There are 2 pharmacists at my CVS who are nice and 2 who are, I’m sorry, I know this is a stressful time for them, but, TOTAL DICKS. I got the nice one this morning and he says they are getting some but they’re not here yet. Oh well.
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Trying to judge exposure risk after the fact.
I caught up with a friend in a park today. While we were there she mentioned that her mother and father tested positive to Covid. This is after they were all at a party on the weekend (outdoors). It sounds like a lot of the guests have tested positive. My friend took a rapid test that was negative (because she has a sore throat) but given their reliability, should I assume the worst?
I don’t blame her. We were both desperate to have our kids play with another child and she did take a test first. She also let me know before hand about the sore throat and test, but I didn’t know about the party 
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Sore throat I would absolutely assume a positive. Rapids are routinely negative the first couple days of symptoms for omicron, and sore throat is an omicron hallmark symptom.
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I have a number of friends in the biomedical community. With Omicron, they’ve been seeing that it usually takes ~2 days after symptoms start for saliva at-home tests to come back positive, and ~3 days after symptoms start for nasal at-home tests to come back positive. If she had symptoms and known exposure, I’d definitely assume it was COVID.
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Oh and added to this, my husband and three other people I know personally (slash, or their spouses) had exactly this progression. Sore throat as the first adults symptoms (low grade fever and crankiness as first kid symptoms) and a negative rapid, but positive PCR. I keep pushing people to get a PCR (uh, here in the US where we can- I think stuff is rough with testing in some parts of Aus right now last I heard?) and people keep coming back with positives. 
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I’m still waiting on my PCR results but having had only a mild illness with a sore throat and negative rapid tests, I’ll add some anecdata in here soon
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Trying to submit a reimbursement claim for some COVID tests. The form is requiring a National Drug Code number. I’ve googled, but not sure how to find this…anyone know?
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Oh I think I found it!
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I feel like I am continually torturing my 2-year old.
He is sick again. High fever, cough, runny nose.
Had a PCR test, negative for covid and flu. So he can go back to daycare when his fever is gone for 24 hours.
But he is SO SCARED of doctors now because they “hurt his nose”.
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Tomorrow I have to work closely in person with an unvaccinated coworker. He’s a lovely man with some weird beliefs about food/water/chemicals (though he is a chemist by education and training).
I am much more concerned about not giving him Covid than I am the other way around. He will have tested on Saturday, and he’s fairly Covid conscious (he’s not a denier or anything like that). But, he’s 70! And I have a booger-y toddler at the moment. I’ll grab a fresh N95 mask at work tomorrow and hope for the best. I don’t want to kill this [highly respected expert]!
*if it matters, he works a few days a month, and completely voluntary - he’s retired twice and just sold a 2 million dollar house. I guess he gets bored.
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I really don’t have a ton of patience for older people not getting the vaccine. I was extremely happy to get it as I knew my age alone made me high risk. Please don’t feel guilty. He needs to take responsibility for himself. Ugh!!
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This! I mean, maybe this makes me a jerk, but I’ve mostly stopped worrying about giving covid to unvaxxed people who could be vaxxed but decided not to be. More worried about them giving it to me and me then accidentally passing it to someone vaxxed but vulnerable, immune compromised, etc.
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This was what I thought too. Hopefully we didn’t catch it, or she coincidentally does have something else 
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My work is making us do RAT tests every 72h, if you get a positive they do a PCR to confirm and you isolate.
If you have symptoms you do a PCR. But we all work in close proximity to each other so I fear once one person in a team has it, it will spread quickly across the site. Though we are all at a minimum double vaxxed, and all have to get boosters within 4 months of second shot so hopefully that helps. And surgical masks or KN95 must be worn by everyone in shared indoor spaces except when eating or drinking
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I’m crossing all crossable body parts that this is true.
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God I hope so. My older one turns 5 in March, so we will get her vaccinated then, but I will feel so much better when my 2-year old is vaccinated.
However, I just realized this means I will I’m probably going to have to take 1-2 days off work for both of them when they have post vaccine side effects. (The daycare lets kids with vaccine fevers come to school, but only if they otherwise feel fine. Covid vaccines typically haven’t been ‘feel fine’)
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The 5 year olds I know that are vaccinated didn’t have any side effects at all, so I hope that will be the way it is for my kids and yours. The shots definitely knocked me for a loop when I got mine.
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My ten year old had only a sore arm, no fever. The kids dose is smaller and most kids here seem to have fewer side effects than the parents. Hopefully this is true for your children.
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My kid also had no side effects besides a slightly sore arm for both shots. He was extra cranky the afternoon after his second shot, but that might have just been a hard day (someone stole his Pikachu toy he brought for show and tell because he left it on the ground next to his backpack IN THE HALL because he’s 5 and doesn’t understand what will happen).
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Just adding to the chorus - my six year old had zero side effects for both shots.
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