@@@ July COVID Thread

[Jalapeñomel]

The baby got her first dose of Moderna today. Fingers crossed it all goes well.

[seeyalater52]

Congrats to everyone getting first, second, and booster doses as relevant.

J got his final dose of Moderna on Wednesday and aside from a small red spot on his arm he didn’t have any side effects (not sure if the red spot is vaccine or bandaid related, as we are both extremely adhesive sensitive.)

Like tacom I’m floored that we avoided covid before getting vaccinated but I’m thankful for that and trying not to focus on what feels like the endless stretch of pandemic still before us.

[kiminky]

I am trying to understand the CDC seroprevalence report that was released in April that states that 75% of children have had Covid or the antibodies. Rand Paul tweeted this and it has become a hot topic on our local Twitter as our school district just reinstated mask mandates for all indoor activities since our community is in the red. Is that what that means? 75% have had Covid?

[seeyalater52]

Jul 23, 2022 16:35:45 GMT -5 kiminky said:

I am trying to understand the CDC seroprevalence report that was released in April that states that 75% of children have had Covid or the antibodies. Rand Paul tweeted this and it has become a hot topic on our local Twitter as our school district just reinstated mask mandates for all indoor activities since our community is in the red. Is that what that means? 75% have had Covid?

It’s an estimate, and likely not a very good one. Either way, it isn’t really that useful a measure because having had covid at some point long ago (“long” being anything longer than about a month at this point) means you have a high likelihood of being susceptible to new covid infections from variants that are currently circulating and have immune escape from infection conferred immunity. While this remains true - new variants are circulating frequently and variants circulated recently are not providing lasting immunity - it is definitely critical to try to prevent covid spread through mitigation measures. The idea that once you’ve had covid you won’t get it again is a thing of the past and reinfection is becoming extremely common.

[lo]

After being out of daycare for a month, and only being back for 3 days, we of course get the email that they’ve been exposed. They just had Covid in May and have had 2/3 Pfizer, so fingers crossed.

[vlinder]

The good news is that DS got his second shot yesterday morning. The bad news is that yesterday evening I noticed he had a bit of a cough and DD had a bit of a sniffle, so on a whim I rapid tested everyone. DS’s test turned positive almost immediately, everyone else was negative. We confirmed with PCRs for everyone this morning. It seems very unfair!! We almost made it to no catching COVID before he was fully vaccinated!! Luckily, it seems super mild so far, fingers crossed that continues.

[pugz]

Anyone else have a kid experience a post vital rash after covid??

[jeaniebueller]

I truly don’t know the answer to this because I can’t keep up, but are people who are getting reinfected becoming sicker or hospitalized? I know several people who have been reinfected, even unvaccinated ones, and they haven’t been any more Ill than they were with their first bout of Covid—very mild—in subsequent infections or had any complications. Obviously that’s just an anecdote and other people may have complications and long Covid, but Is it something to be panicked about when the reality is that vaccines are largely preventing hospitalizations, serious injury, and death?

[dulcemariamar]

Jul 23, 2022 23:58:12 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

I truly don’t know the answer to this because I can’t keep up, but are people who are getting reinfected becoming sicker or hospitalized? I know several people who have been reinfected, even unvaccinated ones, and they haven’t been any more Ill than they were with their first bout of Covid—very mild—in subsequent infections or had any complications. Obviously that’s just an anecdote and other people may have complications and long Covid, but Is it something to be panicked about when the reality is that vaccines are largely preventing hospitalizations, serious injury, and death?

At this point, I am pretty much only following YLE but she recommends that you try to avoid getting infected because of long COVID. I think her latest post about the current wave of infections covers this idea. So we should take it seriously even if the death rate is stable

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 23, 2022 23:58:12 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

I truly don’t know the answer to this because I can’t keep up, but are people who are getting reinfected becoming sicker or hospitalized? I know several people who have been reinfected, even unvaccinated ones, and they haven’t been any more Ill than they were with their first bout of Covid—very mild—in subsequent infections or had any complications. Obviously that’s just an anecdote and other people may have complications and long Covid, but Is it something to be panicked about when the reality is that vaccines are largely preventing hospitalizations, serious injury, and death?

