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Watching the ticker on ESPN last night, I got the feeling that sports may be about to come to a (brief) screeching halt. With all these vaccinated players and staff testing positive and the transmission rate of this new strain, it seems inevitable. Sucks if it screws up the playoff and championship. I guess they might reschedule???

A couple points catching up on the thread:

- Paxlovid is definitely NOT a monoclonal antibody. It is a protease inhibitor, which blocks viral replication. There are several similar drugs used for the treatment of HIV.

- The flu is not "over." Worldwide circulation just fell dramatically for a multitude of reasons, but spread in the US is on a steep incline over the past couple of weeks.

- CV19 tests are specific for CV and will not cross-react with influenza.

Carry on.
 
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utvolpj said:
I took the pic myself this morningView attachment 422769
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Funny, I had a similar picture from the back of one of our "government issued PPE" masks at the office that no one could wear because they burned your eyes so badly. Chinese symbols and a disclaimer that they do not stop viruses.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Funny, I had a similar picture from the back of one of our "government issued PPE" masks at the office that no one could wear because they burned your eyes so badly. Chinese symbols and a disclaimer that they do not stop viruses.
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It was in the very bottom of the box and I didn't see it until the last step. 2 years and we still can't produce a basic test in the US

Side note: do you talk to your patients/parents about the vax even if they don't bring it up? We recently went for checkups and our ped didn't even bring it up. We aren't going to do it but found it interesting
 
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utvolpj said:
Side note: do you talk to your patients/parents about the vax even if they don't bring it up? We recently went for checkups and our ped didn't even bring it up. We aren't going to do it but found it interesting
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I do not. There are at least 10 issues more important to maintaining children's health than CV, and there is only so much time for each visit. I do discuss nutrition, exercise, mental health, avoidance of smoking and drugs, head protection, proper car seating, sleeping arrangements for babies, drowning prevention, gun safety, dental hygiene, routine vaccination, etc at every visit.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Watching the ticker on ESPN last night, I got the feeling that sports may be about to come to a (brief) screeching halt. With all these vaccinated players and staff testing positive and the transmission rate of this new strain, it seems inevitable. Sucks if it screws up the playoff and championship. I guess they might reschedule???

A couple points catching up on the thread:

- Paxlovid is definitely NOT a monoclonal antibody. It is a protease inhibitor, which blocks viral replication. There are several similar drugs used for the treatment of HIV.

- The flu is not "over." Worldwide circulation just fell dramatically for a multitude of reasons, but spread in the US is on a steep incline over the past couple of weeks.

- CV19 tests are specific for CV and will not cross-react with influenza.

Carry on.
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Will either come to a halt or people will finally go in the right direction and forge ahead.
 
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allvol123 said:
people will finally go in the right direction and forge ahead.
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Yeah, not happening.

The mere fact that professional athletes still subject themselves to regular testing, quarantines, etc after two years, three vaccines, and virtually no negative outcomes in healthy young adults is astounding.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Yeah, not happening.

The mere fact that professional athletes still subject themselves to regular testing, quarantines, etc after two years, three vaccines, and virtually no negative outcomes in healthy young adults is astounding.
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At some point this becomes too much of a strain on finances. People have to learn to forge ahead and stop asking for a test every time they get a runny nose.
 
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Wife and I were discussing tests this morning. This has been a failure all around

David Paltiel, a professor at the Yale School of Public Health, said a significant part of the problem is that the FDA created a detailed roadmap for tests that give patients a close-to-definitive answer on whether they have COVID-19, but never created a separate framework for rapid tests that serve a different purpose: helping people get frequent, fast evidence of whether they may be contagious.

“The former are tests of infection; the latter are tests of infectiousness,” Paltiel said. “They both share the same regulatory pathway — a pathway that was designed with diagnostic testing in mind and is littered with requirements that make no sense for the purpose they serve.”

He added, “It’s an outrage that rapid tests aren’t dirt cheap and plentiful on grocery store shelves.”
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This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It. — ProPublica
 
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Wife has COVID. She has a fever and chills but none of the other symptoms- it's day 3ish.

I had some symptoms earlier this week (I think I posted about them and jokingly said I may have COVID). Turns out I probably have it too, but don't have a test.

I am considering going to get a test done at the urgent care clinic purely for the record of immunity, which will make our trip to Peru much, much easier when we do get to go on it a little later than planned.
 
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What in the hell is going on?
It seems like someone/something flew over the planet and dropped a glitter bomb. This crap spread overnight.
 
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allvol123 said:
At some point this becomes too much of a strain on finances. People have to learn to forge ahead and stop asking for a test every time they get a runny nose.
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Good news is: once this passes, football players can go back to doing something exponentially more dangerous to them --






playing football.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I do not. There are at least 10 issues more important to maintaining children's health than CV, and there is only so much time for each visit. I do discuss nutrition, exercise, mental health, avoidance of smoking and drugs, head protection, proper car seating, sleeping arrangements for babies, drowning prevention, gun safety, dental hygiene, routine vaccination, etc at every visit.
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Hey man, I rarely participate in Covid threads and I apologize if you’ve already answered this, but do you think the C19 Vaccinations shots need to stop being referred to as vaccines ? I’m not a doctor like yourself, but this seems like this doesn’t really fit the definition of a vaccine.
 
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Zues1 said:
What in the hell is going on?
It seems like someone/something flew over the planet and dropped a glitter bomb. This crap spread overnight.
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Something Harris recently said has really gotten me wondering. She said the Biden WH wasn’t prepared for Omicron and I was like how the hell does that happen when you have a main perpetrator of this crap squawking in your pocket? Doesn’t he have a clue what it was manipulated to do?
So if taken at face value does this lean towards this variant being “unexpected” because the virus is being a virus by mutating and Omicron is the “in the wild” variant. This might explain the recent news that none of the therapies are working and the sheer propaganda panic being exhibited due to losing control of the desired doomsday narrative. I suppose we can only hope so and that this version ultimately gets us beyond the insanity via herd immunity.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Hey man, I rarely participate in Covid threads and I apologize if you’ve already answered this, but do you think the C19 Vaccinations shots need to stop being referred to as vaccines ? I’m not a doctor like yourself, but this seems like this doesn’t really fit the definition of a vaccine.
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Not Doc, but you’re correct it didn’t fit the classic definition until the CDC recently changed that vaccine definition to fit these shots. 😉

Calling it a vaccine was intentionally done to create acceptance by familiarity with the terminology.
 
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