COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

First time I've noticed a UK Covid article on BBC front page for a while, Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 on the up, as John Campbell mentioned recently in USA. Plenty of us under 75 now past or approaching six months since the booster.

www.bbc.co.uk

Early signs that Covid may be rising in parts of the UK

Official estimates suggest there has been a small increase in infections in England and Northern Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
I suspect the waining effect is here….we’ve been fine this year, commuting, going out blah blah got back from Holiday on Tuesday and wham, me positive on Weds and my better half today. Lines so thick on the LFT it could have been crayoned by a 3 year old. All almost exactly 6 months after our boosters.
 
CapitalOne said:
I suspect the waining effect is here….we’ve been fine this year, commuting, going out blah blah got back from Holiday on Tuesday and wham, me positive on Weds and my better half today. Lines so thick on the LFT it could have been crayoned by a 3 year old. All almost exactly 6 months after our boosters.
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Similar for me. Back holiday Thursday positive friday. Had my third jab in December
 
It felt very liberating to finally have our work (oil rig) drop the requirement for testing prior to traveling. No more masks to be worn, all restrictions lifted and we can sit next to each other in recreational areas, offices no longer have a personnel limit etc.

Unfortunately, I'm currently isolated in bed after having tested positive, it's spreading around absolutely everyone in this enclosed environment. People dropping like flies.

It's so frustrating to see there are still huge numbers of people who struggle to understand the concept of an airborne virus, choosing instead to believe that the government are trying to trick them. If Covid has taught us anything, it's that the average person in the Western world is pretty much as thick as ****.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
It's so frustrating to see there are still huge numbers of people who struggle to understand the concept of an airborne virus, choosing instead to believe that the government are trying to trick them. If Covid has taught us anything, it's that the average person in the Western world is pretty much as thick as ****.
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I think it just shows that most people don't care too much about a bad cold.
 
Anyone else picking up on the latest anti-vax conspiracy that the covid vaccination is linked to a rise in SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrom)?

One of my Facebook “friends” is a full-on antivaxer and keeps finding local news articles where young, otherwise healthy people drop down dead with heart issues, heavily implying it’s because of the vaccine — before any coroners report or cause of death has been published.

Getting recent stats on SADS is proving difficult, but it certainly appears that it was a “thing” long before Covid — including some high-profile footballers etc.

It seems to me that there is probably some recognition bias going on (in terms of picking up the stories that were probably always there, but now they can link it to the vaccine) and also the lack of published numbers for 2020/21 and early 2022 means they can use this recognition bias to claim that there has been a “spike” in cases despite not actually having any figures to back it up.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Anyone else picking up on the latest anti-vax conspiracy that the covid vaccination is linked to a rise in SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrom)?

One of my Facebook “friends” is a full-on antivaxer and keeps finding local news articles where young, otherwise healthy people drop down dead with heart issues, heavily implying it’s because of the vaccine — before any coroners report or cause of death has been published.

Getting recent stats on SADS is proving difficult, but it certainly appears that it was a “thing” long before Covid — including some high-profile footballers etc.

It seems to me that there is probably some recognition bias going on (in terms of picking up the stories that were probably always there, but now they can link it to the vaccine) and also the lack of published numbers for 2020/21 and early 2022 means they can use this recognition bias to claim that there has been a “spike” in cases despite not actually having any figures to back it up.
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I can't say what the reason is - whether COVID itself, vaccine, lifestyle changes due to the pandemic or completely unrelated, but there has definitely been an up tick recently in people suffering serious heart related conditions around here.

We have 3 people still off at work long term sick due to new heart issues - one of them it has been attributed to a mixture of likely damage due to COVID and an untreated tooth infection which apparently can cause it.
 
Rroff said:
I can't say what the reason is - whether COVID itself, vaccine, lifestyle changes due to the pandemic or completely unrelated, but there has definitely been an up tick recently in people suffering serious heart related conditions around here.

We have 3 people still off at work long term sick due to new heart issues - one of them it has been attributed to a mixture of likely damage due to COVID and an untreated tooth infection which apparently can cause it.
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I agree that anecdotally, there appears to be a rise. But we all know how reliable anecdotes are at a national/global level.

And, as you outlined, even if there has been a spike there could be other reasons for it (even covid-related reasons), without it being linked to the vaccine.
 
Irish_Tom said:
I agree that anecdotally, there appears to be a rise. But we all know how reliable anecdotes are at a national/global level.

And, as you outlined, even if there has been a spike there could be other reasons for it (even covid-related reasons), without it being linked to the vaccine.
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Anecdotal but I suspect reflected in wider trends - like with my colleague above with the whole pandemic was avoiding doctors/dentist and then struggling to get appointments to deal with a serious tooth infection which seems to have lead to a bigger problem.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Getting recent stats on SADS is proving difficult, but it certainly appears that it was a “thing” long before Covid — including some high-profile footballers etc.
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I worked on a very large factory up to 2007 and over 27 years I had four work colleagues who had their early 20 year olds just drop dead.
In two of the cases the (one son, one daughter) had been sitting with them watching TV all evening, went up to bed, one had made a loud bang on the bedroom floor and the other screamed out in teh bathroom, when they both ran upstairs both of them were dead.
No idea about the other two but I heard similar stories.
Heartbreaking for one bloke because his other son couldn't get over it and he hung himself from a railway bridge.
 
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