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    Quote Originally Posted by pangloss View Post
    I'm eight days out from my Pfizer boost and have little to report. My arm was sore and I was tired for a couple of days. My seven day resting heart rate according to Garmin is 50, which is actually a little below where it was the previous week. I'll check my titers next week. Hopefully I'll get into the millions this time!

    Community transmission has dropped sharply here. I dearly hope that out last wave was the last wave.

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    Thanks again for your keeping us informed and educated on your antibodies and titers and all that through this. Got my booster yesterday, not much to report so far (no side effects 1st 2 times). I've heard that some areas have had sharp drops, but here in AZ the daily new case count has been extremely slowly decreasing overall. I don't have the numbers in front of me but it seems like the previous waves had dropped more abruptly than this one has for us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erik View Post
    Article about molnupiravir, a new COVID 19 treatment being developed by Merck: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/9-...nts_10-13-2021
    That's exciting news and I hope it pans out. But when they talk about halting the trial early because it's so effective, does that mean they're no longer monitoring the participants for longer term effects? Also it's interesting to me that so many people refusing the vaccine are willing to be in a trial for a drug like this that sounds every bit as intricate with the DNA/RNA as the vaccine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pangloss View Post
    I'm eight days out from my Pfizer boost and have little to report. My arm was sore and I was tired for a couple of days. My seven day resting heart rate according to Garmin is 50, which is actually a little below where it was the previous week. I'll check my titers next week. Hopefully I'll get into the millions this time!

    Community transmission has dropped sharply here. I dearly hope that out last wave was the last wave.

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    My Fitbit report from Sunday, 4 days after the booster

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    Doesn't read posts longer than two paragraphs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YVK View Post
    My Fitbit report from Sunday, 4 days after the booster

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    Jesus, could you get out and walk once in a while? If that's an average day for you, I wonder if your monthly miles would be much different than someone with a desk job who runs marathons recreationally on a regular basis.
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    New booster study. Number of participants is small.
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    If you got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as your first COVID shot, a booster dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine apparently could produce a stronger immune response than a second dose of J&J's vaccine. That's the finding of a highly anticipated study released Wednesday.

    And if you started out with either Pfizer or Moderna, it probably doesn't matter that much, the research suggests, as long as you get one of the two mRNA vaccines as a booster.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...zer-works-best

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    Long time no type...
    I have been away from the forum (most all forums) for a few months. Sometimes you just need a break.

    BUT, jumping in here to share... I had the 'Rona back in August. I caught it while I was TDY'ed to assist the Border Patrol down in the Rio Grande Valley while they were getting slammed. I was stuck doing transport and escort duty between BP stations and to and from the Hospital. I had to sit in ICU with in custody prisoners, while they battled COVID. My partner and I had to watch folks turn blue while on pure O2. Dying from Corona is down right horrible, because no matter how hard you breath, you are just not getting enough O2. Sure enough, even wearing an N95 and gloves, and using hand sanitizer, I caught it.

    I had the Phizer shots back in March. And used PPE.... so the theory is not that I am immune, but that I would get a mild case. If it was mild, I would hate to see serious. It was two days of "meh, I don't feel good, but it is like a head cold." Then two days of "oh my GOD , I AM GONNA DIE". Then two days of "Meh, it feels like a head cold." I thought I was out of the woods, and about 4-5 days after I thought I was done, I got hit with round two. Round two was straight back to the "oh my GOD, I AM GONNA DIE" mode. Fortunately it was only about 48 hours.

    I never had a fever. I never had difficulty breathing. I had major fatigue and loss of apatite. But i could barely sleep because the real symptom was a headache worse than anything i have ever felt. Not bad enough to make me drive myself to the ER, but worse than I can remember ever having. Eyes getting "pushed out of my skull from behind" bad. Apparently, 13% of covid patients get brain swelling. I can only assume that was what I had, as no matter how much Tylenol, Motrin, or Nyquil i took would stop the pressure in my head.

    But, I am alive and well now, and full of fresh anti bodies. I will eventually get the booster, but my GP Doc thinks my natural antibodies are probably better than the booster for now, So i may wait until around Christmas for the boost.
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    SIDE NOTE:
    all the politics surrounding covid numbers and info make me want to puke. Watching TV and the reporters talk about how Covid numbers in Texas are spiking because republicans wont take the vaccine...

