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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
So my (non-scientific) observation is that Omicron has peaked around here and is falling off a bit. Each morning I drive by an Urgent Care that is a big rapid test place. A few weeks ago each morning there was a line of cars in the highway waiting to get into the parking. People had to wait until someone else pulled out to get a spot. This week there have been empty spots in the lot.
How about where you guys are?
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Our numbers seem to have plateaued, both in daily positives and hospital admissions.
I wonder if the number is going down because everyone has had it now?
My brother, my sister, my 2-year-old niece, and my mother have it right now. My dad and my other sister do not. All triple vaccinated (except the niece), all living in the same house in the country until Friday, when my brother tested positive and they all separated to isolate. My 82 year old dad is at the highest risk, and he’s been with my mother the whole time. He’s been exposed for 5 days now and seems to be fine. Going theory is that his 45+ years working on respiratory issues in the ICUs exposed him to so many bugs he has a super heightened immune system. 2-year-old is happy she gets ice cream and can watch Nemo or Zootopia whenever she wants. Sister seems to have it the worst. Brother on the upswing. Mom holding steady.
Everyone thought it’d would be my husband or my sister’s who brought it to the family. Mine teaches in a yoga studio (he’s masked and doesn’t go near anyone, but it’s indoors and people are idiots). Hers teaches at Rice and went to South Africa and Malawi in the height of their Omicron outbreaks. (He was in Houston--aka Gomorrah to those living in the country for the last 22 months--when the ranch outbreak started, both working and getting ready for Sunday's marathon. He has stayed here while my sister and niece are isolated at the ranch.)
My brother and sister are flipping a house in the country, which is why they were there. Probably some close contact with a contractor or vendor was the source. No one out there really cares about any sort of protocols.
I just really don’t want to get it while I’m pregnant, no matter how mild this particular variant is. We are all back working from home full time until this passes, but I'll probably keep on staying here until the baby is born in early March even if the rest of the office goes back sometime in February.
We still have a ton of people out with Covid at work. The number of positives are still higher than they've been for the entire pandemic, but they're a little less than the week before and the week before that. Staffing has been an issue in some parts, but I suspect some of the work-from-home people are working while having it. It's on the clinical side we can't have people going in with it. I'm guessing we have another three or so weeks before we start seeing some definite declines.
