Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Gremlin]

I think we agree - as I said, this only applies if the fatality rate is high enough to matter, which isn't the case here.

Not entirely true - if it makes you sick enough that you don't feel like going out and spreading it around, even if it doesn't kill you, then it will reduce the effective R0.

 

[Healdplace]

143 all settings deaths - was 160 last Friday.

England only 115 V 125 last Friday.

50,584 UK cases - up just 493 on last Friday & down 3361 on yesterday

England only 43,888 - up 1616 on last Friday & down 1992 on yesterday

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Israeli doctor believes he caught Omicron variant of Covid in London

Exclusive: Cardiologist Elad Maor suspects he caught virus at conference attended by more than 1,200 people

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Israeli doctor believes he caught Omicron variant of Covid in London

Exclusive: Cardiologist Elad Maor suspects he caught virus at conference attended by more than 1,200 people

www.theguardian.com

Also the England v South Africa game on November 20th hardly gets a mention, anywhere, as a possible spreader event.

 

[Gabriel]

 

[BlueHammer85]

Also the England v South Africa game on November 20th hardly gets a mention, anywhere, as a possible spreader event.

Do the transport and trains etc count as part of the event, surely you can pick it up from anyone, anywhere.

 

[splinter]

Booster rollout to ramp-up no later than the 13th..

 

[Healdplace]

Do the transport and trains etc count as part of the event, surely you can pick it up from anyone, anywhere.

As mentioned earlier today in here the BBC were this morning reporting the 5000 or so who apparently caught Covid at the Euro 2020 Final at Wembley in July and said then around 2000 or so were on travel to and from not at the match. Though they also said the final was in July 2020 not 2021.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Do the transport and trains etc count as part of the event, surely you can pick it up from anyone, anywhere.

Of course.

 

[M18CTID]

Cases going through the roof over there. Let’s hope deaths don’t follow the same pattern

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Yikes.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yikes.

Seems to be being kept in Gauteng province though.

 

[Gabriel]

Cases going through the roof over there. Let’s hope deaths don’t follow the same pattern

There were more cases in Gauteng alone today than there were in the entire country yesterday. The number of hospitalisations increased only marginally 274 to 279, but I get the impression that data is lagging. I suppose we’ll know more clearly in the next weeks.

 

[feedthegoat27]

Anti-vaxxers are wankers, but kinda hard not to respect the lengths this one went to.

Italian man tries to dodge Covid vaccine wearing fake arm

Anti-vaxxer is facing charges of fraud after turning up for jab with silicone arm in Biella

www.theguardian.com

 

[BlueAnorak]

Booster rollout to ramp-up no later than the 13th..

Considering 421k were boosted yesterday I think it has already begun to ramp up.

 

[Gabriel]

Seems to be being kept in Gauteng province though.

Gauteng is red hot but the figures are climbing in Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, too.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

UK omicron latest, including rate of growth and vaccination status of cases to date.

Very early, not sure any conclusions can be drawn yet, but interesting.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Gauteng is red hot but the figures are climbing in Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, too.

Ah, crap.

 

[splinter]

Considering 421k were boosted yesterday I think it has already begun to ramp up.

Good!

 

[Gabriel]

Ah, crap.

It seems to be so transmissible that containing it in one province was always going to be unlikely.

Kaizer Chiefs were due to host Cape Town City tomorrow, but the hosts have 31 employees who have tested positive, so that game and likely others will have to be postponed.