{"id":32050,"date":"2025-10-04T06:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32050"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:52:26","slug":"uh-oh-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32050","title":{"rendered":"Uh-oh. Covid."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe red line beside the “T” indicates that the Covid test was positive.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I knew the risks of picking up contagious diseases during air travel, which is why I went so far out of my way to get this year’s new Covid and flu vaccines before my trip to Scotland. The second evening after I returned home, I started feeling like I was getting a cold. I felt miserable and feverish during the night, so the next morning I did one of the at-home Covid tests. It was positive.<\/p>\n

We know that it’s possible to get Covid even though one had the vaccine. The severity of the Covid, though, should be reduced into a “mild” case. My fever wasn’t all that high — 101.8 at its highest. But on day 2 of Covid it’s impossible to know what course it will take. After some Googling, I described my condition to ChatGPT and asked for advice. “Call your doctor,” was the bottom line. I called, they said I should come in, and an hour later I was in the doctor’s office, where another Covid test was positive. It did indeed look like a mild case, but out of an abundance of caution the doctor recommended Paxlovid. <\/p>\n

At the pharmacy, I went to the drive-by. I was shocked at how much Paxlovid costs, though my Humana Medicare Advantage insurance paid for most of it. I checked the Humana app this morning for the official numbers. The pharmacy billed Humana $1,406.66 for the Paxlovid. My share of that was $132.74. Yikes! <\/p>\n

It’s now day 3, and I’m feeling better. This is the first time I’ve had Covid. I do my best to avoid colds and flu by avoiding public places probably more than I should. I’m just glad that I got Covid on the way home, rather than on the way to Scotland. What a way that would be to ruin a trip.<\/p>\n

It really isn’t fair that people my age have Medicare, while younger Americans must try to get by in a health-care wilderness. The obvious solution is Medicare for all. Republicans will do everything possible to see that that never happens.<\/p>\n

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The red line beside the “T” indicates that the Covid test was positive. I knew the risks of picking up contagious diseases during air travel, which is why I went so far out of my way to get this year’s new Covid and flu vaccines before my trip to Scotland. The second evening after I … Continue reading “Uh-oh. Covid.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32050"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32062,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32050\/revisions\/32062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}