Dr. Curmudgeon
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Dr. Curmudgeon
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Posts 🚫 med advice. Please, seek the care of your physician if you have any concerns.
While I know nothing about this case, this seems completely plausible, having unfortunately been present for a few of these.
July 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I hope for the possibility while planning for the worst.
June 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yes. Herd immunity is when sufficient numbers of the population have been vaccinated against a disease in a timely fashion. Even their concept is null and void when viral mutations rapidly continue unabated and reinfection is the rule rather than exception.
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Not having protective vaccines is profoundly serious. Your comment is concerning as you are making a choice to caste unnecessary dispersions that can be seen as an obtuse method for undermining extremely important information.
June 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You will have some smaller amount of long term immunity ongoing and immediate response sort for 3-4 months before it begins to wane.
June 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There is a NEJM address you may write to request printed corrections.
June 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
As the vaccines provide ≈3-4 months of immunity & there is a twice yearly increase in Covid, then the policy is the thing in error without regard to some US article announcing a devastating policy here that would prevent most from receiving any vaccine. But thank you for your generous input.
June 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ugh. NIH not NIG
June 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Welcome! So pleased you are here.
April 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Though you may have been told the pandemic is over, the virus does not care. It has one goal. To infect you and replicate. Please, remember your boosters, masks and air quality. Particularly for the summer and winter Covid seasons! 3/3 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Differences in Long COVID severity by duration of illness, symptom evolution, and vaccination: a longitudinal cohort study from the INSPIRE group
Among participants followed up to 3 years after initial infection, those with current Long COVID had worse physical and mental health outcomes. The majority of those with Long COVID did not resolve, w...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
physical health, fatigue severity, physical activity, and dyspnea”. They did report some slight improvement in those with symptoms over 12 months. And importantly, those who were vaccinated with multiple boosters prior to infection had far better outcomes.
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March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
How are you staying healthy throughout this all?
March 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Welcome to the fray @altusmc.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Please, let me know what concerns you most at this time and how we can help us all weather through this.
March 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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March 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM