As per my question above about Sweden, I find it ”interesting” that there seems to be very little news about omicron in Europe, was only a couple of weeks ago we were hearing lots about spikes of covid in most European countries now nothing other than references to SA.
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As per my question above about Sweden, I find it ”interesting” that there seems to be very little news about omicron in Europe, was only a couple of weeks ago we were hearing lots about spikes of covid in most European countries now nothing other than references to SA.
I believe Sweden only sequences tests from people who have been abroad and about ten percent of the rest. If you find out you are positive you have no clue what variant you have as they don’t tell you.As per my question above about Sweden, I find it ”interesting” that there seems to be very little news about omicron in Europe, was only a couple of weeks ago we were hearing lots about spikes of covid in most European countries now nothing other than references to SA.
Be interesting to see how you get on especially if it’s the Omicron variant.Had my third Pfizer on November 5th. I’m 38. Sure I’ll keep you posted. Should get the results from the test in 1-3 days.
When we‘re so determined to see differences between societies we fail to see that there are far, far more similarities. Had a similar situation in the Netherlands recently, where complaints have been raised about how slow the booster roll out has been initiated. The authorities had a report from Israel in September that warned about waning immunity and the need to roll out boosters, but the scientists here insisted that the Israel situation was just too different and that they would need to conduct their own study. So, we wait for three months and lo and behold! Keeps them all in a job, I suppose.I had a semi sleepless night last night and BBC news is broadcast from Singapore overnight, around 3am they were talking to a male & female in the medical sphere over there who were almost doing handstands about how less dangerous it was (2 out of 3 admissions to hospital were 'serious' but only 1 out of 4 with Omi, they added that the rise of infections was virtually over.
Didn't catch any names and seen nothing on the BBC this morning.
As others have said SA isn't GB or Europe but they were really upbeat, suppose we'll find out in a few days....all this talk of a week or so and we'll know more started in late November well, it's 2 weeks since then and it's still the line being peddled.
We have a Govt. who are popping up in the media and have no idea of figures day after day, Raab today with his hospital totals, yesterday Javid was all over the place with figures. Whatever happens it's been a shitshow.
The indications do seem to suggest that Omicron is less severe, which sounds promising.I had a semi sleepless night last night and BBC news is broadcast from Singapore overnight, around 3am they were talking to a male & female in the medical sphere over there who were almost doing handstands about how less dangerous it was (2 out of 3 admissions to hospital were 'serious' but only 1 out of 4 with Omi, they added that the rise of infections was virtually over.
Didn't catch any names and seen nothing on the BBC this morning.
As others have said SA isn't GB or Europe but they were really upbeat, suppose we'll find out in a few days....all this talk of a week or so and we'll know more started in late November well, it's 2 weeks since then and it's still the line being peddled.
We have a Govt. who are popping up in the media and have no idea of figures day after day, Raab today with his hospital totals, yesterday Javid was all over the place with figures. Whatever happens it's been a shitshow.
You've asserted that twice this morning.
It's incorrect. So far the doubling time has been two days or less. I have you two reputable sources upthread.
It would be helpful when quoting numbers you give a source. Otherwise, it appears you're just making them up.
This is positive..but we cannot compare SA with UK..not yet imo ?
Quotes from Denmark and Norway in this piece. Seem to acknowledge that there is no preventing this wave, only prolonging it.Denmark and the UK sequence more than anyone else, so you get our figures first. I don't think anyone expects the rest of Europe to be far behind. Or even ahead.
A lot of Europe is in a delta spike too, so harder to see the emergence of omicron in the general data.
Source?
Here a tutorial showing figures, how to calculate them and current doubling time <2 days.
This isn't controversial - here the official UKHSA assessment.
The regionality of this virus is really difficult to understand. We can see that most of London and the South East for example is bearing the brunt of Omicron yet the rest of the country is probably still wholly tackling Delta.Data out of SA is confusing to say the least.
they say its mild and the number of hospitalistions does back that up to an extent. Yet Excess deaths doubled in the last 2 weeks of Nov from 1k to 2k which dont show up at all in there hospitalisation / testing figures. And strangly those excess deaths are not from Gauteng the area that had Omicron the most, but is also the area that has the highest vaccine rates and been hit hard with Delta so high immunity, which could bode well for the UK.
Over the Pandemic they have listed 90k deaths, Excess deaths are over 275k tho.
Why would or should he?Notice he didn’t attempt to tell us what question he thought the answer to was 250!
Good news I'd say. Another W for the vaccines (or specifically Pfizer).
Uk reported Omicron cases over the last 2 weeks.
Good news I'd say. Another W for the vaccines (or specifically Pfizer).
So, if I understand correctly, even with waning immunity, two doses would still appear to offer more protection than the average flu vaccine. Great news.
Depends on where you start from. Won't know for sure till we have 4 or 5 weeks of data due to specimen dates, superspread events and the relatively low numbers. So at the moment it's anywhere between 2.2 and 3.6 as we stand.You just made it up. You're wrong.
Use a reputable source.