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My wife STILL has it. I told her to wait until Thursday to burn another test kit.

She is finally negative. Lost her taste though. Hopefully she gets that back.

sounds like the original covid strain

Glad she is negative now

So, about this 4th booster...

CDawg's wife got it, I presume, since he did, and she got Covid about a minute later, cancelling a cruise.

Obviously we had it in our house, but did not have that 4th shot. Mild cases for sure.

Supposedly an Omicron booster is coming. Will it be obsolete for the new variants? Anyone take a good look at this lately? I'm curious.

We have twins nephews coming this summer, so my parents have been investigating it quite a bit.  They were told the high end 2nd booster protection is 6 weeks, and that's in <5% of people, and she advised within 4 weeks of when they wanted to visit their new grandchildren.

"Apparently" the Omicron specific booster is also designed based the ways the virus is mutating, so I don't think it's obsolete against future variants, but I have seen nothing about whether it's good for any more than a month.

Second booster. 10 days later, isolated, with symptoms. 


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the shots and boosters are not much help preventing the virus

some question how much they do to lessen the severity of the symptoms

Right, which if you are getting it to protect newborns you plan to be around, doesn't really help

I decided to get the second booster (shot 4) before the cruise as a precaution May 1.  That provided time to "kick in".  We think she contracted it at the symphony May 14, could have been at a restaurant, but we didn't dine out often, we were eating the food we had.  We left for the cruise May 15, returning yesterday.

She had started sneezing more than usual and said she had fever off and on, but hardly any real symptoms, we walked all over the place, but she doesn't complain about such things.  It was a real surprise when she tested positive May 17 and 18.  I never tested positive, never had any symptoms, so maybe it protected me.  I'd guess it eased her symptoms.  This isn't always an on or off kind of binary thing except for the transport issues.

The funny thing is Lufthansa was VERY strict about mask wearing on the flight, the attendants were chastising folks left and right, who knew the Germans could be that way?

Then you get into the airport at Frankfort and Copenhagen and masks were rare events, really only Asians wearing them.  The same was true in Denmark and Sweden.  Then Air Canada coming back, masks required, including at the Toronto airport (which was a true mess).

Then ATL and no masks of course, except some Asians.

Denmark COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer (worldometers.info)

Denmark had a surge last winter, but today is very low in reported cases.

The NYT morning feed had an unusual take on masks (I read their feed for free, it can be interesting):

The evidence suggests that broad mask mandates have not done much to reduce Covid caseloads over the past two years. Today, mask rules may do even less than in the past, given the contagiousness of current versions of the virus. And successful public health campaigns rarely involve a divisive fight over a measure unlikely to make a big difference.

Yet when you look at the data on mask-wearing — both before vaccines were available and after, as well as both in the U.S. and abroad — you struggle to see any patterns.