Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

There is a summer uptick of COVID-19. We are likely in another wave that is still rising, likely to one of the highest peaks yet by some estimates.

But with that said, we don't have the data to back that up. We are only making estimates based on samples of the population as very few people are taking covid tests these days. They are just saying feeling sick and writing it off as a cold or the flu and that's that.

The fact that Free COVID-19 tests are no longer available my be playing a large role in this. Also people are just jaded and this is the new normal. The expectation is to work through it and not quarantine. Continue life as normal. This is resulting in people who become sick taking maybe a day or two off from work if they are feeling really under the wether and if they have the sick time, but many are going into work sick and spreading COVID-19.

An other thing to note is contract tracing, and official numbers from states are no longer in existence because the public health emergency was declared over. There is no way as of right now to gauge just how many people have it. We just can estimate it's a lot people, and could be tracking to be the worse wave yet.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Anyone else feeling like we're headed into a very rough fall/winter period this year?
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Definitely me. We got our first COVID notice from our daycare within the first two weeks. I'm trying to hold off on my vaccine this year until we get more into flu/COVID season like last year. (I think I got it in Oct/Nov). But being surrounded by teachers/people working in schools in my extended family it's only a matter of time.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Rolling out those new variant-specific boosters every hundred days :rolleyes:

In all seriousness, not a moment too soon. My parents, my brother and his wife, and two of my employees all have Covid right now. And I just got a notification of the third positive case in my son's daycare class just since Thursday.

Anyone else feeling like we're headed into a very rough fall/winter period this year?
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I think that as covid gains transmissibility, it loses virulence….at least that’s been the case so far. Not saying people won’t be seriously affected, just that in general it shouldn’t be as severe. But what do I know….
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Rolling out those new variant-specific boosters every hundred days :rolleyes:

In all seriousness, not a moment too soon. My parents, my brother and his wife, and two of my employees all have Covid right now. And I just got a notification of the third positive case in my son's daycare class just since Thursday.

Anyone else feeling like we're headed into a very rough fall/winter period this year?
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Yes, I do. I think we have never taken this seriously enough.
Sonicpharmacist said:
I think that as covid gains transmissibility, it loses virulence….at least that’s been the case so far. Not saying people won’t be seriously affected, just that in general it shouldn’t be as severe. But what do I know….
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I’m still not convinced that the impacts on the immune system and the cardiovascular system post-Covid are getting lessened. We are seeing a rash of cardiovascular disease in younger cohorts and I am not sure if this is echoes of 2020 Covid that we are finally seeing the impact of, or if this is from the waves after. There is simply not enough study on this topic, but we are seeing it in our data on the health insurance end.
 
nolalady said:
Yes, I do. I think we have never taken this seriously enough.

I’m still not convinced that the impacts on the immune system and the cardiovascular system post-Covid are getting lessened. We are seeing a rash of cardiovascular disease in younger cohorts and I am not sure if this is echoes of 2020 Covid that we are finally seeing the impact of, or if this is from the waves after. There is simply not enough study on this topic, but we are seeing it in our data on the health insurance end.
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My step father's brother has long covid. One of the symptoms he developed was Afib. Also 2 years later, he still can't taste or smell.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
My step father's brother has long covid. One of the symptoms he developed was Afib. Also 2 years later, he still can't taste or smell.
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Yeah it’s crazy how devastating the delta variant was and continues to be.
nolalady said:
Yes, I do. I think we have never taken this seriously enough.

I’m still not convinced that the impacts on the immune system and the cardiovascular system post-Covid are getting lessened. We are seeing a rash of cardiovascular disease in younger cohorts and I am not sure if this is echoes of 2020 Covid that we are finally seeing the impact of, or if this is from the waves after. There is simply not enough study on this topic, but we are seeing it in our data on the health insurance end.
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agreed that we don’t know the longer term effects of Covid (somewhat excepting delta)….what I intended to convey was that as Covid gains transmissibility, the newer variants don’t seem to get people as acutely ill as the early variants, namely delta.
 
Massachusetts is currently at an 11% positivity rate.

With that said, in the local news this morning one school is going back to remote learning due to getting hit hard by Covid.
 
I'm no longer working on a unit anymore so I don't have any personal data, but it feels that there is an increase of Covid patients at my hospital. More often when I have to call a nurse about someone's telemetry they don't answer their phone because they are in a covid room - or someone else is covering their other patients when they go in a covid room.

I also work in a very enclosed area with 4 others - some of whom have had covid multiple times. I still have yet to have it. (that I know of)
 
LeeVing said:
I'm no longer working on a unit anymore so I don't have any personal data, but it feels that there is an increase of Covid patients at my hospital. More often when I have to call a nurse about someone's telemetry they don't answer their phone because they are in a covid room - or someone else is covering their other patients when they go in a covid room.

I also work in a very enclosed area with 4 others - some of whom have had covid multiple times. I still have yet to have it. (that I know of)
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Same at my wife's hospital, seems to be getting worse every day. They're back to full masks and gear at all times.
 
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