Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

Rate of admissions slowing is encouraging.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Reckon Novavax will ever come in? Would help hesitancy and I'd much prefer it for the future ones. Will we just approve it and never see it though? We seem to be relying on regular mrna jabs

Hoping for further approval next week

WHO and EMA could approve Novavax Covid vaccine next week

US drugmaker ‘confident’ as health bodies signal decisions on the horizon

www.ft.com

Agree it would help with hesitancy, particularly in those who have yet to have even one shot.

Whether it would be available in UK/US anytime soon is more up in the air - tbh it would be good if it was primarily used for Covax as we’d get more equitable global levels of vaccination.

 

[Amw79]

Only anecdotal, but starting to hear about quite a few people testing positive now.

Missus went to Xmas party on Friday and over half of them (about 15 or so) all now positive. She’s under the weather, but testing negative for lateral flow, and has just gone for PCR.

I get daily numbers in my work for people off with Covid, and it’s been a steadily increasing flow all this week.

So the missus has had positive PCR now. She’s under the weather, but has had booster so hopefully will be mild.

Funnily enough I had my booster on Sunday just gone, and believe that it takes a week for the antibody response, so having been exposed to the virus now via my missus for the past few days, feels like a race between the booster response and the virus to see how it will affect me, if indeed I have been infected. An interesting little science experiment nonetheless.

 

[LinekersLegs]

So the missus has had positive PCR now. She’s under the weather, but has had booster so hopefully will be mild.

Funnily enough I had my booster on Sunday just gone, and believe that it takes a week for the antibody response, so having been exposed to the virus now via my missus for the past few days, feels like a race between the booster response and the virus to see how it will affect me, if indeed I have been infected. An interesting little science experiment nonetheless.

Wishing your wife a swift recovery and that you end up being the control arm in your science experiment x

 

[LinekersLegs]

New UKHSA Omicron update

 

[summerisle]

 

[maccavennie]

So the missus has had positive PCR now. She’s under the weather, but has had booster so hopefully will be mild.

Funnily enough I had my booster on Sunday just gone, and believe that it takes a week for the antibody response, so having been exposed to the virus now via my missus for the past few days, feels like a race between the booster response and the virus to see how it will affect me, if indeed I have been infected. An interesting little science experiment nonetheless.

Hope the missus feels better soon and you manage to avoid getting it.

 

[MikeH72]

We were on 146 deaths yesterday weren’t we?

 

[maccavennie]

93, 045 cases eh.

PL players and staff probably account for 87,335 of them.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Surprised it's still below 100,000. 1.6m tests done yesterday which is quite a lot. I don't know why people are looking at the confirmed new variant numbers because they're miles off. It's much much higher than 3000 or whatever they are reporting.

 

[Amw79]

Hope the missus feels better soon and you manage to avoid getting it.

Indeed. Thanks mac. Kind of goes to show ya though, people getting upset about Whitty saying to prioritise your social interactions, it’s just a sensible approach really.

You just don’t wanna get sick over Xmas do ya. Even if it’s mild and all that, no-one wants to spend Xmas sick, or have to cancel plans with family cos someone’s not well, even If it is mild.

 

[maccavennie]

Indeed. Thanks mac. Kind of goes to show ya though, people getting upset about Whitty saying to prioritise your social interactions, it’s just a sensible approach really.

You just don’t wanna get sick over Xmas do ya. Even if it’s mild and all that, no-one wants to spend Xmas sick, or have to cancel plans with family cos someone’s not well, even If it is mild.

100% mate.

 

[grandjoeblue]

We were on 146 deaths yesterday weren’t we?

Deaths aren't increasing yet, total hospitalisations have been sitting at around 7500 for about a month but with cases rising by 40% in one week you would assume hospitalisations will start to rise.

 

[MikeH72]

Deaths aren't increasing yet, total hospitalisations have been sitting at around 7500 for about a month but with cases rising by 40% in one week you would assume hospitalisations will start to rise.

Yeah this is usually the case in the depths of winter.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Anti-Vax RFK Jr.’s House Party Guests Told to Get Vaccinated

When asked about the apparent hypocrisy at his festive gathering, RFK Jr. blamed his wife.

www.thedailybeast.com

An invitation for a holiday party at the home of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—one of America’s most notorious anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists—reportedly urged guests to get tested or vaccinated for coronavirus before they came inside his house. Politico reports Kennedy held a holiday gathering at his home in California last week, and virtual invites told attendees to take the same precautions that Kennedy has spent the pandemic attempting to undermine for enormous financial gain. When Politico asked him about the apparent hypocrisy at his shindig, Kennedy blamed his wife—Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines. “I guess I’m not always the boss at my own house,” Kennedy told Politico’s Daniel Lippman. He added that tests and vaccines statuses weren’t checked at the door. Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group, the Children’s Health Defense, more than doubled its revenue in 2020 to $6.8 million, according to an AP investigation.