COVID tests for home delivery

Hmm, is that just another rumour going around or do you have a solid source for that "vast" or did I miss the sarcasm?
The latest info I can find suggests that around 400 covid tests a day are done in our province, with the latest full week numbers showing a 60% positivity rate.
The number of daily tests per 1000 people in the province (but also in the country as a whole) is anything but impressive, it is appallingly low at around 0.3 (Denmark 40, UK and France 20, and even India does more testing at 1.3 tests per 1000 people)


As for speculating that what's going around is anything other than Omicron and/or its little sister BA2, I would say that seems unlikely, but can only be excluded by testing.
Just like previous variants, Omicron doesn't cause the exact same symptoms in every person affected.
I'm thinking the advice is still the same, if any of your symptoms are pretty bad, get tested and seek medical help if positive.

 

I am one-more such mystery-case. I hardly ever get sickened by any virus, but my wife & 11-yr son do a few times per year -- I'm a "heath-nut" and they're not :-/ Two weeks ago my son came down with a cold-like bug, acute upper-respiratory infection -- nose-snotting, sneezing, dry-coughing from irritated throat, low fever. Wife got it the next day, and then (to my surprise) I got it the next. We all suffered acutely from this for a full week, losing some sleep, took plenty of OTC RX to "control" it. Then recovery for the past week, tho still some lingering coughing sometimes. No tests taken. We have just assumed that this was Omicron -- but yeah it couldda been some other bug, Who Knows? Omicron just becomes just another of these pests. I actually do hope that it was Omicron, if that means that our general anti-Covid immunity is now stronger....

 

Yes, from what I've read being vaxed plus booster plus omicron should enhance your immune reaction to any future reinfection a lot, at least for a while.

 

This seems in part what my family of three had - starting with a 19 year old who brought it into the house (and we were a bit careless about masks because of previous 'ordinary' fevers she came here with). Two of the three with symptoms had 3 days of high fever (39oC) and I just can't tie it up with Omicron though (I hope it was as that will be my natural acquired immunity) and there are many possibilities of acute upper respiratory infections: e.g. Influenza (not strictly URI), RSV, parainfluenza, rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses.

My own fever/headache (the primary symptoms) went in 3 to 4 days and then overlapped with a chest infection which is about 95% cured but has taken 2 weeks - this could be an opportunistic secondary bacterial infection.

The intervals between the start of infections in your family were much shorter than in mine (about 1 day for you compared with 4 days for mine).

Everyone will have their own opinion on this and must do what they feel is correct - but I rarely use paracetamol or an NSAID (aspirin or ibuprofen) to reduce fever as fever is part of the body's immune response. I took 4 over a 4/5 day illness and only when my fever reached 39oC. I also rarely take any other medicines as my view is to allow my body to fight the infection and then accept that one of us wins. So far it is 1-0 to my body!

If anyone reads anything from sampling results which indicates what this was then I would be very interested to know. It seems to have died down (based on lack of further reports on this Forum) so was a very contagious self-limiting infection.