Oh, and a few of my inlaws have had COVID, relatively mild cases.

Turns out wasn't Pneumonia was covid still recovering.  

Halo296

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Turns out wasn't Pneumonia was covid still recovering.  

....and keep doing that too....

Apparently EUA (emergency use authorization) was granted for the Moderna vaccine on December 18th.

FDA Grants Emergency Use for Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (medscape.com)

I know, the suspense was killin' ya.

Not much activity here, which is a good thing, I hope. The virus finally got to me, so already in bed with a high fever. If I'm not back, this fever is nothing compared to the heat up ahead.  

I feel like we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. People are getting vaccinated, numbers are going down, season are going to be changing, we got this.

@ redskittlesonly.

I think Covid-19 isn't going away any time soon, not with more than 7.8 billion people worldwide to vaccinate... not once but twice.  It will be a logistical nightmare to administer vaccine to that many people dispersed so far and wide around the world... some in remote, often inaccessible places.

Hopefully, the major, wealthier countries will support the smaller, less wealthy countries and assist in their roll-out of the vaccines.  I think that is essential if we are to contain and eventually beat this insidious disease.  I believe that Australia has pledged support to our poorer Pacific neighbours. I believe New Zealand has made similar pledges, but at the end of the day, we all need to support each other to overcome this crisis.

Vaccinating everyone is a pipe dream and not necessary - only those at higher risk really benefit, just like with the flu shot.  We're not going to eliminate COVID like we did smallpox or polio, barring a technological breakthrough unimagined at present.  It may become a seasonal illness like influenza, for which seasonal vaccination may be beneficial, or it may fade away on its own, but we will learn to live with it if it sticks around just as we have influenza.

I'll have to admit that I have a slight case of "Covid Fatigue".  Been wearing a mask for not quite a year now, fully expect to be wearing one for another year more or less.  I could do with a little less news obsession about it, way too much granularity to be useful for public consumption.

Based on the infection rates over the year 2020, I'm not confident that Covid will be a more seasonal problem such as the flu, but I don't know, maybe.  Might get to be an issue of cold weather / warm weather behavior.

At this point, I'm pretty much in the mode of "Head down, forge ahead."

Arizona's second wave of positive cases peaked on January 4th & deaths peaked January 18th; both have been rapidly dropping since.  Overall ICU bed utilization has been relatively flat but the percentage of beds used for COVID patients has plunged.

Just over a million people (state population ~7.2mil) have received at least one dose of vaccine, 375k of them have received both.  That's over a span of about 75 days.  All but the most jaded among us would have to consider that pretty damn amazing.

I got my first shot yesterday at 11am, by 4pm my arm is sore and starting to swell, hurts even more today, and I have a headache too. Also made me very sleepy, so I have been in bed most of the day. I wake up and I am shivering, so I put a bathrobe on and turn the thermostat up 1 degree. 20 minutes later I feel hot and take the bathrobe off and turn the thermostat back down.  So looking forward to that second shot next month!

Moderna or Pfizer?

LightStar

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I got my first shot yesterday at 11am, by 4pm my arm is sore and starting to swell, hurts even more today, and I have a headache too. Also made me very sleepy, so I have been in bed most of the day. I wake up and I am shivering, so I put a bathrobe on and turn the thermostat up 1 degree. 20 minutes later I feel hot and take the bathrobe off and turn the thermostat back down.  So looking forward to that second shot next month!

I had mine Wed. Moderna... arm stopped hurting yesterday.  What you experienced is listed in the side affects. It says that means your immune system is working.