trying different brands if you have them are not bad ideas. My ihealth tests picked up my covid, my binax now tests did not.

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EDIT: I'd highly suggest spending time with friends online if you can, I previously had a link to the NAMI warmline directory in this post but I've since been informed that NAMI is very much funded by pharmaceutical companies and lobbies for policies that take autonomy away from disabled folks, so I've taken that off of here! Sorry, I had no idea, the People's CDC listed them as a resource so I just assumed they were legit! Feel free to reply/reblog this with other warmlines/support resources if you know of them! And please reblog this version!

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I know that there is so much we can't control as individuals right now, and that's frightening. All we can do is try our best to reduce harm and to care for each other. I hope this info will be able to help folks.

[juliamccartney]

gentle reminder that it's not too late to get into the habit of wearing masks again 😷

[aalt-ctrl-del]

the new variant has drawn concern from me. The variant covid xbb 1.5 has made people - I am uncertain to the vaccine status, but likely unvaxxed - considerably ill. Either that, or it follows the same trace markers delta pursued - impregnating cells throughout prior damaged vascular tissue of epithelial and endothelial cells, where scarring or gouges have been left in prior significant covid infections.

It is an offshoot of omicron, meaning those who have had prior omicron infections should be wary and not fall for the narrative: "immunity of prior infection makes me super resistant." As in the case of the delta surge following the original 19 and its variants, xbb 1.5 may follow prior infections of covid omicron and make those who have had omicron infection sicker than normal.

The vlogger family my mom likes to follow, who work in a mega church following and are closet trump supporters, did make note of how sick they became from an undefined 'illness'. They were basically incapacitated and had to go on antibiotics - which is standard for any infection to this degree. Doctors can prescribe antibiotics over anti-viral agents, especially when there are shortages in supplies of the viral medications. Antibiotics prevent bacterial meningitis, sepsis - from an overflow of damaged and dying cells.

The family has been ill from 19 prior, 2 years ago - of course. Probably unvaxxed, and classified by a risk factor that makes them significantly endangered to the particular strains of covid they carry and spread. And they are prime spreaders - which is a factor of covid adaptation I have included in past reports. The silent hypoxia makes what would be typical introverted or private people, very friendly and overtly outgoing. Sort of like being under the influence of drugs, or altitude sickness.

I have made warning that the father - who is highest risk of the famly despite his age, it likely going to pass due to covid in the coming years. His infections to covid have had an increase risk factor since 19, but he will die for his faith.

As work and people return from the holiday migration, it is vital to mask up. Especially with an anticipated surge in cases from this new pathogen. Covid will never be a benign infection, regardless an individuals health or resilience to infections - covids legacy and relevance is not its rate of maiming nor killing, it is how well it spreads and how illusive it is, even in those who believe they are 'immune' to new variants.

Another note to add is that people keep repeating this mantra - "Covid is only dangerous to high risk individuals". These individuals may not understand the aging process, but at some point or another everyone does become high risk. Keeping covid mainstream to our culture is not a clever way of flexing. In actuality, you do not become "high-risk" by reaching some milestone age point in your lifecycle. Previously unknown health complications can manifest as the body endures, and those risk factors do increase with covid infections - it actively does age individuals.

Look at trump and deathsentence florida man - both have aged 5 decades in only a 6 year period. They look like crap.

Given the few cases I am studying in my spare time, I anticipate a moderate surge in hospitalizations and an increase of infection.

last note - a negative covid test does not indicate a negative infection off covid. It can take two days for the specific antigens of a test kit to detect the antiquate levels of immunity cells essential to determining if covid is present. The recommended take is wear a mask when sick, and then test once more as you begin to recover. This has an accuracy rate of about 75-80%.

Stay safe. Wash your hands. Wear a fucking mask.

[fxaa]

If you have covid symptoms and are testing negative for everything, do not be so confident that what you have is just a cold. Unless you have multiple negative PCR results or confirmation it is something else theres still a pretty good chance its covid, considering the false negative rate on those (their accuracy peaks at 80% and is as low as 0% first day of infection).

