I previously posted my 79-year-old brother got covid

[left-of-center2012]

Now his 50-year-old daughter has it.
Her son and daughter-in-law have it.
And her daughter-in-law's parents have it.

All were vaccinated and had their boosters.

Suffering severe flu-like symptoms:
cough, headaches, sore throat, body and muscle aches, fatigue.

No fever.

All were told to quarantine for 10 days.
I know the CDC has adjusted it to 5 days but these people were advised to quarantine for 10 days.

Loss of work, loss of income.

[NoRethugFriends]

1. good on them

For the 10 days. The 5 days is just BS to protect financial interests

[maxsolomon]

3. 5 days is so basic services can function: hospitals, transportation.

It's the CDC recognizing reality.

My 85 year old father was testing negative at 5 days.

[SergeStorms]

11. It's for asymptomatic people only.

Anyone with symptoms still has to quarantine for 10 days

[Hortensis]

2. They sound miserable. THAT's what "milder cases with vaccination can be?"

No thanks! At least they know they didn't do this to themselves and feel stupid in their suffering, like most who are actually capable of that, and should be pretty much back to normal before too long. Hoping so.

[snowybirdie]

4. Get well soon

Scary for all of us who've followed recommendations. So were staying home and not seeing anyone. Sigh, here we go again! Hope your family is on the mend soon.

[hurple]

5. I've been fighting it since Monday

Same symptoms, but included fever.

Pfizer + booster.

It is not pleasant.

[left-of-center2012]

6. I have pretty much become a hermit

I live in a senior citizen high-rise with over 150 apartments.
Per state mandate we are supposed to wear a mask when in a public area.
To me that means when you leave your apartment you should wear a mask.

Yet I see 90% of the residents walking around without a mask.
None of the office staff or maintenance crew wear a mask.

They all say "I've had my shots. I'm safe."

My brother and his family have had their shots and they are sick as a dog.
I will wear my mask and pray I am safe.

[moriah]

7. Still asking the universe to be kind to you and yours through this, Lefty.

Our state's recorded active cases has skyrocketed over 5 days.

We had an especially windy period here (which often triggers my asthma), and the only symptom besides an asthma exacerbation felt like a caffeine headache. Early Christmas morning it got so bad I would have went to urgent care (my neb wasn't working), but with COVID and Christmas combined, I elected to use MDLive for at least some oral steroids, knowing I had the neb and a roommate who could get the script immediately via drive thru.

Had another (edit: also virtual but with my PCP, who can do more than MDLive) follow-up and am feeling better after higher powered steroids and some better cough syrup, and I missed the planned Christmas as a result.

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However, one of the people who attended Christmas with a scratchy throat (vaxxed but not boosted yet) got notification of an OTJ exposure the 27th. She had breakthrough Delta so she's thinking she's safe (edit: all that she's had is the scratchy throat that day, breakthrough Delta knocked her down), and is quarantining instead of getting tested.

There are a LOT of unreported cases, I imagine. I'm hoping I wasn't one of them, because if I was I could really have used the IV steroids to get over this faster, plus could have gotten the good cough syrup sooner. I just didn't want to add COVID to what seemed like a standard exacerbation.

[mgardener]

9. Think of how many will go un reported

With at home test kits?
How do you contact tracing if people test at home and don't have to let anyone know they are positive?

[moriah]

13. My PCP wanted me to test w/ an at-home kit if I had one, but I didn't.

And as soon as get one for detecting active infections, I will definitely be working w/ my doctor even if using Telemed and test myself and report the results.

I do want to find one of the "past infection, not vaccination-generated" antibody tests to take once I'm fully over the exacerbation and just see if it was Omicron (I boosted at the end of October, so two months from booster). And will report to the CDC through Vsafe if I can find that test and learn this was more than just an exacerbation.

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However, I agree that not everyone is going to be reporting results of at-home tests. The person who went to the planned Christmas immediately notified all of the group text that she was notified of an exposure. Not everyone is going to even do that *and* truly stay quarantined vs just stay off work as her work requires of exposed employees at her job (so even if she doesn't have it, the fact she could is costing her money).

