• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    643·
    16 days ago

    I get a COVID-19 booster with my flu shot every year. Anybody else do that?

  • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    16 days ago

    I’m immunocompromised and still have to mask up everywhere. Now that scientists know covid causes PERMANENT brain damage, some things going on in the USA make a lot more sense

      • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        Thank you for the info! I’ve had the max number of vaccines, which I think is like 6. I actually feel significantly better than my friends and family who got long covid… Tachycardia is a bitch to live with

    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      Honestly I think the American right wing is counting on it. The generation of easily manipulated, brain-damaged dipshits who grew up in the leaded gasoline days have been instrumental in the GOP’a ability to gain and hold power. Anything that dumbs down the masses is good in their eyes. That’s why they attack our education system so hard.

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      Don’t be so quick to blame COVID, I mean we also had leaded gasoline for a long time…

    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      im trying to find the link between covid and IIH. all of a sudden i have been dealing with IIH symptoms and had a month long hospital visit getting multiple MRIs to find increased CSF pressure in my head.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
    251·
    16 days ago

    Thank WHO for keeping with the science. My appreciation is much greater that mere words can express.

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    15 days ago

    Can confirm. Saw the first COVID death this season around four weeks ago. Had three patients requiring non-invasive ventilation so far.

    …and got hit with it in early autumn and it was much worse than the infection two years ago. Much much worse.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      On the flip side, I’ve had it three times now and each time was less severe than the last. Individual experiences vary, which is why anecdotal evidence is bunk.

      COVID has become endemic and, like most endemic pathogens, will become some combination of more infectious and less severe over time. COVID-19 mortality rates and the detectable portion in wastewater both have already sharply declined compared to the early years of the pandemic.

      That is not to negate the message of the original post. Already North American employers are starting to treat COVID like influenza, expecting their employees to come to work while sick despite their infection risk. I just see posts like yours talking about how it’s “much much worse” and know how they can worry those without the background necessary to figure out if they’re accurate or not (hint: they’re not representative of the entire situation).

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    There was this day where i got really nauseous, got a little collapse on the toilet and then some coughing for a week. My sis, that lives somewhere else, got the same. I heard that’s the new (mutated) Covid.

    So the old variant is still around?