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mk  ·  722 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 6, 2022

I think the big difference is that omicron doesn't seem to reside in the lungs so much.





kleinbl00  ·  722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Friend's sister got her pulse-ox knocked down to 45 by Omicron in January.

mk  ·  721 days ago  ·  link  ·  

45? Isn't that dead?

I had one rough night of aches and fever. Now just mostly weak. A mild and very intermittent cough. I just took an antigen test this morning and the positive band was stronger than the control. Isolated, and hoping my wife and daughter dodge it.

kleinbl00  ·  720 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We were astonished. What was more appalling was they kept her for two days, got her all the way up to 57 and discharged her.

veen  ·  719 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Would it be wise to get a cheap pulse ox meter considering the extended covid fatigue my SO and I have? Or is that not how that works?

kleinbl00  ·  719 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. They're so dumbly cheap that I don't know why they aren't sold more regularly. The difference between the $30 pulse-ox we bought my daughter when we were freaking out about croup and the $900 pulse-ox we use at the clinic is a point or two.