New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises
New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises
www.reuters.com
New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises
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At this point I'm treating COVID like the flu. Every September I'll get shot combo for both and go about my business.
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Normally I'd agree, but these COVID vaccines put me down for 24-48 hours and the flu shot has never done that. Its very weird and difficult to schedule myself 48 hours of 'sick time' for a vaccine recovery.
Edit: I'd like to clarify that I've always gotten them when available, so I'm 3x boosted or whatever, I just wish they had options for people that react like this.
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Feeling sick for a day or two after the vaccine is a small price to pay to avoid long COVID. Some people never recover, see Physics Girl on YT.
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COVID took me out for over a week last time. I'm good with 24-48hr if it means I won't be as sick the next time I catch it.
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I have the same mild reaction to COVID and flu vaccines. I feel shit for about eight hours. The only COVID shot that put me down was the second of the two moderna shots. That hit hard. None of the boosters have hit hard.
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Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I guess it’s because any negativity to the vaccine.
The same thing happened to my wife. It was much less the for the boosters so it will likely get better in the future. I never even really felt bad. A little bit of a headache the first time but I’m not even sure that was related honestly. And I’ve gotten a little bit of a drained-feeling with the flu vaccine.
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You've had a flu shot every year and never had any side effects?
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Yeah same. The flu shot usually makes me feel a little bad for a morning. The Covid vaccine makes me feel flat out sick for 24 hours.
I just had a doctors appointment on Friday where they offered me the newest booster and I had to say no because I had full days of work the next 3 days.
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I feel like I shouldn't complain as much after reading this.
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Last booster with moderna was a half dose. If you had Pfizer it was a full dose. Not sure what the next ones will be but make sure you check and see if there is a half dose option.
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I had Covid and other than taking away my taste for a while it didn’t really do much to me. The vaccine is what knocked me out. I had an allergic reaction to it and got a 103°F temp, body aches, and severe flu like symptoms so badly that I had to go to the ER.
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Me too (I don't care about flu)
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Sorry
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These things happen. Try not to do it again.
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I'll bet there's not going to be any lines this fall when I go to get this shot. Even by the 4th round during the pandemic I had no trouble making an appointment. Lots of people just decided COVID's over once they got any number of shots (1 in some cases).
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You must live in a low science believer area. When I was near Seattle they were always running out or you have to book a couple weeks in advance. Sometimes walkins are lucky.
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Or maybe they live in an area that uses technology for better appointment systems and stock management. Let's not try and assign beliefs to comments that aren't about it.
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I live in a city with LOTS of liberal voters. Even a lot of them just aren’t as concerned about COVID anymore. Folks will get the shot, but a lot will wait until closer to the holidays.
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We're in fucking Florida now. I'll be lucky if I don't have to drive to get it.
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Will be getting it as soon as possible. My last one was almost a year ago because they haven't authorized any more for the general population.
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Cost is going to determine if a significant number of people get it
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This is what I'm running into, also. They know the jab is only good for a few months, but will not authorize another until its been 12.
I'm about to try to get mine early since I have international travel coming up. I'll pay out of pocket if needed. I just want the good stuff.
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That's what I did last year, got it done about a month before a plane trip I had coming. I still got sick despite wearing an N95 on both flights, but it tested negative for covid.
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Good god these comments are cancer.
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Actually they're Leo. Cancer is in late June and July.
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That's good to hear that even though the vaccine is targeting the last big Omicron variant (XBB.1.5) aka Kraken, that its still effective towards the new Eris variant as its similar enough.
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As a Discordian and literal Hellenic pagan Eris worshiper, it's a BAD IDEA to name things after her.
Even if you don't believe in Chaos, invoking Chaos will cause, at a minimum, panic.
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I'm kind of curious what kind of evidence you've seen that has convinced you to believe in, and worship, Hellenic pagan dieties? What is it about this specific diety has convinced you that it's not only real, but worthy of worship?
Hope this doesn't come off wrong, I'm genuinely curious.
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I originally became a Pagan at the age of 18. With Paganism, you choose the god that fits you best. You don't alter your moral compass to fit into a god's ideals lie one would Christianity.
