Coronavirus (2022) thread

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Sir peace frog said:
An update, I did another test the evening before I went back to work and it was negative, still felt a bit rough but fine feel a lot better for taking the 2nd test, I didn't want to pass it on to someone who it could of affected more.

Waste of time, 3 people who were on shift have covid, one actually tested positive today, even showed me the pics of the results, he had phoned work and was asked "up to you if you come in, do you want to lose money

Seems like nobody gives a fuck about the virus at the moment
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I get your issue but at some point things have to go back to this way, if you feel well enough to work then you go in (certain professions excepted if dealing with really vulnerable people) and if you feel like shit you don't go in.

I understand why but the 'Covid fear' mentality will have to be overcome by people.
 
As the thread is reopened I will post an update from over the long bank holiday.

England hospital patients is the best news. Fell today by 443 to 14,164.

This is V 14,955 the day before Easter.

So overall numbers fell and week to week down from 15,399 last Wednesday.

East and London rose but every other region fell by quite a bit today. North West down 73 to 2103.

Unfortunately ventilated patients are up 13 to 309. These come from East (up 11 to 35) and London (up 14 to 114) from the big admissions today. The other regions fell. North West down 3 to 36.

Deaths are still quite high. Only just below the peak in January of the first Omicron wave but they are still just below that and are starting to show a small fall.

Ignore any numbers in the media as there has been huge catch up over the long weekend when registrar offices were shut for two extra days to the usual weekend closure. So low numbers for several days and big numbers yesterday & today but they balance out pretty flat over the 6 days.

The majority are in the older age ranges: In England today just 5 under 40 from the Easter numbers, 27 aged 40 - 59, 131 aged 60 - 79 and 295 aged over 80.

IF YOU HAVE ANY FAMILY OVER 75 WHO HAS NOT HAD THE BOOSTER YET (THIS IS THE AGE RANGE ELLIGIBlE FOR A FOURTH JAB) I STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO TAKE THEM FOR ONE IF YOU CAN. THESE ARE NOW AGAIN VERY MUCH WHERE THE DEATHS ARE MOSTLY OCCURRNG AGAIN AND THE MAIN CASES BEING IDENTIFIED.


Cases are falling obviously as fewer tests. 26,147 in the UK today V 35,926 last Wednesday.

England only 20,767 V 29,335 last Wednesday.

Greater Manchester today was below 1000 for first time in some weeks. On 911 V 1173 last Wednesday.

Manchester 157, Wigan 126 and Stockport 102 the only ones in three figures now.
 
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Other UK nations:

Wales 1041 patients V 1059 last week, 22 Ventilated V 25 last week. Cases 816 over the last 5 days.

N Ireland 380 patients V 491 last week, 2 ventilated V 1 last week. Cases 588 V 770 last week

Scotland 1819 patients V 2110 last week, 20 ventilated V 23 last week. Cases 3976 V 5513 last week


So all generally tracking down,
 
As you can see Zoe app is showing a steady fall now too. And it is steeper than last week. But still at ahigher prevalence than at any point in the pandemic but the past few weeks.

Predcted new daily cases 227,702 - down 10K on yesterday.

Ongoing symptomatic cases 3,827,489 V 4,606,743 on 4 April - the peak of this second Omicron wave.

No more updates unless there is something to report of real significance.


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MCFCTrick said:
Had tickets for Sparks gig at Albert Halls, postponed twice due to Covid.
Now it's finally taking place tomorrow, and I have caught the feckin thing.
Gutted I will miss it now.
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Are they still going? When I was a little kid my Dad and I used to laugh at them on Top of The Pops. Didn't the keyboard player look like Hitler, but a really angry one?

I'm going to have to Google it, because that was ages ago, they must be ancient by now.
 
redpedred said:
Are they still going? When I was a little kid my Dad and I used to laugh at them on Top of The Pops. Didn't the keyboard player look like Hitler, but a really angry one?

I'm going to have to Google it, because that was ages ago, they must be ancient by now.
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Never stopped recording or gigging!
Check out their late career epic, Dick Around... Sheer genius.
 
west didsblue said:
3 days in and it feels like a bad cold. Does it get worse before it gets better?
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It didn't for my wife and youngest, who both have been feeling sick for a week. They started feeling bad last Thurs, tested positive Saturday, and their worst day was Sunday, so 3-4 days after feeling sick and the day after testing +.

They are far better today (Weds) -- nearly normal, though still testing faintly positive on the test. I didn't actually know the line on the test is stronger or weaker depending on where in the "process" one is.

Wife has four shots and daughter (16) has 3. Both have cough and are tired with a little headache but no fever and no taste/smell loss. Just a bad cold. It's down to just a cough now.

Oddly neither I nor my oldest got it. They were in France right before they started feeling bad and me and the older kid were in the UK. Somehow they tested negative pre-flight (requirement to enter the US still) so they are wondering if maybe they caught it on the plane home. And me and the oldest were out of town when they tested so we may have missed the incubation period. We've just opened the windows all week and are all wearing masks and not getting too close.

Neither of them felt as lousy as I did four weeks ago when I had a monster cold but not COVID. That cold took two weeks to ease up and I'm STILL feeling it.
 
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west didsblue said:
3 days in and it feels like a bad cold. Does it get worse before it gets better?
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I had it (again) a couple of weeks ago and suspect i'd had it for a week before ( mild runny nose sore throat symptoms). At its worst I just had a constant headache and tiredness. Taste and smell went for a few days. Other than that fine, but still feel knackered all the time, and the headache tends to come and go still.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
I had it (again) a couple of weeks ago and suspect i'd had it for a week before ( mild runny nose sore throat symptoms). At its worst I just had a constant headache and tiredness. Taste and smell went for a few days. Other than that fine, but still feel knackered all the time, and the headache tends to come and go still.
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I've had exactly these symptoms last couple of weeks but tested negative. No-one else in the house got whatever it was. So not sure.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Not sure viruses are much bothered about word games.

Any road, just FYI, here's the current definition of "fully vaccinated" I recently came across traveling to France. From the Eurostar website.

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I get your drift bud, I'm not anti vax, I've had 2 jabs and personally I just don't want the 3rd jab - will of course have it if it's necessarily required.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
I get your drift bud, I'm not anti vax, I've had 2 jabs and personally I just don't want the 3rd jab - will of course have it if it's necessarily required.
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It's up to you.

Double jabbed isn't generally regarded as fully vaxxed.

Vax effect fades over time, booster makes it less likely you'll personally end up in hospital and boosting the whole population reduces the huge impact covid is having on the health service.

No idea why you wouldn't want a booster in those circumstances, but it's your decision (unless you want to go to France, of course, & maybe other countries, I'm not up to speed on general requirements).
 
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