Covid Grateful
My family (myself, my partner, one son) have worked very hard on our health in recent years. My son, 17, severe non verbal autism, had lost 120lbs in the last year or so to a BMI of 24, I maintain a 26 ish I and my partner, aged 64,has lost and maintained a 40lb weightloss to be just under 30. We all take vitamins religiously every day to maintain good levels per labs.
To cut a long story short, we all recently contacted Covid 19, but at 10 days out, appear to be weathering the storm.
Obesity is one of the biggest factors in sickness and death from this virus, particularly in young people with disabilities, so I just want to take a minute to be grateful for a healthy lifestyle, while we battle this horrible virus.
Proud Feminist, Atheist, LGBT friend, and Democratic Socialist
I am glad to hear you are all okay and hope that you continue to recover well. It is so important to take care of our health for so many reasons, but especially now with COVID.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-123 CW: 120 (after losing 20 lb. regain)!
on 10/3/20 6:03 am
So glad you all are doing well through this. I am also very grateful to have gotten on the journey to better health before all thi**** The challenges of Covid + obesity + other comorbidiites is scary.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
I believe we have antibodies for 3-4 months.
However, I hope our bodies' immune responses are still active after that.
I'm no expert, but I think it really depends on how much the virus mutates over time.
If we don't retain some form of immunity, it doesn't bode well for vaccines
Proud Feminist, Atheist, LGBT friend, and Democratic Socialist
I, too, have heard that people are immune for about three months, but they can't guarantee immunity beyond that. I've also read that the virus mutates, but not as quickly as they once feared - however, we still may be in for yearly vaccines like we are with the flu. Crap. Hopefully they CAN develop annual vaccines and sort of control this thing. This is beyond awful. It hard to see the other side of this - although I suppose some day...