I don’t know about you, but I have now had my two initial Covid-19 shots and three booster shots. As much as I’d like to treat Covid like a cold, the risk of hospitalization and long-Covid are real and frightening if you have not been boosted, reports The Guardian. Whatever the people near you are or are not doing, you should take Covid seriously.
What should you do to protect yourself? Get boosted. And, get boosted again when your immunity drops. The bi-valent boosters are very effective. Always wear a mask in public and around strangers when you’re indoors. You will then likely protect yourself from a bad case of Covid. If you could be wearing a mask, you should be.
Don’t assume you’ll be ok if you don’t get the bivalent booster shot. 84 percent of people appear to be making that assumption at grave risk to themselves and others.
Don’t assume that you’ll be ok if you’ve already had Covid. Data is mounting that if you’ve had Covid once you’re more likely to face greater physical and mental health risk if you get it again.
New variants of Covid are virulent. It might be the fourth year of Covid-19, but it is not waning. And, once again, many people are being hospitalized, particularly the unvaccinated and unboosted. Hospitalizations for Covid are at the fourth highest level since the beginning of the pandemic.
It shouldn’t matter whether the government is requiring people to be masked and tested, you should wear a mask to protect yourself and others.
Older adults are most at risk. People with Medicare comprise the better part of all patients hospitalized. And, many people are dying needlessly. During the week of January 4, nearly 4,000 people died of Covid, thousands more have become disabled, largely bedbound, with little energy to perform even basic activities of daily living.
Is Covid going away? Experts do not believe Covid cases have peaked. People in the northeast appear to be hit hardest. The XBB.1.5 subvariant is largely responsible.
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