What should we do about COVID in 2024?
post by ChristianKl · 2024-08-04T10:57:24.140Z · LW · GW · 2 commentsThis is a question post.
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Most of the discussion around COVID has stopped and nobody really wants to think about it. In the last months I heard of a few friends being infected by COVID and suffering from it.
What's the current state? How should we think about the risk of being infected and what should we do about it?
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comment by romeostevensit · 2024-08-04T17:16:07.331Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I take gromwell root tea and turkey rhubarb when feeling ill on the hypothesis that they more weakly inhibit the same metabolic steps that paxlovid does. Most healthcare providers will not prescribe paxlovid even if you have symptoms and even knowing that earlier intervention is much more effective. I also decided that wearing a mask on public transport is an obvious win regardless of which illnesses are currently going around. Pretty easy since I don't use it much. I suspect that the air quality in airplanes is actually quite bad, despite assurances, so that counts as public transport.
comment by Michael Roe (michael-roe) · 2024-08-04T12:20:08.986Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
AS a purely anecdotal data point, my mother had COVID19 (again) a couple of weeks ago.
We appear to be in the "nearly everybody will keep getting it regularly, for ever" phase of COVID19.