Welp, my neighbor friends caught covid. Glad we are keeping our heads down. Considering the family has been operating like normal it doesn't surprise me. They are all vaccinated but not boosted. The son and mom caught it. Son brought it home, unsure if mom caught it, but if she didn't have it when she went to get tested she got it at the test site. Conditions at the testing site were deplorable. The son has a fever hovering around 101-103 and passed out briefly the other day. The mom has a fever, body aches, joint pain. She says it feels like she was beat the hell up. Luckily no respiratory stuff.
Wife’s fellow 3rd grade teacher came to work knowingly positive for two days, my wife was notified about Friday afternoon, symptoms appeared Saturday afternoon. At home Binax kit was positive Saturday evening. Three kids in the house plus me, no one else reporting symptoms but it’s hard to tell three kids under 6 to keep distanced. My 6 year old daughters first reaction was to run around screaming for that that she gets a week off school, so it’s not all bad. EDIT: My wife and I are both mRNA + boosted
Welp, baby has a fever. Tried to test him but turns out it’s hard to get a good nasal swab on an angry 7 month old. The only people we see are my parents and his sister’s fam since they do childcare for us, everyone is as vaxxed as possible, and we all wear KN95s or similar everywhere. Sudden onset of 102* fever and runny nose seems…. Kind of covid-y though, so my money is on asymptomatic adult breakthrough case since no one is remotely sick.
Got my booster on Friday. Other then a sore arm and tired(that could be from the wife, she hasn't stopped cough in a couple of days) it wasn't bad.
We've all had Pfizer in my family so far - for both doses. No one has had any symptoms besides a sore arm. My dad got boosted with Moderna last week and was sick in bed for three days. Same with my aunt. My mom is getting her shot this afternoon...I think it will also be Moderna. If she gets just as sick, I'm probably going to hold off getting a booster until they can match the Pfizer. I'd really rather not gamble when I know one in particular doesn't have any side effects. I'm sure the issue we've just created with trucking is going to help the supply chain immensely.
As of January 22nd truckers entering America must be vaccinated. How is Canada having a reciprocal rule going to change anything?
Well it appears to have ground the bridge to a stop, if the traffic on the 402 was any indication this weekend. Truck drivers are in short supply right now; losing the long haul ones capable of crossing the border is going to sting.
Really interesting article: https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...s-so-easily-overwhelmed-by-the-covid-pandemic Essentially, pre-Covid, Canada was ranked in the bottom four countries of the developed world on our hospital capacity as well as our ICU bed availability. When you compare Alberta (Canada's wealthiest province) to Alabama (the US's poorest), the two have similar populations (5M ish) but Alabama has almost five times as many ICU beds. Jurisdictions were constantly at or above 100% capacity prior to Covid during flu season. We're also last place (pre-Covid) for doctor wait times amongst 17 other developed countries. So, yeah. It seems like the slightest anything could and does overwhelm the system. This is decades of shoddy medical management coming home to roost. The good news, at least, is that it's also the second most expensive (Team America takes that booby prize).
What stat is this? Deaths per million or population or per million infected? And why are you comparing the country to the state? Wouldn't province to state make more sense?
Deaths per million of population. I'm comparing Canada to Alabama because you compared Canada to Alabama.
Let me help... Alberta has had 3,380 deaths from 436,000 infections. That's a death rate (per infected person, not the population as a whole) of 0.78%. Alabama has had 16,734 from 1,060,000 infections. That death rate is 1.58%. Ostensibly, Alabama has an ICU capacity that is roughly five times that of Alberta, yet the Alabama death rate is double that of Alberta. I can't find a breakdown with the degree of sophistication that I want, but I would wager that, in Alabama, the high poverty rate has fostered a population with way higher obesity, comorbidites and lack of access to healthcare until it's too late. So it isn't comparing apples to apples in a perfect sense (Alberta, being the wealthiest province, tends to have healthier people). I'd guess that the per capita income in Alberta is double that of Alabama, and since healthcare is covered by taxation in Canada, not directly billed to the user, people seek treatment sooner. Regardless, that a province as wealthy as Alberta has a capacity so much less than a poor state like Alabama is criminal.
Update, I’m now positive with symptoms, three kids positive but mostly asymptomatic (thankfully), my mother in law is now positive and had been around her 78 year old mother who is already on oxygen. All because one woman couldn’t be bothered to stay at home because “she didn’t feel bad” People suck.