I'm beginning to think doctors aren't always helping. Talked to a nice fellow I do some work for in the healthcare industry yesterday. He's been vaxxed and all of the doctors he/I work with have been vaxxed for months. His son waited until this week to get a shot because the son's primary care physician told him that he didn't need it. The son is 40 and lives in FL and was finally convinced by the high infection numbers and his dad's pleas. My acquaintance was very frustrated the kid's PCP didn't push it.
I did a lot of research and there's nothing really definitive. Everything I've read says make the best choice for your family. My wife got the vaccine in April and we just had a healthy baby last week so it worked out well for us.
Anecdotally my brothers wife has a healthy baby born after getting vaccinated in her second trimester
Like Conor but holy shit have formerly reasonable people become huge babies about masks like they don't realize this new variant is now well known to be incredibly more infectious than the original virus.
Update on my shit. Just got my daughters test results back from this morning and she's positive. Wife and I both tested negative. Thankfully 100% asymptomatic so far (other than Saturday). Fuck all these anti vax assholes. You guys have been my main resource for covid info through all this and I greatly appreciate it. What should be my timeline for quarantine? Like I said in my earlier post there's a decent chance she was positive this past Saturday, she was showing symptoms that day. She tested negative on Monday but she struggled like crazy with the test so decent possibility we didn't get a good swab or maybe just a false negative. I guess I'm just curious if she test negative say like Monday and I'm still testing negative am I out of the woods or should I just do a quarantine from the positive test today? Also, just for info my wife and I are both Pfizer vaccinated since April.
Isolation time is like 2 weeks on the cdc site, or ## days after your first negative test. I dont remember the number of days. Check with your pediatrician though. We're goobers, except the doctors. And the doctors will tell you to ask your doctors. Drinking a lot of water was told to my gf
It's insanity. Nothing is 100% against covid. Use the tools that we have available so we can save lives.
10 days after exposure may be fine as well as this variant progresses to symptoms quicker. For our daughter, the big thing was 3 consecutive days without fever was necessary. Also, don't worry about negative tests because PCR tests especially can be still positive WEEKS after you're no longer symptomatic; just quarantine and monitor symptoms. I have a co-worker doing this now who was vaccinated, he was positive and started testing negative then just popped positive again like almost two weeks after his likely exposure even though he feels fine now.
His exposure is ongoing with his infected child. It’s 10 days from the last day of his positive child’s end of quarantine. Which is horribly long. I think they’ve revised some guidelines though and I haven’t been on top of it.
Let’s just make this the new normal all over the place and let the anti-Vaxxers scream until they turn blue
These mandates are literally theater. People will claim they’re allergic to something in the vaccine, they’ll fill out a religious exemption form, or they’ll find a Trumper Doctor who will fill out a health exemption. I work in a hospital where maybe 60-70% of the nurses are vaxxed. I’ve heard all the ways they’ll skirt these rules already.
At my wife’s hospital the religion exemptions aren’t accepted. Period. If someone has a documented history of negative reactions to a vaccine/vaccines they will be approved, but must wear a mask at all times within the hospital.
Props to them because I feel like I’ve been following this relatively close and I’ve yet to hear of a place that’s done that with religious exemptions. I don’t think it’s the norm.
They have an long established history of turning down new hires who refused to be vaccinated for influenza, etc… on religious grounds. So the people they did hire never brought up religious prohibitions to vaccines. If they do it now the hospital replies, “You didn’t tell us that in your application. You’ve had other vaccinations since we hired you, etc…” it pushes the politicization of Covid-19 vaccine resistance out of the picture.
Wife got Pfizer 2 weeks after she got her tdap vaccine in 2nd/3rd trimester. Ob at the time recommended to her to get the mrna because she hadn’t seen data at the time on the J&J(and it was around the time of the pause for clotting). She had no side effects to any of the covid shots (Tdap made her extremely tired and kicked her ass), and pediatrician said he hoped baby would be good with antibodies for about 6 months before placenta passed things wear off.
Since we’ve been talking about it here is a real time tracker of hospitals that are mandating the vaccine, when, etc. https://globalepidemics.org/2021/07/24/new-hospital-vaccine-mandate-tracker/
My job still hasn’t reinstated a mask mandate or put a requirement on vaccines despite demanding we all come in next week. Depending how things go today I’m going to be requesting to continue WFH. I just don’t think this is responsible at all. Mind you we had 13 cases last week alone of people being verified of having COVID at work. This is all starting to worry me, I feel like we’re being thrown into the grinder here for no other reason than some executive wants us out there. It’s dumb
Your workplace literally does not care if you die as long as you're helping to churn out profits. You would think this would lead to more social upheaval but alas!
No doubt, it’s just wild for them to pull a complete 180 like this. It’s completely out of nowhere, delta is going to rock my workplace and I’d rather not be apart of that statistic
That assumes that business operates in the most efficient manner possible which they definitely do not
At this point it seems to me that all of us are going to get this shit, vaccinated or not. At least we know we probably won't die with the vax, but is there any reasonable research around long covid and mild cases? Its always seemed to me like there was way more focus on mortality than there ought to be considering the unknowns around long term symptoms / gray matter loss / etc.
Long covid is my nightmare. I can't remember who but there was a somewhat famous person who committed suicide from having long covid
Specifically the mask mandate going back up indoors in Atlanta and saying he won't comply because he's already vaccinated.
I may be wrong since it's still very early, but I really don't think there's too much of a worry about long COVID symptoms even with the Delta variant infecting those who are vaccinated.