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The friend I’d gone out to dinner with on Wednesday night called me yesterday and told me she was feeling a bit unwell (congested and fatigued) and went to get a COVID test. Today she called and told me she was at the emergency room because her blood oxygen level was low and she was having chest pains. She did test positive. But her blood oxygen was fine when she was at the hospital. And they gave her an EKG and said she was okay, so she is back home. She called me back and said that she was feeling better and, in fact, had felt worse during her reaction to the booster shot.
Of course, this means I have now been exposed. I have no symptoms, no fever, and my blood oxygen level is 96. Kaiser said I should wait 7 days from exposure to get tested, but the first appointment they had for a PCR test wasn’t until Friday. I don’t really trust the rapid antigen tests given that: a) they have a false negative rate of approximately 20% and b) there are some questions about whether they can detect the omicron variant at all. I’ve looked online to see if I can find somewhere else to get tested sooner, but no luck so far.
There is some question about whether I have to quarantine, given that I am vaccinated and boosted, but I will stay home out of an abundance of caution. That means I won’t go to a get-together on Thursday for a friend who is in town in Texas. At any rate, I am pretty much occupied for most of the week with Yiddish New York. (I have two other zoom meetings tomorrow, too.) I have plenty of food in the house. And, alas, no shortage of household chores to get done.
Of course, this means I have now been exposed. I have no symptoms, no fever, and my blood oxygen level is 96. Kaiser said I should wait 7 days from exposure to get tested, but the first appointment they had for a PCR test wasn’t until Friday. I don’t really trust the rapid antigen tests given that: a) they have a false negative rate of approximately 20% and b) there are some questions about whether they can detect the omicron variant at all. I’ve looked online to see if I can find somewhere else to get tested sooner, but no luck so far.
There is some question about whether I have to quarantine, given that I am vaccinated and boosted, but I will stay home out of an abundance of caution. That means I won’t go to a get-together on Thursday for a friend who is in town in Texas. At any rate, I am pretty much occupied for most of the week with Yiddish New York. (I have two other zoom meetings tomorrow, too.) I have plenty of food in the house. And, alas, no shortage of household chores to get done.
