COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

Delvis said:
I'm pretty much 'fine' now, dreg ends of a cold. Can't tell if my slight need to breath in deeper is new or what I used to have to do anyway sometimes prior to infection - I had x-rays and MRIs to see what was wrong around Oct 2019 and they couldn't find anything.

Line was barely there this morning so should be clear by the weekend.
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No line today.
 
felt ill last thrusday, tested positve last friday, still testing positve today :mad:
first few days just felt like a bad cold, that went then the headaches started
never experianced anything like it, stabbing pain behind eyes, light sensitive, vertigo and confusion
went to bed last night @ 5pm and up this morning at 8am
feeling a bit better today so hope im over the worst of it:)
 
mattyg said:
I keep having to bite my tongue at the " I wish we had just carried on as normal if no10 can have a party"
I'm like, Why? Do you love your family and friends less because someone else ignored the rules??
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The ones that really get me are the "we never needed a lockdown in the first place everyone would have just behaved responsibly and stayed off work" and the corresponding "scientists aren't to be trusted" which is the prevailing opinion among the more right wing newspapers
right, so the colossal numbers of deaths and hospitalisations after the (overdelayed) first lockdown never existed then, ok...
 
We're currently just short of the daily admission and total patient numbers as the January peak. Deaths are 1000+ per week.

Case numbers are down though... so we should see a reduction in the next few weeks... oh wait... no we won't...
 
ltron said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...england-getting-reinfected-with-covid-omicron
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“We are at the start of the 90-day period for possible reinfection with BA.2 following a BA.1 infection and there is a need for ongoing surveillance but there are no early indications of a specific reinfection issue with this scenario,” notes the latest UKHSA technical briefing on Covid variants. However Altmann, drawing on his own research, sounded a note of caution. “The surprising aspect is that even, say, compared to expectations from common colds, Omicron seems so poorly immunogenic that it doesn’t even stimulate good immunity to itself – something that should be noted by all those thinking they may as well go out and get infected as a ‘natural booster’,” he said.
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Great, going to be stuck in a covid loop.
 
Puzzled said:
Great, going to be stuck in a covid loop.
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Yes, that was always the problem with Johnson's strategy, or should I say the lack of one. He always refused to tackle the problem or did so far too late which means we've been spent much more time in lockdown than countries which took it seriously and acted decisively from the start.

Where is the massive investment in improving ventilation, for example, that would help keep case numbers under control and that would set us in good stead for future pandemics and even reduce the annual burden from things like flu and take the pressure off the NHS?

'Ignorance is bliss' comes to mind where Johnson is concerned.
 
thewanted said:
Is that a lot?
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Peak during the worst of it in 2020 was 382 with 65 in ICU if I'm looking at the same data. But daily admissions currently are up all over the country in most places between as high and twice as high as the peak of 2020 - however in most trusts about half of those are people who've come in for other reasons and also have COVID (previously at the peak about 80% were in because of COVID).

My local area has about 1/3rd ICU utilisation compared to similar patient numbers and similar point in the numbers timeline at the worst of 2020 but the patient numbers are building to the point they are going to be a problem - they are a bit more prepared for it than last time but still limits to what they can cope with.
 
COVID hospital admission rates for over-65s highest since early 2021
COVID-19 hospital admission rates in England for those aged 65 and over have reached their highest level since the early weeks of last year, figures show.

Patient numbers are also continuing to surge across all UK regions - though the number of people being treated for severe symptoms remains low.

Admission rates among people aged 85 and over stood at 189.2 per 100,000 people last week, up from 184.0 the previous week, while for people aged 75 to 84 it was 87.3, up from 77.0.

Both these age groups are now recording their highest admission rates since January 2021, when the second wave of the virus was at its peak.

Among 65 to 74-year-olds the rate is much lower, up from 26.3 to 28.4, but this is still the highest since the beginning of February last year.
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makes me think what the **** was the last 2 years for if we just gonna let it go to **** again

COVID news live: Free testing ends in England; second Omicron wave 'already peaked' | UK News | Sky News
 
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