Coronavirus not very megathread.

Joe said:
Its amazing how the right has gotten vaxxed. They all have but still stirred up antivaxx fervor
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Trump had it pretty brutal so not surprised he is vaxxed and boosted. Giga vaxxed... even after a strong immune response from severe infection and a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies... this is a man who remembers what blood oxygen levels in the 80s feels like.

Trump knows that at his age another bout of covid could put him back in the hospital or worse. He maybe even has some lung damage now meaning his first bout of covid could have given him a comorbidity for the second.
 
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Rygu said:
Except the reality is, omicron isn't going to result in a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaxxed, their families (are they vaxxed or not?) and the hospitals they may soon overwhelm.

It's extreme hyperbole that only room temperature IQs will find fear in reading. It's fitting that such a statement was made by the fucking white house under the Biden administration.
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It's the norm, in disease break outs/pandemic response to plan for the worst and hope for the best. This is the standard procedure across the world except in cases of rank incompetence.
 
Hospitalisation rates in Wales are 77% lower than they worse at this exact time last year. Highly impressive and highly positive figures, considering we never got over-run last winter either.
 
https://www.3aw.com.au/leading-epid...onvinced-omicron-is-less-virulent-than-delta/

A leading epidemiologist says he’s now prepared to say the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is less severe than Delta.

The University of Melbourne’s Tony Blakely told 3AW Breakfast he thought the new strain of the coronavirus was somewhere between “10 to 50 per cent” less virulent than Delta.

“I think it’s quite low on virulence,” he said.

"I’ve been tracking through all the international data – we are not seeing an up-kick in hospitalisation rates in the UK and US in the data I can pull down – and we’re not seeing an up-kick in NSW.
Now, it’s still a little bit early to say it’s really, really mild but it’s clear to me, at least, that it is less virulent.
How much less virulent? The South Africans say it’s only 10 per cent – a tenfold reduction on Delta – and the Brits are saying it might be 70 per cent.

This is a very competent group doing the analysis, but when I look closely there are a few biases in there.
I think we are somewhere between 10 and 50 per cent the virulence of Delta and I think we can actually get that virulence down even lower with boosters.

With that said, I’m not saying change our policy settings at this point in time.
Let’s wait until that period at the beginning of January to make more definitive calls, but I am optimistic and hopeful that Omicron is not going to be bad on the virulence side.
It’s certainly bad on the infectivity side – you could see a state like NSW or Victoria heading up to 10,000 and 15,000 cases a day – and at some level of cases you will stretch the health system, but it’s not going to be at the same level as Delta.”

But he responded with an unequivocal yes when asked whether masks should be worn again in all indoor settings.
 
Young Calf Kick said:
https://www.3aw.com.au/leading-epid...onvinced-omicron-is-less-virulent-than-delta/

A leading epidemiologist says he’s now prepared to say the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is less severe than Delta.

The University of Melbourne’s Tony Blakely told 3AW Breakfast he thought the new strain of the coronavirus was somewhere between “10 to 50 per cent” less virulent than Delta.

“I think it’s quite low on virulence,” he said.

"I’ve been tracking through all the international data – we are not seeing an up-kick in hospitalisation rates in the UK and US in the data I can pull down – and we’re not seeing an up-kick in NSW.
Now, it’s still a little bit early to say it’s really, really mild but it’s clear to me, at least, that it is less virulent.
How much less virulent? The South Africans say it’s only 10 per cent – a tenfold reduction on Delta – and the Brits are saying it might be 70 per cent.

This is a very competent group doing the analysis, but when I look closely there are a few biases in there.
I think we are somewhere between 10 and 50 per cent the virulence of Delta and I think we can actually get that virulence down even lower with boosters.

With that said, I’m not saying change our policy settings at this point in time.
Let’s wait until that period at the beginning of January to make more definitive calls, but I am optimistic and hopeful that Omicron is not going to be bad on the virulence side.
It’s certainly bad on the infectivity side – you could see a state like NSW or Victoria heading up to 10,000 and 15,000 cases a day – and at some level of cases you will stretch the health system, but it’s not going to be at the same level as Delta.”

But he responded with an unequivocal yes when asked whether masks should be worn again in all indoor settings.
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Now let's see this news start being spoken all across the globe. If you need to take precautions, take precautions accordingly, but enough with the fear mongering - time to move on.
 
Strychnine said:


Then: "It's a Democrat hoax!"

Now: "I got the booster"

Them : "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"


This is what happens when you politicize a healthcare issue.
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Look how uncomfortable DeSantis looks when she asked him if he got the booster
These people are too scared to admit they got the booster because they dont want to lose voters

 
SummerStriker said:
Business news is buying reports Omicron is replacing Delta. 73% of US cases are Omicron. Stock market is reacting to it.

If Omicron is worse, it will be following the 1918 schedule. 1918 flu was worse the second year it was out. Same thing here.
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EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!

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@Wadtucket on suicide watch

  • Raft of new measures announced
  • Measures include work-from-home recommendation where possible
  • Also tightens social distancing rules for public venues
  • Will take effect on Dec. 23
  • Health Agency sees infections climbing further, peaking in Jan
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TeTe said:
Keep getting boosters and keep chasing variants. When does it end? I got one shot, don't need any more.
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What you did is pointless. You might as well got nothing. Like many other shots you need the full panel to be covered.

you wasted your time.
 
jrams said:
At least you admit you're a hypocrite.
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I admit that I'm posting information pertinent to Covid in a Covid thread. If that makes you feel some kind of way, then you need to look at yourself.
 
Strychnine said:
I admit that I'm posting information pertinent to Covid in a Covid thread. If that makes you feel some kind of way, then you need to look at yourself.
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It doesn't bother me. You are just crying about the politicization of this thing while incessantly politicizing it. Seems like an easy solution to just ... stop doing that.
 
Hahahahaha!

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