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Please do not make a decision based on anecdotal evidence in this thread. I’m afraid it’s late right now and I’m too tired to recall details, but Dr Daniel Griffin on the TWIV podcasts discusses recent data on Paxlovid. The last time I listened he was recommending it for older people. I believe it can be prescribed up to 5 days after symptom onset, but is best if within the first 3 days. A 3 day course of Remdesivir is also an option with similar efficacy to Paxlovid I think.
This is a serious matter that can potentially reduce someone’s chances of hospitalization or death and I don’t think just putting in one’s two cents worth, without any apparent knowledge of the data, is a good thing to do.
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9 hours ago, scholastica said:
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book.
Would this book be helpful if the child is an older teen or is it more geared to younger children?
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54 minutes ago, mommyoffive said:
Yes! I wonder if doctor and nurses want masks to still be required? Man I sure would. I would sure rather have a person cough on me in a mask vs without while I was treating them.
I work in an ICU and I would like us to wear masks for the foreseeable future as it is at least something we can do to protect the patients. I’ve seen figures showing a 30% increase in mortality for someone with a hip fracture who catches Covid while in hospital, and also worse outcomes for trauma patients who coincidentally are infected with Covid.
Most of the people I work with are quite careful to wear masks in the patient rooms, which is the rule at the moment, but some are not. I’ve discussed the above mentioned increased risks with some of them but it does not seem to change what they do. I find it really hard to understand and it’s hard to see. Puts me off working more hours as I find it upsetting. I try to safeguard my allocated patients as much as possible by asking anyone coming in their rooms to mask up properly. I’m sure I’m not very popular with some people because of that.Coincidentally I don’t think I’ve had Covid yet myself. I wear a mask everywhere at work and don’t eat in the break room. I’ve also had 2 booster vaccinations, including the bivalent. Some of the people I work with have had 3 infections, and just about everyone else has had at least one, so I am probably on borrowed time as far as that goes.
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I’ve come across autoimmune esophagitis, I wonder if it’s similar. There is a new monoclonal antibody treatment for it. I wonder if it would also be indicated for your condition?
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I am so frustrated and angry at our complete lack of ability, as a community/society, to realize, that in order to get out of this intact with good health, we must do everything we can to improve ventilation and air quality in our public areas!
There is so much information available now, about the possible medium term, and long term affects of Covid. If we think longer term, even if some of these things turn out not to be correct, we can only improve our health anyway, by improving shared air.
My frustration is increased right now because my dd is working in a preschool as part of her SLP grad course, and she tells me that almost all the kids there are sick. The students can’t wear masks because of the therapy they have to do with the kids.
I should put a JAWM on this post because I am really not in the mood to hear a bunch of minimizing crap. How we can think that it is ok for small children to be virtually continuously sick I don’t know.-
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8 hours ago, Geul said:
Did anyone try Remdesivir (Veklury) to treat Covid? My DH has just tested positive. A doctor prescribed Remdesivir and I've already checked the info about it. But it would be great to find out someone's experience.
I haven’t taken this myself, but Dr Griffin on TWIV is very positive about it as an antiviral, taken early, with results similar to Paxlovid.
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19 hours ago, livetoread said:
Ha, we've white-knuckled college with both our kids.
I could write a long missive, but I'll just say we had to bring our oldest home his Senior year after a severe mental health crisis, and it was the right decision. He did finally managed to graduate, but never went back to living near campus.
Our youngest has struggled every minute of their college experience mentally and academically (after straight As in high school and community college) but we decided to agree to let them stay and fight it out because bringing them home would have meant social isolation and that part has always been good for them at college (after lots of dysfunctional friendships during high school years). There have been some very dark semesters and I don't know if we made the right decision, but just last semester (fourth year) they did well all around so yay. All the issues plus changing majors have added another year on, but it's looking hopeful they will pull it out and graduate. They have great, supportive friends and a strong mental health care team there which factored into our decision. They have absolutely grown in independence and confidence by coming as far as they have, but like I said, there were some white knuckle times and I'm hardly sure we are done with those.
It helped that both kids were about an hour away and we spent many hours driving there to provide support, especially with youngest. We were completely footing the college bill so we had a lot of say, though we tried hard to let them make their own choices around it.
Really appreciate your post! We are white-knuckling it with our youngest dd right now, 1/2 way through freshman year, so it is encouraging to read about someone much further along in the process.
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My brothers and I bought my parents an Aura digital photo frame for Christmas so that we can all share photos with them. It says it has unlimited cloud storage. The interesting thing is that when you get onto the app to upload your photos you can see all the photos that everyone else has shared with them. That was a nice bonus that we are all enjoying. It would be a bit or a round about way of doing it maybe, but thought I’d mention it.
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A lot of churches and charitable organizations have funds to help with utility bills. You don’t have to belong to the church for them to help you. My dh is the person who does that at his church and they help people in the church’s area. He gets phone calls all the time about situations similar to yours, and he is able to pay the money directly to the utility company.
