GI I think countries where mask wearing was more usual got it right. I too have managed to avoid my usual winter colds since mask wearing
became more common here.
Had my autumn booster yesterday afternoon. The Pfizer Bivalant this time. Some tenderness in the arm by bedtime, but nothing else so far. Not 24hours yet, so that may change!
Its finally got to me. I tested strongly positive yesterday after my partner suggested I did a test as the cold/flu like symptoms I'd had since Friday included a loss of taste sensations. I'd managed to escape it until now, so its a bit of a bummer - especially as I had to miss a school reunion on Saturday that I'd been looking forward to for months. I've just spoken to work and was surprised to hear that the latest guidance is don't stay away just because you've tested positive, if you feel well you can come to work (this is a public facing job in libraries). But since I do actually feel quite unwell, I'll be staying away for a few days at least. Interestingly my partners work were more concerned ... and asked her to work from home this week. She's supposed to be getting her next booster later this week, and she's a 'vulnerable person' with autoimmune conditions, so I really hope she doesn't get it ... neither of us have had it before. She's mainly worried about jeopardising her chances if getting the booster.
Is the Pfizer Bivalant a variation on the new Moderna vaccine wot is supposed to perteckt agin Omicron?
Anyway, hope you don't get any nasty side FX...
I understand that there are two bivalent vaccines currently in use against both the original Covid and Omicron variants. Moderna brought out theirs first, then Pfizer produced their own formulation. Pfizer is the one most recently licensed, and the only vaccine on offer at the local centre.
How times have changed... Our friend near Glasgow got the covid from us (after the Edinburgh covid party reported elsewhere). He was due to go for an operation a couple of weeks later, and called the hospital to let them know he'd tested positive. The response was essentially, "Oh good - we won't need to test you, and you'll be clear by then". And everything was fine after that.
We were informed at choir that two of our committee have Covid.
I was more than a bit annoyed that the friend I sit with was coughing and spluttering. Probably not Covid, but it is really anti- social to attend choir, above all, when unwell. Has Covid taught us nothing?
Covid seems very much in evidence round here at the moment. My mum's care home is closed because of a few cases, and my Italian tutor said she'd had quite a few people cancel classes due to being ill. The latest variant also seems to be making people a bit more ill than the one before.
I had my latest booster on Thursday and apart from a sore arm am fine. I'm very relieved about that.
Having dodged the bullet I now have the lurgy.
Very unpleasant with the usual symptoms plus nausea and dizziness. I have had to postpone one set of heart investigations because of it. A proper embuggerance!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery so you can sort out the really important stuff Alan.
Masks are only compulsory here in a medical setting, though they are recommended to be worn on buses and planes. I'm still wearing mine in shops and other places where people are in confined space because in November I'm visiting my brother in a care home, a setting where I would hate to be the Covid equivalent of Typhoid Mary.
A week on and no after effects from the booster, other than slightly tender arm for the first couple of days.
Nicely spaced flu vaccine due on Saturday coming.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery so you can sort out the really important stuff Alan.
Masks are only compulsory here in a medical setting, though they are recommended to be worn on buses and planes. I'm still wearing mine in shops and other places where people are in confined space because in November I'm visiting my brother in a care home, a setting where I would hate to be the Covid equivalent of Typhoid Mary.
I think they're still compulsory on at least suburban trains here. Regardless of compulsion, we wear ours on trains, in shops and in shopping streets and shopping centres. Most others are still doing the same.
Granted, the level of severity seems to be less high, but, even so...
Our government is too much concerned with its own internal shenanigans to worry about yet more people becoming ill, and the consequent greater pressure on the NHS, although that doesn't appear to be happening just yet.
Damn - 2 weeks before I go to see my brother who is in care and a new variant has appeared. I've had to cancel the last two times due to the
plague. I will be really annoyed if it happens again.
Of course the world needs to be re-arranged to suit my every whim.
Day 3 and the flu arm is pretty OK, the COVID arm only hurts if I lie on that side. So bar the sore arm and - possibly - a day-after headache, the enhanced Moderna shot hasn't been a problem.
That's good to know.
