Coronavirus

Perun said:
I infected my parents, who are both high risk group. They had recently been boostered and I know their state of health. With the booster, worst that happened was that they had to lie down for a few days. Without the booster, I'm dead certain they would have been hooked to a ventilator.
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It's certain it helped.

I might've told this story before. Old couple, grandma/grandpa, are frightened by both vaccines and the pandemic. They decide to permanently self isolate. This works for about a year, and then someone comes from telco to replace a router, they both get it and die.

When I heard that I just hoped that the telco guy does not know what happened.
Imagine if it were somebody from the family...they'd surely know, or at least presume.

GhostofCain said:
The effectiveness of the Pfizer booster against Covid-19 in my household has turned out to be 0%...
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How?

For 0% that would mean entire household had it pre-booster with bearable impact, and post booster everyone got it again but this time with graver consequences on health.
 
So the UK is gonna drop restrictions due to falling cases. Well, more of my friends have had it lately than at any time previously and the tracing app and government website would not accept my recent positive test result and one other friends positive result. Anecdotal, I know, but its what I have seen.
 
Zare said:
For 0% that would mean entire household had it pre-booster with bearable impact, and post booster everyone got it again but this time with graver consequences on health.
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I was just joking using the assumption that 100% effectiveness (efficacy being the term used in clinical trials and effectiveness to measure how vaccines work in the real world) would mean that the jab stops everyone catching the virus (isn't that the point of a vaccine, anyway? :D). Based on the sample size available in my household that efficacy got down to 50% last week and now stands at 0% (i.e., 100% of the vaccinated individuals at home have caught the virus, which is funnily enough the same percentage of unvaccinated individuals who have caught the virus).
 
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Niall Kielt said:
So the UK is gonna drop restrictions due to falling cases. Well, more of my friends have had it lately than at any time previously and the tracing app and government website would not accept my recent positive test result and one other friends positive result. Anecdotal, I know, but its what I have seen.
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If cases are falling how are the hospital numbers looking?
 
Hospital numbers are dropping, but still look high. 100-200 deaths a day is still freaky.

As ever, though, I think one of the best commentators on Covid in the UK is the doctor who writes this blog. And he's quite confident.
 
Brigantium said:
Hospital numbers are dropping, but still look high. 100-200 deaths a day is still freaky.

As ever, though, I think one of the best commentators on Covid in the UK is the doctor who writes this blog. And he's quite confident.
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Ending free testing is frankly idiotic though, even by Boris Johnson’s standards.
 
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Hospitalizations in Ottawa are well down now. The peak of Ottawans in hospital for COVID was lower this time, now down to 11. We have one of the highest vaccinated cities in the country and we're one of the only ones where the Omicron peak was lower than the Delta peak. No coincidence there, I believe.

Having been boosted on Thursday, I'm really looking forward to getting back to doing things again, at least in a cautious methodology.
 
Brigantium said:
Hospital numbers are dropping, but still look high. 100-200 deaths a day is still freaky.

As ever, though, I think one of the best commentators on Covid in the UK is the doctor who writes this blog. And he's quite confident.
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Nice read. Seems quite similar to how it's been over here.

Btw I think I have fallen victim to covid now. Had a fever for about 10 hours last tuesday and I have had a very mild cold since thursday evening. Oddly enough I was completely fine on wednesday.
 
GhostofCain said:
Ending free testing is frankly idiotic though, even by Boris Johnson’s standards.
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Yeah. They're not replacing this with 'it's in your hands now, public/employers', it's whitewashing the existence of covid. Nothing to do with supposed freedoms, everything to do with being pissed off that their original opinion of 'covid is totally harmless in the first world and the snowflakes are overreacting - we had TB and polio in my day' was totally wrong.

Back to the old policy of highlighting that any spending they don't like is grossly excessive, while not mentioning the money being thrown at causes and perks they support.
 
Brigantium said:
Yeah. They're not replacing this with 'it's in your hands now, public/employers', it's whitewashing the existence of covid. Nothing to do with supposed freedoms, everything to do with being pissed off that their original opinion of 'covid is totally harmless in the first world and the snowflakes are overreacting - we had TB and polio in my day' was totally wrong.

Back to the old policy of highlighting that any spending they don't like is grossly excessive, while not mentioning the money being thrown at causes and perks they support.
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Spot on. Furthermore, removing free testing would drastically reduce the number of cases being detected, which to a luminary like Boris Johnson would equal to "We have won the war against the virus under my statesmanship".

It makes me feel sick with anger.
 
GhostofCain said:
One could say that a country with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister probably cannot take the moral high ground with any other.
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Poto said:
Nice read. Seems quite similar to how it's been over here.

Btw I think I have fallen victim to covid now. Had a fever for about 10 hours last tuesday and I have had a very mild cold since thursday evening. Oddly enough I was completely fine on wednesday.
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Positive!

Was really only a question of when, not if. Seems like everyone is getting covid recently. The actual numbers in Norway have to be extremely high. Far higher than what gets reported. 430,000 positive selftests were reported in on February 16th that weren't confirmed with PCR tests. 279,000 of those were from February 1st, the rest from late January.

The official number in Norway is 1,176,325. We reached 400,000 on January 3rd. Meaning over 700,000 cases since then. Add the 430,000 and it's over one million in seven weeks. And I am sure it's even higher. I am gonna take a guess that we are reaching the peak this week or maybe next.
 
Poto said:
Positive!

Was really only a question of when, not if. Seems like everyone is getting covid recently. The actual numbers in Norway have to be extremely high. Far higher than what gets reported. 430,000 positive selftests were reported in on February 16th that weren't confirmed with PCR tests. 279,000 of those were from February 1st, the rest from late January.

The official number in Norway is 1,176,325. We reached 400,000 on January 3rd. Meaning over 700,000 cases since then. Add the 430,000 and it's over one million in seven weeks. And I am sure it's even higher. I am gonna take a guess that we are reaching the peak this week or maybe next.
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Sorry to hear that. I hope it is a mild case like mine. :)

Number of infections are quite possibly much higher. If you do not test enough people, then it is highly unlikely you will be able to find they have Covid-19.

Some interesting data about this comparing the number of cases reported in some countries (including yours and mine) and the number of tests performed in those same countries (data expressed relative to the population).



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