If you are sick with anything cold symptom-y at all right now, stay home if you can and please mask up with a well-fitting n95 if you absolutely need to go out. Consider wearing a mask again right now even if you aren't having covid symptoms, to protect yourself and to protect others from asymptomatic transmission, considering we are in the second biggest surge of the pandemic.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

kinda sucks as an immunocompromised & high risk person that i have to deal with people's negative reactions to me masking & refusing to go into crowded places unmasked

because now it's gauche to care about covid

i know humans are social animals but we also have enough cognition to understand when our emotional impulses are at odds with our knowledge of a situation!!

so why after all these studies and statistics is it considered embarrassing to try not to get or spread the single most disabling disease of our time??? a disease that has killed so many people, directly and indirectly??

[wat3rm370n]

Unmasked and making everyone sick.

I’ve been hearing about people showing up to work sick, testing positive for covid, and not wearing a mask and working sick, despite the CDC’s recommendation that people “Stay home and away from others”, and even after feeling better they say to mask when resuming normal activities.

CDC - Respiratory Virus Guidance March 1, 2024 Preventing Spread of Respiratory Viruses When You're Sick When you go back to your normal activities, take added precaution over the next 5 days, such as taking additional steps for cleaner air, hygiene, masks, physical distancing, and/or testing when you will be around other people indoors. This is especially important to protect people with factors that increase their risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses. Keep in mind that you may still be able to spread the virus that made you sick, even if you are feeling better. You are likely to be less contagious at this time, depending on factors like how long you were sick or how sick you were.

All year long I keep hearing stories about people who are actively sick and coughing and refusing to mask in confined spaces like subway trains and crowded workplaces. And even people refusing to mask when asked to by trapped elderly people in airplanes and healthcare settings. This is a very dicey situation with the coming American public health dark age and the threat of bird flu and mask bans.

[citrine-elephant]

still a dog, but uglier!

[theofreakingbell]

wish y'all had the same energy for loving disabled people and treating us like we are worth the trouble of like... masking in public spaces, that u do for hating anti vaxxers and other loud fringe ableists. like right now for most of us anti vaxxers and the like aren't what's killing us, ignorance and apathy around COVID transmission and the ensuing spread is. The virus has evolved so much that being vaccinated no longer means you cannot get or transmit it, and a lot of y'all are walking around none the wiser. (a source if u need one, also acnowledged briefly on the CDC and WHO websites, and has been for multiple years now) If you care about us please try to educate yourself and advocate for better safety measures in your communities, especially in places like hospitals (where death rates are a lot higher bc people's bodies are busy dealing with serious things there, and adding another is a recipe for disaster). you can also donate masks to people who may not be able to afford them if you are able through your local mask bloc, as well as find more hyperlocal info, and free masks and tests if u cannot afford them yourself. Don't just yell at and snark about ableists, show us you care about us! we need your allyship too❤️

[flowerakatsuka]

i've been feeling sick for the past few days, i needed to draw kurokara to heal me.

[willowreader]

2) The main findings are:

About 7% of the patients had at least one repeat COVID-19 infection. Most of these repeat infections happened during the Omicron variant wave.

Patients who HAD a SEVERE INITIAL COVID-19 INFECTION were more likely to also HAVE a SEVERE REPEAT INFECTION.

3) The severity of the two infections was linked.

Patients had lower levels of a protein called albumin leading up to their repeat infection. This suggests lower albumin levels may be an early sign that someone is at risk of getting reinfected.

[puppyeared]

Why are ppl scared to call it what it is and say we’re still going thru covid on top of seasonal illness. Like. That’s pretty important right. I was watching the news and they were like oh yeah we have an unprecedented number of flu cases “as well as other sicknesses” without actually saying Covid. No announcement abt vaccinations or masking or anything. Also if I hear someone joking abt “war flashbacks” for mentioning covid I fucking hate u

[vyctorianbyron]

Covid is still killing more Americans than all opioids combined, each week (2024). We are supposed to "go back to normal" and "don't worry about Covid", despite it having a higher death toll on average. Unlike opioid drugs, Covid can effect literally anyone.

Even the vaccinated are still at some risk of infection, though the new updated shots are much better at preventing breakthrough infections. Why so many in government and the media are willing to ignore the reality of Covid when it's still worse than the opioid crisis is beyond me.

[tossyouforedinburgh]

I love the idea of Aziraphale referring to Crowley as his husband and when Crowley is like "you know we're not actually married" Aziraphale just responding "I know, but I didn't want to waste this nice person's time explaining the entire thing"

[i-amusemyself]