With New Years coming up cases are going to hit records probably. I think they’ll stop testing and just say if you’re feeling symptoms it’s most likely omicron. There’s not enough capacity for tests.
There's plenty of capacity for tests in other countries. If you know someone in India, ask them to send you 20 or so. They're abundant and cheap. In any case, I don't think case counts should be our measure of progress anymore. I think looking at ICU COVID-positive patients is the best way to understand the impact on the healthcare system. I just finished day 10 from onset of systems and testing positive; fortunately it was a nothingburger for me. I suspect that **** tons of people are COVID-positive right now and have no idea; my only symptoms were slight congestion (very slight; never even had to blow my nose) and throat drainage (also slight; no coughing) for 2 days. It was like a very, very, very mild cold. My hope is that this is how it goes from now on for a large majority of people and that this is our ticket out of the pandemy.
Both my mom and a friend had pretty hard times finding tests in Houston around christmas, non-appointment locations ran out of tests, in-store rapid tests sold out, appointments booked up for weeks.
Look around in Walgreens.com. While one close to you (or even in your state) may not have any, there should be some that have it "in stock" for delivery even though they're not physically in stock at that particular Walgreens. It generally takes 2-3 days to deliver. While it won't solve the immediacy of the need, you can get them for future needs.
My youngest daughter at Sam called us last night saying her coworker just tested positive. We found a test kit at the Walgreens at 242 and 45 and drove it up to Huntsville. She tested negative fortunately.
“This is the moment” to discount a positive Covid test (after 5 days) https://errorstatistics.com/2021/12...-discount-a-positive-covid-test-after-5-days/ excerpt: This week’s big controversy concerns the CDC’s deciding to cut recommended days for isolation for people infected with Covid. CDC director Walensky was all over the news explaining that this “was the moment” for a cut, given the whopping number of new Covid cases (over 400,000 on Dec. 28, exceeding the previous record which was in the 300,000’s). “In the context of the fact that we were going to have so many more cases — many of those would be asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic — people would feel well enough to be at work, they would not necessarily tolerate being home, and that they may not comply with being home, this was the moment that we needed to make that decision,” Walensky told CNN. The CDC had already explained last week that “health care workers’ isolation period could be cut to five days, or even fewer, in the event of severe staffing shortages at U.S. hospitals”. Then, on Monday, the CDC announced that individuals who test positive for Covid-19 and are asymptomatic need to isolate for only five days, not 10 days, citing increasing evidence that people are most infectious in the initial days after developing symptoms. What’s really causing alarm among many health experts is that the new policy has no requirement for a negative test result, with a rapid test, before ending isolation. Even if you test positive on day 5, the CDC says, you can go about your business. So long as you’re asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic or your “symptoms are resolving” and you wear a mask. I don’t suppose the new looser guidance would result in any pressure being put on a pilot or other worker to get back to work even with some mild brain fog or coughing that seemed to be resolving.[1] “It’s frankly reckless to proceed like this,” Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Using a rapid test or some type of test to validate that the person isn’t infectious is vital.” *** And why is there a drastic shortage of rapid tests when everyone knew about Omicron’s transmissibility rate a month ago? Walensky’s whole defense seems aimed at shielding from blame those who should have been ramping up availability of tests. (And don’t get me started on the promise we’ll all be able to order them from the government some time next month.) In typical Walensky fashion, she argues that since people already disobey the more onerous recommendations, they need to be lowered. Of course, it’s precisely the kind of disingenuous defenses from our health experts that has people ignoring them to begin with. This will add to that bad record. Even if it’s true that many people disobey CDC recommendations, it does not mean that those recommendations won’t figure into their calculations as to how to behave when it counts. So maybe, as Walensky says, people with Covid, but with slight symptoms, won’t tolerate staying home from work for 7 or 10 days. But they might well balk at visiting with relatives at risk of serious disease. Likewise, people might balk at letting their kids ride in a car with someone who tested positive this morning, who had already isolated 5 days. But with this new CDC recommendation, people are effectively told the new data indicate it’s OK, (mixed in with a muddled message that it might actually be staff shortages, scarcity, and influence of airline CEOs). CDC should instead raise an alert, such as: “given the new lowering of requirements, you may want to ask if a person has tested negative, and take extreme precautions if they say no”. Wearing a mask (any mask?) does not suffice, and notice there is no call for a high quality mask. (See this post on hi-fi masks.)To those with Covid they might have said “If you have no symptoms, or they’re slight, and there are staff shortages, go to work, but we recommend–especially if you’re still testing positive–you hold off being with people at high risk of severe disease for the full 10 days, and please honestly inform those around you of your status. more at the link
Another 2 of my close friends positive last night. One’s a pilot and is stuck in Atlanta lol. They’re both in great shape so they’ll be fine, but still crazy how fast this is spreading.
Hey CCP bootlicker, if you’re gonna slam my Vietnamese babe, at least get her name right. It’s IVERSEN you WinnieTheFlu’s butt licker. Yeah, we all know why you’re the number one fool for the little Keebler Elf. This doofus looking creature is the one responsible for the “ gain of function “ fiasco and gave your motherland the technology to create this Wuhan flu that the whole world is suffering right now. We will not forget, this pandemic will soon be coming to an end and your China b*stard will pay, and pays dearly.
the dizzying height of willful ignorance, Iverson / General, 2 non-scientists pretending to be scientists !
Oh the delicious irony, calling people ignorant and continually getting the person’s name wrong. So damn typical of the little pink warriors.
The old 10 day guidance was the same... The point of the guidance is to isolate while you're infectious, not while you still have Covid. Many people have it for weeks, but they could go about their lives after 10 days. Now it's 5. Whether that's reckless or not, I have no idea - it depends on how long it's infectiousness, though, not the positive test.
No - it just means you have virus fragments in the body. You can have those for a long time, well past the point of being infectious.
