Oh man I never even thought about the regular old flu. Not having fever or body aches, but with my 7yo testing positive two weeks ago it only makes sense that I would be at risk for catching it.
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Well I'm glad to know it's just something going around and not actually TB...
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As someone who has terrible muscle and joint pain attributed to COVID, I'll take it.Covid-19 vaccine study links side effects with greater antibody response | CNN
People who reported experiencing side effects to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines such as fever, chills or muscle pain tended to have a greater antibody response following vaccination, according to new research.
Interesting
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I envision this quickly becoming a similar thing to our current annual flu shots. Sometimes they get it pretty close and they work fairly well, other times not so much.
Maybe if we, IDK, opened the patent at the beginning of this wild ride, we might have better science…but that’s just me.
Start wearing a mask and push for better air quality in public spaces and at work. This should be the first thing we do over getting a jab that may or may not keep us well. But I’m just a dumb pubic health advocate and we all know that doing things collectively for the benefit of society is not nearly as cool as telling everyone to be personally responsible for their own health.
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uh, it's been a bit more than a week, so i guess it's a little late for encouragement, but just fyi that i shared house with two people that caught it (including my youngest) and no one else caught it, so it's doable. I hope you're still doing alright
I am unsurprised that there's no support for newly disabled. There's barely support for the disabled we've got, much less any infrastructure or plan for thousands more just suddenly becoming disabled in new and complicated ways. The disability support structure in the US goes out of it's way to keep the disabled in poverty, over and over, which a whole bunch of new people are about to be surprised to learn. ("what do you mean I can't have a savings account with more than 2000 dollars in it or I'll lose my disability? I can't have savings at all?")
Long Covid disabled them. Then they met a 'broken' Social Security disability process — CNN Business
Pushing through cognitive impairment, migraines and severe fatigue, Michaelene Carlton, 49, mustered up the energy last week to dial the Social Security Administration to speak to her newly appointed Social Security Disability Insurance case manager. She has left six messages, one every two...
A story on long covid, how many are estimated to be out of the workforce due to it, and the broken system that has left them in limbo on whether or not they sill get social security disability insurance. Applications are backlogged years and applicants can't get any info / updates on the status of their applications.