Our fourth vaccination was at the beginning of the year. We are intending to have a third booster before we go to our son's Wedding Celebration in Japan next April. The third booster is available to vulnerable people, and we are included because of our ages. So far, the only effects of our vaccinations are a day of tiredness and a slightly saw arm. We had flu and Covid boosters on the same day.
I had my fourth shot (2nd booster) yesterday and amazingly, it did basically nothing but make me sleep! Last time was chills and fever and aches and pains... this was easier than a flu shot, even. I wonder if having had COVID five months ago makes a difference.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But this comes after three previous bad shots, and a miserable case of covid. Maybe it took all that to finally tip me over the threshhold. I hope so, since more boosters are likely in my future.
I had my fourth shot (2nd booster) yesterday and amazingly, it did basically nothing but make me sleep! Last time was chills and fever and aches and pains... this was easier than a flu shot, even. I wonder if having had COVID five months ago makes a difference.
We've had all our normal flu shots as well as covid. I'm glad to say that we had next to no reaction to any of them.
Mr RoS had to cancel his flu vaccine because he came across a pop-up walk-in centre for the Covid booster two days before his flu jab appointment & got himself boosted.. The next date he was given for the flu jab by the surgery was the day we are expecting a rare visit from Younger Son & family.
Fortunately he noticed that the local chemist is doing the flu vaccine, so he popped in there yesterday and had it done.
We are both now fully vaccinated for the winter.
My sister has covid, and is being asked by her employer to come in unless she feels ill, but wear a mask. This seems dumb.
I agree. I suspect the UK is like Australia where the politicians are pushing the economy at the expense of individuals that may suffer, and are muffling the voices of the medical experts.
Our Place's FatherInCharge has just emailed everyone to say he has Ye Plague, but he has already managed to arrange cover for all but 2 of this week's daily Masses.
Hopefully, his case will be only very mild, but he is sensible enough to know to keep out of the picture until he tests negative again!
🙏
More sensible than we've come to expect of F-i-C.
Has somebody got at him with a cluestick?
Perhaps you're getting him mixed up with his predecessor, the egregious Father F**kwit? The one who told me (whilst I was having a bout of depression) that a True Christian™ should never be depressed?
In all fairness, FInC has his idiosyncrasies (some of which annoy me intensely!) but he has been very careful all through the pandemic, both with himself, and with his congregation,
It is, therefore, somewhat ironic that he has Covid at this late stage, but it seems that cases (mostly mild, thank gods) are on the increase in our area. At the same time, protective measures are so relaxed now as to be almost non-existent, so maybe it's no surprise. Happily, FInC tells me that he only has a sore throat, but, as I said, he is laying low until he tests negative again.
The friend that I spent all day Monday with who was sick but tested negative, just tested positive. I tested myself and am coming up negative but I fear it's only a matter of time...
Tried to re-schedule my covid jab appointment.
Failed.
When I got to the website I had to go through an NHS Login, which involved thinking up a password, getting a security code sent to my email - and another one to my mobile phone - and then they wanted a photo of my photo ID, or I could contact my GP to prove my identity.... at which point I gave up.
All I wanted was to change an appointment!
After being extremely careful to avoid the plague, daughter Erin has Covid. She’s just recovering from a bout of flu. Her husband is vulnerable and her son is little, also both recently over flu. I’m hoping she has it only mildly.
I got an e-mail the other day inviting me to book an appointment for Covid and flu jags, so I'm going to get them in early December. Unfortunately, the place where I work (where I had all the others) is only doing weekend appointments for this season's ones, which is un fat lot de bon, so I'm getting them at a place near Waverley station.
Mr Nen and I got double-jabbed at our doctors' surgery yesterday and are both fine so far. My flu arm was achey from the start but as I sleep on the Covid side I thought I'd be fine. Having slept for several hours on that side last night that's achey too - at least I've got a matching pair!
@Tree Bee , I hope Erin recovers swiftly and that the rest of the family don't get it.
I have my booster on Tuesday at 4.55, about half a mile from home. I'll have cycled 4.5 miles from Oxford to get there... at which point I shall turn round and go back to attend a talk! If I am tired and sore the next morning, will it be the jag or the cycle wot dun it?
