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[Starver]

On that, just today in the UK: Scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds. (It's not quite as absolute as the headline, when you read it...)

[Vector]

Blahhhhh I might have it. I have a low (99 degree) fever, and have had a not-so bad sore throat for a couple days. Came home early and sequestered myself in my room.

[Rolan7]

Good luck Vec   Wet cloth on my head helped a whole lot (room temperature water feels wonderfully cool during a fever).  I personally had extreme nausea/vomiting but tried to drink as much water as I could, both for the sweats and to ease my throat.  At some point I was even keeping my shirt wet just to stay cool.  Was tricky to walk to the shower or tap to refill my 2-liter.

Of course I still don't know if that was Covid, but it certainly was a fever.

[Vector]

I'm vaccinated, which I hope will blunt the worst of it. We'll see.

[LordBaal]

Its funny to read low fever at 99 degrees... 99 is just a degree under boiling point of water at sea level.

At any rate, hope you get better Vector, at not boiling temperatures.

I have a horrid body ache that has been creeping all day long. And cant lift my vaccined arm. The rest is fine, no head ache or fever, oh and know I know Kung-fu, so there is that!

[Starver]

Its funny to read low fever at 99 degrees... 99 is just a degree under boiling point of water at sea level.

You just have to convert.  99 degrees is a tad under 1.73 radians, if it helps.

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Normal body temperature is 98.2°F±1.3F°. So 0.8F° above the midpoint, or 0.444...C°. Well within sampling error-bars, I would have thought. Though I don't even own a thermometer[1] so I have no objective experience as to what the claimed precision/accuracy[2] might even be.

[1] Except some electronic things that are variously monitoring air temperature in the loft, garage, in the garden hollow outside of the garage, outside the bedroom window, etc, which I'm not too keen on trying to use bodily, lest I end up having a totally different reason to go bother some junior doctor and give them yet another anecdote to tell at any future staff parties.

[2] Two different things!

(I hope everyone's current temperature always remains somewhere around 94.8°D, and never anywhere near as hot as 0°D or ever as cold as 150°D!)

[LordBaal]

Or people could use the metric system 0° water freezes, 100° water boils. 37° is normal human temperature. 24° is perfect environment temperature.

[Lord Shonus]

But that would conflict with my earnest desire to ban the metric system!

[Iduno]

Its funny to read low fever at 99 degrees... 99 is just a degree under boiling point of water at sea level.

You just have to convert.  99 degrees is a tad under 1.73 radians, if it helps.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Normal body temperature is 98.2°F±1.3F°. So 0.8F° above the midpoint, or 0.444...C°. Well within sampling error-bars, I would have thought. Though I don't even own a thermometer[1] so I have no objective experience as to what the claimed precision/accuracy[2] might even be.

[1] Except some electronic things that are variously monitoring air temperature in the loft, garage, in the garden hollow outside of the garage, outside the bedroom window, etc, which I'm not too keen on trying to use bodily, lest I end up having a totally different reason to go bother some junior doctor and give them yet another anecdote to tell at any future staff parties.

[2] Two different things!

(I hope everyone's current temperature always remains somewhere around 94.8°D, and never anywhere near as hot as 0°D or ever as cold as 150°D!)

Yes, but human temperature varies by about 2 degrees either way.

[ChairmanPoo]

I have a horrid body ache that has been creeping all day long. And cant lift my vaccined arm. The rest is fine, no head ache or fever, oh and know I know Kung-fu, so there is that!

Endure it, the side effects dont last very long.
Here is a testimonial from another guy who got the Russian vaccine
https://youtu.be/vN2eQ_CKZT8

[LordBaal]

Today I feel quite better doc, thanks. My wife got the russian one, I got the sinopharm.

[Lord Shonus]

The "side effects" are a consequence of the thing throwing your immune system into overdrive - which is exactly what it is supposed to do. If you get them, it means the vaccine works.

[Sirus]

Some good news at last: my aunt is breathing on her own again rather than needing ventilation. No real news on my uncle, but I'm pretty sure I would have heard something if he had taken a turn for the worse so I'm hopeful there as well.

[Grim Portent]

My SiLs nephew has tested positive for Covid, following another child he was in contact with testing positive. Original source of exposure is obviously unknown, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was from school contacts. The lad's too young for vaccines, but he's a healthy kid and I think everyone else in the family and extended family is vaccinated so the main concern atm is going to be if wee Cody gets any longterm problems.

[Vector]

Yeah, it wasn't a fever-fever, but my body never runs hot under normal circumstances (the opposite is usually true, in fact). It was enough for me to start not feeling good.

I'm fine now!