Yeah, nothing new, but one of my relatives is in charge of her employer’s Covid policy. About 1,200 employees. She said the employees who are vaccinated are sick for 2-4 days and ready to come back to work before their isolation period is over. The employees who aren’t vaccinated are missing 2 weeks.
Not surprising in the least.
I’d love to see data on that, but I suspect it’ll be anecdotal since ‘feeling sick for 2-4 days’ doesn’t generate much if any data to examine. I’m not doubting you, I’m just wishing we had this available at some scale. Maybe someone will do it with Patient Reported Outcomes.
Kiddo’s daycare shutting for the week due to growing spread there. Fortunately she’s with grandma 2 days a week so hasn’t been there since Friday. No known direct exposure in her class but we’ll see. Hope she doesn’t start showing symptoms.
Hope you all stay healthy!
I have a big head so many masks don’t fit me properly. I have some that are too small, and I won’t use them. I’ve given a few away, and have some more I would give up if asked.
Hubby & I are both big-headed (literally!) so I feel this.
Today I learned that seemingly all my friends have an abundance of at home Covid tests. I guess Colorado ships them to you for free if you want them, just order online.
My wife was helping to hand out rapid tests to students.
There were some left over, so the had to find a secure place to keep them, because they both realized one person on staff would help themself to them.
Mountain hawks LinkedIn article came up in my feed. It raises a question. If Omicron is going to crest in the next week’s or month, and we all stay home and don’t catch it right away, do we just flatten the peak?
My behavior changes depending on community infections. I’m being more cautious at the moment, but not isolating
probably. If hospitals are overwhelmed right now, that’s a good thing. And we may end up with an omicron vaccine later this year.
Huh? Why? I feel like I must be missing something.
I think she meant “staying at home to flatten the peak” is a good thing if hospitals are overwhelmed
If hospitals are overwhelmed, and you cut down your social life enough that you neither catch it nor spread it for another two months, when hospitals start to have room again, you have helped flatten the curve and that’s a good thing. (Even if you aren’t hospitalized, if you catch it now you might give it to someone who gives it to someone who IS hospitalized.)
Oh, I thought you meant that it was good that hospitals are overwhelmed.
Even with allowing asymptomatic positive HCW to not quarantine.
Fact: 100% of people who get vaccinated are going to die.
And confirming what I basically knew… I tested positive.