My wife and I had Covid for the first time in Feb. of this year. We avoided it this long which has amazed people. We are both in our 70's and took every vaccine offered at the earliest opportunity. To everyone their own. With every hospital in the state at full capacity and no pulmonary equipment available, it seemed like a good idea even with the risks.
The current strain seems much milder than the former ones, which is normal for any mutating organism. My wife took Paxlovid and it was like a mild cold. I couldn't take the antivirals due to the interaction with heart rhythem drugs. I had mild overt symptoms (mild flu-like). However, it drug on for a while and I eventually suffered after effects. I had (covid toe) which my daughter is still bothered by two years after the fact. She has eventuallynlost every toenail at one time or another. I lost 2 toenails and a thumbnail.
My worst issue was that as I started to improve my atrial fibrillation acted up again and I went into permanent a-fib. I had to be reconverted and go into the hospital to have my meds adjusted to the max dosage. Since that time I have never returned to the condition I was in before the illness. My ER doc told me that since the onset of Covid their numbers show that ER admissions due to sudden onsets of a-fib have increased almost exactly 400%. That is an incredible number.
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Covid is certainly milder than the original, but it is not a benign disease. I leaves a large number of victums with serious permanent issues. I know many more people with these long term serious issues than I know people who died in the original onslaught. Because the original symptoms are mild many people don't pay a lot of attention, but it is a disease to try to avoid at all possible and is not just another flu or cold.
