New study finds co-infection with 'superbug' Staph A bacteria increases SARS-CoV-2 replication - Medical Xpress
https://apple.news/AAQVI3xflQoiuwr4wJOaKDQ
""Bacterial infections are one of the most significant complications of respiratory viral infections such as COVID-19 and Influenza A. Despite the use of antibiotics, 25 percent of patients co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 and bacteria, die as a result."
Yikes
Just trying my best not to be part of it, unless I'm a control sample.
@BE Same, the thing that keeps me from getting anxious is that everything (considerable) I’m doing to avoid infection should work to prevent most of these cohort illnesses except mpox
You know, since you mention anxiety, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm really struggling with what to call the emotional state that I'm at with it all.
It's not anxious. I used to be in the early days, in particular, and am no longer.
It's not really acceptance, I don't think. I'm mad that I'll eventually be put in situations in which I have no choice but for myself and my kids to be infected by something that we'd rather not be.
I'm not apathetic, although I guess I've gotten to the point where people who are knowingly on their 4th infection and are choosing to keep going, while cheering others on to do the same, can just live with whatever the consequences may be on their own.
I used to lobby schools, businesses and hospitals about protections, but they don't care anymore, so I think there's not really anything to be done other than look out for yourself. It's a particularly weird point in the pandemic, I guess. Just watching it all happen from as great of a distance as I can manage.
@BE Horrifying, isn’t it? It’s too bad so few are paying attention