Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Hopefully they just have mild symptoms or asymptotic and these two travelers‘ infectiousness are just a statistical quirk.

Look at the tweets she is retweeting



Not to mention she joined Twitter only eight months ago and has less than 2K followers.
 
Look at the tweets she is retweeting



Not to mention she joined Twitter only eight months ago and has less than 2K followers.

But the details were in the Reuters article she linked that were quoting a public health physician. I would be utterly delighted if it was fake news or that it was misinterpreted mind.

“The outbreak took place at a Christmas party on Nov. 26 organised by renewable energy company Scatec , which has operations in South Africa where the variant was first detected.

"This party has been a super spreader event," Preben Aavitsland, a senior physician at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, told Reuters by email.

"Our working hypothesis is that at least half of the 120 participants were infected with the Omicron variant during the party. This makes this, for now, the largest Omicron outbreak outside South Africa."
 
But the details were in the Reuters article she linked that were quoting a public health physician. I would be utterly delighted if it was fake news or that it was misinterpreted mind.

“The outbreak took place at a Christmas party on Nov. 26 organised by renewable energy company Scatec , which has operations in South Africa where the variant was first detected.

"This party has been a super spreader event," Preben Aavitsland, a senior physician at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, told Reuters by email.

"Our working hypothesis is that at least half of the 120 participants were infected with the Omicron variant during the party. This makes this, for now, the largest Omicron outbreak outside South Africa."
Wasn't saying it is fake or not, but hers is not a credible account at all.
 
Wasn't saying it is fake or not, but hers is not a credible account at all.
I used her tweets because they were a quick (and on my reading an accurate) summary of the Reuters article that was easier to post than copying and pasting that article after I read it. I did not look at any of the other tweets on the account.

In the future I will try not to take that shortcut and will link the article directly for accounts I am not familiar with for the avoidance of all confusion.
 
How? The vaccines aren't stopping infection.. close the schools? That's lockdown as parents have to stay home if the children are there, and then the vunerable are being locked down anyway.

If you reduce overall infection in one cohort, you break the chain of infection, one hand feeds the other, it’s systemic.

Everyone always jumps to extreme, I didn’t suggest closing schools, I suggested them finishing for Xmas break earlier and going back later. That would dampen down the chain at the mid point in winter, a circuit break for the younger cohort. At the same time the vaccine rollout for under 22 begins and I don’t think proper ventilation is out the question to provide given what we are spending on Covid. Three things that could happen that would dampen the raging fire we are seeing in children and secondary infection and break the chain.
 
If you reduce overall infection in one cohort, you break the chain of infection, one hand feeds the other, it’s systemic.

Everyone always jumps to extreme, I didn’t suggest closing schools, I suggested them finishing for Xmas break earlier and going back later. That would dampen down the chain at the mid point in winter, a circuit break for the younger cohort. At the same time the vaccine rollout for under 22 begins and I don’t think proper ventilation is out the question to provide given what we are spending on Covid. Three things that could happen that would dampen the raging fire we are seeing in children and secondary infection and break the chain.
If they close schools early for Christmas then they won't reopen for months so any suggestion of that is a non runner, you know full well if they close on say the Friday before they are due to close then come the end of the holidays you'll have Tony the ego Hohohan on a semi telling the government that they need to stay closed as case numbers are too high..
 
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