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

Lets agree to dissagree.

Truly horrific. 9 members jeez.

That’s awful.

Don’t want to rudely change the subject, but any anecdata about having a sore tongue during a covid infection? I utfsf but no dice. (Update - Found covid tongue vía google. Swollen and or spotty tongue might be related to covid, but could also be other diseases)

The video of the military trucks stuck with me.

Is there a list of omicron symptoms from a decent source anywhere?

Talking to a friend who worked a lot in India before the pandemic. Something crazy like 50-60% of the people in the office there lost close members of family; often multiples (not dissimilar to @rodan and their experience).

It's easy, a year on from the start of vaccination programmes to forget how March/April 2020 looked in Europe and how the same has happened all over the world since. Those first 4-5 weeks of the lockdown seem totally batshit when you look back; TV pictures straight out of a Hollywood movie and people having no idea about transmission so washing anything that came into the house, changing clothes in their front hallways to avoid bringing covid inside etc.

The vaccine may not be perfect, but we're not all locked down in our homes wondering if we're going to kill ourselves or a loved one just by popping to the shops any more. Might be nice if we can give that "gift" to less fortunate nations (not that you're saying we shouldn't).

Zoe (covid study)

People’s view on measures now, compared to how it was in March and April 2020 are interesting.

Back then:
1 person from the household doing a weekly shop, changing clothes, showering, and then disinfecting the food packaging.
Everyone cooped up inside, or in the garden of you’re lucky, watching Joe Wicks doing his thing while eating defrosted toast.

Now:
Being upset at having to wear a mask at a kid’s soft play party.

sourdough baking - not sourdough baking.

So can we call it a significant trend away from the LSHTM model?

At the risk of being accused of fat shaming, being overweight or obese is still the most common co-morbidity in people admitted to ICU and needing ventilator support within 24h. (80%). And that's in the UK where ICU isn't at capacity.

hardly surprising when 63% of the population are overweight/obese.

I’ve just come across this story for the first time:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59929638

I don’t really know what to say about it, other than the world is very complex.

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So I didn't escape this shitstorm after all and caught covid last week (turns out there were about 20 positive persons on the plane that we took home).
It's a weird illness. I had fever for two non-consecutive days, and now pretty much the only symptoms I have are a cracked voice and both my thighs feel sore, like I'm stuck in a vice - but not always, sometimes it goes away for half an hour and comes back again. Strange shit, not pleasant. Hope it passes soon.

You obviously don't use Twitter, the last couple of days since that story, my timeline was full of NHS Doctors, Consultants and other staff all saying they are triple jabbed, their family are jabbed and they support it, was a concerted campaign to push back against this individual

You obviously don't use Twitter

I try not to

Agree that we seem to have forgotten that 'fear' and become belligerent. We have forgotten how lucky we were.

Might be nice if we can give that "gift" to less fortunate nations (not that you're saying we shouldn't).

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Don't know of any other way to help, but fear that 'we' will monetise the vaccines.

I wish the health secretary or a journalist has asked "What if you don't have antibodies anymore? Would you also not have a vaccination in that case?"

Highest daily death count since February last year. 379.

Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

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Nearly 400 mark today.

the 'by date of death' is less dramatic, certainly trending up but unsure if its due to reporting lags?

fingers crossed that is the worst of it

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the 'by date of death' is less dramatic, certainly trending up but unsure if its due to reporting lags?

Yes, look back in 4-5 days as it takes that long for (from memory) ~90% of the deaths to have been recorded by then (even longer around bank holidays). Some deaths take up to 30 days to appear, but that's usually only a very few.

The fact that this graph is already starting to trend up (even with this lag) is concerning.

Whole family (me, wife and son) positive. None of us too bad at the moment. Hooray for vaccines!

We had covid from the 16th to the 25th of December. Booster is booked for the 15th of Jan (our last doses were July). We're going to Australia from the 18th of Jan to the 9th of Feb.

We're four weeks from first symptoms, so think booster is ok. Is there any downside to getting it before we go? Feeling like shit on the plane? Can we delay until Feb relying on natural immunity from the infection in December?