Coronavirus (2022) thread

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kaz7 said:
I hurt my leg , was bruised but i hobbled around on it for three days , i eventually went for an x ray and i had broken my ankle , got a right telling off for not going sooner , that was not abuse of the system but it was under your rules

There is taking the piss and there is being concerned
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But it is not a medical emergency worthy of an ambulance imo if you are able to make your own way in.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
One for @SWP's back ..

An anti-vaxxer in Birmingham who runs a funeral home (business must be booming!) has had to miss his date with Piers Corbyn due to being hospitalised.

Still, am sure the daft **** will get some sort of family discount on a coffin.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Leading anti-vaxxer misses rally after going to hospital with Covid

John O'Looney, 53, of Milton Keynes, finally conceded that coronavirus was real and serious after he was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit with it last month.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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Are you sure it's not April 1? Mr O'Looney?
 
blueinsa said:
But it is not a medical emergency worthy of an ambulance imo if you are able to make your own way in.
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Broken bones are a medical emergency as he pointed out to me and i already knew that , when i did my shoulder and the ankle both times i got a taxi to the next town ten miles away , lay people panic though , most are not trying to take the piss

Anyway we have drifted off covid
 
BlueAnorak said:
Not sure.
Not letting Delta rip on the continent from July seems to be having a major impact on current hospitalisations and deaths over there now we are in winter. Of course it may be UK boosters and possibly the large number of UK AZ vaccinations (delivering T-Cell immunity) that are also having an impact.
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You do keep on coming up with theories as to why infecting more people is a good idea.

Alas, the data doesn't seem to support you. A quick look at covid mortality (cases are skewed by testing).

I've not checked everywhere, but here's covid deaths since July for the most populous Western European countries, plus Denmark, which has controlled infection very well, so will likely have a lower historic natural infection rate than any of these.

Whilst several had periods worse than the UK, we suffered more deaths per capita through the period from July last year to now than any of them. Only Germany (with high unvaxxed older age group) comes close.

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Current death rates are between ~1 and three per million per day in this group of countries with the UK at ~2: we're lower mid table.

Try as you might, it's very hard to translate "more people dying in the uk" to your preferred narrative. But perhaps you have some facts to back it up?
 
Hope the media do not misreport the 334 deaths today (England hospitals reported 5 days of data).

Cases 194.747 only modestly up on day and week to week.

A lot of signs of flatlining.

Most worrying is the rise in Care Home outbreaks in Northern Ireland over Christmas which I have been flagging up on the data thread for a few days, Rocketed in the past two weeks from 44 Christmas Eve to 168 today.

Positive cases in the over 60s are escalating there now largely as a result I supect.

Some MP needs to be asking if this has occurred in the other 3 nations too this past 2 weeks.

This will test the vaccine boosters and if the milder variant will hold up in the most vulnerable.
 
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Churchlawtonblue said:
It will also reduce isolation times, as currently you have to start your isolation after the result of your pcr. which could take 2 or 3 days to take and get your result after you have done a lft.
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It’s a actually from the day your symptoms started not the date of your PCR result so shouldn’t make any difference.
 
Healdplace said:
Hope the media do not misreport the 334 deaths today (England hospitals reported 5 days of data).

Cases 194.747 only modestly up on day and week to week.

A lot of signs of flatening.

Most worrying is the rise in Care Home outbreaks in Northern Ireland over Christmas, Rocketed in the past two weeks from 44 Christmas Eve to 168 today.

Positive cases in the over 60s are escalating fast now largely as a result I supect.

Some MP needs to be asking if this has occurred in the other 3 nations too this past 2 weeks.

This will test the vaccine boosters and if the milder vatiant will hold up in the most vulnerable.
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Oh they well for sure, the BBC cant help themselves. it would seem there are hardly any decent journalists in that organisation anymore.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Oh they well for sure, the BBC cant help themselves. it would seem there are hardly any decent journalists in that organisation anymore.
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The UK has recorded 194,747 new daily coronavirus cases and a further 334 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, the government's dashboard shows.

