Good question. I've seen some MDs that see COVID patients say it seems longer than prior variants 3-6 days. However, this is similar to the original variant where incubation was up to 10 + days -- if I'm remembering correctly the average was about 4-7 days with the earliest data. It is especially interesting to see an shift in incubation period in combination with mutations in the proteins that the virus uses to suppress our immune response -- this may be linked.
Thank you so much for this! Shared to Twitter. Due to three separate BS moves by Facebook I have temporarily put my group on pause, and I am not active in groups across Canada at present. However, because this article is very important and profound I made an exception, unpaused my group long enough to post this. You are very much missed LIL. Big hug and best wishes. P.S. your Dad is very proud of you.
Thank you! Do you think we will get to a place in the next 12-24 months where a Covid vaccine for all variants is available? Or a prominent breakthrough to reduce the cumulative damage of repeat infections?
The research is getting closer, its a tough problem because of the number of mutations that can occur in the spike protein and the receptor binding domain. I think we will get to a point where multiple variants can be covered at the same time, like the influenza vaccine. I am hoping we can find a small molecule to reduce the damage of repeat infections -- this too is also a tough problem but a very important thing to solve.
We recently took the Acela from Providence to Philadelphia. We try to always to sit in the quiet car. No one was masked. We had our masks but did not wear them. Should we have -- even in the quiet car with no talking? And does ERIS always present with fever? Thank you. So delighted to find you again!
ERIS doesn't seem to be always presenting with fever. A few physicians I have talked with have seem COVID + patients that really had minimal to no symptoms but were positive. Glad to see you here as well. :)
Thanks for responding. It's a difficult time in deciding about when to mask. It seems very few people are masking generally but we did last month when we traveled by plane. The Acela was different. We socially distanced in the station and while waiting on the platform for the train. Once on the train, to and from our destination, we were in the quiet car so no talking and no masking. We still will not eat inside a restaurant unless it's late and the restaurant is nearly empty. If we are in a car, on the road, we have taken to eating in our car. It's so hard to know what to do when information/data about the infection rate is scarce. Thanks for being a reliable information source
It’s still important to get your updated boosters!
Thank you for all you do. How long do you think the incubation period is for the EG.5 variant?
Good question. I've seen some MDs that see COVID patients say it seems longer than prior variants 3-6 days. However, this is similar to the original variant where incubation was up to 10 + days -- if I'm remembering correctly the average was about 4-7 days with the earliest data. It is especially interesting to see an shift in incubation period in combination with mutations in the proteins that the virus uses to suppress our immune response -- this may be linked.
Thank you so much for this! Shared to Twitter. Due to three separate BS moves by Facebook I have temporarily put my group on pause, and I am not active in groups across Canada at present. However, because this article is very important and profound I made an exception, unpaused my group long enough to post this. You are very much missed LIL. Big hug and best wishes. P.S. your Dad is very proud of you.
Thank you! Do you think we will get to a place in the next 12-24 months where a Covid vaccine for all variants is available? Or a prominent breakthrough to reduce the cumulative damage of repeat infections?
The research is getting closer, its a tough problem because of the number of mutations that can occur in the spike protein and the receptor binding domain. I think we will get to a point where multiple variants can be covered at the same time, like the influenza vaccine. I am hoping we can find a small molecule to reduce the damage of repeat infections -- this too is also a tough problem but a very important thing to solve.
We recently took the Acela from Providence to Philadelphia. We try to always to sit in the quiet car. No one was masked. We had our masks but did not wear them. Should we have -- even in the quiet car with no talking? And does ERIS always present with fever? Thank you. So delighted to find you again!
ERIS doesn't seem to be always presenting with fever. A few physicians I have talked with have seem COVID + patients that really had minimal to no symptoms but were positive. Glad to see you here as well. :)
Thanks for responding. It's a difficult time in deciding about when to mask. It seems very few people are masking generally but we did last month when we traveled by plane. The Acela was different. We socially distanced in the station and while waiting on the platform for the train. Once on the train, to and from our destination, we were in the quiet car so no talking and no masking. We still will not eat inside a restaurant unless it's late and the restaurant is nearly empty. If we are in a car, on the road, we have taken to eating in our car. It's so hard to know what to do when information/data about the infection rate is scarce. Thanks for being a reliable information source
on whom many of us have come to depend. 🙏