Of the four people I know who’ve been reinfected AND whose conditions I knew well both times, only one had it milder the second time. One had it about the same as before (not severe). One adult needed to visit the ER the second time for breathing issues but was treated and released same day. And one was my 7yo nephew who felt way sicker the second time (he is unvaccinated and has an autoimmune disorder). No long covid in any case.

My understanding is there isn’t a whole lot of data minus anecdotes like mine, but of the data that exists, it does show overall milder reinfections.

[redhead610]

Jul 23, 2022 21:57:12 GMT -5 pugz said:

Anyone else have a kid experience a post vital rash after covid??

Not my kid - but I developed shingles after I had covid. I'd get the rash checked out to be safe.

[Poppy]

Jul 23, 2022 23:58:12 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

I truly don’t know the answer to this because I can’t keep up, but are people who are getting reinfected becoming sicker or hospitalized? I know several people who have been reinfected, even unvaccinated ones, and they haven’t been any more Ill than they were with their first bout of Covid—very mild—in subsequent infections or had any complications. Obviously that’s just an anecdote and other people may have complications and long Covid, but Is it something to be panicked about when the reality is that vaccines are largely preventing hospitalizations, serious injury, and death?

This was an interesting read. Hospitalizations and ICU admission have stayed quite low relative to cases compared to previous waves. From what I can gather, reinfections tend to be milder. However, immunity wanes and especially older people lose their immunity faster, so poor outcomes will continue to skew toward older people. Unfortunately, I would guess that immune compromised people will be similarly at risk.

www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/opinion/covid-19-deaths-vaccines-endemic.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DKDmwaiOMNAo6B_EGKbq19Ztd2hmXeSNJILL80AeJ7xeReOUF2DgSurpaBmZ9DIzkwrcj7eFIK6K_3fOJy9y72PC7-If1jxba7slWKb2btDKTZ1GkrcF5hvZcxdFm1iXADwrPCEON-idkvifsrD8hqVHxXMnnxyvrtAh10OtqCZgiNqVVlHrEEBkyA2IKU-LkCcw5NCFzZT34Z4Ww07N5UONl_L7-oZld7O5K42eNNfzQueIS5BJQxRJzWnqFqs9POqx-Lzcm1xZYmBdAmJ5yph_XB-OJxjJ1d7qw&smid=url-share
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"Right now, Bedford says, around 5 percent of the country is getting infected with the coronavirus each month and he expects that pattern to largely continue. What would that imply death-wise, I ask? As a ballpark estimate, he says, going forward we can expect that every year, around 50 percent of Americans will be infected and more than 100,000 will die."

[mskitkat]

Jul 23, 2022 21:57:12 GMT -5 pugz said:

Anyone else have a kid experience a post vital rash after covid??

Both my kids did. Or they had chickenpox despite being (mostly) vaccinated. Since they didn’t have fevers, the triage nurse said not to bother coming in.

[Velar Fricative]

Also, not sure about anyone else, but thanks to contact tracing I do at my job plus large friend/family circles, while there are reinfections, the overwhelming majority of the many people I know who have been infected since around May have been people infected for the first time (as far as they know).

[lo]

When I had covid the second time I was pretty much asymptomatic. I felt kinda crappy, like I was getting a cold, for a couple hours. It was over so fast I probably wouldn’t have tested, but my daughter was positive so I did.

[CallingAllAngels]

Jul 23, 2022 21:57:12 GMT -5 pugz said:

Anyone else have a kid experience a post vital rash after covid??

My kid has psoriasis and had a pretty nasty flare up a week or two after she had covid the first time.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Jul 23, 2022 21:57:12 GMT -5 pugz said:

Anyone else have a kid experience a post vital rash after covid??

No, but my DH did.

