“Retro infection”. Sounds cool. Vintage virus.
Can confirm, labelled ill Victorian child at work.
Legit though, started symptoms late Feb, got antibiotics in the first 6 days, so fairly early considering that standard is to wait for day 10 to prescribe where I live, regardless of what it is. It’s nearly 7 weeks, still have low energy, and occasional coughing fits. Only time I was more sick was when I had covid, and when I was 16 and had pneumonia…10 days to prescribe for whooping cough or 10 days for any bacterial infection?
If it’s 10 days for anything that sounds absolutely bonkers to me.
If it’s 10 just for whooping cough that’s weird, but I guess there might be a specific reason.
Edit: re read your post and see it’s anything. That’s insane and can be deadly in countless situations. Like, oh you got bacterial pneumonia, let’s just wait 10 fucking days.
You can get prescribed sooner, but getting an in person appointment is neigh impossible, so just describe what you have and hope they make the correct decision. Our health care system is underfunded, and has been for decades, with the specific goal of bringing in an American style private health care system.
You can get prescribed sooner, but getting an in person appointment is neigh impossible
…and…
with the specific goal of bringing in an American style private health care system.
American style healthcare has walk-in clinics available all over the place to see a physician in person without any appointment. For moderate needs its called Urgent Care, for a prescription only there are light needs clinics call Retail clinics in a number of grocery stores or drug stores where you can see a Nurse Practitioner, who can prescribe antibiotics.
Does your system not have that available?
Sure there’s private practices in most places. I do not have private insurance, and refuse to pay out the fucking nose for medical care that I already pay for with my taxes. What I’m referring to as “American Style Health Care” is the absolutely insane insurance bullshit, potentially bankrupting yourself for having broken a leg. I live in a first world country, and our previously functioning health system is being dismantled to line people’s pockets.
But to protect newborn babies from the disease, pregnant women can also be offered pertussis vaccines. In England, the BMJ reports, uptake among this group has fallen from over 70 percent in September 2017 to 58 percent in September 2023.
Sounds like 12% of expectant mothers have had their trust in doctors destroyed by the policies enacted during COVID. That’s not COVIDs fault. That’s our fault for how we reacted.
I mean, if you define “we,” you’re able to start delineating way more info.
We, the human race.
…or at least in this article, we the British, as the stats are for the UK.
Similar stories about whooping cough and measles made the news in the Netherlands as well. Although in addition to blaming Covid here it was also pointed out that some people fail to see the importance of traditional vaccines because they’ve been so successful, nobody knows anymore how dangerous and debilitating such diseases can be