    Well, after a 45 day trip to the border, I saw NONE of the aliens in custody being tested unless they complained of symptoms. The BP station I was at was relatively at low capacity, as we were only about 300% capacity. Some stations were operating at 700% capacity. We are talking aliens stacked in every corner, every cell, every sally port. And most every one was released to the street, un tested, un vaxed. If we pulled 10 that had symptoms out of the cells, and 8 of them were positive, the other 47 people in the 20 person cell were all exposed, but we just released them all to the street without testing. So our numbers spiked in Texas... that is true. But I don't think it was the republicans refusing the shot causing the major spike. It was the 67,000 that were released the street in one month, that had to have major infection rates once they were released.

    Then I got sent to the Del Rio Bridge-O-Haitians for a week. Its crazy how the media is manipulating the stories.


    (If this was off topic for the thread, I apologize. feel free to move it, or remove it. I did not read all the prior posts. Just venting this afternoon. Glad to pop back on)
    “A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.” - Shane

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadfly View Post
    Long time no type...
    I have been away from the forum (most all forums) for a few months. Sometimes you just need a break.

    BUT, jumping in here to share... I had the 'Rona back in August. I caught it while I was TDY'ed to assist the Border Patrol down in the Rio Grande Valley while they were getting slammed. I was stuck doing transport and escort duty between BP stations and to and from the Hospital. I had to sit in ICU with in custody prisoners, while they battled COVID. My partner and I had to watch folks turn blue while on pure O2. Dying from Corona is down right horrible, because no matter how hard you breath, you are just not getting enough O2. Sure enough, even wearing an N95 and gloves, and using hand sanitizer, I caught it.

    I had the Phizer shots back in March. And used PPE.... so the theory is not that I am immune, but that I would get a mild case. If it was mild, I would hate to see serious. It was two days of "meh, I don't feel good, but it is like a head cold." Then two days of "oh my GOD , I AM GONNA DIE". Then two days of "Meh, it feels like a head cold." I thought I was out of the woods, and about 4-5 days after I thought I was done, I got hit with round two. Round two was straight back to the "oh my GOD, I AM GONNA DIE" mode. Fortunately it was only about 48 hours.

    I never had a fever. I never had difficulty breathing. I had major fatigue and loss of apatite. But i could barely sleep because the real symptom was a headache worse than anything i have ever felt. Not bad enough to make me drive myself to the ER, but worse than I can remember ever having. Eyes getting "pushed out of my skull from behind" bad. Apparently, 13% of covid patients get brain swelling. I can only assume that was what I had, as no matter how much Tylenol, Motrin, or Nyquil i took would stop the pressure in my head.

    But, I am alive and well now, and full of fresh anti bodies. I will eventually get the booster, but my GP Doc thinks my natural antibodies are probably better than the booster for now, So i may wait until around Christmas for the boost.
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    Thanks for checking in, brother, and so glad to hear you're on the mend. Hang in there and if there's anything we can do, gimme a shout via PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadfly View Post
    SIDE NOTE:
    all the politics surrounding covid numbers and info make me want to puke. Watching TV and the reporters talk about how Covid numbers in Texas are spiking because republicans wont take the vaccine...

    Well, after a 45 day trip to the border, I saw NONE of the aliens in custody being tested unless they complained of symptoms. The BP station I was at was relatively at low capacity, as we were only about 300% capacity. Some stations were operating at 700% capacity. We are talking aliens stacked in every corner, every cell, every sally port. And most every one was released to the street, un tested, un vaxed. If we pulled 10 that had symptoms out of the cells, and 8 of them were positive, the other 47 people in the 20 person cell were all exposed, but we just released them all to the street without testing. So our numbers spiked in Texas... that is true. But I don't think it was the republicans refusing the shot causing the major spike. It was the 67,000 that were released the street in one month, that had to have major infection rates once they were released.

    Then I got sent to the Del Rio Bridge-O-Haitians for a week. Its crazy how the media is manipulating the stories.
    I'm waiting for Gov Abbott to put out the call for civilian volunteers to support border control.
    I'd be good standing in the Rio Grande, holding hands to make a human wall, as long as I was allowed to shoot back.

    /drift.

    Glad you're mended Gadfly.
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