COVID OMICRON Thread

[d.kaufman]

Will the next one mutate from omicron? Or Delta? Or alpha?

Probably will depend on what's in the next vaccine

 

[mmpsteve]

Will the next one mutate from omicron? Or Delta? Or alpha?

Howdy Doc. What are you seeing on the ground right now? Always appreciate your input.

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[AtTheMurph]

Of course. Pfizer just announced that they’ll release a new Omicron version in March. So your current vaccine is ****. You need the new one.

But the are also saying that Omicron is like the cold, nobody dies from it and i need to get multiple shots to ward it off? I don't get a shot for a cold. I get some Nyquil. Maybe they will make a Nyquilmectin soon and get this whole thing figured out?

 

[AtTheMurph]

Will the next one mutate from omicron? Or Delta? Or alpha?

Yes. it will also mutate to defeat any of the the protections that the shots may provide. In fact the shotsz will drive the mutations. So in a sense it is self defeating to try to immunize the world's population with an ineffective "vaccine". And it's probably dangerous in that we could cause a mutation to arise that is more virulent AND vaccine proof.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Howdy Doc. What are you seeing on the ground right now? Always appreciate your input.

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We are overwhelmed with minor cold symptom patients and the run of the mill typical ER stuff.

Tons of vaccinated staff out with.... COVID. A colleague in another state had in one ER shift, a family of 4, family of 5, and family of 6 check in for minor cold symtptoms or simply for a test.

That is so much charting and wasted time for fifteen patients that don't need to be there. We are so overwhelmed that patients are getting seen in hallways beds and sometimes chairs. It increases the likelihood we miss something important.when you examine a five year old with a fever and abdominal pain in a chair in a hallway.

Be sure to slow the team down and make sure all your concerns are being addressed. It really makes us doubt ourselves and we feel bad for a long time when something should have been picked up but wasn't. Usually that's because we're trying to go too fast and don't spend the time to take detailed histories.

The minor viral symptom patients don't realize how they are harming the other patients. Seems like most businesses don't really care if their employees have COVID or not, but they have to follow SOME policy, even if it makes no sense. So they demand an employee get a test before coming back to work. Can't find them retail with Biden buying 500 million tests and urgent care line too long so they go to the ER.

They should be denied testing if minimal symptoms and sent home, but due to EMTALA that is tricky to tell them before they check in. The low acuity people wait for hours, and to spring that on them after the wait is really bad form and makes everyone mad. We still get complaints filed in person and online.

It's a crappy situation. And due to no nursing, so no beds, so diversion all the time, so decreased patients seen, our billed patient volume is down and as a result so is my income, dramatically.

Who would have thought my income as an ER doc would be threatened by the worst pandemic of our lifetime?

 

[jamil]

Will the next one mutate from omicron? Or Delta? Or alpha?

I kinda think this **** is gonna be over. It’s burning through the population so fast I don’t know if that would tend to mean less chance of variants or more. But it seems mild enough. But I kinda feel like Pfizer & co haven’t rung enough out of this.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

We are overwhelmed with minor cold symptom patients and the run of the mill typical ER stuff.

Tons of vaccinated staff out with.... COVID. A colleague in another state had in one ER shift, a family of 4, family of 5, and family of 6 check in for minor cold symtptoms or simply for a test.

That is so much charting and wasted time for fifteen patients that don't need to be there. We are so overwhelmed that patients are getting seen in hallways beds and sometimes chairs. It increases the likelihood we miss something important.when you examine a five year old with a fever and abdominal pain in a chair in a hallway.

Be sure to slow the team down and make sure all your concerns are being addressed. It really makes us doubt ourselves and we feel bad for a long time when something should have been picked up but wasn't. Usually that's because we're trying to go too fast and don't spend the time to take detailed histories.

The minor viral symptom patients don't realize how they are harming the other patients. Seems like most businesses don't really care if their employees have COVID or not, but they have to follow SOME policy, even if it makes no sense. So they demand an employee get a test before coming back to work. Can't find them retail with Biden buying 500 million tests and urgent care line too long so they go to the ER.

