From Jefferson County Public Health: There is a summer surge of Covid nationally and here. ( I know two friends that recently got it.) There have been 3 people hospitalized in Jefferson county because it has been a long time since the last vaccines. There also has been a pediatric hospitalization. Public health are recommending a second booster for those over 65 with underlying conditions. If you haven’t had a second booster QFC has the vaccine now, the new vaccines should be available in October. The vaccines are covered by Medicare.
On covid–if you got all the vaccines you should have, are you still protected in any way? Yes, your risk of serious disease is less. The virus is just as dangerous as it always was, but most of us have some level of immunity. Babies are at the highest risk. Folks over 65 have a harder time holding onto their immunity. If you’re under 65 do you need an annual vaccine? Yes.
The Canadian broadcasting Company (CBC) had a show recently on new research that is showing that the long-term effects of Covid are perhaps much worse than we have originally thought. Titled:
“Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage
Even if you think you’re done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you”
One of the takeaways:
“There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence,” says long COVID researcher, David Putrino, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
The long-term effects can show up as long COVID, with symptoms such as shortness of breath, digestive problems, fast or irregular heartbeats, extreme fatigue and brain fog, or as silently accumulating cellular or organ damage.”
It is worth a quick read or listen to at this link:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
Also. Pertussis transmission is up – two diagnosed here, 30 in Clallam. Only about 10% of active cases get detected, so the numbers are more like 20 here and 300 in Clallam, and school has not started yet.
There were two cases of vibrio (a bacteria in brackish water) in raw shellfish. The food safety team got on it really quickly and no one had done anything wrong, it’s just a side effect of raw oysters in hot weather. Best to avoid oysters when the weather is hot.
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Hi Al. Thanks for the COVID article. Add me to the list of locals battling COVID. Thanks to careful behavior, vaccination, and good luck, I had not gotten COVID before this. The reference to work by done on long term effects has me thinking that perhaps “long COVID” may accompany nearly all cases of COVID. For me, one of the worst impacts (beyond all the respiratory stuff) is exhaustion- not a good thing for us aging folks
Thanks—this is especially relevant considering our current public health regime…