[pixy0stix]

DS got his second shot today!

[pugz]

Jul 24, 2022 12:33:33 GMT -5 CallingAllAngels said:

Jul 23, 2022 21:57:12 GMT -5 pugz said:

Anyone else have a kid experience a post vital rash after covid??

My kid has psoriasis and had a pretty nasty flare up a week or two after she had covid the first time.

We saw a doctor yesterday and they said it is guttate psoriasis caused by strep. She has a strep rash on her private parts. She is already responding to the medication thankfully! I had strep with covid and either I gave it to her or she gave it to me.

[osulori]

Got kid #1 boosted and kid #2's first vax dose on Saturday! Not surprisingly, the 9 year old felt like his arm was going to fall off but his 3 year old sister didn't miss a beat aside from feeling a little warm yesterday.

[pixy0stix]

We're in the fever stage of the vaxx reaction. Poor kid.

[Patsy Baloney]

My youngest received his second Moderna today.

I can’t believe we made it.

[meganew]

My kiddos just got their boosters today!

Did anyone have a kid who had a reaction to the second shot but not the booster? My son didn't have a reaction from the last shot besides a sore arm, but my daughter had a fever and was sleepy for a day. We also had a case of covid a few months ago, so I'm not sure what to expect from her immune response.



Update: she has a fever again. And just like always, she didn’t wake us up to tell us she didn’t feel well- I had to check in on her early this morning and she was burning. Gave her some Tylenol and she’s feeling much better now, but this morning she was like “I didn’t sleep well, my head hurt and I was so cold.” Why didn’t you wake us up?! She’s like, shrug.

Meanwhile my son will come flying into our room at 3am because his fingernails feel weird. Lol

[sonrisa]

Jul 25, 2022 20:19:43 GMT -5 meganew said:

My kiddos just got their boosters today!

Did anyone have a kid who had a reaction to the second shot but not the booster? My son didn't have a reaction from the last shot besides a sore arm, but my daughter had a fever and was sleepy for a day. We also had a case of covid a few months ago, so I'm not sure what to expect from her immune response.

Not a kid, but I had a big response to shots 1 (out for 36 hours with fevers, head aches, body aches, slept) and 2 (same as shot #1 but for 3 days) and had only a sore (but not very sore) arm for my booster. 

[pixy0stix]

Fuck. I just tested positive for covid. Now I'm wondering if ds's reaction was to the vaxx or if he has it too. We're out of tests in the house currently.

[Scout'sHonor]

Jul 26, 2022 9:25:37 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Fuck. I just tested positive for covid. Now I'm wondering if ds's reaction was to the vaxx or if he has it too. We're out of tests in the house currently.

Nooo! I have a bunch, and can drop some off today.

[Scout'sHonor]

DD gets her 2nd shot Fri, I'll be interested to see if she has any reaction (didn't with the first), since she had a very mild case beginning of March.

[meganew]

Did anyone have swelling under their arm after the shot? DD has a swollen lymph node (I’m assuming) and is really puffy. If you had this reaction, how long did it take for the swelling to go down? Was it painful?

[dcn]

Jul 26, 2022 22:50:13 GMT -5 meganew said:

Did anyone have swelling under their arm after the shot? DD has a swollen lymph node (I’m assuming) and is really puffy. If you had this reaction, how long did it take for the swelling to go down? Was it painful?

I did - it went away after a couple of days. Ds1 had his booster on Friday and said his armpit was sore the next day. He was fine by Monday.

[charlatti]

Jul 26, 2022 22:50:13 GMT -5 meganew said:

Did anyone have swelling under their arm after the shot? DD has a swollen lymph node (I’m assuming) and is really puffy. If you had this reaction, how long did it take for the swelling to go down? Was it painful?

Yes, I did after my booster. It was uncomfortable but not painful and went down over a few days. I almost always get a smaller swollen lymph node in the back of my neck/shoulder area after any vaccine (including the first two regular doses), so the underarm node was somewhat surprising.