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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I have a friend with twin girls hospitalized for RSV right now. My own kid's daycare sounds like a TB ward with all the kids coughing. It's not RSV, but there is something additional going around that leaves kids with a racking, persistent cough for weeks on end.Quick and stealthy 'Scrabble variants' are poised to drive a winter Covid-19 surge | CNN
A flurry of new Covid-19 variants appears to be gaining traction globally, raising fears of a winter surge.
Also, we have this going on currently...
A common respiratory virus is spreading at unusually high levels, overwhelming children's hospitals. Here's what parents need to know | CNN
There's now an "unprecedented" rise in RSV cases among children in the US, some doctors say. Several children's hospitals told CNN that they've been "overwhelmed" with patients at a time of the year when it's unusual to have a surge of RSV patients.
Yeah. At least for older folks there's always the option of NyQuil or Robitussin or whatever. Our problem is that it wakes my son up in the middle of the night and then he can't get back to sleep. And there's no approved cough medicines for two year olds, so you're stuck with homeophatic products and spoonfuls of honey and stuff like that. We had finally hit a pretty good stride with him being able to sleep through the night, and 2-3 weeks of interrupted sleep is turning him into a crabby little monster. And I swear to god if one more person recommends that I run a cool-mist humidifier in his room at night I'm gonna explode.
Wait...I knew that comparison was floating around in my head for a reason!
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.
Rolling my eyes once again at the overpromising & underdelivering of Pfizer saying they would be able to develop variant-specific boosters in a hundred days or less on a rolling basis.
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.
