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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins
I went to a funeral last week for the wife of a teacher friend. She was fully vaccinated and boosted, but she had lupus and pulmonary fibrosis prior to Covid. They had discovered her antibodies were low (very common with immunocompromised patients) and had her scheduled for a 4th vaccine but she was infected with omicron about that same time (you know omicron: the one people wave off as a cold). Well, it killed her in a month.
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When I tested positive, I was terrified I had infected my frail, elderly landlady who is a grandmother. I can't self isolate in my room as I don't have a toilet to myself. Thankfully she's still testing negative.
I was not happy that the clinic staff kept trying to refuse my request to be moved to a covid hotel (in my country, I can ask for that), and minimising the potential harm to my landlady.
At the hotel, all the staff wore n95s, face shields, hair nets, gloves and isolation gowns.
In my job screening patients before their tests, I wear a mask, face shield, hair net and gloves. The swab test folks wear isolation gowns on top of all that.
Omicron was like a bad flu for me and really exhausting. I'm still worried about long covid, particularly brain fog, fatigue, cardiovascular stuff.
Plus there's plenty of countries in the global majority where people can't get vaccinated, much less have a booster.
My therapist offers in-person and virtual. I prefer in person, mostly because I've little privacy and tend to dissociation. I'll eventually go virtual when it becomes too far to see her in-person.