A place to discuss the now-global coronavirus outbreak.
The ones I found are focused on people who were hospitalized and had 12+ weeks of fighting COVID.
I know someone who is likely going through that, whose own doctor encouraged against the vaccine. They've been infected several times and developed heart and cognitive symptoms. I want to cry.
Any doctor who advised patients against receiving a covid vaccination (barring legitimate allergies or edge cases of existing conditions that led to patient safety concerns) should have their license revoked.
You'd strip the South of 2/3 of its medical professionals...
You'd strip the South of 2/3 of its medical "professionals"...
Sarcastic quotes seemed necessary.
Robear wrote:You'd strip the South of 2/3 of its “medical” "professionals"...
Sarcastic quotes seemed necessary.
Indeed.
Maybe we'll get a [News] Measles Pandemic thread in few years. Or maybe even [News] Polio is back! Something to look forward to.
'Extremely annoying': The persistent cough taking over the Bay Area
I turned to Dr. Jahan Fahimi, the medical director of the emergency department at UC San Francisco, to see if he knew anything about the stubborn symptom and how prevalent it had become.“I don’t have any specific data on whether or not this is rising,” he said over the phone. “But I will tell you that anecdotally, a lot of people have been asking me the exact same question.”
In most people, including me, the culprit was a postinfectious cough — essentially one that lasts longer than two or three weeks after an acute upper respiratory infection. When your body is done fighting off the illness, you’re left with lingering mucus and sinus congestion that manifest in the form of postnasal drip or inflammation, which irritate the throat and airways enough to generate a cough that just won’t stop, he said.
“We know that this occurs in, I would say, roughly one in every four colds that people catch,” he said. “And you can certainly expect it to last around three to six weeks … That’s what people are experiencing, and they think something is really wrong, but it’s just that mucus and inflammation.”
Fahimi doesn’t think this phenomenon is necessarily new, but there are a few factors at play that may make it seem unusual. For one, our immunity against viruses has likely changed since the pandemic caused us to isolate from each other and the usual cold viruses we carry.
I've been having this for the past 15 years. After every cold I have a lingering cough that lasts two months. Sometimes I catch another cold before the lingering cough is done. I have always attributed it to my weight though.
Yeah that’s not new…both my daughter and I have this same exact problem. Anytime we catch a cold all the symptoms go away except the nagging cough which sticks around for months.
Happens to me as well. Usually lasts 2 months.
Fluticasone inhalers were the only thing that helped end my son's weeks long coughing sprees.
Nasal lavage (with salt water, distilled water ONLY) can help shut this down. There are kits sold at drug stores.
I was sick three weeks ago; I took three separate COVID tests, all negative. It was gone in a week; I normally have a cold for a couple weeks minimum, so was surprised at how fast this one went away. Still, masked up around the house because the wife was going to Paris and Amsterdam, and didn't want to give her the cold. So, of course, in Paris, she tested positive for COVID. It was an incredibly mild case and she isolated as best she could while double-masking, and she was clear before coming home. Earlier this week, she dumped the trash from the bathroom and, out of curiosity, picked up a COVID test out of the trash, peered closely . . . and there was the faintest of pink lines. So, so, faint.
In all likelihood, I had COVID again a few weeks back, and the viral load was so minimal you had to stare incredibly hard to see the positive result.
i am not saying your wrong, but i don't think tests more then 30 minutes old are considered accurate. weeks is even less accurate. could have been anything bringing that line out. my guess she caught it on the plane.
Oh, I'm aware it's not reliable, but one of the reasons I think it may have been COVID as opposed to just some respiratory thing is how bizarrely quickly it came and went. Every standard cold I get lingers, and this one hit me like a truck and then vanished. I mean, I isolated, masked around my wife, and didn't go anywhere so it's really academic, but symptom-wise and in terms of how long it lasted it really matched her experience getting it, and that of several other people I know who have gotten it lately.
It's really just more amusing anecdote than anything else; I have no idea if I actually had it, but, well, just assuming so for the hell of it.
And your wife could have easily gotten it on the plane or in the airport...
Don't beat yourself up.
I totally understand though. My biggest fear is infecting someone else and having them get severe sickness or die 
COVID-19 linked to global cognitive deficits, equivalent to brain aging by twenty years, study finds
That would certainly explain why folks still want to vote for Trump.
It could have been RSV, I guess. I had one like that about a year ago, and it was running around the service industries in the Mid-Atlantic for at least a month.
That link does not actually lead to the article for some reason, Paleocon. Just another list of Reddit article posts.
Got to enjoy my second bout with COVID this past week. All the boosters made it a lot less severe this time - not so much with the coughing and body aches, mostly just a lot of fatigue - but still not a Good Time (tm).
farley3k wrote:COVID-19 linked to global cognitive deficits, equivalent to brain aging by twenty years, study finds
That would certainly explain why folks still want to vote for Trump.
Ah, I was wondering why I suddenly thought massive corporate tax cuts sounded like a good idea.
Compared to about 100K flu deaths in the same time period, right?
Probably said this 20 pages ago but we will be dealing with this pandemic for years and we hardly know anything about what the long term effects will be.
I'm thinking the saddest thing about that story is that a lot of those kids got long COVID because their parents were idiots.
I'm thinking the saddest thing about that story is that a lot of those kids got long COVID because their parents were idiots.
Just wait till they blame the vaccines even harder!
I don't think calling them idiots is fair. While the vaccine was a tool to get us out of the pandemic and saved lives (I am glad I got it, and my daughter who was 6 months when she got hers), understanding that it is a scary proposition for parents to give their kids something that is perceived by society as experimental, especially when the science of the time said that COVID risks on kids was really really low. I don't think they made the right decision, but I wouldn't call them idiots.
Any parent that weighs society's perception over that of epidemiologists is an idiot.
There was so much misinformation flying around in early 2020 spread by anti-intellectuals. There were fears about the experimental nature of mRNA vaccines, there were fabrications of dire side effects, and there were ridiculous beliefs about mRNA vaccines altering the DNA of recipients.
I'll give you three guesses where most of that nonsense came from, and the first two don't count.
Some parents sent their kids to COVID parties, FFS.
Reading the first few pages of this very topic is a real eye opener. Particularly this comment from gewy about messages on the Nextdoor app.
When waiting to get the latest booster, I overhead part of the Careful Speech my pharmacist was giving a vaccine-shy old dude.
I think they should just recommend to older people that they continue to sit it out. Her emotional labor isn't worth it.
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