Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

That reminds me, need to pay for IMechE membership for '22

I remember poring over RS catalogues from the early 80s when they were under a hundred pages long. Sad child.

The fuck has happened to this thread.

What about Maplin?

Tandy

Radio Rentals.

Is Rumbelows still going? I feel old.

106,000 cases today.

It said 125k on radio.

I'm afraid I can't help you with that.

Maybe there was a bunch of backdated cases added on. But by reporting date, 106k is correct.

Test positivity still climbing. I still think there's a bottleneck in the test network which is masking the true growth. I have no evidence. I stand to be proven wrong.

More ominously, hospital admissions in London are up 78% over the last 7 days.

I think maybe I miss heard to be honest.

More ominously, hospital admissions in London are up 78% over the last 7 days.

Yep, 301 admissions on the 20th and apparently 400 is the level they are looking for to trigger further restrictions, so only a 33% increase from here, doesn't seem impossible

Just remember that the magic graph represents the average kind of case.

There are plenty of people who are positive (both LFD which means infectious, and PCR which means lingering infection) for longer than those example periods.

LFD which means infectious

Except when it doesn't...

Three months later I have managed what I'd call a negative LFT but there is still a very very very faint line if you stare at it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/risk-of-hospital-stay-40-lower-with-omicron-than-delta-uk-data-suggests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Some potential good news... however if omicron spreads and keeps reinfecting people quickly then the 15-40% lower risk on hospital admissions won't do much.

Friend and her housemate got it at the same time. Friend after 9 days has been negative two days in a row and no symptoms her housemate still positive and feeling ropey and has burst blood vessels in his eyes from coughing so much. luckily she didn't pass it to me even though she stayed over the night before she tested positive. What a weird virus.

What about Maplin?

Preach. I used to know the Maplin catalogue pretty much off by heart.

Luxembourg has walk-in booster places in common shopping areas at the moment so I got to line up for mine alongside people lining up for the latest hype trainers. No after affects from the jab except a slightly sore arm. Each dose has been a different manufacturer though so I've got AZ, Pfizer and Moderna sloshing around in my veins.

Correct.. my now deleted post was bollocks. Went for a fag after posting and realised it was shite.

Mini_com's childminder rang last night to say that she has tested positive. So no childcare for us today and would have kiboshed our trip to my folks anyway if we hadn't have decided to stay put. Three negative LFTs today, but will keep doing them every day for at least the next few days to be sure.

My friend and colleague has been in hospital in Zimbabwe with a serious illness for the last couple of weeks. He developed non Covid pneumonia last week and has been diagnosed with Covid today. Miserable.

Magic??

So, latest news on severity.

Intrinsic Omicron severity appears to be about the same, or maybe slightly less severe than Delta.

Observed severity is lower than Delta, due to high levels of reinfection and effects of vaccines and nautral immunity. Depending on the individual, Omicron is anything up to 40% less severe in terms of hospital admissions.

However, the data at this point does not indicate that Omicron is less severe enough to avoid the NHS potentially being overwhelmed.

In the words of Deepti Gurdasani:

For a variant half as severe as delta, doubling in 2 days would mean
the same level of overall hospitalisations just in 2 days due to the
large numbers infected.

Its very good news, but not great news.

^ Don't agree with that statement.

Doesn't make any sense imo.

Not as severe.

Is not as severe.

No matter how many times u get it imo.

Not as severe but more people get it = more bad