Coronavirus (2022) thread

Thank you Roubaix. There are bigger things going on now that dwarf Covid. But we should remember it is not over.

Cases are rising again in the UK quite markedly. Zoe has gone from 166K to 184 K daily cases in the past 48 hours alone. Some places in the real case numbers are almost doubling in the week. Hospital numbers edging up again too. Deaths have flattened off and older people seem to be being infected more often than they were up to the past few weeks. Suggesting boosters may be waning. So that may change soon too.

Scotland patients are rising faster than in months and were the first to see cases doing so suggesting other nations will follow. They are higher now than they were at any point in the first Omicron wave over Dec/Jan - today adding 127 alone and 273 in the past 72 hours - to be at 1636 - highest numbers since early February last year.

Hopefully the government do still have at least one eye on these things as it was so tempting two weeks ago to think we were over the worst. We still might be and this is just a smallblip but it is less clear now than it looked then.

I have said I will only post a summary of where we are once a week on Mondays on the Data thread (as I did this week) and will stick to that unless there is an even more concerning change.
 
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Granted other things are going on in the world but a new variant that does mix Omicron and Delta as been detected.

the spike protein of Omicron and the "body" of Delta. detected in a small number ( 17 ) cased in the States and Europe.

No data on any severity or if it will spread etc. Id assume all the vaxines/natural immunity will still do there jobs.

www.reuters.com

Variant that combines Delta and Omicron identified; dogs sniff out virus with high accuracy

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
 
Given the thread is active - just a brief update,

UK Cases are up again today - 71,259 V 45,656 last week. England only 52,722 V 32,858 last week.

Deaths down on 142 V 194. England only 95 V 144.

England patients up just 78 to 9241 V 8210 last Thursday. East and South East the biggest risers today. North West up 21 to 1350 V 1183 last week.

Ventilators though down to a new low on 221 V 234 last week. London highest on just 84. North West on 23 V 28 last week.

This is the lowest ventilator number in England since 21 June last.

So no cause for panic as of now.
 
Mrs BSS came down with it following a trip to London with our daughter last week. It's her final isolation day today, her main symptoms have been extreme tiredness, a cough over last weekend, a blocked nose and loss of appetite. Daughter tested positive on Tuesday but her symptoms are much milder, just tiredness, sore eyes and a popping sensation in her ears.
Currently I am still testing negative but it could go either way.
 
This is one of those 'has anyone else had this' type questions I'm afraid. I tested positive for covid about 3 or 4 weeks ago. Started returning negative tests after about 7 days and felt absolutely fine for about a week after that. Fast forward to now and I started feeling really rough about 5 or 6 days ago with all the symptoms you would expect from covid (cough, fatigue, aching etc). I'm returning negative tests so don't think it is covid but was wondering whether those who had the long-covid had had symptoms right through or if there was a break between them?
 
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This is one of those 'has anyone else had this' type questions I'm afraid. I tested positive for covid about 3 or 4 weeks ago. Started returning negative tests after about 7 days and felt absolutely fine for about a week after that. Fast forward to now and I started feeling really rough about 5 or 6 days ago with all the symptoms you would expect from covid (cough, fatigue, aching etc). I'm returning negative tests so don't think it is covid but was wondering whether those who had the long-covid had had symptoms right through or if there was a break between them?
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Yes mate but was about a fortnight after for me. Thought it had come back. Fucked off pretty quick though. Took a good 2 months till I was back to "normal"
 
China has ordered a lockdown of a city of nine million people due to a spike in COVID cases.

Under the rules announced today, residents of the northeastern city of Changchun are required to remain at home, with one family member permitted to venture out to buy food and other necessities every two days.


Changchun residents must also undergo three rounds of mass testing, while non-essential businesses have been closed and transport links suspended.

China reported another 397 cases of local transmission nationwide on Friday, 98 of them in Jilin province that surrounds Changchun, a centre of the country's auto industry.
 
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