Son's wife and mil fully vaccinated have covid

5 years ago

Both are quite sick-- Dil high fever and loss of taste and smell--mil is going for an iv today. She is obese and diabetic. No idea where they got it. Another reason to wear a mask. We are in Wi and I seldom see anyone wearing a mask. But I do. Son tested negative??

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jupidupi

5 years ago

Sal, I hope your relatives recover quickly.

Before getting the vax, I worried not only about getting Covid, but also that I could have it, not know it, and spread it. Now that I've been vaxxed, I don't worry as much about getting it, because the symptoms would be less severe. I still worry about not knowing I have it and spreading it. But in totally honesty, I only worry about giving it to someone with a weakened immune system, or who is medically unable to be vaccinated. The ones who selfishly refuse to be vaccinated -- I don't worry about giving it to them, because they don't care about spreading it.

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User
5 years ago
I am so sorry to hear this. I feel so confident being vaxed, yet it's a false sense of security. I need the reminder as do others. I wish your DIL & MIL a quick and FULL recovery!
blfenton
5 years ago
I hope they both recover quickly with no lingering issues. I am still wearing a mask as are many in my area. I am fully vaxed as well but I do not want to get covid.
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Annegriet
5 years ago
Hoping for a full recovery with no long haul symptoms. Thanks for telling us. I will be masking when I go out today.
LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
5 years ago
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Scary! I hope they will both recover quickly and completely!

Kansas City proper is again mandating masks effective next Monday and I believe most of the surrounding counties will soon follow suit. The state of Missouri has never had a mask mandate though and I don't expect them to now. When we've gone down to the lake cabin, in south central Missouri, mask wearing was rare all through 2020 and 21. We're heading down there in the morning.
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5 years ago
I work for a large employer with over 20,000 employees scattered across the country. I am involved in our medical leaves.

Over the past 2 weeks we have seen a significant jump in new positive COVID cases - and yes, several of those new cases are fully vaccinated.

The good news, such as it is, is that the people who are fully vaccinated are definitely not as sick as the unvaccinated people are. We haven't seen anyone who is vaccinated and positive need hospital care.

I am concerned about the latest trends. We are definitely spiking back up.
vgkg Z-7 Va
5 years ago
Sal, hope they both recover quickly without complications. Just curious, do you know which vaccine they both got?
pudgeder
5 years ago
I hope they get better quickly.

Cases in Oklahoma have jumped considerably as well. I have been wearing my mask when I go out.
Annie Deighnaugh
5 years ago
I'm so sorry. I hope MIL will be getting the monoclonal antibodies...those seem to work so well as a cure. I hope they both get well soon. Such a nasty disease. And there's still so much we don't know.

DH and I continue to wear masks in indoor public places but you just don't know.
dedtired
5 years ago
That is really scary. So sorry to hear it it. I admit I rarely wear a mask now since i am vaccinated. Guess I better wear it again.
terezosa / terriks
5 years ago
I've listened to a couple of podcasts in the last few days talking about fully vaxxed people becoming sick with Covid.

Those that are sick think that they have severe Covid because they are down and feeling miserable for 5 days or so, but apparently they are considered to have mild Covid.

https://www.healthline.com/health/mild-covid-symptoms#mild-vs-moderate-vs-severe
cooper8828
5 years ago
I hope everyone recovers quickly!
Annie Deighnaugh
5 years ago
From tonight's WaPo based on unpublished CDC data:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-guidance/

The document strikes an urgent note, revealing the agency knows it must revamp its public messaging to emphasize vaccination as the best defense against a variant so contagious that it acts almost like a different novel virus, leaping from target to target more swiftly than Ebola or the common cold...

and

...vaccinated individuals infected with delta may be able to transmit the virus as easily as those who are unvaccinated. Vaccinated people infected with delta have measurable viral loads similar to those who are unvaccinated and infected with the variant.
marilyn_c
5 years ago
Sorry to read this, Sal. I hope they have complete recoveries and no lingering after effects.
seagrass_gw Cape Cod
5 years ago
Coming to a theatre near you. We have a significant uptick in cases on the Outer Cape, Lots of tourists and party animals here this summer. I have tickets on Southwest to fly home to Ohio to see my dear 89-yer-old mother at the beginnig of September but, I'm not totally certain about that trip.
lisa_fla
5 years ago
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I went back to masking last week The numbers are soaring here to pass the levels of hispitalizations we had back in January They test the sewer water here for Covid too and expect many more cases Im worried about the next variant It seems each one is worse
laceyvail 6A, WV
5 years ago
I started masking again in stores several weeks ago and I'm fully vaccinated. I worry about my grandson, age 10, who has mild Cystic Fibrosis. His parents and older sister are vaccinated, but he isn't. The Delta variant scares me, and the longer the virus spreads--thanks to unvaccinated people--the more variants will appear. That's what viruses do. And at some point there will appear a really deadly one in all aspects.
rob333 (zone 7b)
5 years ago
it's disheartening to think that the vaccine isn't 100% effective. I feel like I have to keep in mind that we're so much farther ahead than we were, even though we're not at endemic yet.

