My daughter, who couldn't get vaccinated because of a pre-existing heart condition, tested positive today. She was exposed by a co-worker that refused to get vaccinated. Myself, my wife, another daughter, her husband and my 2 year old grandson now need to get tested as we were all together Sunday night. I also was at my parent's house last night. Both have severe health issues. Calling them tonight to tell them I had possibly been exposed was not a fun call. What a **** show.
Man, that sucks, hope your daughter recovers well and it doesn't spread to any of your family due to the apparent selfishness of your daughter's co-worker. My parents also have severe health issues, and even being vaccinated, I still worry an infection will result in hospitalization and likely death. It kept me away from them last year, and is doing so again with the spread of Delta.
What about the vaccine makes it a risk for people with pre-existing heart conditions?
Those in Utah and California what are things like right now?
I finally got my residency in China so I can travel to USA and back to China (with 2+1 quarantine and testing.)
I really want to travel back home, it's been 2.5 years since I've been back. I have bank, drivers license, storage unit...blah blah blah to deal with. My Mom was hospitalized for 6 months with COVID-19 and I didn't think she would make it but she pulled through and is out of the hospital but I don't think she'll every fully recover and she's old so I would like to see her. I'm also recently married and having my ceremony here and would like to do one at home for friends and family since they can't come.
But ... It's a huge stress to come back and things seem really bad again. I have the Chinese vaccine but it doesn't seem to work against the variant at all. I can't get the USA vaccine since it will give me a false positive. If I test positive I can't return to China until I've been tested negative for a month straight. That won't work with my and my wife's work to be gone for over 2 months. She is really afraid of exposure as well. We're youngish, healthy, and vaccinated so I'm not worried about getting sick much but getting it would be a huge huge ordeal. If I don't go home now I probably can't swing it until next summer. Who knows what will happen by then.
Ugh... Mostly just a bit of rambling and rant, but I others opinions would be nice.
Utah and CA both have a lot of spread and hospital systems are taxed, with Vermont hitting "orange" status, all 50 states are now in orange as of yesterday:
| Orange States | Daily Infections Per 100K |
| West Virginia | 84.8 |
| Guam | 80.6 |
| Alabama | 80.5 |
| Mississippi | 79.8 |
| Florida | 76.2 |
| Arkansas | 68.5 |
| Oklahoma | 68.5 |
| Texas | 62.4 |
| Wyoming | 60.5 |
| South Carolina | 57.6 |
| Georgia | 54.7 |
| Hawaii | 53.0 |
| Ohio | 51.5 |
| Alaska | 50.9 |
| Kentucky | 49.8 |
| North Dakota | 46.2 |
| Iowa | 45.4 |
| Idaho | 43.0 |
| Arizona | 42.6 |
| South Dakota | 42.2 |
| Montana | 42.1 |
| Tennessee | 40.5 |
| Delaware | 40.3 |
| Kansas | 40.0 |
| North Carolina | 39.6 |
| Indiana | 39.1 |
| Virginia | 37.6 |
| Nebraska | 35.8 |
| Missouri | 35.5 |
| Wisconsin | 35.1 |
| Oregon | 33.8 |
| Louisiana | 29.7 |
| Washington | 29.5 |
| Pennsylvania | 28.0 |
| Utah | 27.7 |
| Colorado | 26.1 |
| New Mexico | 24.6 |
| Nevada | 24.3 |
| Vermont | 24.0 |
| Minnesota | 23.6 |
| Maine | 23.6 |
| New Jersey | 23.5 |
| New York | 22.9 |
| Illinois | 22.8 |
| Virgin Islands | 22.1 |
| Rhode Island | 19.1 |
| Maryland | 18.6 |
| California | 17.8 |
| Puerto Rico | 15.7 |
| Massachusetts | 15.5 |
| Michigan | 15.2 |
| District of Columbia | 13.5 |
| New Hampshire | 13.0 |
| Connecticut | 12.3 |
Hopefully the large uptick trends down soon. A potential positive is with the number of previous infections and vaccinated the current spike from Delta likely won't last a long time, similar to what was seen in India and the UK, although there are many variables (India shut down again temporarily, UK has a 12% higher vaccination rate than us, etc, but we can hope we'll see a similar drop off after a month or two, so depending on when you travel here, things may begin to normalize. The bad news is hospitals are past capacity, leading to longer suffering for delayed "elective" surgeries, as well as indirect Covid related deaths due to lack of medical care. Our hospitals are releasing people they normally keep longer if they are "good enough" that they'll likely be ok, discharging people in fairly poor shape, and are refusing out of state transfers as other states are feeling the strain as well.
Note that the mRNA-based vaccines will not cause a false positive Covid-19 PCR or antigen testing, talk to your U.S. Dr. and they will confirm that for you.