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became more common here.
Anyway, hope you don't get any nasty side FX...
It certainly is NOT over yet - and maybe never will be?
*Imagines @Gracious Rebel 's partner running off down the road at top speed*
I do hope she misses it, GR, and that you feel better soon. I keep hearing of more and more people having it.
I understand that there are two bivalent vaccines currently in use against both the original Covid and Omicron variants. Moderna brought out theirs first, then Pfizer produced their own formulation. Pfizer is the one most recently licensed, and the only vaccine on offer at the local centre.
Experiencing nothing nasty so far, thank you.
I was more than a bit annoyed that the friend I sit with was coughing and spluttering. Probably not Covid, but it is really anti- social to attend choir, above all, when unwell. Has Covid taught us nothing?
I hope Appropriate Words were said (in Christian love, of course).
I had my latest booster on Thursday and apart from a sore arm am fine. I'm very relieved about that.
Very unpleasant with the usual symptoms plus nausea and dizziness. I have had to postpone one set of heart investigations because of it. A proper embuggerance!
Masks are only compulsory here in a medical setting, though they are recommended to be worn on buses and planes. I'm still wearing mine in shops and other places where people are in confined space because in November I'm visiting my brother in a care home, a setting where I would hate to be the Covid equivalent of Typhoid Mary.
Nicely spaced flu vaccine due on Saturday coming.
I think they're still compulsory on at least suburban trains here. Regardless of compulsion, we wear ours on trains, in shops and in shopping streets and shopping centres. Most others are still doing the same.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/coronavirus-covid-levels-on-rise-across-uk
Granted, the level of severity seems to be less high, but, even so...
Our government is too much concerned with its own internal shenanigans to worry about yet more people becoming ill, and the consequent greater pressure on the NHS, although that doesn't appear to be happening just yet.
plague. I will be really annoyed if it happens again.
Of course the world needs to be re-arranged to suit my every whim.
Our fourth vaccination was at the beginning of the year. We are intending to have a third booster before we go to our son's Wedding Celebration in Japan next April. The third booster is available to vulnerable people, and we are included because of our ages. So far, the only effects of our vaccinations are a day of tiredness and a slightly saw arm. We had flu and Covid boosters on the same day.
We've had all our normal flu shots as well as covid. I'm glad to say that we had next to no reaction to any of them.
Fortunately he noticed that the local chemist is doing the flu vaccine, so he popped in there yesterday and had it done.
We are both now fully vaccinated for the winter.
Homicidal, if there are any immune-suppressed people at her job. And how awful of her employers to put her in such a position!
I agree. I suspect the UK is like Australia where the politicians are pushing the economy at the expense of individuals that may suffer, and are muffling the voices of the medical experts.
Hopefully, his case will be only very mild, but he is sensible enough to know to keep out of the picture until he tests negative again!
🙏
Has somebody got at him with a cluestick?
Perhaps you're getting him mixed up with his predecessor, the egregious Father F**kwit? The one who told me (whilst I was having a bout of depression) that a True Christian™ should never be depressed?
In all fairness, FInC has his idiosyncrasies (some of which annoy me intensely!) but he has been very careful all through the pandemic, both with himself, and with his congregation,
It is, therefore, somewhat ironic that he has Covid at this late stage, but it seems that cases (mostly mild, thank gods) are on the increase in our area. At the same time, protective measures are so relaxed now as to be almost non-existent, so maybe it's no surprise. Happily, FInC tells me that he only has a sore throat, but, as I said, he is laying low until he tests negative again.
Do you suspect that even Jesus turned the matter over to his mother to deal with?
Failed.
When I got to the website I had to go through an NHS Login, which involved thinking up a password, getting a security code sent to my email - and another one to my mobile phone - and then they wanted a photo of my photo ID, or I could contact my GP to prove my identity.... at which point I gave up.
All I wanted was to change an appointment!
@Tree Bee , I hope Erin recovers swiftly and that the rest of the family don't get it.
Dead easy to get to - it's just inside the Waverley Bridge entrance to the shopping mall. And a pretty brisk turnaround.