COVID

A bit off topic, but also kind of on topic...

In about 4 weeks time, I'm going to start a 6-month trial of a new long COVID treatment. I hope it works! The treatment has not been authorized for use, as far as I know, anywhere in the world yet - so fingers crossed!

Also, I'm going to be contributing to writing the long COVID consultation tool for NHS use, so patients with long COVID can be identified and managed properly in clinical practice.

I'm kind of excited!

This is great! And I hope the treatment really helps, Aquila!

A bit off topic, but also kind of on topic...

In about 4 weeks time, I'm going to start a 6-month trial of a new long COVID treatment. I hope it works! The treatment has not been authorized for use, as far as I know, anywhere in the world yet - so fingers crossed!

Also, I'm going to be contributing to writing the long COVID consultation tool for NHS use, so patients with long COVID can be identified and managed properly in clinical practice.

I'm kind of excited!

Wow, that is awesome. You will hopefully keep us informed here as well 

A bit off topic, but also kind of on topic...

In about 4 weeks time, I'm going to start a 6-month trial of a new long COVID treatment. I hope it works! The treatment has not been authorized for use, as far as I know, anywhere in the world yet - so fingers crossed!

Also, I'm going to be contributing to writing the long COVID consultation tool for NHS use, so patients with long COVID can be identified and managed properly in clinical practice.

I'm kind of excited!

That's really encouraging. They made such huge advances in the treatment of Covid, hopefully the same will be true for your long Covid now.

Amazing Aquila!  Think of how far you’ve come in your treatment already.  We have some amazing people here. Durhamlad and his missus having experimental vaccines, Jimbo volunteering at vaccination centres and as a helper for those shielding, you and your trials.  Proud to be among you all!   

Well shucky darns. 

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-ba5-story

(One of the Directors at Scripps).

Sucks to be a hamster in the lab these days.

Thanks all! I'll definitely keep you posted with what I'm allowed to share!

I think it's really cool how people have come together to beat COVID.  It's like being part of the blitz or something. 

BTW, I spent yesterday moving my daughter from her dorm room to a 8 bedroom house she's sharing with 8 other students.  If you want to know where all the covid tests are, the students have them all.  There were at least 10 boxes left in the house and another 6 in my daughter's dorm room.  The house is insane, it's like the Big Brother house or something.  My daughter is living the life, but she's organizing every bit of it and working 3 jobs. 

I think it's really cool how people have come together to beat COVID.  It's like being part of the blitz or something. 

Absolutely!

BTW, I spent yesterday moving my daughter from her dorm room to a 8 bedroom house she's sharing with 8 other students.  If you want to know where all the covid tests are, the students have them all.  There were at least 10 boxes left in the house and another 6 in my daughter's dorm room.  The house is insane, it's like the Big Brother house or something.  My daughter is living the life, but she's organizing every bit of it and working 3 jobs. 

Give yourself a lot of credit for that, you've done a really good job with her. 

Give yourself a lot of credit for that, you've done a really good job with her. 

Yes indeed, well done.

If you want to know where all the covid tests are, the students have them all.  There were at least 10 boxes left in the house and another 6 in my daughter's dorm room.

Aha! The mystery is solved!  

My daughter is living the life, but she's organizing every bit of it and working 3 jobs.

Wow, total props to her!

Uh, about Covid BA-5.
We're pedaling backwards. 

...snip...

So, the latest here - Daughter was volunteering on the board of a local nonprofit organization. She stopped going to the meetings because they were in small rooms with poor airflow and the other members were not masked up. She asked, politely, in writing if they would please do so, because they were putting her in a dangerous situation due to her health issues. She said she hoped they would so that she could once again attend and carry out her duties. No word. No word. No word. Then a letter from the organization's lawyer suggesting she not darken their doorstep until the epidemic was over or she was "no longer immunocompromised". They had "tried repeatedly" (one phone message, which she responded to by email) to reach her to discuss "her concerns" and were left with no other option. She is to do nothing relating to the organization, and that includes going on-site for any reason. Right. I saw her message to them that prompted this - very professional, nothing in it that should have resulted in this.

So the very latest on that train wreck? The head of the organization's office sent out an email a couple of days ago. Daughter got it because they haven't taken her off the email list. He thought he had a bad cold for a couple of weeks, but got worse earlier this week so he tested. Guess what he's got? Yep. And who exposed everyone in that organization for two weeks!!? Yep. Except the Daughter, who is smarter than that. 

Uh, about Covid BA-5.
We're pedaling backwards. 

Well it's all interesting.  Some reports, in some channels post some interesting news.
And then we get mainstream reports like this, 'It said the increase in the number of people testing positive was likely being driven by the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants. They are not thought to be more lethal than any other form of Covid but they do appear to be spreading more quickly.'
So..shrug!?! 

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62020908

 A lot of epidemologists are now tracing monkeypox as that is taking a different course than what they expect.   I imagine we will have a future of watching these types of pandemics and endemics unfold! Thanks global warming! Thanks loss of habitat! Thanks mankind, we're awesome!