[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

I think I have caught the delta variant. Or a really nasty chest infection it's really hard to tell with a symptom checker. I went for a PCR test last week it came back negative but my symptoms have got so much worse since then I can't stop coughing and it's really hurting my chest. When I try and sleep my whole chest and throat just rattle constantly. My wife just said she felt like suffocating me as I kept her up all night. I am headachy. My whole body hurts and I'm struggling to breathe out of my nose. Whatever this is is nasty. Prob best to go for another test but what if they aren't picking up a new variant

The tests do pick up the Delta variant Jake...that's why we know there is a surge in cases. Last year my cousin had symptoms but had a negative test...she went back 3 days later for another and was positive. Get a test to make sure and look after yourself xx

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

I think I have caught the delta variant. Or a really nasty chest infection it's really hard to tell with a symptom checker. I went for a PCR test last week it came back negative but my symptoms have got so much worse since then I can't stop coughing and it's really hurting my chest. When I try and sleep my whole chest and throat just rattle constantly. My wife just said she felt like suffocating me as I kept her up all night. I am headachy. My whole body hurts and I'm struggling to breathe out of my nose. Whatever this is is nasty. Prob best to go for another test but what if they aren't picking up a new variant

…just to add to what Annie said, Jake…I feel also after so little contact and build up of immunity to other viruses as well over the last year, if we contact a virus like a cold virus etc…?…the symptoms may be a lot more severe so it could be that also and important to be tested to be more clear as to what’s causing you feeling unwell….let us know when you have the test again and you take care……

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

I think I have caught the delta variant. Or a really nasty chest infection it's really hard to tell with a symptom checker. I went for a PCR test last week it came back negative but my symptoms have got so much worse since then I can't stop coughing and it's really hurting my chest. When I try and sleep my whole chest and throat just rattle constantly. My wife just said she felt like suffocating me as I kept her up all night. I am headachy. My whole body hurts and I'm struggling to breathe out of my nose. Whatever this is is nasty. Prob best to go for another test but what if they aren't picking up a new variant

Both me and my wife had a horrific cold 2 weeks ago… she was coughing a fair bit but I didn’t have much of a cough and the main symptoms were being really stuffed up etc so didn’t suspect anything until people started saying “Delta variant is more like a bad cold” .

However my daughter had a cold the previous week (less bad… but then she is only 11) and we did get her tested and it was negative. Although it was 5 days after symptoms started so may have been a little late - they say ideally no more than 3 days for most accurate result.

I also was like “it can’t be, we’re both double dose vaccinated” but then again, they just say the vaccine is preventing hospitalisation and death, and none of us were hospitalised or dead sooo

All of that said on balance I actually do think it was just a bad bug of some other variety - I guess it’s been easy to forget that those exist over the last year. So this post is mainly a roundabout way of saying… you may well just have some other random chest infection.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…just to add to what Annie said, Jake…I feel also after so little contact and build up of immunity to other viruses as well over the last year, if we contact a virus like a cold virus etc…?…the symptoms may be a lot more severe so it could be that also and important to be tested to be more clear as to what’s causing you feeling unwell….let us know when you have the test again and you take care……

Yea I wondered this too Ammi. As said above, I think we did just have a cold, but I wondered if the lack of exposure to “little bugs” for over a year was the reason for it hitting harder. It was a particularly nasty cold and we’re both still a little fatigued from it even a week+ since all other symptoms were gone.

[Ammi]

….yeah our immunity levels must be shot to heck atm so if we contract something it’ll feel pretty grim…the Delta variant symptoms isn’t so much chest/cough focused, is it…?…I felt that I read that somewhere….

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yea I wondered this too Ammi. As said above, I think we did just have a cold, but I wondered if the lack of exposure to “little bugs” for over a year was the reason for it hitting harder. It was a particularly nasty cold and we’re both still a little fatigued from it even a week+ since all other symptoms were gone.

…obviously we have flu deaths of the more vulnerable every year and that’s always been the way…but I read that there are forecast more flu deaths…(…almost an epidemic of them we could say..)…this coming flu season because a low immunity has meant that many more vulnerables have been created…it will all will have an impact…

[bots]

they have the capacity to test, so my advice would to not mess about and if you have any doubts, get tested. If you do have covid, the sooner you get treatment if its needed, the better.


This from the USA now:

Dr Anthony Fauci, the top Covid adviser in the US, has been talking to the BBC about the Delta variant, which has been spreading in the US.

He says the US is taking the Delta variant “very seriously” given the situation in the UK where it’s spread rapidly.

Dr Fauci warns that there are “pockets in this country” where the number of people getting vaccinated is “really quite low”.

There needs to be a push to get those people jabbed in the next few weeks, he says. Those people are putting the US at risk of a surge – although it won’t be a nationwide surge but regionally-based spikes, he adds.



So as expected, the delta variant is spreading out everywhere

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

they have the capacity to test, so my advice would to not mess about and if you have any doubts, get tested. If you do have covid, the sooner you get treatment if its needed, the better.


