Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2062301\" time=\"1648002511\" user_id=\"14025:
Oh ok. Encouraged to take plus free for regular jab..can take
I took the flu jab bec office pays
Govt encourages seniors to take their annual flu jab and hence i will ask the doc when i bring my dad for his medical appt.
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MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"2062304\" time=\"1648002847\" user_id=\"43981:
Not free for my father
Oh ok. Encouraged to take plus free for regular jab..can take
https://www.healthhub.sg/sites/assets/Assets/Programs/vaccinate/pdfs/National_Adult_Immunisation_Schedule_%28NAIS%29_V2.pdf -
starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2062309\" time=\"1648004414\" user_id=\"14025:
Hi Star,
Not free for my father
https://www.healthhub.sg/sites/assets/Assets/Programs/vaccinate/pdfs/National_Adult_Immunisation_Schedule_%28NAIS%29_V2.pdf
My parents have been taking flu jabs every year since 2015. They went private clinic and paid to take these jabs.
It is important to protect the seniors from any complications caused by flu. Parents health is much more important than money, get it fast even it is not free of charge. Remember 钱财身外物。 -
It's strange why nobody says anything about flu jabs, but they go bonkers over covid jabs. Shouldn't they go crazy over flu jabs too?? Well... if I'm an evil scientist out to get you, I would just poison something that you have been using regularly, and not something that is new and suspicious
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Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=\"2062314\" time=\"1648006148\" user_id=\"195250:[quote=\"Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=2062314 time=1648006148 user_id=195250]
Yes, maybe be better for seniors to take the annual flu jab despite already 3 jabs for covid...
Hi Star,
My parents have been taking flu jabs every year since 2015. They went private clinic and paid to take these jabs.
It is important to protect the seniors from any complications caused by flu. Parents health is much more important than money, get it fast even it is not free of charge. Remember 钱财身外物。[/quote] -
Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=\"2062314\" time=\"1648006148\" user_id=\"195250:[quote=\"Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=2062314 time=1648006148 user_id=195250]
Only when overseas we go for flu jabs otherwise no..usually sun comes out all is fine, touch wood.
Hi Star,
My parents have been taking flu jabs every year since 2015. They went private clinic and paid to take these jabs.
It is important to protect the seniors from any complications caused by flu. Parents health is much more important than money, get it fast even it is not free of charge. Remember 钱财身外物。[/quote] -
ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"2062316\" time=\"1648006608\" user_id=\"3:
This is the IN thing like kpop once upon a time
It's strange why nobody says anything about flu jabs, but they go bonkers over covid jabs. Shouldn't they go crazy over flu jabs too?? Well... if I'm an evil scientist out to get you, I would just poison something that you have been using regularly, and not something that is new and suspicious
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ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"2062316\" time=\"1648006608\" user_id=\"3:
Covid jabs was created to solve a crisis so there was pressure to force everyone to be jabbed as it would crowd the hospital and go out of control. Flu is not a critical sickness because there are ways to treat it and it is not as deadly.
It's strange why nobody says anything about flu jabs, but they go bonkers over covid jabs. Shouldn't they go crazy over flu jabs too?? Well... if I'm an evil scientist out to get you, I would just poison something that you have been using regularly, and not something that is new and suspicious
Also, during the pandemic, as we all wear masks, flu is likely not able to spread widely so the need even reduces further. -
Breathlessness, fatigue, persistent cough: Doctors see more cases of 'long COVID' in Singapore
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/long-covid-coronavirus-breathless-cough-fatigue-doctors-therapy-2578961
Extract:
Case 1:
Ms Doris Ong, 49, has been feeling breathless after walking short distances ever since getting COVID-19 in November.
She used to be able to walk home from the bus stop with two bags of groceries –taking about 10 minutes. But after her coronavirus episode, she once took more than 20 minutes to walk home carrying a coconut, which she was drinking.
She felt so tired that she had to stop to rest a few times, she told CNA. A month ago, she also felt that her heart was “squeezed” while eating laksa, Ms Ong said.
Her symptoms have eased recently, but she still feels “weak” compared to before; and until now, she’s not sought medical advice.
“I feel that it’s still manageable, It's not (as though) I need to go to A&E … if I really cannot (take it), then I will call 995,” she said.
Case 2:
Ms Jocelyn Ng, who is in her 40s, said that she has become “very sensitive” to any smell or smoke that irritates her throat or airways, setting off a bad, wheezing cough.
She recounted how her hand once “hardened”, swelled and became completely numb after she fell asleep on it.
“I had never felt such excruciating pain before … I was crying,” said Ms Ng. She described how her hand was pulsating, as though her blood was trying to flow but could not.
She went to a doctor, who advised her to go to the hospital. But as there was a large number of COVID-19 cases being treated by the hospitals at the time, she did not go, Ms Ng said.
She finds it hard to do housework – when she tried to mop the floor at home, her hand “cramped up and hardened” – so she has hired a part-time helper. And she has trouble buying groceries as her hand “stiffens” when she tries to carry things, said Ms Ng.
The painful swelling happens fairly regularly on both hands, so she has been getting a massage every week to deal with this symptom, she said.
She’s also put on weight and feels that she cannot exercise as her “body is very lethargic”.
Case 3:
Mr Tan Wen Chuan, 32, was breathing more heavily than usual after walking for about five minutes from the car park to the interview location.
He has been feeling breathless after walking or light activity since November or more than four months after his bout of COVID-19.
Mr Tan, who had asthma as a child, said it can feel like an asthma attack, as he can’t breathe, and he feels like he can’t “fill up” his lungs. This can happen from time to time, even when he’s not active, he said.
He described how he sometimes feels a “knot” in his chest at a particular spot whenever he inhales.
“It's just a constant state of knowing that I have to breathe harder,” he said.
When Mr Tan went to see a general practitioner, he was told that the symptoms would go away in time.
He said: “I felt helpless, because the doctor said there was nothing you can do about it.”
Later, on a friend’s recommendation, he saw a physiotherapist. His therapist, Ms Jaclyn Chow of Heart & Lung Physio, said there are things that can be done to improve one’s breathing and body conditioning while one waits for recovery.
Inactivity, meanwhile, could lead to structural changes like losing muscle mass, which could lead to longer-term issues.
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Lung specialist Dr Yang warned against deliberately trying to catch COVID-19 to “get immunity”, saying that there can be long-term implications after contracting the virus.
He added: “Employees and employers should recognise that this is a problem that we are facing, they are not trying to malinger or trying to find ways to escape work. And I think people should understand when people have all these symptoms.” -
sushi88\" post_id=\"2062351\" time=\"1648019000\" user_id=\"100857:
Hi Sushi88,
Covid jabs was created to solve a crisis so there was pressure to force everyone to be jabbed as it would crowd the hospital and go out of control. Flu is not a critical sickness because there are ways to treat it and it is not as deadly.
Also, during the pandemic, as we all wear masks, flu is likely not able to spread widely so the need even reduces further.
A few days didn't see your post and I am worry whether you have caught Omicron and fell ill but glad to see you post today.
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