To Vaccinate or Not---The Rat Flu Odyssey Continues

[bennymac]

But it can be fairly mild if you’re vaxed, no?

Yes you’re right - but a milder version of flu symptoms (fever, sore throat, headache, fatigue, muscle aches) rather than cold symptoms (runny nose and post nasal drip cough). I’m generalizing here - it’s true there can be overlap.

[digitaldeath]

I got had covid for my birthday too. I wasn’t very hungry all week but when I got a burger and fried to go on my bday it all tasted like vinegar and chemicals. It was fucked up and sucked


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[PB]

Continuing the gustatory journey, the metal mouth from Paxlovid was a treat.

[SumJongGuy]

Only way I knew I had it was Christmas Day 2021 the dog started farting out the rawhide treats she'd been eating. Everyone else cleared the room. I was sitting there next to the dog completely oblivious to the problem.. Wife had gone to the hospital Dec 11th.. We'd all done multiple tests through the 21st. CDC and health department cleared her Dec 22nd so I took off the N95 I had been wearing around her. Doh!

[John_B]

I'm slightly on the mend but felt goddamn awful Sat/Sun with fevers of 102-103. I'm 35 but have exercise induced asthma so figured I'd try to get Paxlovid. So far it's taken 4 calls to the local clinic since this morning before I received a call back and if I am eligible the closest pharmacy that may have have some in stock is an hour drive away. 3 fucking years of this shit and the American medical system can't figure this out a little better!?!

[skaredshtles]

I'm slightly on the mend but felt goddamn awful Sat/Sun with fevers of 102-103. I'm 35 but have exercise induced asthma so figured I'd try to get Paxlovid. So far it's taken 4 calls to the local clinic since this morning before I received a call back and if I am eligible the closest pharmacy that may have have some in stock is an hour drive away. 3 fucking years of this shit and the American medical system can't figure this out a little better!?!

The American "medical system" is a goddam travesty.

[SumJongGuy]

I'm slightly on the mend but felt goddamn awful Sat/Sun with fevers of 102-103. I'm 35 but have exercise induced asthma so figured I'd try to get Paxlovid. So far it's taken 4 calls to the local clinic since this morning before I received a call back and if I am eligible the closest pharmacy that may have have some in stock is an hour drive away. 3 fucking years of this shit and the American medical system can't figure this out a little better!?!

It's because you didn't get it until the pandemic was already over... It's like going in to do your holiday shopping at 6pm on Christmas Eve. All the merchants are taking down the COVID products and stocking up for Ebola..

I'm mostly kidding of course and sincerely hope you feel better soon. But I do think the testing and paxlovid push has jumped the shark now..

[bennymac]

If someone needs paxlovid (as per the recommendations) then they should be able to get it easily same day as their positive covid test. Having hoops to jump through and barriers is not helping anyone.

[PB]

If someone needs paxlovid (as per the recommendations) then they should be able to get it easily same day as their positive covid test. Having hoops to jump through and barriers is not helping anyone.

This^^^^
Got mine the same day as testing positive.

Imma geezer, so OK.

[old goat]

If someone needs paxlovid (as per the recommendations) then they should be able to get it easily same day as their positive covid test. Having hoops to jump through and barriers is not helping anyone.

You can. See Test to Treat. https://aspr.hhs.gov/TestToTreat/Pages/default.aspx

[SumJongGuy]

COViD 19 hospitalizations still three times that of flu hospitalizations. JAMA April

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...0this%20period.

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[truckeelocal]

COViD 19 hospitalizations still three times that of flu hospitalizations.

Friend died with Covid as a contributing cause 10 days ago. He caught it in hospital.

[muted reborn]

Friend got COVID at the last Dead show in SF last month. First time getting it and he got worked HARD by it. Also missed out on our annual bike trip to JXN because of it. Fucking dirty hippies will get ya!

[riser4]

Friend got COVID at the last Dead show in SF last month. First time getting it and he got worked HARD by it. Also missed out on our annual bike trip to JXN because of it. Fucking dirty hippies will get ya!

Sucks for your friend. Tell him not to be a dirty hippie.

[riser4]

Friend died with Covid as a contributing cause 10 days ago. He caught it in hospital.

Fuck. Sorry to hear that. That's a raw deal.

[frorider]

Friend died with Covid as a contributing cause 10 days ago. He caught it in hospital.

