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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of July 18
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
Biden got the bug.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62256544
I know they're trying to avoid panicking people, and maybe he really is feeling up to working, but it kinda sucks that's the example he's setting. We don't know all the factors that make people more likely to get long covid, but one of them is possibly doing things too soon and not giving oneself enough time to recover.
I've actually been wondering if his party might start looking for an excuse for him to gracefully bow out of the next presidential election. This would have been one of those occasions, but so far it doesn't look like they're using it.
Japan's daily COVID cases top 150,000, new record high
Japan is at about 70 per 100k based on OurWorldInData.
Novavax is here! Just not the silver bullet we need (Your Local Epidemiologist)
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Welp, I got a second booster today. Feeling a bit odd and achy, but nothing too bad so far.
It was really easy; just chose "yes" on the online form when it asked if I was immunocompromised, and no one asked any questions when I went to get it done.
I thought I'd feel guilty for lying, but I dont. The vaccines are expiring and going to waste as the CDC leaves high risk folks to fend for ourselves. If you say it's up to me to protect myself, don't blame me when I take the necessary steps, I guess.