Coronavirus (2021) thread

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This is the key to how bad it will get.

Exactly how much protection each of these categories gives against omicron in each age bracket is what determines if this will be bad or catastrophic.

The equivalent for SA is very different, and the balance of the numbers in each age bracket is too, which is why any strong conclusions are impossible at this point.


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From John Burn-Murdoch here; the rest of the thread is an eye opener too on hospital capacity.

 
Seems the vaccines each one you have builds up your immune system and your antibodies.

So someone who is going for his first vaccine will they be protected?
 
waspish said:
Seems the vaccines each one you have builds up your immune system and your antibodies.

So someone who is going for his first vaccine will they be protected?
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Thats an interesting question. I would say they would have limited protection after a fortnight. It takes time to generate an immune response.
 
A scientist on the BBC warned today that literally everyone - unless living as a hermit - will meet someone with Omicron over the next few weeks. And most will likely catch it.

This will be no ordinary wave if that is true.

The only real hope is that it is genuinely less deadly even in the most vulnerable categories, that maybe half a million cases not 50,000 as now, on one day at the peak does not create enough hospital patients to cause the NHS big problems given all the other stuff we might see this Winter (though Omicron might actually be so virulent it suppresses them a lot hopefully) and IF this proves the terminal wave that tops up human immunity massively in one go with minimal cost to life and we end up with a dominant virus strain too successful to be out competed then we truly can live with it much as we do with flu.

A lot of big ifs there. But this is going to be a happy new year or a nightmare. We all have to hope it is the former or today may be one of the last City games you get to go to any time soon.
 
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Healdplace said:
A scientist on the BBC warned today that literally everyone - unless living as a hermit - will meet someone with Omicron over the next few weeks. And most will likely catch it.

This will be no ordinary wave if that is true.

The only real hope is that it is genuinely less deadly even in the most vulnerable categories, that maybe half a million cases not 50,000 as now, on one day at the peak does not create enough hospital patients to create problems given all the other stuff we might see this Winter (though Omicron might actually be so virulent it suppresses all them hopefully) and IF this proves the terminal wave that tops up human immunity massively in one go with minimal cost to life and we end up with a dominant virus we truly can lie with much aswe do with flu.

A lot of big ifs there. But this is going to be a happy new year or a nightmare. We all have to hope it is the former or today may be one of the last City games you get to go to any time soon.
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Is that pretty much word for what what they were saying this time last year.
 
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