This from the USA now:

Dr Anthony Fauci, the top Covid adviser in the US, has been talking to the BBC about the Delta variant, which has been spreading in the US.

He says the US is taking the Delta variant “very seriously” given the situation in the UK where it’s spread rapidly.

Dr Fauci warns that there are “pockets in this country” where the number of people getting vaccinated is “really quite low”.

There needs to be a push to get those people jabbed in the next few weeks, he says. Those people are putting the US at risk of a surge – although it won’t be a nationwide surge but regionally-based spikes, he adds.



So as expected, the delta variant is spreading out everywhere

i thought the US had a great vaccine rollout, even better than UK

[bots]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…obviously we have flu deaths of the more vulnerable every year and that’s always been the way…but I read that there are forecast more flu deaths…(…almost an epidemic of them we could say..)…this coming flu season because a low immunity has meant that many more vulnerables have been created…it will all will have an impact…

i think the flu thing is related to people mixing again. I've had "proper" flu twice i think in my life, so a year off in terms of immunity just wouldnt impact that.

I think the main worry is the pressure on the NHS from a typical flu season with a dollop of winter covid on top, which will be a strain on the NHS, and by it's nature, force us in to another restricted period to ease the hit on the NHS

[Nicky91]

also overreactions around this Delta variant


where was this alertness for any of the other variants, like brazilian or south african mutations which to me seem more dangerous, especially the latter one which symptoms are more awful either with stomach related problems


regular covid was also highly contagious, and spread out pretty fast throughout the country

i think we all can get this Delta under control if we just do better than at start of last year


so my advice, stay calm and stay alert, and stick to some of the basic measures (such keeping your distance, washing your hands, ventilating your rooms whenever you got someone over to visit) easy to follow rules i think

[Cherie]

Get yourself retested Jake, Delta is the dominant variant now so they would be unlikely to miss it on PCR

[Nicky91]

like with any strain Cherie


PCR test always is more accurate than the rapid antigen test for example, doesn't matter which mutation it is, they all are covid anyway

[bots]

the delta variant is the most transmissible variant to date, that's why it is sweeping the world. it is also more lethal to those not vaccinated. So, clearly it is something to be extra cautious about

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

i thought the US had a great vaccine rollout, even better than UK

Nicky you seem to be missing the point even though you remain unvaccinated yourself that even with in the most successful of roll outs some people will not take up to the jab

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Nicky you seem to be missing the point even though you remain unvaccinated yourself that even with in the most successful of roll outs some people will not take up to the jab

my own choice, and i stick with that choice


also am i a 'spreader' NOPE, since i don't socialize



as for others who don't take the jab, well i cannot speak for any of them

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

my own choice, and i stick with that choice


also am i a 'spreader' NOPE, since i don't socialize



as for others who don't take the jab, well i cannot speak for any of them

of course it is your choice but it is also the choice of many others you are not alone

[Vanessa]

I feel pretty safe now that I'm vaccinated and will gladly take the booster, if offered one this winter.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i think the flu thing is related to people mixing again. I've had "proper" flu twice i think in my life, so a year off in terms of immunity just wouldnt impact that.

I think the main worry is the pressure on the NHS from a typical flu season with a dollop of winter covid on top, which will be a strain on the NHS, and by it's nature, force us in to another restricted period to ease the hit on the NHS

It's not necessarily about getting it (symptomatic flu), you'll have been exposed to low viral loads of the flu virus countless times in your life without getting sick, sort of like an antibody rehearsal. It's rare for one person to get SICK from flu every flu season, more than once every 5 years would be pretty rare, but it's highly likely your immune system encounters it every year.

Same goes for general viral coughs & colds. Any country that was in heavy lockdown over winter is probably going to see an increase in the sniffles next year the first winter we're fully open for business.

[arista]

In Westminster on the Green
Pilots, Travel Operaters , Workers.
Are asking for the Government for a better amount of travel
and money,
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China's Covid -19 Infections
has wrecked the whole world

[arista]

In India
over 40 new cases have come up of a New Indian Variant
which is far worse

They are calling it Delta+


https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...in-uk-12339709

[Nicky91]

Netherlands: in Amsterdam 40% of all new cases there at the moment are of Delta variant

last week that was only 10%, it increases rapidly, RIVM says


mainly youth with this delta variant, after returning from holidays in other countries



good they are aware of it anyway

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

In India
over 40 new cases have come up of a New Indian Variant
which is far worse

They are calling it Delta+


https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...in-uk-12339709

we should have no fear as India is on the red list

that's how it works right

[bots]

Originally Posted by Cherie

we should have no fear as India is on the red list

that's how it works right

yeah, no fear, just let thousands in for the wembley games, what could possibly go wrong there

[arista]

5PM Live Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi
9 Downing Street Media Room.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

5PM Live Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi
9 Downing Street Media Room.

He is going to tell us Jake has a new unidentified variant isn't he