Coronavirus (2022) thread

338 all settings deaths - up from 330 last week

England only 302 - up from 280 last week

96,871 cases (down 5421 on yesterday & 10,493 on last week's 107,364)

85,288 in England (down 5299 on yesterday & 10,686 on last week's 95,974)
 
England hospital news is good again.

Full details of this and other numbers on the data thread later for anyone interested but key numbers here:

Admisions (Tuesday) 1681 - was 1794 last week North West 244 V 285 last week

Patients (Today) 13,651 - down 297 on yesterday - was 15,302 last Thursday. after a fall of 440 that day.

North West down 70 to 2476

Ventilated patients 481 - down 12 on the day - was 573 last Thurday & 666 the Thursday before & 762 the Thursday before that. (37% drop in patients on ventilators in three weeks)

North West down 1 on 62
 
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COVID-19 vaccine boosters increase protection against death from the Omicron variant to 95% in people aged 50 and over, according to the UK Health Security Agency.

About six months after a second dose of any of the COVID vaccines was administered, protection against death with the dominant variant is around 60% in that age group.


But the UKHSA said that the figure rises to around 95% two weeks after a person has a booster dose.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
COVID-19 vaccine boosters increase protection against death from the Omicron variant to 95% in people aged 50 and over, according to the UK Health Security Agency.

About six months after a second dose of any of the COVID vaccines was administered, protection against death with the dominant variant is around 60% in that age group.


But the UKHSA said that the figure rises to around 95% two weeks after a person has a booster dose.
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Surprised to see effectiveness vs death as low as 60% unboosted. The figure from the vaccine effectiveness weekly report here:


They probably shouldn't quote an unboosted figure at all TBH as the confidence interval on that ~60% is huuuuuge : 4-82% (!) ie could be anything.

Presumably because virtually nobody is dying vaccinated. Screenshot_20220127-180435_Drive.jpg
 
kaz7 said:
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It is time to learn to live with COVID like we live with flu. That's a line often repeated by people who want all the measures imposed during the pandemic removed once and for all.

But is COVID really like flu at this stage? We've taken a look at hospital admission rates for the two viruses - comparing current coronavirus admissions with those from when flu was most prevalent in 2017-18
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Ah but only 36% are actually being treated "for" Covid now (in areas where Covid cases are declining) and Covid deaths are currently just less per week than a normal flu year and over Q1 of 2022 will be around half of a normal flu year.
 
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bluethrunthru said:
remember when schools were not vectors of disease and it was ok to reopen them because spread was rare?

www.bbc.co.uk

One in eight pupils out of school as Covid worsens

The official figures also show a quarter of schools with teachers and leaders' absence rates above 15%.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Last year: weren’t vectors 5th January. (Cue sound of pedals going very much in the backward direction). Next day: are vectors, shut the schools!
 
kaz7 said:
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It is time to learn to live with COVID like we live with flu. That's a line often repeated by people who want all the measures imposed during the pandemic removed once and for all.

But is COVID really like flu at this stage? We've taken a look at hospital admission rates for the two viruses - comparing current coronavirus admissions with those from when flu was most prevalent in 2017-18
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Thank god covid is nowhere near as deadly is flu is all I take from that.
 
I’ve basically avoided a lot of the covid malarkey since Christmas, for my own mental health. Being glued to the second by second updates is good for nobody unless you’re a government scientist.

Only just figured out that today is the day masks have officially been sacked off.

Is it scientifically definitive that Omicron is milder than delta then?
 
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