We have 2 big air purifiers, and are very glad to have them. Outside smells like a smoker’s convention. Inside is fairly nice.
We’re not in danger here in WA, but some of our small towns are, and CA and OR are hard hit. Good wishes to all in the affected zonmes. Stay safe, and take care.
Joe, we’re sorry to hear you’ve come down with Covid, but are so glad to hear your symptoms so far are manageable. We so hope that continues, and you have a quick and complete recovery. Take greatest of care; you are important.
The people at the Ohio Department of Public Health called me on Tuesday, asked me the same battery of questions as the others asked. She told me that according to their policy, my quarantine was officially over as of that day, and that Wednesday would be my first “free” day. Since I’d gotten a conflicting estimate from the other PHO, I told her I would just hold off until Thursday, just to give it an extra day. She thought that was a prudent move, and I have nowhere I needed to go.
Cough is pretty much gone, no headache, and definitely no fever. They said if I get a fever again, my 14 days start all over again.
Good goin’, Joe.
I sure would like to know why there is such a variation in pathology. Yes, medical history, age, and life-style certainly play roles, but I suspect genetics does too, some allele we’ve never seen effects of before. I hope [u]somebody[/u] has been running full genomic analyses on people infected and correlating them.
@Joe, I’m glad to hear you’re doing well.
@Paul, I’ve seen a Dutch article almost 2 months ago saying they’d found a clear genetic predisposition for young people who get very sick or die from Covid.
https://nos.nl/collectie/13824/artikel/2341733-onderzoekers-radboudumc-vinden-defect-gen-dat-corona-verergert
I’m paraphrasing from memory here, but the ones in this Dutch study who ended up getting it worst had a specific defect in one gene TLR7 that codes for a specific part of the immune response (interferons) ; because of that defect they couldn’t produce the specific molecule needed to block this virus from accessing their cells and were more (if they had no correct copies of the gene active) or less defenseless against it.
As this gene is located on the X chromosomes, girls could have one good and one bad copy, but boys with a bad copy are very vulnerable if they get Covid, though the low or high viral load they’ve picked up will make a difference to how sick they get too.
This was one very clear link, but I expect variations in other genes involved in our immune systems will have varying succes vis-à-vis this virus as well.
Because there are so many people infected, with much data being collected on them, this nasty pandemic appears to be on the way to shedding light on the ways virusses can have long term detrimental influences on people’s health, including things like chronic fatigue and such which have been hard to study and to link to concrete causes and damage-pathways. It would be good if all the suffering at least led to a substantial advance in medicine for the future.