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A study aiming at protecting the immunocompromised.
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Both my dds loved The Westing Game! They have also liked The Mysterious Benedict Society books and Agatha Christie.
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I have been watching the discussion about possible immune damage from Covid with concern. Just saw a tweet from Sweden that they are having the same problems with children’s admissions from RSV etc, despite a big RSV wave last year, and, of course, not shutting schools or having kids mask during the previous 2-3 years.
Just wondered what other people were thinking about this. To me it seems worrying. I don’t have young children now but have loads of nieces and nephews that I’m concerned for.-
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I have always been a cleaning system failure but thanks to this thread I have been trying the Organized Mom/ Mum system and it is working for me! I have stuck with it for getting on for 3 weeks I think. I’ve only ever managed a couple of days of previous systems. I don’t do it perfectly but I’m sticking with it so far.
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12 minutes ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle Again said:
It appears to be saying that vaccination status has no statistical difference in poor outcomes when it comes to reinfection. If so, that’s depressing.
Yes that’s a bit difficult to understand as I have seen what looks like pretty clear data showing decreased risk from hospitalization and death if vaccinated, although I think that this wanes over time. I think the categories they included were just 2 or more shots, without specifying how many boosters. Also, I think I remember them saying that one of the study limitations was that the vaccination data might not have been completely accurate.
ETA - It made me resolve to continue wearing a mask in public indoor areas.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3
I apologize if this has already been linked but this is a recently published (Nov 10, 2022 I think) study about the risks of reinfection with Covid.
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14 hours ago, Carol in Cal. said:
I don’t have citations but have read (some time ago now) of folks recovering from long covid rather suddenly after receiving one of the older vaccines. And I know two people that this happened to. Not the boosters. One of the two shot initial vaccine sequence.
I’ve heard of this happening. I think I’ve also heard of people having flares after vaccination too, so it would be so good to have a better understanding of who might benefit. I hope they are able to study these things quickly but I’m concerned that there isn’t the will to acknowledge what’s happening and fund research.
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5 hours ago, BeachGal said:
I think a new thread would be good, too. I’m off to see my kids today but if anyone wants to start the thread, feel free!
I started a Long Covid thread. I don’t know how to link it here.
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Starting a thread so we can collect information here.
I don’t have long Covid but I am in a higher risk group for it, as a woman in my late 50s. It is a big reason I’m avoiding getting Covid as much as I can, so I’m very interested in everything you all know about it.
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@BeachGal I think it might be good to have a thread with long Covid data. I find it difficult to evaluate the huge amount of information available, pertaining to long Covid, and would really like a place where I could hear from those of you who are able to evaluate the information better than I can.
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So sad. I don’t have any words any more.
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I got some from Home Depot too.
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42 minutes ago, Quill said:
*Is it* pretending though, at this point? I’m curious about this due to what I observe around me (with the caveat that most of those I am observing are vaccinated). In the earlier iterations, pre-vax, I did know several people who were seriously affected, and some who died, from Covid; these were not all sickly old people. However, *now* my feeling is - if I’m honest - it’s not a big deal for most “normal healthy people”. February (during Omicron surge here) was the last time I knew people dying or having severe illness around me. (And those were ALL not vaccinated.) Everybody else who has gotten Covid around me has a “bad cold” version at worst and no lasting effects. Moreso the younger the person, as with most illnesses.
I would be interested to know if my perception is verifiably, totally wrong.
I think this is the big question, and for me there are not sufficient answers, so I continue to be careful and try to avoid getting Covid. Information I have seen recently makes it seem that there are quite possibly some long term health issues associated with even quite mild Covid infections. I want to know more before I let down my guard. Also, as a woman in my 50s I am in the higher risk group for long Covid. I definitely don’t want that because I do not get any paid sick time with my job, never mind the discomfort of having the symptoms.
I have looked after several, youngish, people who have had quite serious heart issues some time after getting Covid. I don’t think it’s yet possible to say for sure that the two are linked, but I want to know more before deciding there isn’t increased risk. I know quite a number of people who have been left with annoying symptoms since having Covid, and I would like there to be more information about that too.
Learning more about long term affects of other viruses recently, also makes me continue to be cautious about Covid.
I think it is really early days with this virus and there is a lot we don’t know yet.
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I work with someone who has had it 3 times so far, during alpha, delta and omicron prevalence. I work with a number of people who have had it twice. I have extended family members who have had it twice.
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2 hours ago, whitestavern said:
“Moderna says” 🤣🤣
Well they also provided data, which I think was antibody levels in 500 people. We don’t know for sure what that means in real world scenarios, but not sure it deserves mocking. It’s a shame this whole disease seems to have devolved into taking sides. I’m hoping we get good information that we can base decisions on. Gotta keep an open mind for that information to be helpful though.
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Covid and the elderly and Paxlovid
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ETA I believe that several recent studies have found a similar incidence of rebound in both people who took Paxlovid and those who didn’t. It seems to be a feature of the disease rather than the treatment.