J. HARRIS: Covid attacks are cooling off at present. FLU cases are increasing. 

Now is a good time to get your flu shot and keep your Covid Boosters up to date. See your dentist and get your mammograms and checkups. Is your blood pressure doing alright? Avoid sick people and don’t let your family go out if they are even a little bit sick. In areas where the majority of the population is unvaccinated, continue to be wary and masked in crowds. 

 Covid vaccinations and boosters are now available at most area pharmacies, including 4th Boosters. 

Flu and Covid Vaccinations are available at  Harrison County Health Department as are  4th. Boosters for “Immunocompramized” individuals, in various categories that almost include many older individuals. You don’t need a doctor’s statement to prove that you are immunocompromised. You do not have to show any documents. Also, by getting boosters, you will not be “wasting” vaccines that someone else might need. Plenty of Covid vaccine is currently available in the US.  ”Individuals should ask their personal physicians if they are eligible for and need  a 4th Booster.” You must fill out 3 short forms, one of which states that you are ”Immunocompramized” and therefore eligible for the 4th Jab. Various drug stores are able to do this, but they might not be as “enlightened” about 4th Jabs as are the various county Health Departments. The Marshall/Harrison County Health Dept. can be reached at 903 938 8338. You should call for their schedule before going by. (They are next door to the hospital). They are not open for injections every day. You can also get a FLU SHOTS at the Health Dept. if you need it. Talk to your doctor. I can not advise individuals to get a 4th. jab, but I “qualified” and got one. Also, a certain Norwegian Housekeeper is waiting for the 6 months to elapse from the date of her 3rd Jab to get her 4th. 

Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up 11.6% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC

”…Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up 11.6% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC’

(J. Harris: BA.2  probably not as deadly but more contagious than regular Omicron. Vaccines protect against severe disease. Reinfections are not uncommon.

France’s new COVID-19 infections start creeping up again

French health authorities reported 93,050 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, the highest daily total since Feb 22, and an increase of 16.6% versus a week ago.

(J. Harris: No mention was made of which Covid strain is in France now, but a Variant B.1.640.2 ( AKA I.H.U)was reported in France and Poland earlier this year, thought to have originated in Cameroon. I would also guess that it could be BA.2 as well since that Variant has been all over Denmark. It seems that most of the Variants that have been recently studied by genetic sequencing are responsive to our current vaccines. Like the Deltas, the Omicron variants are less virulent in vaccinated folks. So, at present most of the more medically sophisticated countries are lessening dependency of quarantines, masks, spacing, crowd avoidance and the like. They are placing more reliance on testing, voluntary isolation, and VACCINATIONS.) 

AND LASTLY:

Lewis Grizzard said: In the south there’s a difference between ‘Naked’ and ‘Nekkid.’ ‘Naked’ means you don’t have any clothes on. ‘Nekkid’ means you don’t have any clothes on and you’re up to somethin’.

Ate salad for dinner. Mostly croutons and tomatoes. Really just one big round crouton covered with tomato sauce and cheese FINE, it was a pizza…. OK, I ate a pizza!  Are you happy now?

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FROM THE ATLANTIC

COVID Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.

”…Hundreds of thousands of deaths, from either tobacco or the pandemic, could be prevented with a single behavioral change.

….and that many COVID deaths, like many smoking-related deaths, could be prevented with a single intervention….not to get vaccinated against COVID is, right now, a modifiable health risk on par with smoking, which kills more than 400,000 people each year in the United States..The COVID vaccines are, without exaggeration, among the safest and most effective therapies in all of modern medicine. An unvaccinated adult is an astonishing 68 times more likely to die from COVID than a boosted one. Yet widespread vaccine hesitancy in the United States has caused more than 163,000 preventable deaths and counting. Because too few people are vaccinated, COVID surges still overwhelm hospitals…”

FROM HOPKINS:

1. As Omicron Surged, Covid-19 Spread Through Patients in Hospitals (Wall Street Journal) As the Omicron variant surged through communities across the U.S., it also spread inside hospitals and infected non-Covid-19 patients, reaching a record number, a Wall Street Journal analysis of U.S. government data found. The daily total of patients with Covid-19 that they caught in hospitals reached a record of about 4,700 during the Omicron wave in January, according to the analysis of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data.

2. California Unveils Plan To Become First State To Treat Coronavirus As ‘Endemic’ Risk (Washington Post) “We are moving past the crisis phase into a phase where we will work to live with this virus,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said at a news conference. “People are looking forward to turning the page,” he added. “They also need to know we have their back, we’re going to keep them safe, and we’re going to stay on top of this.” California’s plan, he said, shifts from a “crisis mentality” to emphasize prevention and adaptability, allowing officials to step up measures to detect and contain fresh outbreaks, as well as to look out for new variants. It also includes more public campaigns against misinformation and the stockpiling of tests and equipment rather than mask mandates and business shutdowns.

FROM JAMA:

Evaluation of Antimicrobial Drug Use and Concurrent Infections During Hospitalization of Patients With COVID-19 in Japan

”…The findings revealed that concurrent infectious diseases rarely occurred despite the infrequent use of antimicrobial drugs during hospitalization among patients with COVID-19 infection, most of whom had noncritical cases. This finding supports the results of recent studies showing that concurrent bacterial infections were uncommon in patients with COVID-19 infection.1-3 Given that most patients with noncritical severity recovered without antimicrobial drugs, the use of most antimicrobial drugs to treat noncritical cases in many hospitals might be unnecessary. Antimicrobial drugs should be used cautiously to treat patients with COVID-19 infection…”

(J. Harris: The usual antibiotics are not indicated in Covid infections.)

CORRESPONDENCE FROM NEJM:

Protection against the Omicron Variant from Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Overall, in a national database study in Qatar, we found that the effectiveness of previous infection in preventing reinfection with the alpha, beta, and delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 was robust (at approximately 90%), findings that confirmed earlier estimates…Such protection against reinfection with the omicron variant was lower (approximately 60%) but still considerable. In addition, the protection of previous infection against hospitalization or death caused by reinfection appeared to be robust, regardless of variant.

”…Among the patients with reinfection, progression to severe Covid-19 occurred in one patient with the alpha variant, in two patients with the beta variant, in no patients with the delta variant, and in two patients with the omicron variant. None of the reinfections progressed to critical or fatal Covid-19…”

(J. Harris: This is more information from a study we looked at a week or so ago from Qatar involving a very young (31-35  Y/O) population. This second letter indicates some protection against the Omicron variant from the previous infections with other Covid organisms was found (60%) as well as milder disease with all the organisms.  Perhaps, at least with young people, subsequent  future reinfections won’t overwhelm our hospitals and morgues?)

LASTLY:

I plan to introduce Geriatric Ice Dancing at subsequent Winter Olympics.  I expect to enter in the ”Big Boy Classification” which will include Belly Spinning. And remember, “Big Boys don’t cry!”

I don’t mean to brag, but I finished my 14-day diet food supply in 3 hours and 20 minutes

Norwegian Cake of the Day:

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