Coronavirus (2021) thread

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johnnymarrsbarres said:
Bickering and conspiracies aside...anyone know what the queues are like at the Etihad jab centre?

As bad as match days?
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I would check on the NHS web-site first that they do walk-up boosters. I was putting my post code in and it brought up the nearest sites and then it had a link with vaccine availability. When I clicked that I am pretty sure it said no availability. It might be different now. I went to a little pharmacy called Everest in Whalley Range/Moss Side and it took a 3 hour queue. There was only about 50 people in it at any one time but only 1 chap doing it. They concentrated resources on those who had made online appointments.

Edit: Just checked. Etihad tennis centre comes up no boosters for walk up

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Marvin said:
I would check on the NHS web-site first that they do walk-up boosters. I was putting my post code in and it brought up the nearest sites and then it had a link with vaccine availability. When I clicked that I am pretty sure it said no availability. It might be different now. I went to a little pharmacy called Everest in Whalley Range/Moss Side and it took a 3 hour queue. There was only about 50 people in it at any one time but only 1 chap doing it. They concentrated resources on those who had made online appointments.
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I've got an appointment at 2pm, just wondering if there's still massive queues and I should go earlier..
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
However, the actual wearing of a mask shows to me that the other person cares about what’s going on and the health of others, not just themselves.
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I always wear a mask on public transport, shops etc.. Where ever we are expected to. I have done this since March 2020. However, I understand some people's patience is wearing thin. Whilst I disagree with those people, I can see their point of view. Especially where they are wearing them in settings which require them to wear them for a considerable time. I believe those who have consistently refused to wear them certainly do not care about others. I genuinely think some do it to also seek attention. Arseholes, either way.
 
johnnymarrsbarres said:
Bickering and conspiracies aside...anyone know what the queues are like at the Etihad jab centre?

As bad as match days?
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I was there this morning first thing for my booster. Not too bad at that point as I was one of the early appointments, and the queue for walk ups wasn't that long but I'd imagine it gets busier as the day goes on
 
Manc in London said:
I always wear a mask on public transport, shops etc.. Where ever we are expected to. I have done this since March 2020. However, I understand some people's patience is wearing thin. Whilst I disagree with those people, I can see their point of view. Especially where they are wearing them in settings which require them to wear them for a considerable time. I believe those who have consistently refused to wear them certainly do not care about others. I genuinely think some do it to also seek attention. Arseholes, either way.
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Then there’s the “They can’t tell me what to do” people and the ones who enjoy breaking whatever rules they can.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I don’t necessarily disagree about LFT’s in theory but, for them to be effective, you’d need to do them when you turned up at the event/restaurant/pub. Imagine doing a pub crawl and doing 8 LFT’s!

My main point though was that, having been tripled jabbed, I can still pass this virus on. If the point of the ’pass’ is to not spread it, vaccination status is pointless. Also, I can’t see why a lateral flow test would not do for NHS and care workers rather than mandatory vaccines.
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I think the pass isn’t only about reducing transmission. It’s about inconveniencing those who won’t have the jab to encourage larger take up
 
Blue Note said:
How can the government justify cancelling medical appointments such as cancer screenings, just to boost people who don't need jt? Omicron is a mild variant. It's all for profit of big pharmaceutical companies.

The general publics blind willingness to take anything Boris says as gospel is scary.
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They are doing the right thing by delaying these by a month or so. Getting immunity boosted for Omicron was vital without virulence data.
(Except Covid passports which are a total waste of time with Omicron being so infectious.)
The virulence data still isn't confirmed though it now looks fantastically good.
 
Marvin said:
I googled that this morning and found an explanation of what they do...

They take the latest confirmed new cases, then they look at the most recent ONS data that comes from sampling, and use that as a way of finding what the shortfall in the reported cases are likely to be (check against data for the same time frame in the reported data). Then they use the S gene drop out estimate, and allow for witnessed growth that would have taken place since the person first got infected to when it showed up in testing. It sounded reasonable.

I suspect it was in the Guardian so I haven't linked it!
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S gene drop out only identifies the BA.1 strain of Omicron. BA.2 doesn't have the S gene drop out. Both are here and both are equally infectious and very similar to each other otherwise.
www.theguardian.com

Scientists find ‘stealth’ version of Omicron that may be harder to track

Variant lacks feature that allows probable cases to be distinguished among positive PCR tests
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The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
There were 13000 cases yesterday in London and, apparently, Omicron is now dominant in London (and Manchester). It’s doubling in ‘less than 2 days’ so, by a week today, there should be 80-100000 cases in London. Yesterday London made up 4.5% of uk cases so, by the same date there should be 4 million cases in the uk. 8 days maximum after that every person in the country will have it. Or, perhaps, they won’t.………
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They won't because vaccines and previous infections give a lot-of protection against serious illness.
People with the equivalent of a bad cold for the most part aren't going to get tested.
 
‘ Sir John Bell urged people to look out for a sore throat, aching muscles particularly around the back, a stuffy nose, some stomach upset and loose stools as signs of having Omicron.
“One of the things we do know is the syndrome is rather different,” he said.

Sir Bell, a Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, said myalgia, which is muscle pain, was a “distinguishing feature” of Omicron and that public health experts did not know why that was.
He said data from South Africa and the Zoe App showed that other unusual symptoms of Omicron include a “bit of gut upset, loose stools and that sort of thing”.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...t-previous-strains-sir-john-bell-b971904.html

Not sure I’d bother with a LFT after a heavy night out that ends in a curry…
 
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