my sister has COVID for the 2nd time in under 30 days

[babydollhead]

My sister (62 years old) is very sick and has been diagnosed with COVID for the 2nd time under 30 days. She was informed by the PA at the Urgi-care in Cincinnati that "the 3 months of immunity is not applicable to the current strain of COVID" . Her in-laws had wedding last weekend. More than 1/2 of the 25 people at the wedding are sick and are, as my sister put it "wet washrags" She is double vaxxed and twice boosted.

[Siwsan]

1. This is why I skipped my class reunion and a reunion with former co-workers

I'm also not attending my nephew's 'couples shower' and might not even attend the wedding. It's in November. In Florida. Matt Gaetz's district.

[Rebl2]

16. No way I

would go. My nieces wedding is this coming up and I am not going, plus it is out of town. My sister didn’t expect me to attend since I am immunocompromised.

[Blues Heron]

2. Prob just a relapse

They don’t typically test for variant types -it’s a separate expensive and lengthy test that takes two weeks. So the time line doesn’t really fit. There has been announcement of a cheaper faster variant test from Rutgers but it’s not out yet.

[babydollhead]

4. she went to an Urgi-Care in Ohio.

I will find out how she was informed of the different variant.

[Ms. Toad]

13. That's what was suggested early on when people started getting it twice.

It's a way of denying how challenging and unpredictable this disease is.

[Blues Heron]

15. you really think they tested both times for variants?

i doubt that part

Also thirty days apart?

[Ms. Toad]

18. No, but I believe they tested for COVID twice, with two positive tests.

Like I said - when people started testing positive a second time (without testing for specific variants), the near-universal response was that it was just a relapse. Until they studies they did which showed reinfection with (then) Delta, but with enough variations to make it clear it was a new infection - not a relapse.

[Blues Heron]

19. Agreed

[Skittles]

3. wishing her the best

I really wish people would keep masking.

[Karadeniz]

5. We're still wearing masks...

[electric_blue68]

28. Unfortunately a bunch of people on public transit are not...

anymore...😔 😑 😤


I sometimes reminds those waring masks below their noses...

After 2+ yrs how can you be so fucking Lax or Stoopid!

😩😩😩😤

[Karadeniz]

34. It's all about them!

[brer cat]

6. I'm sorry, babydollhead.

I hope she recovers quickly. Too many people act like Covid is over, but it's not.

[Hortensis]

7. Thanks for the warning, Babydollhead. Would like to hear

anything more you find out. Hope your sister gets well quickly.

[MLAA]

8. Sending healing thoughts and may her case be very mild.

[PortTack]

9. Oh geez that is terrible! Mask up everyone..don't let anyone convince you otherwise

This isn’t over!

Hope your sis recovers soon!

[marybourg]

14. I was one of only two masked

people in a crowded Home Depot this week. I was there only because I urgently needed a new security door. Now, I discover that the security doors with mesh security screens don’t also have bug screens. How do we get ventilation in this brave new world?

[vanlassie]

23. That is a huge problem, in my opinion. I had a very hard time

finding a decent screen door in California recently.

[Hugin]

24. Quite far from topic...

Security doors also important in this brave new world…

The previous owners of the house I live in mounted regular window screens on the inside of the standard security doors using tabs. I guess the panes on the doors are the same size as some common windows. I don’t know if they did it or had someone do it for them. They didn’t seem very DIY so probably they hired someone.

I thought it was a very clever solution to the screen problem.

[babylonsister]

10. Thanks for sharing this, hugs to you and sis-get well soon! nt

[C_U_L8R]

11. Apparently that can happen with Plaxlovid

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-symptoms-may-return-taking-paxlovid-antiviral-pills-rare-cases-rcna25581

Healing vibes to your sis.

[in2herbs]

12. If she isn't on it already get her to dr and get an RX for Paxlovid. The timing for taking it

is critical but it works with very minor side effects. Chris Hayes, who has a show on MSNBC either before or after TRMS took Paxlovid and had a segment about it.

