Coronavirus (2021) thread

[BlueAnorak]

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.

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.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Is diarrhea a symptom with this now?

For some, but it was for some with the original and the delta variant as well

 

[BlueAnorak]

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!

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.

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

www.theguardian.com

 

[BlueAnorak]

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.………

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.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

For some, but it was for some with the original and the delta variant as well

Some Oxford professor,Sir John Bell,is claiming "muscle pains,especially in the back,is a distinguishing feature" of Omicron.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Some Oxford professor,Sir John Bell,is claiming "muscle pains,especially in the back,is a distinguishing feature" of Omicron.

several symptoms of it and that is also one

 

[SPIDERBOY]

several symptoms of it and that is also one

Yeah.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Looks like I’ve tested positive. Most posters would have known this already.

 

[Gabriel]

‘ 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…

 

[babyape]

BOOSTED. Some service that. 20 seconds max, nothing like the other 2.

Name, jab, ok, you can go....

Wonderful!