Coronavirus (2022) thread

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KnaresboroughBlue said:
Just to show that we have our share of idiots over here as well:

Czech folk singer Hana Horká has died aged 57 after intentionally catching Covid from her husband and son. The unvaccinated singer welcomed catching Covid over the Christmas period as a way of obtaining a Covid certificate of immunity. Her son has blamed her death on anti-vax groups who he says have “blood on their hands.”
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Her Son should blame his fcuking moronic Mother
 
BlueHammer85 said:

France reports highest-ever COVID cases in Europe​

The country has announced a record 464,769 daily COVID cases today - the highest daily total ever recorded in Europe.
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I can't wrap my head around how they're getting that many cases a day over there. I'd imagine immunity levels due to vaccination and prior infection are broadly similar to the UK, yet France are getting over double the number of cases that we were at our peak the other week, plus they've had loads of days of 300k/350k case numbers recently too. I wouldn't have thought they were testing more than us, unless their booster rollout is way behind ours and that's been the reason for these astronomical figures?
 
Dr Richard Cree, who has blogged about his work on the frontline, has said he is confident that the "worst will soon be behind us".

The intensive care consultant at Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital believes the Omicron wave is now "waning".

Writing in his nomoresurgeons.com blog, Dr Cree said: "Fortunately, the number of COVID patients being admitted each day has begun to decrease and the situation should continue to improve.

"Boris (Johnson) appears to have already started celebrating the end of the pandemic. To be honest, it looks like he started celebrating way back in May 2020 and never stopped.

"For the rest of us, raiding the wine fridge at work and cracking open the champagne may be somewhat premature.

"However, despite the strain that the hospital is currently under, I am confident that the worst will soon be behind us and that the end is now in sight."
 
M18CTID said:
I can't wrap my head around how they're getting that many cases a day over there. I'd imagine immunity levels due to vaccination and prior infection are broadly similar to the UK, yet France are getting over double the number of cases that we were at our peak the other week, plus they've had loads of days of 300k/350k case numbers recently too. I wouldn't have thought they were testing more than us, unless their booster rollout is way behind ours and that's been the reason for these astronomical figures?
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France is slightly behind us on boosters, but not a right lot.

Denmark, earliest into omicron in Europe, is more boosted than we are.

Both France and Denmark are ahead of us overall on fully vaxxed.

Denmark cases are ahead even of France and still rising.

Both Denmark and France have slightly lower current death rates than us.

What can we conclude from this? Buggered if I know.

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roubaixtuesday said:
France is slightly behind us on boosters, but not a right lot.

Denmark, earliest into omicron in Europe, is more boosted than we are.

Both France and Denmark are ahead of us overall on fully vaxxed.

Denmark cases are ahead even of France and still rising.

Both Denmark and France have slightly lower current death rates than us.

What can we conclude from this? Buggered if I know.

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Looks like Boris has done a great job over the last month.
And all he needed to do was ignore everything SAGE told him.
Genius.
 
Bluewonder said:
Looks like Boris has done a great job over the last month.
And all he needed to do was ignore everything SAGE told him.
Genius.
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The government have done pretty well since beginning of 2021 to be fair.

Of course the party will quite rightly end Boris’s tenure but they’ve done well since the initial fuck up with care homes.
 
Octavian said:
The government have done pretty well since beginning of 2021 to be fair.

Of course the party will quite rightly end Boris’s tenure but they’ve done well since the initial fuck up with care homes.
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Yep. I've been hugely critical of them over most of their decisions in 2020 but I thought the roadmap out of the 2021 lockdown turned out to be pretty bang on the money. The 5 week gaps between each step proved to be about right timing-wise and it was only when we got to the last hurdle in June that it required pushing back 4 weeks. The country has been pretty much open since July, save for some minor restrictions.
 
M18CTID said:
Yep. I've been hugely critical of them over most of their decisions in 2020 but I thought the roadmap out of the 2021 lockdown turned out to be pretty bang on the money. The 5 week gaps between each step proved to be about right timing-wise and it was only when we got to the last hurdle in June that it required pushing back 4 weeks. The country has been pretty much open since July, save for some minor restrictions.
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Done well ? Champions league on deaths and costs associated with the pandemic. Mid to lower table in percentage of population vaccinated !
 
peter.evans said:
Done well ? Champions league on deaths and costs associated with the pandemic. Mid to lower table in percentage of population vaccinated !
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Well if you'd bothered to read my post properly, you'd have seen that I have little time for the decisions they made in 2020 but got their act together more last year. That doesn't mean I'm a fan of this government by any means - far from it.
 
peter.evans said:
Done well ? Champions league on deaths and costs associated with the pandemic. Mid to lower table in percentage of population vaccinated !
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Deaths depends entirely on how you measure them and circumstances around population density etc.

The furlough scheme was very very expensive and they over bought for vaccines which was the right thing to do.

2020 was a bit of a mess, the care home travesty was awful and actually caused many unnecessary deaths but they got their acts together last year and the vaccine rollout and restrictions were done very well.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
This thread needs locking, printing out, strapping to a rocket and firing into the sun, never to be spoken about again.

To save costs Ric can double up with the Ronaldo transfer thread.
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The hope that this thread will one day disappear down the pages is a lost cause. It will still be full of weirdos going on with themselves in years to come. Whilst not appearing on any other thread whatsoever on the whole forum.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
France is slightly behind us on boosters, but not a right lot.

Denmark, earliest into omicron in Europe, is more boosted than we are.

Both France and Denmark are ahead of us overall on fully vaxxed.

Denmark cases are ahead even of France and still rising.

Both Denmark and France have slightly lower current death rates than us.

What can we conclude from this? Buggered if I know.

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Might be something to do with the relatively high levels of infection that we had for a few months before Omicron hit which may have produced a higher level of immunity within the general population. But I'm just speculating there.
 
For a Yank planning/hoping on coming to the UK in early April -- any sense whether the requirements to test within 48 hours after arrival will be scrapped?

I have to say that's the biggest worry I have -- negative before I go, catch it in transit, and am forced to stay in a room for 8 days of a 10 day trip.

I'm vaxxed and boosted if that makes any difference which I doubt.
 
Ignore the fact we are back over 100,000 cases again - 108,069 and deaths at 359.

Most seem to be in school children based on todays big jumps here (to over 40%) in the well presented N Ireland data. So likely elsewhere too. Over 60s - those most vulnerable - are actually down here despit the cases risingday by day.

Deaths are also down from last week then on 398

And by far the more important numbers today are in hospital

England falls below 16 K for first time since Omicron really took off - down 476 to 15.742.

That is down on last Wednesday by 1039 - first week to week fall of over 1000 since pre Omicron

Even better ventilators are down again by 28 to 586 - the first time since July 2021 it has been under 600.

During the weeks Omicron has been active in hospitals these ventilator numbers have dropped by 200 - around 30%!
 
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