[BigmanPigman]

17. I posted an article about this last night....

Covid reinfections are becoming more common.....
"A repeat encounter with Covid used to be a rarity. But now that Omicron has changed the game, expect reinfections to be the new normal"

"If you’re unfortunate enough to have had an intimate encounter with the dreaded Sars-CoV-2 virus, I’m afraid your dalliance with it might not have been your last. Get ready for round two (and three, and maybe four—maybe ad infinitum). Welcome to the Great Reinfection.

Two years and some change in, that novelty has largely evaporated. A perfect storm of waning immunity, loosened restrictions, and an extremely transmissible variant making the rounds has meant reinfections are the new normal for many. But even setting aside these factors, it makes sense that there are now more reinfections than ever. At this stage of the pandemic, repeat infections would always have been more common than before, owing to the sheer number of people who’ve had Covid-19. You can’t get reinfected unless you’ve already been infected in the first place."

"If you were infected with an earlier variant, Omicron is like that variety wearing a wig and makeup—making it largely unrecognizable to our bodies’ immune defenses and harder to stave off."

https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-the-great-reinfection/

[CrispyQ]

26. Can you get reinfected without being re-exposed?

It it the original virus that's reinfecting or is it new exposure that causes the reinfection?

[BigmanPigman]

27. I think that is one of the things they are trying to figure out still.

Since Ovid is mutating very, very fast now I have the feeling that they are new variants that are reinfecting and that is what to expect in the future. I look at other countries and Europe had a spike they had a few months ago is almost gone but now we are getting one in the US so we are getting that variant or possibly a variant of that variant.

This thing has learned how to mutate super fast and it has figured out how to be almost as contagious as the measles.

[Nululu]

20. Hope she gets better

Covid infections now 5x what they were last year.

[LudwigPastorius]

21. There is evidence that getting infected with one of the Omicron sub-types won't offer immunity to...

the others.

From the cited Wired article above:

A February preprint from researchers in Denmark suggests that the BA.2 sublineage of Omicron can reinfect people shortly after they’ve had the original BA.1 form, but the paper did conclude that such reinfections are rare. Some of those in the study were reinfected as quickly as 20 days after their initial infection...

We're all going to get infected eventually, probably more than once.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/covid-reinfection-research-immunity/639436/?ref=thefuturist

[nightthinker]

22. I hope she feels better soon!

I have skipped every crowd event for 2 years. I have not seen any of my friends for more than 2 years. I do not go to the movies, concerts, any sporting events, etc. I have not traveled out of my city for 2 years. At all. Not even by car. There is no way you could get me on an airplane, in a taxi, or on a cruise. I still wear a mask everywhere I go in public. I have not gotten sick. I probably will never kiss anyone for the rest of my life. It is what it is. I have not gotten the virus. I hope your sis feels better soon!

edited for clarification and to add: out of my city

[electric_blue68]

30. I just saw a friend for the first time in 2 1/3 years...

hugged w masks on.

Seen my sis but we're both dbl vaxxed, and boosted, usually for rare outdoor dining, even rarer house visits.

Barely out of apt building year 1 - groceries, necessities.
Year 2 rare eating out - outdoors, sunny days. Two years been to a big park - 3xs.

No concerts, movies, big crowds.

Rarely (3 - 6+ months) in some what crowded areas for special foods, supplies dbld masked, distancing.

Not fun. So far, so good. 🤞

All other family, and friends(?) ...so far... The smartphone IS my friend, along w FB.

[nightthinker]

35. You're very diligent!

re: Not fun. So far, so good. 🤞

It's worth it because we still live.

[Meowmee]

25. sorry, I hope she recovers asap

please get her any treatments she can such as the antiviral pills etc. I just had my 4th shot, moderna this time. My first three were pfizer. In 4 days I will have full immunity from that one. It did a number on me and I still don't feel well. I think moderna is better against the current strains, so my hematologist said. We are still masking everywhere and sd.

This is all so awful and there is no sign of it ever stopping due to the terrible response here.

[LAS14]

29. Did she take that medicine that makes it less severe?

A relative of mine took that and endured a second spike. That is expected. It works. He wasn't severely ill. But he was in quarantine for a really long time.

[Catherine Vincent]

31. Sending good vibes to her. Hope she get better quickly.

[gldstwmn]

32. Can she get Paxlovid? It helped me.

[electric_blue68]

33. I hope your sister will have a Full Recovery!