I don't know if knowing or not knowing will effect some people's behavior. I almost think the cost of the home tests beyond one given to each household will just make it where people don't test, or if they do test at home they're still trying to hermit through when they can.

[No Vested Interest]

14. What is the good cough syrup? Prescription or non-prescription?

I'm stocking up on non-prescription items that could prove helpful if I should get a breakthrough case, thinking I wouldn't want to go out in that situation and family is not always available to drop off items.

[moriah]

16. Codiene/promethazine combo is what works best for me to just rest my lungs.

That's after I'd already been downing DM (dextromethorphan/guaifenesin combo) to just under a Plateau 1 dose, of course, after doing just guaifenesin except at night just wasn't cutting it. Guaifenesin helps get the stuff up, so it helps to drink a lot of water.

It's the cheapest they make, plus it has an extra sedative in it -- and since I have Bipolar I, when I'm on steroids I have to increase certain medications anyway to not go into a manic/mixed episode. If he's writing something for cough it might as well also have something that will add to me sleeping if I'm having to take it.

I switched to DM except for right before bed yesterday, and seem to be doing okay today w/o it, so will see if I can go bed w/ just the DM and only use it if I wake up coughing.

[left-of-center2012]

24. They said ...

Mucinex DM handles their cough just fine.
(Generic 'Mucus Relief DM')

[moriah]

28. Glad OTC was working.

Sadly this happens for me occasionally for no reason, and there was an identifiable trigger this time.

And there's really only so much I need to suppress my cough reflex -- I have a scarred lower left lobe. So the mucous relief/water is the first step for me, then DM, then if I need my neb and that doesn't completely do the trick that's usually "urgent care" time. The *only* thing different was the headache from a standard exacerbation for me -- and I'd ran out of my favorite coffee creamer.

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. Oddly enough, dark chocolate works well as a cough suppressant too

As dark as you can stand it. Then again, even if it doesn't work for the cough, you get to eat chocolate!

[No Vested Interest]

22. No problem with eating chocolate. Working on a 2-lb. box of See's at this time -little by little.

[FakeNoose]

25. Wow that's good to know

Thanks!

[LoisB]

8. Dang. I hope they all come out of it healthy within the 10 days. So glad they were all

vaccinated.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

10. Do you know what vaccine and boosters your family had? nt

[left-of-center2012]

20. No

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

26. Thank you, and I wish them all a speedy recovery. nt

[LisaL]

12. Five days quarantine if for asymptomatic patients.

NT

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. Not looking for pats on the back

but your post and others like it are exactly why I still wear TWO masks every time I step outside. Getting vaccinated, while great, just isn't enough to fight this pandemic. I hope they get well soon.

[madville]

17. My uncle was in the hospital before Christmas

72 yo, fully vaxxed, booster shot in November, one night in the hospital on O2 though. He’s out here at the deer hunting camp this weekend sitting in a tree stand today. His fully vaxxed 71 yo wife also had it but just had mild cold symptoms. What can we do at this point really, take precautions and take it as it comes I guess.

[mountain grammy]

18. Hoping for a speedy recovery for all..

Happy New Year! They will see 2022 because they're not stupid.

[chia]

19. In the space of 2 days, 9 family members in 2 states got it, vaxxed and untaxed - difference in

severity was as you might expect, unvaxxed are the most seriously sick, the vaxxed are still sick, but less severely so. And - the unvaxxed brought it home to the vaxxed and to children too young to be vaxxed. Thankfully, the children seem to have mild cases.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. "Loss of work, loss of income."

I'm sorry. It shouldn't have to be this hard.

[LAS14]

27. I'm really hungry for first-person details. Like.

How was it that the first person was diagnosed? Routine work place testing? Private testing because of symptoms? Did the rest of the family go to a testing center? Acquire at home tests? Did everyone get in touch with a physician?

I've been fortunate in having absolutely no contact with anyone who got COVID for these whole two years. But this kind of detail isn't usually reported, so I feel a bit at sea.