hope everyone will still wear a mask for children who cannot get a vaccine!
katlan
5 years ago
Sal I hope your family members recover quickly and fully. It's just crazy , is it not?
sal 60 Hanzlik
Original Author
5 years ago
we all had Pfizer vaccines
Alisande
5 years ago
I'm sorry to hear about your family members. Please keep us posted. We'll be hoping for good news.

My news sources (NY Times, NBC, etc.) are increasingly reporting breakthrough cases, and I worry that the people who need this information the most either don't access it or don't care.
User
5 years ago
100% agree Laceyvail. That's what scares me silly right now too.

I so wish the people who are choosing to not get vaccinated could consider how that decision may impact the course of humanity. I am starting to get very concerned that another mutation or two and we're going to really have a disaster on our hands.
sal 60 Hanzlik
Original Author
5 years ago
I doubt that the unvaccinated are wearing masks.
jrb451
5 years ago
So sorry to hear this. I’m guessing these instances are about to become more common.
Kathsgrdn
5 years ago
I hope your family is doing okay. I started wearing my mask again. We had 27 new cases in our little county yesterday.
woodrose77
5 years ago
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jupidupi, if you get Covid you can also spread it, vaccinated or not.

Sal, I'm so sorry about your DIL and her mother. I hope they recover completely , and very soon.
Rusty
5 years ago
Sal, I, too, hope your DIL and her mother are able to recover completely and quickly.

I am fully vaccinated, but I've never stopped wearing my mask in public. I'm aware that even vaccinated, one can pick up and pass on the virus, and I don't want to take any unnecessary chances, either with my own health or that of anyone I might come in contact with. Cases are spiraling upward here in Texas, too. And, unfortunately, we have our share of those who refuse to get vaccinated and refuse to wear masks.

Rusty
terezosa / terriks
5 years ago
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I'm sure most of you have heard or read that the reason why the Delta variant is mor contagious is because infected people have a viral load about 1000 times greater than the original Covid 19.
The higher viral load causes it to be able to inundate the respiratory tract and replicate more quickly before the immune system can really get going. It also means that those who are infected are spewing out 1000 times more virus particles.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light
sal 60 Hanzlik
Original Author
5 years ago
They have both had the iv or shot. I know they have to wait 3 hours before they can leave. Hope that does it for them.
chisue
5 years ago
Sal -- I'm not clear on what you mean by their having an IV. What are they being given through the IV?
woodrose77
5 years ago
chisue, I think Sal is talking about receiving the 3-hour antibody treatment via IV. My son and DIL had that, but neither of them could tell it made a difference.
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10
5 years ago
So sorry to learn of this. Hoping for the best possible outcomes.

It seems this new variant is wreaking havoc and things are getting worse daily. Can we hope a lot of the holdouts will see the light?
honibaker
5 years ago
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Sal, I hope your family members are improving!

Good news about the Provincetown Covid outbreak (after a superspreader event): 833 infections, 7 hospitalizations, 0 deaths. 74% of the positives tests were in people who were fully vaccinated. The hospitalizations were in people with underlying conditions. Vaccines work!

This shows that despite the very communicable variant, Delta, very few people became seriously ill. (data published by the CDC)

https://news.yahoo.com/eight-hundred-cases-seven-hospitalizations-and-no-deaths-the-provincetown-outbreak-shows-vaccines-work-125324207.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
ci_lantro
5 years ago
I like dried cranberries in chicken salad and in green salad in the winter. Chicken salad piled on top of a green salad w/ chopped walnuts and dried cranberries and a dash of raspberry vinaigrette is yummy.

Don't forget the old 'an apple a day'. Or apple juice.
terezosa / terriks
5 years ago
^^^Did you mean to post in Lar's dried fruit thread?

Son's wife and mil fully vaccinated have covid

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