Greg Abbott reportedly had booster shot and Regeneron infusion (Follow what he did, not what he says)
Since I am much younger with a BMI of 23, this step is changed to "when positive, take NAC"
Still taking Vitamin D 4000IU daily right now. I want my VitD level high before catching COVID. Too late if you take it only after becoming symptomatic.
p.s. I thought I caught a mild case of COVID 3 weeks ago, because of runny nose and altered sense of smell.
But repeated antigen test always came back negative. and last week, I found out the altered sense of smell is caused by acetyl-L-Carnitine that i took for my workout
apparently, for some people, taking L-carnitine makes them smell fishy.
and for some people, taking L-carnitine makes their noses complete crazy.
So it wasn't COVID for me a few weeks ago.
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Do we need a booster shot of COVID vaccine every year for the rest of our life?
Probably not. (it is physically impossible to have 4-year data for a virus emerged 1.5 year ago, but I can make an educated guess).
A few considerations:
Vaccines on a 0-1-6 month schedule in theory generate much longer-lasting immunity than the same one on 0-1 month schedule.
Extrapolating from common-cold beta-coronaviruses, it takes 2 years for them to genetically drift into immune escape.
So it really boils down to whether people care about getting mildly sick from COVID in the future.
If they don't care and they don't interact with large number of people everyday, *maybe* an updated shot once every 4-6 years. (i know people who never get TDAP booster ever)
There is a black swan event no one is discussing yet.
Extrapolating from the Israeli data, Joe Biden's covid antibody level is likely to dip below protection threshold pretty soon.
He got his first shot on Dec 21st. He is 78 years old (diminishing B cell and T cell activity)
If they don't monitor his antibody titer level (cdc said no), and if they are not being proactive in administrating him with a booster shot soon, his risk of getting sick with covid will be growing exponentially in a month or two.
A worse scenario would be both the Potus and vpotus getting sick with delta variant in the fall around the debt ceiling/ government shutdown deadline on Sept 30th...
I hope we have not run out of REGN cocktail by then.
1/ Paycheck Protection Grants - stuff you wish you don't know.
Right now, treasury is giving out $3-4Bn a day(!) in SBA PPP grants, free money for "small" business.
"" used, because Mnuchin allowed some mega churches to be paid via SBA. payment amount has grown since....
2/ so not sure who qualifies as small business any more.
so much free money is given out right now that Fiscal year to date SBA spending is the 2nd *largest expenditure* category (only behind social security).
3/ since "small" business is getting 33% more free payroll money from SBA than unemployment benefits being sent out, it is should be easy for small business to pay people a little more than unemployment?
1/ Talked with a CVS minute-clinic nurse practitioner at Austin today.
She mentioned that lately nearly than 50% of the COVID positive tests are coming from fully-vaccinated folks (asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, e.g. a sore throat), who are accompanying a sick relative.
2/ The underlying dynamic is potentially that one unvaccinated person gets COVID, and then turns every vaccinated persons in the household asymptomatic spreaders for a couple of days.
3/ Before the arrival of the doubly-contagious delta variant, this issue was not too concerning.
But now, this summer is going to be "interesting".
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