[arista]

NYC is going ahead with Masked Street Celebrations
tonight


But LL Cool J
was meant to be there
but now has Covid,
won't be there.


CNN HD

[bots]

More from Professor Peter Openshaw, who says someone only needs to be exposed to "a whiff of infected breath" to catch the highly transmissible Omicron variant of coronavirus.

"Omicron is so infectious. We're lucky really that it wasn't this infectious when it first moved into human-to-human transmission," he told BBC Breakfast.

"We've had several iterations of this virus going through different stages of its evolution.

"It has ended up being so infectious that it almost needs just a whiff of infected breath and you could get infected."

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if that's not alarmist, what is?

[arista]

Originally Posted by MeghansLetterToSanta

More from Professor Peter Openshaw, who says someone only needs to be exposed to "a whiff of infected breath" to catch the highly transmissible Omicron variant of coronavirus.

"Omicron is so infectious. We're lucky really that it wasn't this infectious when it first moved into human-to-human transmission," he told BBC Breakfast.

"We've had several iterations of this virus going through different stages of its evolution.

"It has ended up being so infectious that it almost needs just a whiff of infected breath and you could get infected."

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if that's not alarmist, what is?

Paris is now Outside all must by law
have a Mask on.

[bots]

Originally Posted by arista

Paris is now Outside all must by law
have a Mask on.

the latest data coming out of america is that anything less than kn95 face masks are completely useless

[arista]

Originally Posted by MeghansLetterToSanta

the latest data coming out of America is that anything less than kn95 face masks are completely useless

Yes, so they say

[Crimson Dynamo]

Youtube video

[Crimson Dynamo]

40% of vaccine appointments are no-shows

Talkradio

[arista]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

40% of vaccine appointments are no-shows

Talkradio

Yes was the same on LBC an hour ago or so

[bots]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

40% of vaccine appointments are no-shows

Talkradio

that figure could easily be people isolating .... take a look at the infection rate and the absences from work

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MeghansLetterToSanta

that figure could easily be people isolating .... take a look at the infection rate and the absences from work

but surely they would call and rebook?

[bots]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

but surely they would call and rebook?

ive already had 2 reminders from the NHS advising me to get my booster, both weeks after I had already been jabbed. The booking system is not perfect by any means, their tracking is not perfect by any means, so while there may be a trend of people not turning up, i wouldnt take the data as gospel

[user104658]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

but surely they would call and rebook?

Would probably still be logged as a no-show for the original date even if they rebooked and got the vax a week later. Same as any other NHS appointment - it's a missed appointment unless you cancel in advance, even if you get another appointment the next day. I doubt many would bother cancelling a vaccination appointment in advance. I don't know if there's even a way to do it?

[bots]

A pill to treat Covid has been approved for use across the UK, the medicines regulator says.

Paxlovid, developed by the US company Pfizer, has been authorised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

According to the MHRA: "Paxlovid is an antiviral medicine used for treating mild-to-moderate COVID-19. COVID-19 is caused by a virus.

"Paxlovid stops the virus multiplying in cells and this stops the virus multiplying in the body. This can help your body to overcome the virus infection, and may help you get better faster."

The UK Department of Health said: "More than 2.75 million courses of Paxlovid have been secured for NHS patients and plans for deployment will be set out soon."

[Crimson Dynamo]

Omicron wave in South Africa peaks with no significant uptick in deaths
During the omicron spike, only a marginal increase in Covid-19 deaths was noted

South Africa, where the omicron variant was detected in November, announced
that the country's latest coronavirus wave had likely passed its peak without a
significant increase in deaths and that restrictions would be eased.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...uptick-deaths/

[user104658]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

40% of vaccine appointments are no-shows

Talkradio

I think this is sometimes a bit complicated and not just down to people not caring - it was a shambles when I got my booster. Nearly a 2 hour queue, indoors, basically zero social distancing. Wasn't too risky because it was before this wave took off... and even then there were several walk-outs. Some people getting impatient, others literally couldn't stay (e.g. they had booked in their lunch hour and couldn't take a 3-hour break, or they had kids to pick up from school, etc.) plus if it's the same now I can see people walking out of that situation just because it's not really Covid-safe. Some places seem to be much better than others, total mixed bag in terms of vaccine centres, but yeah basically no real way to know how many are actual "no shows" and how many are people who did turn up, but had to leave before getting the vaccine because of massive delays.

I have no idea why it's gone to **** around here, first and second vax were really efficient, they had 10+ vaccinators in stations around a large room. For the booster it was one small room with two vaccinators... queue of 50-100 people literally down the corridor, round the waiting room, then down a flight of stairs.

