The Coronavirus Thread

[Tero]

Flurona is here.
(CNN)Israel's first known case of a person infected with Covid-19 and the flu has been detected, the country's Ministry of Health confirmed to CNN on Tuesday, raising questions over how the two viruses might impact someone who contracts them at the same time.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/f ... m=news_tab

[Tero]

I predict US cases will run around 800 000 to 1 million a day for a week. Then in 2 weeks it will decrease. By the end of Jan the trend will be clear.

[Sean Hayden]

My youngest tested positive last week. Everyone feels fine and tested negative yesterday.

I hope this is the typical experience for the vaccinated and boosted.

[JimC]

Guess the next strain will be the Pi-variant.


Hmmm. Pi...

That's irrational, Brian...

[Tero]

There are about 1000 infected people walking around in town. I'm surprized they bother to get tested anymore.

"The Nebraska Public Health Laboratory reported that 77% of positive tests it sequenced Monday were caused by omicron."

[Hermit]

Ouch!



There is a 2 - 3 offset between infection and death, so the following graph will get worse, but not nearly as bad as it would get if the Omicron strain resulted in the same fatality rate as the strain that hit us in July/August 2020.

[macdoc]

By comparison 35k is less than 1/2 of what is REPORTED in NYC alone> - Keep things in perspective.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/01 ... cine-tests

Queensland is struggling with cases and one 80 yr old died ...upto 8 total deaths and I'd beleive these case numbers over NYC

Queensland has recorded 10,332 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, and its first death related to the current outbreak.

A man in his early 80s who had been treated in hospital for other conditions died on December 27 has been confirmed as a COVID-related death by the coroner.

[Hermit]

By comparison 35k is less than 1/2 of what is REPORTED in NYC alone> - Keep things in perspective.

Never mind what happens in New York. I live in Australia. The perspective of what is happening here now compared to what happened in the previous two years is what matters to me.

[Galaxian]

http://eurofolkradio.com/wp-content/upl ... atbelt.png

https://davidicke.com/wp-content/upload ... MAGE-1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT5HsnOBGKE


Tucker's sarcasm is well placed, since he sees that the United States is now an effete has-been nation that's governed & peopled by pansies who cannot even think clearly. And generation by generation they become more feeble physically & mentally. In case of war...that the US & NATO is desperately trying to foment... the USA & Western Europe would not stand a chance!

[rainbow]

Tucker's sarcasm is well placed,...

No, not really.

He is genuinely as stupid as he looks, but slightly less stupid than his viewers, which makes him dangerous.

[Brian Peacock]

...
Tucker's sarcasm is well placed, since he sees that the United States is now an effete has-been nation that's governed & peopled by pansies who cannot even think clearly. And generation by generation they become more feeble physically & mentally. In case of war...that the US & NATO is desperately trying to foment... the USA & Western Europe would not stand a chance!

STOP PRESS: Old man bemoans the youth.

In other news, water is still wet - pictures at eleven.

[Brian Peacock]

Uh-oh. Bird flu is back!




(-ish)

[laklak]

Sister and brother in law have omicron, sister has minor cold symptoms, b-i-l is asymptomatic.

[Tero]

One of these doctors has been on MSNBC (liberal) every month. They have a cheap vaccine.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandso ... me-changer

[Brian Peacock]

First Covid wave raised UK adult risk of death by 40%, study finds

Britain’s first wave of coronavirus raised the risk of death by more than 40% for most adults regardless of their underlying health and other factors, research suggests.

Scientists examined medical records for nearly 10 million people aged 40 and over and found that, whatever a person’s risk of dying before the pandemic, it rose 1.43 times on average as the virus spread between March and May 2020.

The finding means that Covid amplified people’s pre-existing risks by a similar amount, leading those most vulnerable before the pandemic to bear the brunt of the deaths.

“Covid-19 seems to have multiplied the death rate by a similar amount for most adults in the UK,” said Dr Helen Strongman, an epidemiologist on the study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “It really exploits any frailty or health or demographic risk factor. It picks on people who are already at risk of ill health or death more than other people in the population.”

The researchers compared relative rates of all-cause mortality before and during the first wave, taking into account the impact of 50 different medical conditions and other characteristics, such as where people lived, their body mass index and ethnicity.

While the first wave of Covid multiplied the risk of death by a similar amount for most people, there were stark exceptions. Mortality rates for those with dementia and learning disabilities rose from three times higher than background levels to five times higher. Meanwhile, the death rates for people of colour and people living in London, which were lower than those of white people and people living outside the capital respectively before the pandemic, increased during the first wave...