That sounds like it’s been horrible to go through. I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better, though. I hope that continues!
Also, good for you for being able to use the time to get some things accomplished!
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No, we haven’t learned a god damn thing…
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We have people gritching about closed urgent care centers and walk-in clinics, claiming it’s about money. It has nothing to do with money. It has everything to do with staffing. The medicos you were shitting on quit. Nurses, PAs, docs, all found they could make money without dealing with MAGAt idiots in other fields. I feel bad for the ones who don’t deserve this, but for the MAGA conspiracy twits and FUD peddlers, i have none at all. Covid largely spared my patients. For the most part, kids shrugged it off. This stuff is specifically targetting children (and the elderly.) It sucks. And to the shitheads responsible for making our lives hell, you suck too.
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I read the article, good to hear, but I’m still wondering if that’s also true of Covid caused by recent variants.
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Never base decisions on a single study. However, this is encouraging.
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…quarantine hotel.
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I wonder do they remember when they decided to let it rip and undermine healthcare efforts as a political choice as it was treating through “urban” communities and they didn’t care about them?
Because they absolutely should be made to recall that. And the fact that there isn’t a pissing, and a non-pissing end of the swimming pool.
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Conclusions
Overall, the review reported the significant potential for the use of melatonin in long-COVID and COVID-19 therapy. Studies have shown melatonin is more effective in reducing COVID-19 inflammatory markers than commonly used SARS-CoV-2 antivirals.
The authors believe that although melatonin exhibits anti-inflammatory and immunostimulant properties that many studies have reported being effective against COVID-19, it has not been promoted as a therapeutic option, possibly due to its easy availability and non-patentability, which makes it an unattractive target for pharmaceutical industries. They recommend clinical trials to explore the use of melatonin as a treatment for long COVID symptoms.
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Ok, so from what I gather from that piece, the new vaccine doesn’t work against these even newer variants. Ugh!
I’ve had 4, and will get the 5th soon, but I’m won’t feel all that much more secure as a result.
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Not exactly. It’s saying that the evidence so far doesn’t prove the new vaccines are significantly better than the previous ones.
What’s is left unsaid is that the new and original vaccines still provide very good protection against severe disease (see the part where they quote Fauci saying people getting vaxxed will mitigate a surge).
It does sound like the monoclonal antibody therapies are done for though.
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Why “not exactly”? I said the new vaccine doesn’t protect against these new variants because the article says,
The subvariants — called BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 – appear to be among the most adept yet at evading immunity from vaccination and previous infection, and have now overtaken the BA.5 omicron subvariant that has dominated in the U.S. since the summer. . . .
Vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech recently released a statement saying their new booster stimulates much higher levels of antibodies that can neutralize the BA.5 omicron subvariant than the original vaccine.
But, as I read it, cannot neutralize the new subvariants.
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Did any of the vaccines ever do that?
I thought the biggest selling point was reduce death and keep people out of hospitals.
I think the way the effectiveness is reported plays a big role in why people are not getting the latest booster. They read reports about “can not neutralize” and figure why bother.
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So our death rate in Ontario 
this week was exceeded this year only by the peak 7 weeks mid-winter.
Mask mandates are being kicked around in the news again, but with a noisy 20% of the population firmly against it (likely reflecting the vocal portion of the Keyes Constant proportion of the local population) that’s not going to happen.
I blythely quote the “Keyes Constant”… Reading more, lately, about distrust in governmental systems generated from genuinely bad experiences by people ill-resourced to deal with them does make me far more cross with the political leadership than the individuals.
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