You’ll never get me on one of those things, I’ll tell you what
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No prob. The immune system puts the most extreme Rube Goldberg mechanisms to shame, and most of it happens very much behind the scenes. That’s why there is a whole specialty devoted to it. Nothing fits on a bumper sticker, and anything in the press has been simplified, necessarily, almost into meaninglessness. It makes it hard for me to respond to questions sometimes, since i often have to start with “nothing you think you know is correct.” And i am not an immunologist by any means. That shit is witchcraft, man!
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ah, how i pine for those simpler times when people were claiming – without any proof – that covid would just magically evolve into a less deadly, less threatening disease, and we only just had to wait.
any time now, covid. any time.
i knew i shouldn’t have gotten infected. !$&#
what ever happened to “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” can we at least go back to that?
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It’'s evolved into whatever doesn’t kill you makes you wronger. 
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I never really stopped wearing my mask in public (take it off for eating, etc)… 
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Even outside?
I figure that’s okay, if im nowhere near maskless–
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If I’m around a lot of people… sure. If it’s pretty spread out and all that, then nah.
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Samesies samesies
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Well, according to this CDC report the Omicron variant is actually less deadly than delta was, thankfully. Still far from harmless, obviously.
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I was hospitalized in 2nd grade, and I’m only 3 years younger than yourself. Oxygen tent and everything, but I couldn’t stand being cooped up and got caught sneaking out sometimes by the night shift nurses.
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the summary doesn’t mention whether it teases out vaccinations and prior exposure. we as a population are in a different state than we were before. even many who are hospitalized now likely have some resistance - a less naive immune system - than their peers did in first year
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Since they specifically did not include vaccination or previous infection induced immunity in their assessment, it’s tough to interpret that in terms of virulence of the virus, because host factors changed pretty significantly over that time frame. They looked at changes in crude mortality, not reasons for those changes.
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It’s certainly difficult to disentangle those variables but they did include prior infection as one of the criteria for which patients were considered to be in their “high risk” group.
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How do you research the effects of long COVID-19 on Black and brown people when most volunteers for medical studies are white?
The COVID-BRAIN Project has set the bar high: Researchers aim to enroll 20–25 percent Latino participants and 15 percent Black participants to reflect the U.S. demographics of COVID-19 patients. While there aren’t specific targets for Native American and Asian populations, the investigators hope to recruit participants from both groups.
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A grifter? In covid denial land? Shirley, you can’t serious!
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