Coronavirus (2022) thread

[Healdplace]

My fears earlier about care home outbreaks booming over Christmas as hinted by the Northern Ireland numbers have been confirmed.

Today's latest data in Scotland reveals that in the last week up to early January no fewer than 10% of all Covid cases recorded by care home staff and 5% of the total for all patients across the entire pandemic - have been recorded.

Why are the media not all over this?

Imagine the numbers in England.

This was obvious given that families would visit over Christmas and staff would be getting Omicron. Its why I have been looking. This is why the numbers in the most vunerable ages are rising in hospital and why we are now at a point where icus could be overwhelmed and deaths rocket - even if Omicron is still less serious in the most vulnerable. Which we are about to find out fingers crossed.

At the very least this needs to be being talked about out there.

HERE IS THAT REPORT TODAY IN THE SCOTLAND DATA SMALL PRINT WHICH MOST JOURNALISTS LIKELY DO NOT READ

• as at 5 January 2022, 251 (24%) adult care homes had a current case of suspected COVID-19
• in the week 27 December 2021 to 2 January 2022 there were 612 new confirmed positive COVID‑19 cases among care home residents and 1,098 among care home staff
• as of 2 January 2022, there have been 13,017 confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst residents and 10,168 amongst staff of care homes for all ages since 9 March 2020

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[BerkshireBlue]

Sorry, this is the number for Covid, I'd just typed the wrong thing.

Yeah the data is "with covid" not "of covid" there's only one data set that will give you an estimate of the number of covid wards and that's the ventilation of covid patients

 

[kaz7]

COVID-19: Two major incidents declared in England - as troops deployed to London hospitals

The Royal College of Nursing says the deployment means the government can no longer deny there is a "staffing crisis" within the NHS.

news.sky.com

 

[BlueAnorak]

Oh the irony...

Covid case rates in Wales rising three times faster than England’s despite tougher restrictions

Cases in Wales have risen by 94 per cent since Dec 26, compared to 34 per cent in England

www.telegraph.co.uk

It would appear that popping round your mates is more infectious than going clubbing!

 

[kaz7]

Erm

COVID-19: Top GP demands three things PM must do to relieve Omicron pressure on NHS

Dr Chaand Nagpaul told Sky News "we have never known this level of staff absence before" amid the continuing spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

news.sky.com

Speaking during a visit to a vaccination centre on Thursday, Boris Johnson acknowledged the NHS was under "huge pressure" at the moment, but said it is "not true" that the health service does not have enough staff to cope with the pressures it is facing.

 

[hammocity]

Mmm. Funeral director urging people to ignore medical advice amidst a pandemic…

At least his family will have a cheap funeral to organise if he pops it, nobhead.

 

[Gabriel]

Erm

COVID-19: Top GP demands three things PM must do to relieve Omicron pressure on NHS

Dr Chaand Nagpaul told Sky News "we have never known this level of staff absence before" amid the continuing spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

news.sky.com

Speaking during a visit to a vaccination centre on Thursday, Boris Johnson acknowledged the NHS was under "huge pressure" at the moment, but said it is "not true" that the health service does not have enough staff to cope with the pressures it is facing.

That information might have been in a group chat on a phone that is no longer available. You’d be surprised how often that happens…

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Yeah the data is "with covid" not "of covid" there's only one data set that will give you an estimate of the number of covid wards and that's the ventilation of covid patients

Surely with a variant which is less severe, that would give a large underestimate of covid impact.

Most patients admitted for covid throughout the pandemic have not been ventilated, and the proportion is dropping with omicron.

 

[BobKowalski]

They actually posited something very similair to this a few years before COVID 19. The idea was to send something dominant but inert out to circulate in wildlife, thereby protecting humans from dangerous variants making the leap.

This is the plot for any number of disaster movies.

 

[ob]

My partner's mum tested positive yesterday. Got Parkinson's and dementia (recently diagnosed) been in hospital for 4 weeks after falling out of bed. 10 days ago my partner and her dad were stopped from visiting as another patient on ward tested positive. I did say at time be surprised if doesn't go round ward now. We'd already been told never be home again and would be going into a nursing home.