How is the corona virus affecting you?

caseydog said:
I drove past a Doc-in-the-Box facility in Frisco today that was doing drive-thru Covid tests. The line of cars went around the building, and into the street, extending about two blocks down the street.

CD
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Drive through testing stations are seeing queues kilometres long here especially with the summer holidays and people trying to travel abroad or just interstate. Crossing borders still requires a negative test within x many hours (x varies depending in the state, country, day of the week and if you're still keeping up-to-date with legislation changes! )
 
It took 7 days from the time my better half tested positive to jump through all the hoops between the holidays, primary care, testing center, scheduling, back to primary care and finally infusion appointment tomorrow. Thankfully, he has been managing at home... I shutter to think of those who don't fare as well with no one to help them navigate the back and forth between service providers.

Here is example : after 5 days of us waiting, primary care leaves us a message today, "we fax'd the documents to the infusion center, please call them to see if you "qualify" for an infusion".

I call the infusion center and repeat what primary care says about "qualifying". Infusion center reciptionist/scheduler starts laughing and asks "qualify ?."... I responded with "yes, that is what primary care said - qualify"

The infusion center scheduler laughs again and said " If you have covid, you qualify" and went on to say she had a whole stack of paperwork ahead of my husbands for appointments. She then looks at his dates and said " symptoms started Dec 22nd" and request was originated on the 22nd and they are just getting these docs to us? I can get him in tomorrow"

Again, I am thankful he has fared better than many and don't mean to sound ungrateful. I am extremely thankful to all the healthcare workers who have and continue to come to work during this pandemic. It definitely has been an eye opening experience navigating the system during Covid.
 
Backbay said:
It took 7 days from the time my better half tested positive to jump through all the hoops between the holidays, primary care, testing center, scheduling, back to primary care and finally infusion appointment tomorrow.
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I'm not sure if this is my ignorance or a US/UK confusion of terms - but I don't understand what 'infusion' means.
 
Morning Glory said:
I'm not sure if this is my ignorance or a US/UK confusion of terms - but I don't understand what 'infusion' means.
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in this case, it means a dose of a monoclonal antibodies given through an IV infusion for people who have tested positive and are considered high risk. I had to google it when the Dr. first mentioned it. Our local hospital has set up an infusion clinic as the demand is high.

Not sure if you can access this, explains in more detail:

Monoclonal Antibodies for High-Risk COVID-19 Positive Patients
 
Backbay said:
in this case, it means a dose of a monoclonal antibodies given through an IV infusion for people who have tested positive and are considered high risk. I had to google it when the Dr. first mentioned it. Our local hospital has set up an infusion clinic as the demand is high.

Not sure if you can access this, explains in more detail:

Monoclonal Antibodies for High-Risk COVID-19 Positive Patients
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Ah - OK. I think it simply isn't generally called 'infusion' in the UK. It's available for some very high risk patients here.
 
Morning Glory said:
Ah - OK. I think it simply isn't generally called 'infusion' in the UK. It's available for some very high risk patients here.
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No it's called an IV/intravenous drip. The Dutch word also literally translates to 'infusion' (Infuus) but the English word is an IV drip.

I am very lucky because I didn't have symptoms for the past 48 hours and can now get a booster shot today! I suddenly did get priority due to my priority status 6 months ago, as did everyone my age who has a medical issue.
 
I have reacted to all three jabs, people say that if you react then your body is clearly working properly, if that is the case then how about those who don't react? Are they in trouble :unsure:
 
Lullabelle said:
I have reacted to all three jabs, people say that if you react then your body is clearly working properly, if that is the case then how about those who don't react? Are they in trouble :unsure:
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I remember when I was a kid I'd say to my mom, hey I've got a sharp pain in my side and she told me they were just growing pains, I said ok, sounds legit.
 
Lullabelle said:
I have reacted to all three jabs, people say that if you react then your body is clearly working properly, if that is the case then how about those who don't react? Are they in trouble :unsure:
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I only had a very mild reaction to the second shot (Pfizer). I was tired the next day. The other two were fine.

My sister the Nurse explained it to me, but yes, a reaction is a sign that the vaccine is working, but not having much of a reaction is not an indication that it is not working. Every body has a different reaction.

CD
 
We've had about 70,000 cases of covid19 in the last 7 days. A total of 726 in hospital with 444 the previous week either with covid19 or testing positive for covid19 after hospitalized for other reasons.

70,000 tested positive which means the actual number of people infected during the week is 4 to 5 times as much, so approx. 300,000 people contracted covid 19 in the last 7 days.

Basically over 369,274 out of 370,000 people basically asymptomatic in the last week. Additional hospitalizations in the last week is 222.

It appears our hospital front line workers can come to work if they're asymptomatic, that's the brain storming taking place with our head covid19 Dr's in Ontario, which is tragic especially for the immunocompromised patients. It's the peter principal in full view folks.
 
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