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Those who didn’t get a bivalent booster weren’t totally unprotected. But the longer they’d gone since their last dose of the original vaccine, the more their protection waned — and the more their risk grew, especially if they were over 65.

A different recent CDC publication also showed the booster’s protective effect was especially strong in older adults. Americans 65 and over who had received a booster dose had 73 percent fewer Covid-19 hospitalizations in the fall than those who’d received at least two doses of the monovalent vaccine.

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
I'm traveling this week (and looking at the weather, and wondering if I'm going to get stuck in the airport when I'm trying to come home)....


So I'm hoping that I'll be ok, and not bring home any covid, between my boosters, my general health, my masks, and the (hopefully not false) sense that things are sort of calm...

-_-

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That is not a mask wearing airport.

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:

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That is not a mask wearing airport.

Indeed.

I think I should be ok if I can just fly out and fly back, but there might be some dicey weather on my return trip, and being stuck in an airport full of unmasked people bc flights are cancelled is a nightmare scenario in terms of covid protocols...

We'll see, the weather forecast keeps changing. (btw CLT is my layover airport, not the destination airport).

Not-worrying is not my strong suit.

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Originally posted by AdagioM:

Flew home through Charlotte. That is not a mask wearing airport.

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Originally posted by wtg:


In Illinois, hospitalizations are down 81% compared to the same time last year. I know that the percentage of people getting (bivalent) boosters is quite low and that most people have eschewed masking and have gone back to "life as usual", so the low rate of hospitalization was a very pleasant surprise.

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
I’m home from my trip, got home last night. There were some weather delays and both flights on my return trip were delayed. Even though I was supposed to have a 1.5 hour layover, I had to run to my gate to make the connecting flight. But despite all that, I made it home (yay!)

And I was never stuck in a huge, densely packed group of people inside the airport, which was basically my biggest concern re covid.

Apparently, on Tuesday, Southwest preemptively canceled a bunch of Wed. flights. I was flying American, which on Tuesday “invited” me to change my travel plans, but I couldn’t. But anyway, as a result, my first airport was practically deserted yesterday. So I easily found a completely empty gate to sit down and take off my mask to have some lunch.

Other than that, I kept my mask on the entire time going and coming, no drinking or eating on the flight etc.

While I was definitely in the minority, I wasn’t the only person with a mask, and on at least one flight, one of the attendants wore a mask.

Oh and I used one of the home test kits when I got home last night. Negative.

If my memory serves, infection with the current variant is pretty quick, right? So I figure if I’m going to get it from this trip, it would happen in the next few days.

So I’ll do another home kit maybe on Saturday.

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That was not going to be for OUR convenience.