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Cu1998

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Got back from 15 days in Japan Tuesday night with whole family congested and tired...no surprise with length of trip and all. steadily worse and this morning multiple positive. Good news is it doesn't seem as bad as previous...much lower fever this time with headache and horrible head congestion.

Wil have plenty of time to follow first week of practice coverage!
 
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Covid will always be with us is some mutated form, just like the flu. Thanks China...
 
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My hunch is the localized tests have dropped quite a bit. I cant imagine the number of individuals that actually caught covid but was not aware, but continued to spread it.
 
Cu1998 said:
Got back from 15 days in Japan Tuesday night with whole family congested and tired...no surprise with length of trip and all. steadily worse and this morning multiple positive. Good news is it doesn't seem as bad as previous...much lower fever this time with headache and horrible head congestion.

Wil have plenty of time to follow first week of practice coverage!
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I had it again this past December and Dr. prescribed Paxlovid. Symptoms were much less severe and barely had a fever. Drink plenty of fluids and rest! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
 
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CU1TruTiger4Life said:
Honest question, do people still test?
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Testing is few and far between. A lot and I mean a lot of labs going out of business. There are some that got into the lab business because of COVID that went all in and now are going out and there are others that stopped selling their lab services focusing on COVID testing and when it stopped they could not replace the business to survive and cover the equipment investment

Only if symptoms are crazy bad do people even think of testing.
 
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As a team is testing still mandated by ACC or any conference
 
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Cu1998 said:
Got back from 15 days in Japan Tuesday night with whole family congested and tired...no surprise with length of trip and all. steadily worse and this morning multiple positive. Good news is it doesn't seem as bad as previous...much lower fever this time with headache and horrible head congestion.

Wil have plenty of time to follow first week of practice coverage!
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I went to a wedding in July where a bunch of people got it. My family was staying in a house with a bunch of friends and half the house got it but we didn’t. Everyone who did said it was a bad cold, with one really bad day of no energy.

The only exception was a friend who got sick after she and her husband flew back to AZ. She had some type of condition (and before someone calls her a fatty, she looks like a supermodel) and ended up in the hospital for about a week on a respirator.

This strain of COVID aid much weaker than previous ones. That is what viruses do to stay alive.
 
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nmerritt11 said:
Testing is few and far between. A lot and I mean a lot of labs going out of business. There are some that got into the lab business because of COVID that went all in and now are going out and there are others that stopped selling their lab services focusing on COVID testing and when it stopped they could not replace the business to survive and cover the equipment investment

Only if symptoms are crazy bad do people even think of testing.
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Moderator Merritt with the scoop. More at 6pm.
 
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Superica28 said:
Moderator Merritt with the scoop. More at 6pm.
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haha in my industry labs are pretty damn important. One that I have sent a lot of business to and supported a charity event I am on the board of is one of the ones that is in trouble

Another one in Greenville I know well that was one of the biggest COVID testing place in the country got a little "creative" with testing and is now out of business. All across the country labs are falling...it is not me with the scoop...it is easy info to find
 
MBTiger23 said:
This is what I've never understood. Literally a cold now and we don't go get a test for a cold.
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No, it’s more like the flu now, and people do get tested for the flu, particularly if they have a weakened immune system. Last time I had the flu they tested and when positive the Dr put me on Tamiflu. Got over it very quickly.

Slightly off topic - I just wish people would choose to stay out of public when they are sick- whether it’s flu, COVID, cold, whatever. It’s just common decency not to be passing crap around to everyone when you are obviously sick. I’ve been on an airplane twice recently with people that were obviously sick and they sneezed and coughed and hacked the entire trip.
 
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Not getting into the politics of this. I haven’t had a person out with COVID in months from my team at work. I have 3 of 8 out this past week. They don’t have any in person contact either. Odd for sure.

Worst thing about COVID is it doesn’t seem to have a season. Flu and colds are much more prevalent in the winter when everyone is inside together. COVID seems to be around just as much in the summer.
 
nmerritt11 said:
Testing is few and far between. A lot and I mean a lot of labs going out of business. There are some that got into the lab business because of COVID that went all in and now are going out and there are others that stopped selling their lab services focusing on COVID testing and when it stopped they could not replace the business to survive and cover the equipment investment

Only if symptoms are crazy bad do people even think of testing.
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A big part was also that the government stopped paying for covid tests. That killed the industry. Most people are poors who cannot afford a covid test out of pocket.
 
nmerritt11 said:
haha in my industry labs are pretty damn important. One that I have sent a lot of business to and supported a charity event I am on the board of is one of the ones that is in trouble

Another one in Greenville I know well that was one of the biggest COVID testing place in the country got a little "creative" with testing and is now out of business. All across the country labs are falling...it is not me with the scoop...it is easy info to find
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It’s not on Woodruff Road is it?
 
nytigerfan said:
A big part was also that the government stopped paying for covid tests. That killed the industry. Most people are poors who cannot afford a covid test out of pocket.
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testing stopped well before government stopped reimbursing for it. And they still will it is just more regulated as it should have been long before. May was when the hammer came down and testing stopped being reimbursed at a crazy amount. Labs were testing facilities weekly and if there was a positive they could test every 48 hours and get reimbursed for it and the reimbursement amount was insanely high. They could make hundreds of thousands a month with a handful of facilities

The money spent after it was no longer a problem was just dumb...but labs were counting cash. The ones that continued their other lab services and did it well will be sitting pretty for life on the money they made on COVID testing.