They should be denied testing if minimal symptoms and sent home, but due to EMTALA that is tricky to tell them before they check in. The low acuity people wait for hours, and to spring that on them after the wait is really bad form and makes everyone mad. We still get complaints filed in person and online.

It's a crappy situation. And due to no nursing, so no beds, so diversion all the time, so decreased patients seen, our billed patient volume is down and as a result so is my income, dramatically.

Who would have thought my income as an ER doc would be threatened by the worst pandemic of our lifetime?

Damn doc, I hate to hear what you're going through and I hate even more the circumstances (.gov and healthcare worker mandates leading to staffing shortages) that have contributed to it.

 

[jamil]

But the are also saying that Omicron is like the cold, nobody dies from it and i need to get multiple shots to ward it off? I don't get a shot for a cold. I get some Nyquil. Maybe they will make a Nyquilmectin soon and get this whole thing figured out?

I’m totally stealing that. Nyquilmectin. Love it.

Anyway, according to a few people I know who had/have it, you have no trouble sleeping. Coworker got it a couple weeks ago and that’s all he wanted to do. Headache, fatigue, fever, congestion.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

I’m totally stealing that. Nyquilmectin. Love it.

Anyway, according to a few people I know who had/have it, you have no trouble sleeping. Coworker got it a couple weeks ago and that’s all he wanted to do. Headache, fatigue, fever, congestion.

Muscle aches made it impossible to sleep but yes that’s all I wanted to do.

 

[jamil]

Muscle aches made it impossible to sleep but yes that’s all I wanted to do.

My son just got tested today. Positive. He's had symptoms for two days. Fever seems to be over. At least hopefully, it won't return. He said he's able to sleep.

 

[paintman]

My wife and I had insomnia while we had Covid. It was the weirdest thing. Neither one of us could sleep at all. We spent all day and night binge watching tv shows. The following week however the exhaustion hit us both. The minute either one of us touched a couch we were asleep.
I still hack some stuff up every now and again, her cough is very rare but dry. The thing we both noticed was we couldn’t lay down long or our lungs would start filling with crap. We had to stay up and moving and we were in decent shape.

 

[Drewski]

Muscle aches made it impossible to sleep but yes that’s all I wanted to do.

I had same; I happened to get a very unexpected gift from a Chicago friend of a weighted blanket. Decided to break it out about 2 days into my wuflu. Helped tremendously for getting to sleep - in fact I was falling asleep on my back which I haven’t been able to do in years. Not sure if that was coincidence but whatever, I got some good sleep.

 

[jsx1043]

This may be over by March.

I really hope that they call it on March 16th - because then will be “two years to slow the spread.”

And whodathunk that everyone catching it and recovering would’ve have been an effective endemic plan? I dunno, maybe herd immunity? Sounds kind la familiar...

 

[Hatin Since 87]

I had same; I happened to get a very unexpected gift from a Chicago friend of a weighted blanket. Decided to break it out about 2 days into my wuflu. Helped tremendously for getting to sleep - in fact I was falling asleep on my back which I haven’t been able to do in years. Not sure if that was coincidence but whatever, I got some good sleep.

I’m jealous. Been wanting a weighted blanket, if I knew it would’ve helped with Covid I could’ve justified buying it.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

My son just got tested today. Positive. He's had symptoms for two days. Fever seems to be over. At least hopefully, it won't return. He said he's able to sleep.

Mine hit out of nowhere. Was watching a movie and was fine up until that point, suddenly chills came over like crazy then started aching...

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Will the next one mutate from omicron? Or Delta? Or alpha?

Al-De-Cron?

Om-Ta-Ha?

WHO-GIVES-A-****?

 

[KG1]

Mine hit out of nowhere. Was watching a movie and was fine up until that point, suddenly chills came over like crazy then started aching...

What was the movie? I'm not watching it.

 

[BigRed]

This may be over by March.

This may be over by March.

Or perhaps by November 5

 

[BigRed]

Al-De-Cron?

Om-Ta-Ha?

WHO-GIVES-A-****?

Who?
Not me.

 

[BigRed]

What was the movie?

I will wager Steel Magnolias.