The hospital I’m at in NYC seems like it’s requiring everyone to double mask now? I’m not sure if this is new bc delta variant or because it’s so hot outside that everyone has sweated through their first mask…
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I would love to take a training on that. Though I completely feel your initial reaction. “I wouldn’t NEED to be so fucking resilient if things would just stop being shitty!”
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"She responded to the WHO by saying they are dealing with a worldwide situation where far fewer people are vaccinated than in the United States, given global vaccine disparities, and are therefore issuing more cautious advice.
‘We know that the WHO has to make guidelines and provide information to the world,’ she said. ‘Right now, we know as we look across the globe that less than 15 percent of people around the world have been vaccinated and many people of those have really only received one dose of a two-dose vaccine. There are places around the world that are surging.’ "
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I’m no epidemiologist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
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Preliminary data shows that J&J/Jannsen is effective against Delta - very good news.
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Some good news!
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Wow. This is an amazing milestone!
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So, if you are fully vaxxed, but just traveled, and were around small kids on your trip who had “colds”, and now you have symptoms… would you get tested? Or think you don’t need testing because you can smell and taste?
Not me or anyone in my household, just prompted by someone in a video call who admits they are sick but just know they don’t have covid?! I am just curious if I am the only one who, if it were me, would go get tested to be sure.
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I actually did catch some thing rather Covid-like two weeks ago, and I made a conscious decision not to go get tested. I don’t trust our healthcare system, I am vaccinated, my symptoms were mild, and I don’t want that as a pre-existing condition. I Just stayed away from people.
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I would get tested just to make sure it wasn’t one of those mild cases in the vaccinated, and I would probably work from home while waiting for results. But I sometimes work with little kids. Covid in kids can def. look like the sniffles!
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If I was fully vaccinated, under 60 and no immune compromising conditions, and it wasn’t “text book COVID”, I probably would not get tested. But I’d isolate and mask while I had symptoms because spreading colds is mean anyway lol.
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I’d get tested, mostly because I take public transit daily to go to work on an academic campus. I wouldn’t want to risk spreading something. (Also, I already had covid, so I guess that preexisting condition is already in my records!)
I actually got tested a month or two ago when I felt like I had a cold. I was pretty sure it was just an intense reaction to A LOT of dust I stirred up when cleaned out our storage loft, but I wanted to make sure before I went to work again. (It was negative.) If I was exposed to someone with cold-like symptoms? Definitely.
It could be my personality, too. I like knowing what’s up with my body. I’m still salty I couldn’t get a real covid test when I actually had it - only the antibody test later.
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I got tested when I was 99% sure I had a cold. Because I didn’t want to be wrong.
I think a lot of people are getting colds now that we are around other people again.
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We are a household of 5 fully vaccinated adults, and a small child.
3 people attended a baseball game and came down with a cold and the rest of us got it.
The triage nurse said that the chances of 5 fully vaccinated adults having symptomatic Covid were low and we didn’t need to
Get tested but dd should stay home for the rest of the week because we didn’t need to spread a cold around. (She’s the only gainfully employed person.)
Dh and I started wearing masks again because we remembered that we didn’t like colds.
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Same 
one mild cold and I’m back to masks and wiping down carts. C Olds sucks.
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We have two factors that are changing - I’m supposed to return to an office a couple days a week soon (thought I’m not sure exactly what date “soon” is, but sometime in July) and Kiddo is starting summer camp. The mask compliance at summer camp is not ideal, as I learned this morning. They changed their standards since we enrolled him at the end of the school year. I think my work requires a covid test and working from home till the test results come back, obviously my chances of exposure are a lot higher than they were a couple months ago when we basically never went anywhere ever.
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Is someone around to talk me down
A relative from Guatemala came to get vaccinated. We all agreed it was fine if she kept her mask on in common areas; everyone is vaccinated but our 2yr old son is not.
So she was vaccinated with J&J today. And then I saw her walk in without a mask but figured it was because she was coming from outside. But then I came down and she was maskless. And I didn’t know what to say or make of it. And then my mom was like oh JJ is immediately effective. That sounded funny. But I was mid meetings and didn’t say anything. But next time I came down and she’s playing with our son without a mask.
I’m so freaked out. Like yeah she got the vaccine but that won’t stop her from infecting others if she’s already sick!
Is it still true that if he gets covid even delta he will likely be ok?
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