Just got mine Friday! My dad got notice his shipped this past week too and should get them in a few days.
Omicron is certainly not "done" yet. Yes, we're in the downslope, but we only passed hospitalization numbers lower than the delta peak about a week ago. I don't think we're likely to see another surge with this variant, but "not as terrible as previously" is still not the same as "good" or "done". People are still getting severely ill with omicron in fairly large numbers. They're just not stressing the medical system to the same critical degree.
You can have mine. They arrived in a late mail delivery and sat overnight in the mail box in single digit weather.
Fair point. But let's hope they aren't holding off with it out of concern for unknown long term side effects.
Right.
I did a few weeks ago. It ended up being some from Korea.
The chances of a one-time monoclonal antibody infusion causing delayed, long-term side effects are almost nil, and I'm sure the Queen's personal physicians do not have this concern (if they did, this would place them outside the medical mainstream). Same thing with a vaccine, if they don't trigger an autoimmune reaction very soon afterwards, they never will. We use monoclonal antibodies to treat all kinds of other diseases, and these are mostly very well tolerated medications, and these are regular injections, not on-offs like with COVID.
It was a joke.
Ordered the free stuff over a month ago, still waiting. I don't know if the porch pirates cruising the neighborhood grabbed it.
We received notification when shipped. It also fit in our mailbox.
Yes, I got my free tests a couple weeks ago.
Got them 2 weeks ago. As some have said, they fit in the mailbox. Well standard mailboxes that is. If you have a small opening or not regulation size it won’t fit.
www.npr.org
From the article:More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries
The omicron BA.2 variant spreads about 30% more easily and has caused surges in other countries. Its steady increase in the U.S. raises questions about the wisdom of rolling back COVID restrictions.
It seems the extended tail is exactly what happened in South Africa where the article says that BA.2 became dominant. The spin of this article is basically trying to counter the rapid removal of mitigation measures across the US with frightening predictions.
Still waiting. I ordered on January 19. Three people that I work with ordered theirs the same day or within a day and got their test kits within a week.
Some articles are out to scare people. This one really is full of that.... read some quotes like thisMore contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries
The omicron BA.2 variant spreads about 30% more easily and has caused surges in other countries. Its steady increase in the U.S. raises questions about the wisdom of rolling back COVID restrictions.
