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No, and I'm pretty shocked that an "oh, what the heck" approval wasn't given for extra boosters for folks under 50. I understand the studies don't show a great deal of difference in outcomes, but still -- if someone wants fresh humoral antibodies, why stand in the way?
Maybe I missed it, but I thought there was good data on shot 4 showing reduction of infection and severity on BA5. Or is that not true or unknown?
Now last Wednesday's 7-day average detected case count number is:
I'm unsure whether that held up for younger adults -- have to track that down.
This article is three months old, but does a good job outlining what the CDC has been thinking about approving younger adults for fourth shots. Turns out it's NOT so much based on efficacy at all.
Yeah I snapped a pic when it got to 103.7. About an hour later it got to the 104.4, I was solo at the house with my wife still in MA with my MIL so I felt I had better get out of bed and get some ice packs. The kitchen freezer could have been 4 miles away at that point.
Just lie and say you’re immunocompromised. That’s what I did. There’s more shots than people willing to take them so go for it.
On the way up to CC from outside of Philly, I was literally one of 2 people with a mask(N95)at the only rest area I stopped at in Connecticut. In and out in 5 minutes tops.
Somebody ask these people why on earth we can’t get both a shot now and the reconfigured one in the fall.
In your particular case, that COVID infection was your second booster. I'd say you're good right now.
My wife still has to test weekly to go into the office since shes not vaxxed. Those who are vaxxed do not have to test. A case can be made shes the safest one in the office and others are risking her health more than the other way around. Moronic.
There's a reasonable argument to be had at a societal level as to whether the government should or should not be encouraging boosters for specific demos. But I really can't see the argument for restricting individual choices regarding boosting. There is zero evidence indicating that people are in any kind of danger from getting boosted "too soon". So why not let everyone do what they feel safe with doing? If you want to put on some kind of reasonable restriction like you can't get multiple shots within a certain time period, fine. But telling a 49 year old she isn't allowed to get boosted and her 50 year old friend she can is silly.
At Old Job, they brought us back into the office pre-vax and put us on a 50% schedule with the office divided into two "capsules" that weren't supposed to mix at all (of course, they largely ignored this and people in senior management would come in on days they weren't supposed to).
You're right, I think I read the first part of your post and then was off to the races.
We went WFH in March 2020 when we had our first company outbreak. Forced back in the office May 2020.
The CDC went with four months between Booster #1 and Booster #2 for those 50+ years old.
I've been home since 3/20....... We were in office for about 2 weeks this past april before they sent eveyone home again.We went WFH in March 2020 when we had our first company outbreak. Forced back in the office May 2020.
Went WFH the week of Thanksgiving when we had our 2nd outbreak. Forced back to the office February 2021.
Each time forced back into a fairly small office shared with 3 other guys.
A number of times I was WFH due to being quarantined.
Today I found out that my coworker was exposed to someone who came up positive last night.
Oh, and I have 0 reasons to work onsite. I'm a freaking DBA / Data analyst.
At this point I'm not worried about the potential exposure. I'm vaxxed, boosted... been exposed a bunch of times already. I just can't figure out why our bosses can't see that it is dumb to do this yoyo approach.
Pre-vax, my biggest pet peeve was employers who didn't prioritize worker safety.We went WFH in March 2020 when we had our first company outbreak. Forced back in the office May 2020.
Went WFH the week of Thanksgiving when we had our 2nd outbreak. Forced back to the office February 2021.
Each time forced back into a fairly small office shared with 3 other guys.
A number of times I was WFH due to being quarantined.
Today I found out that my coworker was exposed to someone who came up positive last night.
Oh, and I have 0 reasons to work onsite. I'm a freaking DBA / Data analyst.
At this point I'm not worried about the potential exposure. I'm vaxxed, boosted... been exposed a bunch of times already. I just can't figure out why our bosses can't see that it is dumb to do this yoyo approach.
Right. And when I committed to going to this meeting a few months ago I was thinking we would be out of the spring omicron wave and with immunity and it being summer, that July would have low numbers like last year. Whoops.
Looking at Worldometers 7-day averages from early on when cases were still low and building, the highest early death counts were in mid-April 2020, with 7-day daily death counts peaking at 2,280 on April 18.
Vaccines weren't strictly necessary to significantly lower the death rates -- death rates dropped from about 1% (above) to 0.2% by mid-January 2021 (inputs below).
Obviously vaccines work but also the most vulnerable were picked off at the beginning of the pandemic leaving healthier people to cope with future variants. Darwinism 101
That was their home where they could be nursed. They didn't leave home, they were already there.
There was a subvariant of BA.2, BA.2.12.1, that pushed BA.1 and BA.2 out of the U.S. by mid-May of this year. I have read bits and pieces in recent weeks that antibodies elicited specifically by BA.2.12.1 give significant protection against BA.4 and BA.5 (though BA.4 is not getting a foothold in the U.S. for some reason).
Ticking timebomb.
