@ March Covid

[wanderingback]

Mar 9, 2023 12:23:45 GMT -5 kitty said:

Mar 8, 2023 12:38:56 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

We’ve mostly got childcare figured out for the next 6 months with my partner watching her 2 days and a nanny 2 days. Looking for someone to supplement an occasional Friday or Saturday and act as a back up. I just talked to someone on phone and they don’t have flu vaccine or any covid vaccines! At first I thought she meant she just didn’t have covid booster, but nope, has nothing. And she’s already working with 1 family. Oh well, lesson learned, need to ask about that ahead of time. So far of all the people I’ve talked to she’s the only one without it!

Looking for an after school sitter in 2021 on care/sittercity was a wild ride. I was looking for someone vaccinated and had at least one candidate straight up like to me about this. I also made it a point to tell any prospects who were middle aged or older or seemed very covid conscious that we would be vaccinating our kids as soon as they were eligible (this search was a few months before they extended it to the 5-11s). I had one older woman send me back a message about how I should reconsider vaccinating my kids and ‘do my research’ on how the vaccine could ‘damage their fragile immune systems.’ And I do live in a blue state!

Omg, wow.

[erbear]

Mar 9, 2023 7:11:28 GMT -5 mpm said:

We went through a global pandemic and are still losing 400+ people a day from it. My young, previously healthy, fit, fully vaccinated friend died leaving two children slightly older than my own without a father. Someone on my team is going to lose her income because she’s used up her disability allowance for long covid and is still unable to work. Another coworker who used to run marathons still gets winded walking up stairs from a covid infection he got in 2021. Those of us still trying to avoid infection are being gaslit from every angle when we try to protect our families because now the world is just pretending that none of that happened. I’d be surprised if most people alive between 2020-now don’t need therapy.

They do. It’s just not available 😭

[lo]

I guess now our young kids who had the pfizer vaccine can get the bivalent booster?

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/103534?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2023-03-15&eun=g2004386d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBreak_031523&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active

[wanderingback]

I saw that updated, great! Although I’m still a little confused about which vaccine to get for my soon-ish to be 6 month old.

Her pediatrician offers Pfizer, but there are community sites that are offering Moderna.

Will talk to her pediatrician at her next appointment before the vaccine.

[formerlyak]

We had a good run. Three years and no Covid in our house. Until Friday. Thursday night the teen was exhausted like I’ve never seen. But he had a golf tournament for school Monday that he had to be at at 6 am and he had a million things going on last week so I figured the week was just catching up with him. No fever. No cough. The sniffles sounded like his allergies when he forgets to take his Claritin (which he did forget to take that morning). Friday morning he felt a little better so he went to school.

That morning he found out his bff tested positive, but they’d only really hung out at lunch outside so he didn’t think anything of it. In the middle of state testing his Apple Watch alerted him that his heart rate was too high. He was having trouble concentrating because he was so tired. He put it all together and asked his teacher if he could go to the nurse. He couldn’t finish the test. I gave permission to the office to release him to go home. When he got home I told him to test and then go in his room (none of us were home). It was positive.

We’ve been testing every day since. The other three of us are all still negative for now. Though I don’t have high hopes for me staying that way since Thursday night when, we know now, teen was displaying symptoms he fell asleep laying his head on my shoulder while we watched March Madness.

[formerlyak]

Mar 20, 2023 16:01:41 GMT -5 JayhawkGirl said:

@ formerlyak we had it with three of the four of us starting 3/3. All very mild symptoms. I opened windows, ran air purifiers, and we each stayed in separate parts of the house and masked outside of our own room. DD avoided it thankfully. I hope you all stay negative and he has an easy go of it. I would have chalked mine up to pollen. But we had gone to the last home basketball game for our favorite college team and tested to be safe.

Thank you. It sounds like you all had a mild case, which is great.

Just did our day 5 test and we are all still negative. The teen is bored. Yesterday I tried to FaceTime him and he asked why I was calling during school. I was like, “because you are home”. He said he was structuring his day like the school day and doing the work posted to his school portal during the time he’s been doing that class at school so he didn’t fall behind. Points for trying, teen! Then he asked for a Big Mac because he’d never tasted one and wanted to. Fine. He decided it was “meh.” He’s totally loopy and ready to be done isolating. Luckily we got the all clear for him to return to school tomorrow.

[Mushe]

formerlyak I’m so sorry! We had a similar situation and my big kid (still a tween) who was our last man standing tested positive last night. He was actually pretty sick and feverish, poor bud. His class is supposed to go to camp (cabins) all next week, and I’m hoping he can test negative on Sunday so he can go. It will be a huge bummer if he can’t participate.