Condolences. That sucks. Local?

[SumJongGuy]

"Hospital acquired infection" was already a leading cause of death among people. Gotta think COVID has blown that up even more. Sorry for your friend. This makes me thing that even though I haven't worn a mask in months, when I go to the doc for annual stuff I might just wear one... since that's where the sick people go.. and docs work with them all day all week all year..

[skiJ]

Friend died with Covid as a contributing cause 10 days ago. He caught it in hospital.

my Condolences, truckee-


fifth dose today.
With the Federal Emergency declaration expiring, covid becomes another "commercial" product category ( no kidding - That was the term the medical assistant used > "commercial" . )

so, we'll see If in December, their new strain of 'commercial' vaccine is available, and if I can justify affording it.

Thank you, my friends


my Condolences, truckee- skiJ

[riser4]

"Hospital acquired infection" was already a leading cause of death among people. Gotta think COVID has blown that up even more. Sorry for your friend. This makes me thing that even though I haven't worn a mask in months, when I go to the doc for annual stuff I might just wear one... since that's where the sick people go.. and docs work with them all day all week all year..

Long before COVID, I remember taking one of my kids to the doctor and having to drag the other two. One time it finally dawned on me that "this is where snot breathing kids go to hack up Dog knows what and smear it everywhere". My kids were pissed once I no longer let them touch any of the toys in the waiting room.

[bodywhomper]

Condolences, truckeelocal. That sucks.

[jono]

Condolences TL. Feels like we're entering the ignoring phase.


Separately,

You can. See Test to Treat. https://aspr.hhs.gov/TestToTreat/Pages/default.aspx

Was this a joke? My detector is due for replacement.

Website offers a data sheet that links the site and the locator needs a 70 mile radius to turn up 1 possible option--if they have unreported inventory and if they offer it to civilians. I think I might reach out to Splat first.

[old goat]

Not a joke. The availability obviously depends on where you live, but that's true about health care in general. One of the big downsides of living in the country. (And living in this country but that's another story.) You have to have a pharmacist willing to do it and I think for the most part it's being offered by the big drugstore chains, not mom and pop shops.

[TBS]

Only 70 miles jono? I have to go to Portland - like 175 miles - for test-treat clinic.
There’s also a telehealth option here - maybe show them your Covid test on Zoom and they send a scrip for Paxlovid to local pharmacy? I can do the same with my doc.

Ms TBS took Paxlovid for Covid last year. Didn’t seem to make a big difference- she was still bigly sick at the end of the course. She also said it makes everything you eat tastes like you’re licking an ashtray.

[jono]

Not a joke. The availability obviously depends on where you live, but that's true about health care in general. One of the big downsides of living in the country. (And living in this country but that's another story.) You have to have a pharmacist willing to do it and I think for the most part it's being offered by the big drugstore chains, not mom and pop shops.

I guess what I found funny was the idea that this program addresses blue benny's assertion that "If someone needs paxlovid (as per the recommendations) then they should be able to get it easily same day as their positive covid test." Maybe it was the "you" that threw me off.

Doesn't look like any of their literature is less than a year old, though. Maybe the program had better reach a year ago--or it just didn't need so much reach when testing was easily covered in more places. My wife got Paxlovid around that timeframe but this spring that wasn't possible. Rural is a factor but there are at least 5 hospitals between me and the nearest site in the locator. Which seems more easily explained by the program going zombie--entering an urban zip the locator turns up lots of CVS pharmacies but they haven't reported inventory in 2 weeks, either.

Don't get me wrong, it seems like a great plan. Beautiful plumage.

[jono]

Only 70 miles jono? I have to go to Portland - like 175 miles - for test-treat clinic.
There’s also a telehealth option here - maybe show them your Covid test on Zoom and they send a scrip for Paxlovid to local pharmacy? I can do the same with my doc.

Ms TBS took Paxlovid for Covid last year. Didn’t seem to make a big difference- she was still bigly sick at the end of the course. She also said it makes everything you eat tastes like you’re licking an ashtray.

Yeah, mouthful of pennies was the report I got. And she got a rebound, but I think I got one of those even without it this spring, so who knows? The 70 miles may only be true if you can get through the gate at the air force base, so...Portland or Seattle might be my closest in reality, too. I do expect everything but the test is actually feasible, though. That first step is a doozy.