Controlled Response

My sister's summary of her Covid infection this afternoon was basically, "I feel awful, but not as bad as I expected".

She was somewhat narked when she rang me. She poked her GP this morning as nothing seemed to be happening WRT the various semi-experimental treatments she'd been told she might be eligible for in the event she caught Covid (the letter did say to contact your GP if you hadn't heard in 48 hours from a positive PCR). He referred her to the regional hospital handling Covid stuff and they rang her back: of the four possible treatments (three antivirals and one antibody), she's not actually eligible for the antivirals as they're restricting those to cancer patients and the immuno-suppressed, but they did give her the contact details for the antibody study. Who got back to her later and told her she's been randomly assigned to the control group, so no drugs, but would she mind filling out a 28 day Covid diary?

So she wasn't best pleased with batting nought for four, but she rang the hospital back and the nurse she spoke to said "You need to go back to your GP for steroids and antibiotics, I can hear you need them just listening to you). She didn't actually sound that bad to me, which is possibly a measure of how 'normal' her chest infections have become.

So that's in progress. She'd already picked up a pulse-oximeter as a result of this morning's call and that says her oxidation stats are fine, OTOH it couldn't get a reading off her husband at all!.