I eventually found myself attracted to being a general Chaosist and specifically a Discordian
What convinced me was reading the holy book Principia Discordia. It teaches that life is all about perspective of the individual and that what you see with your own eyes may not be what others see in theirs.
I also see Chaos as the ultimate creation force because if everything was static and unmoving, we wouldn't be here right now.
I also had a near-death experience with Eris, where I saw here when I had a heart attack at 29 due to a genetic condition that I have.
So there's not a lot of physical evidence for only one specific god or many, but I like to make sure that I notice the things that shouldn't have gone statistically in my favor. That hopefully is sowing something watching over me.
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Like all the vaccines do far, they will likely reduce your risk of catching it and reduce your symptoms and risk of hospitalisation or death. None have eliminated the chance to catch it or get symptoms.
That's not to say they don't work. That's how they work. They make your immune system better at dealing with them. Each new variant and time increases your risk again.
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You'll come in contact with it probably. The vaccines help the immune system catch it earlier before its taken hold. That's why covid is such a hard disease to fight naturally, by the time your immune system sees it it has to ramp up to 1000 to fight it off, and then the worst symptoms are what your immune system is causing. (Fever is just your body trying to make it inhospitable to the virus after all).
Vaccines are an early detector, you already have antibodies so it can say whoa whoa whoa I know what you are, gonna get you out now before you take hold. Some people will have it gone before symptoms start. Others will have some symptoms but a milder version.
I personally had the vaccines and got it and it felt like the worst flu I'd ever had, and the main symptoms lasted about 3 weeks.
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If it's very effective for this strain, it might be like 90% effective at not getting it. But there are more strains that will have less effect. As others are saying, symptoms should be more mild if you do get it.
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Yes
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Fuck no!
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I just want one that's bad enough to wipe out at least half of us. Nature says we need to go.
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I'm against extinction, actually.
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I'm sure that the disabled, elderly, immunocompromised, and just plain unlucky are happy that you're volunteering them for death.
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Is their comment editing going on or did you reply to the wrong comment or is my app glitched? The comment you replied to seems to say:
That's good to hear that even though the vaccine is targeting the last big Omicron variant (XBB.1.5) aka Kraken, that its still effective towards the new Eris variant as its similar enough.
Which obviously doesn't make sense for your comment (which I assume was meant to be a reply to an anti-vaxxer or something)
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What?
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I'm of the opinion that COVID is no longer news worthy beyond the minority it impacts. No different to the flu or various other low risk (to the vast majority) common community transmitted illnesses. It just is now. We don't get news articles written and publicised at this level for a new flu variant or vaccine, so I don't see the point for COVID.
Edit: some good discussion in the responses to this. But also some utterly dog shit ad hominem and trying to put words in my mouth. If only they bothered to actually read what I wrote.
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The covids have unexpected health consequences that are way beyond the scope of the flu, including heart conditions, and chronic respiratory problems.
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Yeah, long COVID seems to hit people randomly, and it seems even vaccination status doesn't make a huge difference.
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This seems to be mostly debunked, at least regarding to heart conditions:
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/8/2219
Retrospective cohort study of 196,992 adults after COVID-19 infection in Clalit Health Services members in Israel between March 2020 and January 2021.
Our data suggest that there is no increase in the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 recovered patients compared to uninfected matched controls. Further longer-term studies will be needed to estimate the incidence of pericarditis and myocarditis in patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
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The original strain, yes. The current COVID is extremely weak and most humans have adapted to it. It's become a minor cold to the vast majority of the human population.
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"Some of you may die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take" -- @fluke@lemmy.world
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With the ability to leap that far you should consider the Olympics.
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1.1 million Americans died of Covid, 6.8 million world wide. Today there are still around 300 Americans dying a day of the virus, 90% of those are 65+ in age or older. The number one factor in covid deaths today is being unvaccinated or having other factors that cause covid to be more lethal.
For the majority of the human population this virus poses no issues.
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You’re an idiot. A neighbor down the road just died of it last week. 45 years old with a 6 year old little girl. Fuck you.