[NewOrleans]

TW

The virus can attack and destroy the placenta, a vascular organ that serves as a fetus’s lifeline, leading to asphyxiation and stillbirth, according to the study in the journal Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.

“We have never seen this level of destruction from an infectious illness before. It rendered the placenta unfit to carry out its duties,” said Dr. David Schwartz, a perinatal pathologist in private practice in Atlanta, who led the study. “These fetuses and newborns died from asphyxiation due to lack of oxygen.”

www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-stillbirths-coronavirus-can-severely-damage-placenta-pregnant-wo-rcna15534

[formerlyak]

Mar 21, 2023 23:13:52 GMT -5 Mushe said:

formerlyak I’m so sorry! We had a similar situation and my big kid (still a tween) who was our last man standing tested positive last night. He was actually pretty sick and feverish, poor bud. His class is supposed to go to camp (cabins) all next week, and I’m hoping he can test negative on Sunday so he can go. It will be a huge bummer if he can’t participate.

Did he get to go?

We all stayed negative.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Mar 9, 2023 19:37:38 GMT -5 erbear said:

Mar 9, 2023 7:11:28 GMT -5 mpm said:

We went through a global pandemic and are still losing 400+ people a day from it. My young, previously healthy, fit, fully vaccinated friend died leaving two children slightly older than my own without a father. Someone on my team is going to lose her income because she’s used up her disability allowance for long covid and is still unable to work. Another coworker who used to run marathons still gets winded walking up stairs from a covid infection he got in 2021. Those of us still trying to avoid infection are being gaslit from every angle when we try to protect our families because now the world is just pretending that none of that happened. I’d be surprised if most people alive between 2020-now don’t need therapy.

They do. It’s just not available 😭

Very, very true. I tried to get some support for my 2nd grader because he's been struggling with socialization issues all year, and his anxiety has skyrocketed over the past few months. I cannot tell you how many therapists I called/emailed/carrier pigeoned before getting someone to see him, and I'm pretty sure that's only because I name-dropped his pediatrician. They all are full with waitlists a mile long, no matter what the insurance websites/their own websites say.  And they also seem to only holding sessions during the day, which, let me tell you, is a JOY for a kid who is already anxious about missing out on things. He had his first session a couple of weeks ago, and he goes again tomorrow, and he is already asking if he can stop because he doesn't want to miss any more school.  It's a struggle.

His teacher told us she has definitely seen an impact on all fronts, but especially socialization. He was in pre-K in March 2020, and although we kept him remote for K, even the in-person instruction was only part time (usually a full-day), and they couldn't do group work, etc. The first grade teachers had to work overtime to try and get these kids understand how to function in school, and now they've gone from 17-18 kids/class to 24 or 25, which only makes it harder for everyone.  

[scm1011]

We got an email today that my favorite Covid perk, curbside kid drop off and pick up at daycare, is ending next week. It was a good run, but I’ll miss that 20-30 minutes each workday where I’m not dragging a resistant squirmy child and all their belongings around the center.

[Mushe]

Mar 27, 2023 7:12:14 GMT -5 formerlyak said:

Mar 21, 2023 23:13:52 GMT -5 Mushe said:

formerlyak I’m so sorry! We had a similar situation and my big kid (still a tween) who was our last man standing tested positive last night. He was actually pretty sick and feverish, poor bud. His class is supposed to go to camp (cabins) all next week, and I’m hoping he can test negative on Sunday so he can go. It will be a huge bummer if he can’t participate.

Did he get to go?

We all stayed negative.

So happy for you all! He tested negative on Monday morning and had been symptom free since Thursday, so yay! Unfortunately, I started feeling sick Monday afternoon and tested positive myself. I’m currently isolating in his room, since it’s empty, and it feels like a minor cold, but I’m more tired than I should be.

[Velar Fricative]

This is only somewhat related to covid in that it doesn't appear there was a link between covid and that cluster of severe hepatitis outbreaks in children that surfaced out of nowhere a year or so ago. They found convincing evidence that it was indeed related to adenoviruses combined with genetic causes, and that they only noticed something was awry because hepatitis in children occurs so rarely but there was that really noticeable spike during that cluster period. They believe it was due to kids getting sick with multiple viruses at once during the reopening phases of the pandemic.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/23422359.child-hepatitis-outbreak-due-aav2-virus-genes/

[StrawberryBlondie]

We get to play "is it strep, covid, or some random spring virus?" today.

I'm guessing it's strep since I know that's going around in the circles the kid runs in who tf knows.

So fingers crossed it's strep.