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Originally Posted by christmasoompa (Post 12982738)

Lucky you. We have two friends who've died of it, both of them were only middle aged. I hope your friends/family continue to be unaffected.

Yep. Scouse has two family members in the UK who've died from covid.

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Originally Posted by christmasoompa (Post 12982738)

Lucky you. We have two friends who've died of it, both of them were only middle aged. I hope your friends/family continue to be unaffected.

I am sorry to hear that Christmas. My experience is what it is and you have your own - they obviously differ a great deal. Whilst we have all been greatly affected by the covid response its undeniable the majority of people have suffered no physical ill effects from covid so my experience is probably not actually that uncommon.

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Originally Posted by Revin Kevin (Post 12982743)

I'm not sure if you can make that assumption.

Latest figures show cumulatively nearly 450,000 people have been admitted to hospital due to covid (https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare) - about 10% of confirmed cases so it is more likely that people will know someone severely impacted.

I personally know many hospitalised, plus one friend who died and two who have been left with permanent impairments, although fortunately most family members haven't been too severely impacted (6 family members have had covid in the UK).

After reading this I feel so lucky that while Jim had Covid and was sick as a dog with it, he didn't require hospitalization and has been experiencing only minor side effects. I know of 4 others who have had it and all survived, thank heaven.

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Originally Posted by christmasoompa (Post 12982738)

Lucky you. We have two friends who've died of it, both of them were only middle aged. I hope your friends/family continue to be unaffected.

My brother and family had it, mild cases but my he said it was the sickest he'd ever been. Another family we know had it, one of them was quite poorly and is still exhausted. Another family friend is still suffering long term effects.

Only one new death, which seems to be two less than usual.
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I think only my neighbor has had it of all the people I know personally. She has stopped coughing so at least physically she seems alright now.

Yo-Yo MA played a concert while waiting 15 minutes after being vaccinated.
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Anticipating a lockdown and possible shortages we made three grocery store visits in the week of 16th March last year. Not hoarding, just making sure we had a supply of high use items for our household.

Although I've been a few times to the Pharmacy, the liquor store, Giant Tiger as well as Sobeys (once) and IGA (once) I hadn't been to the preferred, and typically three times a month, Superstore since 16th March.

So I went today, the 15th, so as not to have missed a complete year. :o :lol:

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Originally Posted by christmasoompa (Post 12982738)

Lucky you. We have two friends who've died of it, both of them were only middle aged. I hope your friends/family continue to be unaffected.

Sorry to hear that. Any idea of how they became infected?

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Originally Posted by Shard (Post 12984011)

Sorry to hear that. Any idea of how they became infected?

No idea, probably just at the supermarket, work, via their kids school etc, same as most I'd imagine. One had it very early on, he died last April. He messaged my husband saying 'not feeling too hot, think I've got this Covid thing but looking forward to catching up over a beer soon', and he died 10 days later. Fit and healthy guy in his mid forties, and with two teenage kids. Just awful.

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12983998)

Please tell me you bought some vitamin d at the pharmacy!

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Originally Posted by Revin Kevin (Post 12984169)

Please tell me you bought some vitamin d at the pharmacy!

Yes, but was already doing so :lol:

The friend who took me to physio this morning is a bit older than I am, so his tier is up and he went and got his Pfizer shot just a little while ago (his 15 min wait after should just be up now). As we were texting he mentioned that there are protesters with signs standing near the entrance to the exhibition grounds where the testing and vaccinating is happening. Maybe it will be on the news tonight.

Updated vaccine schedule for 1st dose for BC, everything moved forward a bit which is good. 2nd dose is 16 weeks after 1st dose. Looks like May-June for me and my wife.

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Extremely vulnerable include:

People with underlying health conditions that are clinically extremely vulnerable include:

Solid organ transplant recipients
People with specific cancers:
- People with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy
- People with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy
- People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment
- People having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer
- People having other targeted cancer treatments that can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors
- People who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last six months or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs
People with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
People with rare diseases that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell disease)
People on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection (biologic modifiers, high dose steroids, AZT, cyclophosphamide)
People who had their spleen removed
Adults with very significant developmental disabilities that increase risk
Adults on dialysis or with chronic kidney disease (stage 5)
Women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired
Significant neuromuscular conditions requiring respiratory support