A message on the dashboard says today's death figures include a backlog of hospital deaths reported overnight by NHS England covering the period 1 - 4 january


The number of deaths - the highest reported since 2 March - includes a backlog of some data from NHS England stretching back to New Year's Day

news.sky.com

COVID: Another 194,747 daily coronavirus cases and 334 deaths reported in UK

The number of deaths - the highest reported since 2 March - includes a backlog of some data from NHS England stretching back to New Year's Day
news.sky.com news.sky.com

The continious bashing of the media is tiresome
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Here's how it's reported on BBC feed.

What exactly is wrong with this?

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Haha, I know you like to argue with people on this forum but lets see what they use for the headline on the tv and radio news shall we? They have form for this, are you implying they don't based on one extract from their website.
 
kaz7 said:
The UK has recorded 194,747 new daily coronavirus cases and a further 334 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, the government's dashboard shows.

A message on the dashboard says today's death figures include a backlog of hospital deaths reported overnight by NHS England covering the period 1 - 4 january


The number of deaths - the highest reported since 2 March - includes a backlog of some data from NHS England stretching back to New Year's Day

news.sky.com

COVID: Another 194,747 daily coronavirus cases and 334 deaths reported in UK

The number of deaths - the highest reported since 2 March - includes a backlog of some data from NHS England stretching back to New Year's Day
news.sky.com news.sky.com

The continious bashing of the media is tiresome
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No its not, they are truly awful, the way they report the data is particularly poor, the questions they ask at the news briefings are appalling with little substance.
 
kaz7 said:
Broken bones are a medical emergency as he pointed out to me and i already knew that , when i did my shoulder and the ankle both times i got a taxi to the next town ten miles away , lay people panic though , most are not trying to take the piss

Anyway we have drifted off covid
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Doctors often send people to A&E under their own steam, quite a few people needing A&E before being admitted to a ward arrive without ambulance.
 
In very good news, it is looking increasingly definitive that the link from hospitalizations to ICU admissions is broken.

Across the country and even in London, ahead of the curve, ICU occupancy remains static in the face of rapidly rising overall occupancy.

What combination of improved treatments, less severe variant, more prior immunity, more incidental admissions is driving this, I could only speculate. Probably a bit of everything?

Let's hope it continues as infections move into the older population, as they seem to be doing.

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roubaixtuesday said:
In very good news, it is looking increasingly definitive that the link from hospitalizations to ICU admissions is broken.

Across the country and even in London, ahead of the curve, ICU occupancy remains static in the face of rapidly rising overall occupancy.

What combination of improved treatments, less severe variant, more prior immunity, more incidental admissions is driving this, I could only speculate. Probably a bit of everything?

Let's hope it continues as infections move into the older population, as they seem to be doing.

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Quelle surprise ;)
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Haha, I know you like to argue with people on this forum but lets see what they use for the headline on the tv and radio news shall we? They have form for this, are you implying they don't based on one extract from their website.
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Right. So you're complaining about them despite them reporting it exactly as you'd like them to. And you didn't even bother to look before whinging about them.

Your conclusion: I'm the one who likes arguing!
 
roubaixtuesday said:
You do keep on coming up with theories as to why infecting more people is a good idea.

Alas, the data doesn't seem to support you. A quick look at covid mortality (cases are skewed by testing).

I've not checked everywhere, but here's covid deaths since July for the most populous Western European countries, plus Denmark, which has controlled infection very well, so will likely have a lower historic natural infection rate than any of these.

Whilst several had periods worse than the UK, we suffered more deaths per capita through the period from July last year to now than any of them. Only Germany (with high unvaxxed older age group) comes close.

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Current death rates are between ~1 and three per million per day in this group of countries with the UK at ~2: we're lower mid table.

Try as you might, it's very hard to translate "more people dying in the uk" to your preferred narrative. But perhaps you have some facts to back it up?
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Wouldn’t the CFR be a key metric in this discussion?
 
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