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Hey look, it's one of those "This doesn't affect me, so why should I give a shit?" types! With enough training, they evolve into "Why didn't anyone warn me??!?" types.
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COVID is still a pretty new thing. The whole shit storm was only 3 years ago. Flu has been around for fkn ages now, so it's just a common thing. Where we can predict mutations and how they'll effect people and spread. So it's not really a concern, it's just get your flu jab this year.
Whereas we're still researching COVID and learning about it. The mutations are different with different effects.
Until it hits normality like flu, and predictability like flu, it's good to keep people in the know.
I'm thankful it's still being reported about. As someone with a disability that weakens my immune system, I'm glad to see new vaccines or research into it. I got Omicron, thankfully I'd been vaccinated, cause even with the vaccine it sucked for me. And there was some weird AF symptoms, like the air just smelled like cheese, that one really threw me off. But had I not been vaccinated, who knows just how bad it would have gotten.
And then there's long COVID, we don't get long flu. COVID had an effect on my disability and I've felt worse since getting it.
So it's not just as easy as saying but the flu. They're two different things with different effects and predictability levels and research done into them. So instead of complaining that there's still stuff being written about it, be thankful it's being taken seriously so it can eventually just be a background thing that's akin to flu.
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Well, coronaviruses are not new as a whole, lots of things fall under that class, but this particular one and the offshoots are just particularly troublesome. More problematic than the virus itself though is the social shit it stirred up where you have a certain segment that seem intent on actively trying to spread it to others, or at least being completly indifferent to it just to say and claim how tough and right they are about it. Stop coughing and sneezing on people all, it wasn't acceptable before this covid, still not now.
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We don’t get news articles written and publicised at this level for a new flu variant or vaccine
we should. you should be made aware of new things that can affect your health and well-being. we would all do better if we were informed.
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We do; I see them every year. Whether I'm travelling or just trying not to be sick (which costs me money since I don't get paid sick leave), knowing what is "out there" is pretty useful information. By the time flu vaccines start rolling out there's usually a round of articles on what the tri/quadvalent covers and the severity anticipated based on worldwide transmissions.
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But we do though. And we are informed. Just like there are news releases when there's a new flu strain, or vaccine or anything.
What I said was specifically 'at this level'. It doesn't need to hit the top headlines for the day.
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We don’t get news articles written and publicised at this level for a new flu variant or vaccine, so I don’t see the point for COVID.
Just because something isn't reported on everyday doesn't mean it isn't important
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I don't think you deserve the downvoting. I do think it's semi-newsworthy but you're right that people really don't care anymore. We aren't going to mask back up, most people won't get vaccinated, much like the flu, shots are going to be available but just not common. Your overall sentiment is echoing most peoples so I think it's entirely valid despite what the internet justice warriors think
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reagebaiters get a block
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I'm 2+1 and just tested positive for COVID yesterday. I had COVID previously in 2021 as well. Symptoms are mild with runny nose, headache, fatigue, and a light cough.
Catching it again has me comparing the environment then and now and made the COVID apathy more apparent. Most co-worker responses have been either "That's still a thing?" to "Throw a mask on and come back into the office." I've elected to isolate to not be responsible for more spread. The frustrating thing is looking for guidance and most articles are dated in 2022. The pharmacy had fewer stock of masks and COVID tests were in the back now.
I'm all for continuing to receive regular vaccinations like I do for the flu. If anything to continue to keep the symptoms mild.
Well I appreciate your sanity
Many of the free COVID tests are all expired now. They issued an extension but finding an at-home test has been really difficult. I went to 3 different pharmacies/grocery stores before I was able to find a test.
Make sure you take time to rest. I had a mild case last December and went back to work in the like 5 days they say. I ended up with long covid and I'm still not all the way better. Not resting is a big risk factor for long covid.
Thanks, appreciate your concern. I'm trying to rest, but unfortunately soundly sleeping has been challenging. My nose is congested but still dripping if that makes sense. My mouth dries out and I'm waking up constantly. I'll try to get some reprieve beyond the 5 days.