Got my first case of COVID. Started feeling crappy yesterday evening, persistent fever through the night (resistant to Tylenol), did a test first thing in the morning. Strong positive COVID line on the test. Oh well, there goes my NOVID status. Feel like crap but nothing dangerous yet. Worst thing is this nukes my family's Christmas plans including visiting inlaws later this week. My wife's mother is in hospital for serious things and my wife was going to drive over there on Wednesday... Read more ..read more

I’m curious how many “NOVID” people we still have at this point. Any no-COVID people who have never had COVID? I’m one. I have never had a case of COVID that I’m aware of, and neither has my wife. We never had symptoms that prompted us to test for it. And none of the tests we were required to take or we took after possible exposures ever came back positive. Maybe we’ve had asymptotic cases, but there’s no way to know. I’m pretty sure everyone I know has had it at least once. I had a... Read more ..read more

My wife is in a rehab facility due to a broken hip. They currently have an outbreak that they are trying to contain and they state that the latest vaccines are unavailble to them. Myself and my daughter were vacinated almost a month ago to prevent any possibility of us bringing it in with us. Ironically they have implimented a mask policy to protect visitors rather than the other way arround. Apparently is the situation for most facilities ..read more

N.I.H. - "Measuring the quantity of harmful volatile organic compounds inhaled through masks" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112860 ..read more

Has anyone heard about the COVID lab in California? Loading… www.youtube.com ..read more

Sunday Times (UK) published an interesting piece Sunday. Unfortunately its behind a paywall but you can read for free if you register. What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were combining the world’s most deadly coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus just as the pandemi www.thetimes.co.uk Here is a summary from Roger Pielke. Over the weekend, The Sunday Times published an long article that articulated a narrative for how a COVID-19 lab leak may have occurred. Investigators who scrutinized top ..read more

The medical field plus irrational hoarding by civilians looks to have put nitrile gloves in short supply. Harbor Freight used to be my go to, but last I checked, locations near me are wiped out. At the few stores that do have them, the price is 3X to 4X the pre-pandemic amount. Anybody have the skinny on nitrile gloves ..read more

The Actuaries Institute has come out with some figures on excess deaths in Australia because of covid. 20k excess deaths in 2022 alone. Almost 20,000 excess deaths for 2022 in Australia - Actuaries Digital Catch up on the Actuaries Institute’s COVID-19 Mortality Working Group’s latest analysis of excess deaths. In summary: Total excess mortality for the first 11 months of 2022 is 11% (+17,900 deaths). Our expectation is that excess mortality for the full year 2022 will be 12% i.e. there were... www.actuaries.digital Almost 20,000 more people died last year – the highest excess death ra ..read more

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/03/1153970427/u-s-covid-winter-surge-fading-fast ..read more

Hi folks, Here's a surprisingly accessibly-written article about the impact of COVID-19 on the immune system. Does getting COVID really make your immune system worse? https://slate.com/technology/2023/0...ffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=web_share While I read Slate mostly for entertainment purposes, sometimes they have a well researched article on a scientific topic. This article points to... Read more ..read more