Some interesting data (focused on AZ) in this AZ Republic article:

https://news.yahoo.com/covid-1...mbers-192353791.html

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Originally posted by wtg:

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Hospitalizations signal rising COVID-19 risk for US seniors

Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations.

https://news.yahoo.com/hospita...id-19-145840832.html

The COVID situation with seniors is getting alarming. The reports from different publications vary oddly, but the bottom line seems to be that even with full vaccination, seniors represent a far higher percentage of hospitalizations and deaths than ever before.

True, some are lagging in getting their full roster of vaccinations, but more than ever before it seems seniors are dying (some start the countdown at age 50, most at 65 and up).

Having had COVID in mid October I'm wondering what the best time to get the booster is. Since we now know even resistance from boosters is limited (and there is as yet, no new one), I wonder if I oughtn't wait as long as possible within reason.

Consensus seems to be the more people who get it, the more opportunity/likelihood there is for variants to develop, so the long distant hope of eventually reaching a population endemic level seems to be gone.

What's more the longer it hangs around (and mutating), the more people are going to become "seniors". Put THAT in their pipes and smoke it!

I was only really sick for a day, after which Paxlovid knocked it out but it seems patients aren't allowed to get it more than once. That concerns me too.

I finally got the new covid vaccine. I think I wrote it about in another thread, but the prvious shots I had were all Moderna, and this time I got Pfizer. The reason I had been putting it off was because of concerns about side effects (which were awful, esp. after the last one).

Well, I got the shot on Tuesday and the only side effects I have are a sore arm. Whew. Very relieved about that!

But the sore arm, holy cow! I got the flu shot at the same time, right arm. My right arm was sort of sore the first day but nothing big.

My left arm, where the covid shot was, feels like Muhammad Ali (at his prime) punched me as hard as he could. And it's been two full days but still really sore.

Good grief, I wonder why it was so much worse than the flu shot.