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Great right on time… me this morning…
How are you feeling? Hope it's a mild case.
Chills throat and headache. My wife was positive last Thursday and just lost sense of smell. Out 5yo is still in the clear so far.
The smell and taste thing is so goddamn weird. Most of the people I know personally who've caught it lost one, the other, or both. Several of them are only now getting it back.
And people wonder why I still mask up when going to stores and am champing at the bit for the new booster. I don't want any of that crap.
I thought this was a pregnancy test at first lol
Well, it’s not a + so I’m not pregnant! Yay! That would have been hard to explain to my wife (I’m male)
Harder than you might think. A male testing positive on a pregnancy test is a marker for some forms of testicular cancer.
Look into paxlovid if your symptoms get bad. It made my 2nd bout tolerable but I have asthma and shit lungs.
Don't wait. Get on paxlovid now.
Damn. Get well soon. I hope it doesn't hit you too badly.
Get your vaccines and boosters or whatever, COVID sucks I'm just now getting over my 2nd bout. Not fun.
I heard it was really going around again, so I got my booster a few weeks ago right before school started back up (I work in a high school library). I wanted to wait for the booster with the new strain, but figured I was better off just getting it. I hope I made the right decision. 🙏 I really don't want to get covid again. My energy levels afterwards were crap for weeks.
Does the latter part mean it won't be available to the broader public until October, since they will be focused on the elderly and such first?
Just in time for the pharma companies to make $130/dose or whatever insane number they have decided to make up in the USA. It's never been better to be an investor in businesses making vaccines.
Billions in public grants for research and then we get to pay for the results for something that benefits the greater good, again. You'd think when you need x billion doses the price wouldn't be 130 x billions, but instead $1.25 x billions.
*Authorized for use, not all approved.
The FDA has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the updated Moderna and Pfizer formulas for 2023. The approvals are for other vaccines for new age groups.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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