Yesterday.
Sky News.
UK Health Minister Gillian Keegan tells Sky’s Kay Burley how many omicron deaths have been recorded in Britain.
Omicrone.
Lockdown!!
Exceptional concern’ expressed over Omicron spread (RTE)
Earlier: Cruel And Unusual.
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Ghislaine looks well.
with omicron, not from.
still, any excuse for daytime drinking.
hic.
scone vs scone, omicon vs omicron
Meanwhile South Africa continues as normal with no extra restrictions and some of the lowest death rates since their pandemic began.
It makes you wonder if omicron is not just an excuse for further restrictions, rather than a reason.
So South Africa not adding restrictions is proof that omicron is an excuse for adding restrictions. Good stuff. Big logic.
No Nigel. The low death rate in the country is evidence of the not so deadly nature of the virus. How long since the first omicron case detected on SA?
“omicron is mild” is 2021 equivalent of “it’s just the flu” of 2020.
The low deat rate… so far.
Imperial College study finds Omicron could be just as severe as Delta
The Omicron coronavirus variant could be just as severe as the Delta strain, according to early findings from researchers at Imperial College London, in a study which also highlighted the elevated risk of reinfection posed by the new variant and the need for booster shots to combat it.
“The study finds no evidence of Omicron having lower severity than Delta, judged by either the proportion of people testing positive who report symptoms, or by the proportion of cases seeking hospital care after infection,” said the research team, led by Professor Neil Ferguson, an infectious disease modeller and government science adviser.
However, they cautioned that hospitalisation data “remains very limited at this time”. The study said data suggested “at most limited changes in severity compared with Delta”.
The early findings could dash the hopes of some experts that a change in the virulence of the new variant would ease the pressure on health systems despite Omicron’s high levels of infectiousness.
Professor Azra Ghani, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London and one of the study’s authors, stressed the “uncertainty” surrounding whether or not Omicron is less severe than previous strains.
“Whilst it may take several weeks to fully understand this, governments will need to put in place plans now to mitigate any potential impact,” she said, adding that the results demonstrated “the importance of delivering booster doses as part of the wider public health response”.
https://www.ft.com/content/48931667-cbb5-481d-acef-b2263bb74f80
said the research team, led by Professor Neil Ferguson, an infectious disease modeller and government science adviser.
LOL.
Naive of me to expect anything approaching a sensible debate on this website, but omicron variant is new. People take time to get sick enough that they require hospital, or oxygen, or are admitted to ICU. Ultimately, some of those people won’t make it out of ICU alive. That takes weeks.
The fact that one person so far is already dead from a variant that wasn’t even named 3 weeks ago and is not yet the dominant variant in the UK (a very highly vaccinated country) is nothing to celebrate.
No, its been around since July, when it was first sequenced in S.Africa. It’s mild – rarely requiring hospitalisation.
died with the variant, not from. she says it in the video above.
Everyone who has vulnerabilities, disabilites: haha, yeah, cool, no problem.
There are 400 people in hospital.
There are 100 people in ICU being used to call the shots (literally) for the rest of us.
70% of the people who died last week in hospital with Covid died with underlying conditions – co-morbidity.
If 50% are unvaccinated, and 50% vaccinated, then 70% of that 200 or the 100 means 140 people in hospital, or about 50 people in ICU are deciding this country’s fate because they are old, fat, congenitally disabled, or addicts. That is just plain effing wrong. Sorry for your troubles, but forget it.
The only way you’re coming out is in a body bag anyway. The rest of us want to live.
So the old, the fat, the disabled, the addicts don’t matter in your little world.
Shame on you and your cohort’s.