And poors...if someone cannot afford a COVID test they are more than poor. They are not expensive
 
mskoonce said:
No, it’s more like the flu now, and people do get tested for the flu, particularly if they have a weakened immune system. Last time I had the flu they tested and when positive the Dr put me on Tamiflu. Got over it very quickly.

Slightly off topic - I just wish people would choose to stay out of public when they are sick- whether it’s flu, COVID, cold, whatever. It’s just common decency not to be passing crap around to everyone when you are obviously sick. I’ve been on an airplane twice recently with people that were obviously sick and they sneezed and coughed and hacked the entire trip.
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wait the flu is back...

haha now it is funny that the new COVID test tests for flu, covid, and rsv...
 
nytigerfan said:
I went to a wedding in July where a bunch of people got it. My family was staying in a house with a bunch of friends and half the house got it but we didn’t. Everyone who did said it was a bad cold, with one really bad day of no energy.

The only exception was a friend who got sick after she and her husband flew back to AZ. She had some type of condition (and before someone calls her a fatty, she looks like a supermodel) and ended up in the hospital for about a week on a respirator.

This strain of COVID aid much weaker than previous ones. That is what viruses do to stay alive.
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pics of non-fatty supermodel?
 
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It’s not on Woodruff Road is it?
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several on Woodruff Rd. I believe. The one I mentioned is not...but I do know which one you're likely alluding to. Seemingly good people who I know were also heavy COVID testing as well and they did support our charity event as well
 
nmerritt11 said:
testing stopped well before government stopped reimbursing for it. And they still will it is just more regulated as it should have been long before. May was when the hammer came down and testing stopped being reimbursed at a crazy amount. Labs were testing facilities weekly and if there was a positive they could test every 48 hours and get reimbursed for it and the reimbursement amount was insanely high. They could make hundreds of thousands a month with a handful of facilities

The money spent after it was no longer a problem was just dumb...but labs were counting cash. The ones that continued their other lab services and did it well will be sitting pretty for life on the money they made on COVID testing.

And poors...if someone cannot afford a COVID test they are more than poor. They are not expensive
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Back in June I started feeling terrible in the office one day. I left and went to a doc in a box. They tested me for strep and flu, and said then wanted to send me home with negative tests. I said wait, aren’t you going ton test me for covid? The doctor said, “we can, but it will be $75 out of pocket. I didn’t know if you would want to pay that.” I said hell yes, if I am going home to my family I would like to know.

A poor like @SDTiger9 would have opted out of such an expensive test.
 
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Some still wear masks, so….
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Unfortunately, I still see people wearing masks in THEIR OWN C-A-R........with NO ONE in the car with them. Have to laugh at them and ask out loud "are you afraid of giving yourself Covid?"
Emily Carey Eating GIF by Luis Ricardo
 
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nmerritt11 said:
testing stopped well before government stopped reimbursing for it. And they still will it is just more regulated as it should have been long before. May was when the hammer came down and testing stopped being reimbursed at a crazy amount. Labs were testing facilities weekly and if there was a positive they could test every 48 hours and get reimbursed for it and the reimbursement amount was insanely high. They could make hundreds of thousands a month with a handful of facilities

The money spent after it was no longer a problem was just dumb...but labs were counting cash. The ones that continued their other lab services and did it well will be sitting pretty for life on the money they made on COVID testing.

And poors...if someone cannot afford a COVID test they are more than poor. They are not expensive
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They are still testing any child that comes in with a fever at our pediatrician....but they test for flu, strep, and rsv as eell.

My mother and father in law both had Covid a few weeks ago.
 
nytigerfan said:
Back in June I started feeling terrible in the office one day. I left and went to a doc in a box. They tested me for strep and flu, and said then wanted to send me home with negative tests. I said wait, aren’t you going ton test me for covid? The doctor said, “we can, but it will be $75 out of pocket. I didn’t know if you would want to pay that.” I said hell yes, if I am going home to my family I would like to know.

A poor like @SDTiger9 would have opted out of such an expensive test.
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Haha $75 is expensive? But they do get reimbursed over $200 so you m not sure why they wouldn’t have offered it to everyone. They have about $50 in it from what I gather
 
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