Latest on Booster Shots

Don't know why the link doesn't work for you. I wouldn't fast except to lose weight, although I know several people who practice it. To each their own. I posted it for the boost to the immune system.

 

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/95220

 

CDC Booster shots.

 

I don't really understand the numbers here and what they mean but it's interesting to think about a diff. booster adding to the effectiveness. Perhaps that's why it's okay to switch them up on the booster. I'll have to look into this.

 

It looks like (almost) all of the vaxes can be mixed and matched. I haven't seen numbers on Sinovac, but China is using Pfizer with Sinovac. I say almost because there are other vaxes I never read about. Janssen looks like it should have been two shots initially. When I got Hep B (think it was B), I waited six months between shots.

 

GOOD & BAD news on #DeltaPlus #AY42 —it continues to grow in UK ,with higher attack rates (faster transmission) than old #deltavariant. Good news is similar severity & vaccine efficacy as Delta. But #AY42 is gaining ground among non-travelers.

 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-antidepressant-fluvoxamine-drug-hospital-death

An inexpensive, easy-to-take pill could be the next weapon in the arsenal against COVID-19. Taking the antidepressant fluvoxamine within days of showing symptoms of an infection can dramatically cut the risk of hospitalization and death, suggests the largest trial to date of this FDA-approved generic drug as a COVID-19 treatment.

In newly infected COVID-19 patients at high risk of complications, a 10-day course of the antidepressant fluvoxamine cut hospitalizations by two-thirds and reduced deaths by 91 percent in patients who tolerated the medicine, researchers report October 27 in the Lancet Global Health.

 

The results of that study are good news indeed, for three reasons:
1. because it was a decent size (1,500 participants) placebo controlled experiment,
2. because it is an established medication for other problems, without bad side effects for almost everyone,
3. (maybe the most important aspect for a country like the Philippines) because it's relatively cheap.
Obviously though, an FDA approval of the drug for use in Covid patients would be better, but that may take a while yet.

 

Mixing up shots seems to be good but there are so many potential combinations of the main vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, JJ, Sinovac, Sputnik) and whether two of the same and a different one or three different ones and in which order and which is best for which age group or health-risk group or gender and at what spacing! It's a lucky dip.