Covid-19

[bleedXblue]

Not that this should be a huge surprise, but I am seeing more hospitalizations in vaccinated folks that have not yet boosted as time goes on and antibody levels wane. Peers in other systems have said the same. Generally they are older or have had some immune system compromise/on immunosuppressants.

At the risk of sounding preachy: with the holidays coming up we have been encouraging people to get their hands on some home tests which are very easy to find, frequently free of charge as well. It’s very easy to take a test before gathering with family/friends during the holiday season. If you are hosting it’s not unreasonable to request a test from guests, especially if you provide one.

what about hospitalizations of those that have had the virus and natural immunity? Just curious what you are seeing? Are you a Dr or nurse?

[Lloyd Braun]

what about hospitalizations of those that have had the virus and natural immunity? Just curious what you are seeing? Are you a Dr or nurse?

Not many but a few hospitalized reinfections. Typically if you survive the first one the odds are you’ll do ok the 2nd time around. Antibody levels seem to last longer with natural immunity as well. There are exceptions to everything of course. I have yet to see someone hospitalized though who had primary infection then vaccinated. I also I have yet to see anyone test positive that had the disease and vaccine. I’m sure it’s happened (to someone immunocompromised likely) but I haven’t seen it.

Thanks for asking, I have a very unique position. Unfortunately, I am a lifelong student. After Xavier I went to med school and had a health scare that forced me to put that on pause for about a year. The following year I opted to go to PA school in New York instead and made a career out of that for 18 years and still use that for income. I am entrenched in an MD/PhD program that seems never ending because I am not doing it full time (financial reasons, mostly, as I can’t afford to take 8+ years off work at my age, 43). I am in a private practice for primary care on the outpatient side and infectious disease on the inpatient side. Time is split 90/10 outpatient/inpatient. I also contract with a nursing company that streamlines the monoclonal antibody infusions, essentially showing the hospital systems how to set up an efficient system. Side note on that, it’s still mostly an inefficient system to which demand outweighs capability to the systems. People are being treated way too late in the big hospital systems. I think the best solution is somewhere between the current setup here and what Florida had in large treatment centers.

[XU_Lou]

Huge protests over Covid tyranny - literally all over the world: https://twitter.com/search?q=covid%2...ed_query&f=top

Are we watching the death of the Great Reset and the notion of a one world government?

[waggy]

Huge protests over Covid tyranny - literally all over the world: https://twitter.com/search?q=covid%2...ed_query&f=top

Are we watching the death of the Great Reset and the notion of a one world government?

Better be careful. You're gonna get cancelled.

[XU_Lou]

Better be careful. You're gonna get cancelled.

Yea, I know! I'm sure there are quite a few on here that would love to see me silenced....

[xu82]

Yea, I know! I'm sure there are quite a few on here that would love to see me silenced....

An endorsement from Waggy must make you proud!

I would be embarrassed to be backed by a bigot who calls people of middle eastern decent “mixed breed mongrels shuffling in the sand”.

The apology does not erase the glimps into Waggy’s beliefs:

“Some people don't know which hole their dick goes in, but I'M the confused one. If you want to harbor something relating to what I said about middle easterners when I already apologized for it, that's your business.” But he typed it, so we know what he thinks.

Great, that is YOUR camp. Congrats!

[waggy]

Hahahahaa

[XU_Lou]

An endorsement from Waggy must make you proud!

I would be embarrassed to be backed by a bigot who calls people of middle eastern decent “mixed breed mongrels shuffling in the sand”.

The apology does not erase the glimps into Waggy’s beliefs:

“Some people don't know which hole their dick goes in, but I'M the confused one. If you want to harbor something relating to what I said about middle easterners when I already apologized for it, that's your business.” But he typed it, so we know what he thinks.

Great, that is YOUR camp. Congrats!

Thanks for that very interesting and insightful commentary, Whackado-82.....

[xu82]

Thanks for that very interesting and insightful commentary, Whackado-82.....

Again, very mature. What we expect from anyone who is so extreme, on either side.

[XU_Lou]

Again, very mature. What we expect from anyone who is so extreme, on either side.

Okay, Whackado-82! Lets see here, an ad hominem attack on two people that have nothing to do with you, but we're the ones who are immature?? LOL!!