Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

williamalex1 said:
A question for Ethan, are people already taking blood thinning meds like aspirin or warfarin less likely to have a blood clot ?.
I've been taking 75mg aspirin daily for 30 years.
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I don't think it has been formally tested in Covid, but in other conditions where clotting is a problem, for example coronary heart disease, it certainly may help.

There is some data that it may also help in other ways, by reaching inflammation and even having a minor effect on the immune system. As you have probably heard, Covid is basically a 2 phase illness, a respiratory viral illness followed by an inflammatory multi-organ condition. It is usually the second part that does you in, but the aspirin may help with that so I would stick with it. I wouldn't start aspirin unless there was another reason to do so, though. I take a Vitamin D fairly regularly through Covid. Evidence not that strong, but not much risk of harm.
 
drdel said:
I understand the overall dataset suggests the 'blood clot' rate in the Pfizer cohort is very slightly higher.
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There are blood clots and blood clots. The ones that got the Scando regulators attention did so because they had unusual features and were atypical. Similar cases have not yet occurred with Pfizer. The issue is not the number but the nature, and whether that points to a wide effect on blood vessels which could have result in a range of types of undesirable effects, and a lot of the events are fairly common in the vaccinated age groups and might not be noticed immediately.
 
Ethan said:
I don't think it has been formally tested in Covid, but in other conditions where clotting is a problem, for example coronary heart disease, it certainly may help.

There is some data that it may also help in other ways, by reaching inflammation and even having a minor effect on the immune system. As you have probably heard, Covid is basically a 2 phase illness, a respiratory viral illness followed by an inflammatory multi-organ condition. It is usually the second part that does you in, but the aspirin may help with that so I would stick with it. I wouldn't start aspirin unless there was another reason to do so, though. I take a Vitamin D fairly regularly through Covid. Evidence not that strong, but not much risk of harm.
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Thanks Ethan , I also take Vitamin D (y)(y).
Sadly neither are doing anything for my sore back :cry:
 
Philippines variant arrives in U.K? - yes I know it is most likely just another variant and we will having to be dealing with new variants for as long as, but it just doesn’t fill me with joy as I wonder how it came to pass. No matter. It’s in.
 
Well suffice to say my immune system kicked into gear after my vaccine yesterday - had a terrible night with chills, sweats, headache and nausea and feel rough as rough this morning!
 
Traminator said:
I also tried to book and couldn't.

I gave them a ring, the lady said it will just take a little time for all the over 50s data to catch up, should be able to book within 24 hours ?

They didn't have this trouble with all the over 80s waiting to pounce online as soon as it went live... ? ?
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Considering they were ahead with the over 60s it's a shame they advised it when not ready
 
Out of interest, has anyone seen any more recent figures on the impact of vaccination in Israel as they are so far ahead of everyone else with it. Used to be in the news every couple of days but people seem to have stopped reporting on it now.
 
pauljames87 said:
Considering they were ahead with the over 60s it's a shame they advised it when not ready
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Reading a few quotes, looks like it may have been a more rapid decision based on the fact that the vaccine supply was looking particularly high for the next 2 weeks and so they wanted to get as many of the people in the top 9 groups booking in.
 
AmandaJR said:
Well suffice to say my immune system kicked into gear after my vaccine yesterday - had a terrible night with chills, sweats, headache and nausea and feel rough as rough this morning!
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I’m amazed - I have had no issue at all , not even a sore arm , trying to not to think that there isn’t something wrong when you hear of lots of people getting side affects ?
 
GB72 said:
Out of interest, has anyone seen any more recent figures on the impact of vaccination in Israel as they are so far ahead of everyone else with it. Used to be in the news every couple of days but people seem to have stopped reporting on it now.
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There's no one there to do any reporting as they've all buggered off on holiday!?
 
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