Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

Not really a surprise tbh

COVID-19: Two cases of Omicron variant detected in UK - with targeted testing to be rolled out in affected areas

Sajid Javid says the detection of two cases of the latest World Health Organisation variant of concern illustrates the urgent need for people to get vaccinated.

t.co

 

[efcfanwirral]

Not really a surprise tbh

COVID-19: Two cases of Omicron variant detected in UK - with targeted testing to be rolled out in affected areas

Sajid Javid says the detection of two cases of the latest World Health Organisation variant of concern illustrates the urgent need for people to get vaccinated.

t.co

Plan B soon? Because vaccine passports will make all the difference with, err, a potentially vaccine evading variant

 

[LinekersLegs]

Plan B soon? Because vaccine passports will make all the difference with, err, a potentially vaccine evading variant

Personally think woiuld take a lot for UK government to go plan B, although some elements, like masking or WFH, would presumably have an impact even with a variant that was more vaccine resistant.

In the next week or so we’ll find out transmission rates and severity compared to Delta.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[coollino]

Plan B soon? Because vaccine passports will make all the difference with, err, a potentially vaccine evading variant

Well if it turns out loads of people already have it clearly isn't changing the UK rates much at all

 

[Toast]

Cancel Christmas…

Covid: Two cases of new variant Omicron detected in UK

Two people in the UK have been found to be infected with the new Covid variant, Omicron, the health secretary says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Never in doubt

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Think I'll go for a few jars this afternoon before the pubs lockdown.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[efcfanwirral]

Just not at the obscene and exploitative prices by those dodgy companies who likely have friends in high places

 

[tsubaki]

Just not at the obscene and exploitative prices by those dodgy companies who likely have friends in high places

The day two and eight tests were that.

 

[BlueToff]

There is a crazy obsession with headlines. Read the actual articles and they do more often than not report the actual story. Obviously opinion pieces are different but general news articles do tend to represent the facts. Some people just want to get wound up by stuff

Yeah but, and I mean I do this for a living, a lot of people don't read past the headline, or a single tweet.

This is why getting all the facts into that first paragraph or two is vital. Whether you're writing a match report, covering a news conference or covering the latest COVID restrictions.

 

[BlueToff]

Plan B soon? Because vaccine passports will make all the difference with, err, a potentially vaccine evading variant

Why is this one 'potentially vaccine ending'?

There's not one variant so far that has been immune to the vaccines. And there almost certainly won't be. Plus, you've got loads of people (isn't it like forecasted that 70% or something of over 16s in the UK) who have had COVID now.

 

[coollino]

Oh