Which ones did you get? We are about to run out of kn95 and the brand we got last time doesn’t exist so that’s on my to-do list this week.
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I got the GoodDay KF94 masks.
Several articles I’ve read (wired, NY post, NY magazine) recommended them, and I couldn’t find any contrary evidence that they’re fake. I switched from KN95s because trying to decide which brands were counterfeit was driving me insane.
I tried to buy the KF94s from a manufacture’s website, but defaulted to Amazon.
We never got the initial ones we ordered 
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I have these KF94s. I like the KF94 style because they don’t ride up into my eyes. (I have a small face.) I like these in particular because they come with little hooks so you can attach the ear loops in back rather than wearing them over the ears. Also very good for my small face, because ear loops are always too big for me.
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Ummm, do I have any immunity now that I have had Covid recently? Like, being immunosuppressed and taking an antiviral (paclovid), did I even form an antibody?
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You could probably get an antibody test. As long as it’s testing for the nucleocapsid antibodies vs. the spike protein antibodies from the vaccine, it should show you whether you had good immune response to the infection.
Speaking of paxlovid, my mom just took it for her own covid infection. She’s got an autoimmune disorder but isn’t on any immune suppressants. She took the paxlovid and felt great, and tested negative on rapid antigen tests towards the end of her doses. But then a few days later, she felt sick again and started testing positive. Seems like paxlovid rebound is a thing - in some cases, the paxlovid isn’t enough to fully wipe out the virus so it can multiply again. Research suggests that hospitalization risk is still low after the paxlovid even in a rebound case, but it can certainly be unpleasant and potentially make you contagious again. Just a general PSA to anyone who may take paxlovid…if you start to feel worse again, take it seriously! It can take a few days to manifest.
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Please!
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Girl at this point my kid is gonna get it right before the vaccine. Like, thanks for the lifesaving science, guys, thanks for nothing gov’t for playing fast and loose with masking like my kid doesn’t exist.
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Does anyone have advice for getting your sense of taste back after COVID? I can taste fat and salt, but most flavors are just… gone? I was sick in February and couldn’t taste anything for a week or so. It hasn’t improved much since March-ish.
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I saw something about scent retraining. I think a lot of it was scent based to begin with (as opposed to taste). Things like ground coffee, essential oils on cotton balls, in jars that you do sniffs on. You can probably look up scent retraining and see what’s out there.
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I also heard advice about eating things with varying temperatures and textures while you’re waiting so that at least eating is interesting even if the tastes aren’t all there
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I thought my sense of taste and smell were fine but somehow an aging bottle of mead spilled all over the kitchen (it must have cracked somehow) and the smell was really faint to me. Weird.
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To add to some anecdata regarding paxlovid, I got paxlovid on my 3rd day of symptoms (2nd day of testing positive), took it through my 8th day, and continued to test positive up until day 10.
I stopped having any marked symptoms by day 4. I’m now 5 days out from paxlovid, still testing negative and still symptom-free.
I didn’t have a particularly bad case, even prior to getting on the paxlovid - 102F fever the first day, and a lot of fatigue plus a bit of a sort throat. No loss of taste, no cough, no digestive issues or lung involvement.
I’ve known 2 people to have paxlovid rebound, seems like for most it happens around 3 days post paxlovid course ending.
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Anecdata from an unvaccinated small child with asthma: sounded terrible day 2, parents obtained steroids just on case. Humidifier helped, a couple days later child never needed the steroids and is running rings around ill (vaccinated) parents.
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The FDA is totally not waiting for Pfizer before they review Moderna, they promise 
. They better finish this job!
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Are you all trusting the home tests? I’ve heard they give false negatives often. I took one because I have a bunch and it was negative but I think it’s too soon anyway. I was just exposed yesterday and today.
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My understanding is that if you were exposed and don’t have symptoms, you should wait until day 5. On day 1, you’re not gonna have a developed enough infection for a test to work.
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I’m on staycation next week! I do not want to be sick! I have projects to do!
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I mean, you’re not guaranteed to be sick! You can do projects as long as you’re not exposing people while you do them. 
(And as long as you don’t develop symptoms… in which case naps are good, lots of naps.)
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My thing has been to test after a couple days of symptoms to give myself time to develop a viral load. If negative, I test again a few days later.
But I also don’t go anywhere without a mask and am only really around my husband.
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