COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

Took a nap, thought I'd only be out for like an hour or so but dead to the world for a solid 3 hours - feeling much better - don't know if cold/flu or COVID but weird how 3 times now it has been very mild in terms of classic cold like symptoms with just the fatigue I've struggled with - I think my immune system is going into overdrive when encountering whatever it is. Unfortunately this time no one has had specific COVID symptoms or mentioned a positive test.
 
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I feel dreadful the last couple of days, I cough that doesn't bring anything up but sure I can taste blood sometimes.
I was shivering so violently the need was shaking and my muscles aching. Walking up stairs is a chore and I end up out of breath, ibuprofen and paracetamol do almost nothing to bring my temperature down or help with the headache.
 
I was fine Thursday, still a little under the weather but didn't really affect me, but fatigue is real today, a struggle to put one foot in front of the other both mentally and physically. I'd still take this over full blown cold symptoms though.
 
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"UK prepares five million vaccine doses in case of bird flu pandemic"
Nowhere near enough for mass vaccination probably "the most vunerable" only everyone else gets thrown under the bus. Great.
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UK prepares five million vaccine doses in case of bird flu pandemic

The UK has secured a contract for more than five million doses of a bird flu vaccine, to be used if the H5N1 strain spreads among humans, as part of preparations for any possible influenza pandemic. The UKHSA says at this stage there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
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GGizmo said:
The number one post viral infection is covid at the moment.

It could be something else, though I would say unlikely.
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"A form of pneumonia" apparently probably started as covid and turned into the other I would imagine given her age (77) is almost inevitable
 
Blackjack Davy said:
"UK prepares five million vaccine doses in case of bird flu pandemic"
Nowhere near enough for mass vaccination probably "the most vunerable" only everyone else gets thrown under the bus. Great.
news.sky.com

UK prepares five million vaccine doses in case of bird flu pandemic

The UK has secured a contract for more than five million doses of a bird flu vaccine, to be used if the H5N1 strain spreads among humans, as part of preparations for any possible influenza pandemic. The UKHSA says at this stage there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
news.sky.com news.sky.com
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Farm workers, poultry workers, wild bird handlers etc. Don't get your pants in a bunch. :D
 
Don't want to count my chickens before they hatch as I have had regressions before, but I have noticed since my winter jabs last Wednesday, the tinnitus I got from covid last year I basically can't hear anymore. That, or it is quiet enough that I can't hear it over the normal tinnitus!

It would line up with what I saw a while back here:
Which is concerning in its own right.
 
Got something quite nasty going around at work, I think it is proper flu, definitely not a cold, possibly COVID but no one has had definite COVID symptoms (no one testing any more either) and first person with it thinks they caught it off their kids where actual flu is going around at their school. One of my colleagues spent a couple of nights in hospital due to it. People talking of aching like they've run a marathon and overall symptoms seem heavy flu like rather than how COVID has been mostly.

Hoping I can avoid it for Christmas :s

EDIT: Also Gov surveillance showing COVID at baseline levels and decreasing while influenza is on a massive ramp:

www.gov.uk

National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report: 19 December (week 51)

www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
 
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Rroff said:
Got something quite nasty going around at work, I think it is proper flu, definitely not a cold, possibly COVID but no one has had definite COVID symptoms (no one testing any more either) and first person with it thinks they caught it off their kids where actual flu is going around at their school. One of my colleagues spent a couple of nights in hospital due to it. People talking of aching like they've run a marathon and overall symptoms seem heavy flu like rather than how COVID has been mostly.

Hoping I can avoid it for Christmas :s

EDIT: Also Gov surveillance showing COVID at baseline levels and decreasing while influenza is on a massive ramp:

www.gov.uk

National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report: 19 December (week 51)

www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
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I have a couple of dinners xmas day boxing day and NYD with lots of people present lots of relatives visiting residents it'll be a miracle if we emerge without contracting something can't get a jab for love nor money no stock left anywhere its all used up
 
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Covid is behind all these excessively strong flu's and other respiratory conditions.

We need a proper treatment that actually kills the virus. Then everything will go back to pre-pandemic levels.

There are quite a few drugs having success in trials. I'm hoping something will become available at some point next year.
 
GGizmo said:
Covid is behind all these excessively strong flu's and other respiratory conditions.

We need a proper treatment that actually kills the virus. Then everything will go back to pre-pandemic levels.

There are quite a few drugs having success in trials. I'm hoping something will become available at some point next year.
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The problem with COVID and flu is that the virus mutates every year meaning something which works 100% one year will not be as effective next year. It is the same reason there is no cure for the common cold.
 
Cromulent said:
The problem with COVID and flu is that the virus mutates every year meaning something which works 100% one year will not be as effective next year. It is the same reason there is no cure for the common cold.
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The problem with Covid now is even if you appear to get over it there is growing evidence the virus is still in the body, either dead or still replicating. It can go into places outside of the blood so the body struggles to get rid of it.

There is a lab test that can detect if a person as ever had covid even when the person didn't think they had.
 
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200sols said:
People still saying 'proper flu' after all this time :cry:
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Not sure your point? there is what people call flu but might be another respiratory virus often milder colds and then there is confirmed influenza - which can be pretty nasty.
 
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Rroff said:
Not your point? there is what people call flu but might be another respiratory virus often milder colds and then there is confirmed influenza - which can be pretty nasty.
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Most cases of flu are asymptomatic or mild just like colds. It's merely a factor of limited testing why only the severe cases get confirmed.
 
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