[arista]

In 10 days
in USA,
12-15 year olds will get their Booster Jab


CNN HD Live
New Day Prog.

[bots]

at the vaccination centre i visited, i wasn't overly comfortable with the number of people and the distancing. It was the biggest group of people i had been in, in the last 18 months I think there are a lot of people like me who are various degrees of nervous from uncomfortable to outright scared crapless because of the mental stress of the last 2 years.

To me that is worse than anything covid has thrown at us to date

[AnnieK]

My booster appointment was really easy - I arrived on time and was straight in and out. It was an appointment only centre which I think was better as my friend has been working in a health centre where they have appointments and walk-ins and it has been chaos at times.

[MTVN]

Yeah there has been some more info posted on that recently showing that a greater and greater share of the covid hospital numbers are now being made up by 'incidental admissions' - those that were admitted for other reasons than covid. This is from the BBC live feed today:

The total number of people in Covid beds in acute trusts in England stood at just over 8,300 on 28 December, with about two-thirds of those people being treated primarily for their Covid.

The total number has risen by more than by more than 2,400 since the end of November - and most of that rise has come in the last week.

Before Omicron, we would have expected any growth to be split roughly along historical lines - that is mainly in people being treated for their Covid.

That is not happening – the growth has been roughly evenly split by people being treated for Covid (up by 1,262) and people being treated for something else but who have coronavirus (up by 1,191).

So “with Covid” beds are taking up a larger and larger proportion of the total: up from about 25% at the end of November to 33% at the end of December.

This is what would be expected for an infection that is generally milder but more infectious.

Doctors stress that someone “with Covid” still presents treatment challenges: they could be in for a broken leg that has nothing to do with Covid, but still require isolation to prevent outbreaks.

Or they could be someone whose stroke was brought on or made worse by Covid and whose treatment becomes more complicated because of it too.

Also worth noting that I don't believe there has yet been any increase in the number of patients on ventilators

[MTVN]

Re the bickering on last few pages idk if I'm being referred to as someone who said 'covid is over' but when I said something like that I followed it with the red dancing man i.e. I wasn't being serious

[bots]

we just need some new treatments for mental illness and we will all be whistling a happy tune

[arista]

Friday 31/12/21

203 have Died
189,846 have caught Covid-19

Patients in hospital
Latest available
11,918

Patients in
ventilation beds
Latest available
868



148,624 Total UK Deaths


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[bots]

A booster vaccine is 88% effective at preventing people ending up in hospital with Covid-19, new data from the UK Health Security Agency suggests.

The new data confirms that two doses of the AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna vaccines offers little protection against being infected with Omicron.

But protection against severe disease appears to be holding up much better against the new variant.

Health officials said this reinforces the importance of getting a third dose.

The health secretary Sajid Javid said: "This is more promising data which reinforces just how important vaccines are. They save lives and prevent serious illness.

"This analysis shows you are up to eight times more likely to end up in hospital as a result of Covid-19 if you are unvaccinated."

The UKHSA analysed more than 600,000 confirmed and suspected cases of the Omicron variant up to 29 December in England.

It found that a single vaccine dose reduced the risk of needing hospital treatment by 52%. Adding the second dose increased the protection to 72%, although after 25 weeks that protection had faded to 52%.

And two weeks after getting a third dose, that protection against hospitalisation was boosted to 88%.

The UKHSA report said there was not enough data yet to work out how long this protection would last but it is expected to last longer than protection against developing symptoms.

In people who already had symptoms, protection after each dose was slightly lower and reduced to 68% after a booster compared to unvaccinated people.

A second study, carried out with Cambridge University, confirmed that the risk of going to A&E or being admitted to a hospital ward after catching Omicron was roughly half that of the older Delta variant.

It also found that the risk of hospital admission alone with Omicron was approximately one-third of that for Delta.

Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at UKHSA, said the data was "in keeping with the encouraging signs we have already seen".

However she said it was too early to draw any conclusions on how severely ill in hospital people could be with Omicron compared to Delta.

She added: "The increased transmissibility of omicron and the rising cases in the over 60s population in England means it remains highly likely that there will be significant pressure on the NHS in coming weeks.

"The data once again shows that coming forward for your jab, particularly your third dose, is the best way of protecting yourself and others against infection and severe disease."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59840524

[user104658]

Originally Posted by MeghansLetterToSanta

However she said it was too early to draw any conclusions on how severely ill in hospital people could be with Omicron compared to Delta.

She said WHAT?? Miserable bastard, party pooper, doom prophet! Away with her. Away!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at UKHSA, said the data was "in keeping with the encouraging signs we have already seen".

However she said it was too early to draw any conclusions on how severely ill in hospital people could be with Omicron compared to Delta.


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