Coronavirus (2022) thread

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BLUEYESTU said:
Has anybody else been left with ‘long Covid’ and got problems with their joints? I now have pain and numbness in my fingers, wrists, elbows and feet that feels almost like Raynaud’s disease and I can’t walk very far without losing feeling in my feet. I was chopping onions last week and took the tip of my finger clean off because the joints just don’t seem to do what I want them to do. Really weird stuff this Covid and the lung problems are just a small part of it.
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Talking to a retired senior nursing academic yesterday about how when isolating with Covid (minimal symptoms) I twisted a knee in bed and he mentioned "Covid knee". I'm just putting it down to age as I seem to pull a back muscle very easily.

It could be the vaccine of course...
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I’ve not been able to exercise since having Covid. I’m knackered in minutes, I get pins’n’needles in my feet when I walk, every morning when I wake up I feel DOMS as if I’ve done a heavy weights workout the day before but I’ve not even exercised.

Going to the Spurs game the other week was proper hard work. It’s not like I walked or cycled there. I walked about 200m to the Met stop, got to Town and had a few pints, jumped on the Met to the Etihad, watched the game and got on the Met home. Hardly a day of big exertion!

I’ve not had this (yet) but hair loss is another symptom of long Covid.
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I'm not sure "a few pints" is the best therapy for lack of fitness.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Impending financial doom? The economy is up 7.5% in the last year, back to levels just 2% below where they were before the pandemic started. We are currently experiencing the fastest economic growth we’ve had since the end of World War 2.

We’ve never been in a lockdown at any point during the pandemic, and the more strict restrictions that were coined a “lockdown” ended 11 months ago (almost 12, as it was 5th March 2021).
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How's that GDP looking? Presume you're sitting back lapping up all the extra cash that's floating around these days
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
I had covid for the first time end of January, and ever since I had it, I have had nothing but a dull or painful ache in my lower and upper back, or across my chest.

Has anyone else experienced this?
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I had similar back issues including cramping across the back. It lasted, on and off, for around 6 weeks.
 
Rail companies reporting sickness levels still causing staff shortages. Tests gone from 1000 a day to 60 a day, so people are going to work asympomatic and spreading it to colleagues who go off with symptoms (tested or otherwise). But they're guessing to some extent without testing.
 
Just being lazy. But do you need to be triple vaccinated to go abroad at the moment ? Or is double jabbed ok ?

Im going Denmark and Greece soon
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Just being lazy. But do you need to be triple vaccinated to go abroad at the moment ? Or is double jabbed ok ?

Im going Denmark and Greece soon
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Depends where you're going, when you had your 2nd jab, if you've had covid in the last x days. You need to stop being lazy and see what the rules are for Denmark and Greece ;)
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Just being lazy. But do you need to be triple vaccinated to go abroad at the moment ? Or is double jabbed ok ?

Im going Denmark and Greece soon
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I went Denmark a few weeks ago with two jabs, and a recorded LFT as my third basically. They didn't even check though. They've dropped all restrictions.
 
Thank you Roubaix. There are bigger things going on now that dwarf Covid. But we should remember it is not over.

Cases are rising again in the UK quite markedly. Zoe has gone from 166K to 184 K daily cases in the past 48 hours alone. Some places in the real case numbers are almost doubling in the week. Hospital numbers edging up again too. Deaths have flattened off and older people seem to be being infected more often than they were up to the past few weeks. Suggesting boosters may be waning. So that may change soon too.

Scotland patients are rising faster than in months and were the first to see cases doing so suggesting other nations will follow. They are higher now than they were at any point in the first Omicron wave over Dec/Jan - today adding 127 alone and 273 in the past 72 hours - to be at 1636 - highest numbers since early February last year.

Hopefully the government do still have at least one eye on these things as it was so tempting two weeks ago to think we were over the worst. We still might be and this is just a smallblip but it is less clear now than it looked then.

I have said I will only post a summary of where we are once a week on Mondays on the Data thread (as I did this week) and will stick to that unless there is an even more concerning change.
 
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Granted other things are going on in the world but a new variant that does mix Omicron and Delta as been detected.

the spike protein of Omicron and the "body" of Delta. detected in a small number ( 17 ) cased in the States and Europe.

No data on any severity or if it will spread etc. Id assume all the vaxines/natural immunity will still do there jobs.

www.reuters.com

Variant that combines Delta and Omicron identified; dogs sniff out virus with high accuracy

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
 
Given the thread is active - just a brief update,

UK Cases are up again today - 71,259 V 45,656 last week. England only 52,722 V 32,858 last week.

Deaths down on 142 V 194. England only 95 V 144.

England patients up just 78 to 9241 V 8210 last Thursday. East and South East the biggest risers today. North West up 21 to 1350 V 1183 last week.

Ventilators though down to a new low on 221 V 234 last week. London highest on just 84. North West on 23 V 28 last week.

This is the lowest ventilator number in England since 21 June last.

So no cause for panic as of now.
 
Mrs BSS came down with it following a trip to London with our daughter last week. It's her final isolation day today, her main symptoms have been extreme tiredness, a cough over last weekend, a blocked nose and loss of appetite. Daughter tested positive on Tuesday but her symptoms are much milder, just tiredness, sore eyes and a popping sensation in her ears.
Currently I am still testing negative but it could go either way.
 
This is one of those 'has anyone else had this' type questions I'm afraid. I tested positive for covid about 3 or 4 weeks ago. Started returning negative tests after about 7 days and felt absolutely fine for about a week after that. Fast forward to now and I started feeling really rough about 5 or 6 days ago with all the symptoms you would expect from covid (cough, fatigue, aching etc). I'm returning negative tests so don't think it is covid but was wondering whether those who had the long-covid had had symptoms right through or if there was a break between them?
 
Bluemoon dan said:
This is one of those 'has anyone else had this' type questions I'm afraid. I tested positive for covid about 3 or 4 weeks ago. Started returning negative tests after about 7 days and felt absolutely fine for about a week after that. Fast forward to now and I started feeling really rough about 5 or 6 days ago with all the symptoms you would expect from covid (cough, fatigue, aching etc). I'm returning negative tests so don't think it is covid but was wondering whether those who had the long-covid had had symptoms right through or if there was a break between them?
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Yes mate but was about a fortnight after for me. Thought it had come back. Fucked off pretty quick though. Took a good 2 months till I was back to "normal"
 
China has ordered a lockdown of a city of nine million people due to a spike in COVID cases.

Under the rules announced today, residents of the northeastern city of Changchun are required to remain at home, with one family member permitted to venture out to buy food and other necessities every two days.


Changchun residents must also undergo three rounds of mass testing, while non-essential businesses have been closed and transport links suspended.

China reported another 397 cases of local transmission nationwide on Friday, 98 of them in Jilin province that surrounds Changchun, a centre of the country's auto industry.
 
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