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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
- Thread starter Bozza
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https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1487543444486643719?s=20&t=8bPidy8LaRvbhvd7G-9oqQ
People in hospital with covid down to 12600
People in hospital with covid down to 12600
Originunknown
BINFEST'ING
We had covid but the good news is it's coincided with the winter break and we will be fine for Spurs!
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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Interesting.
I have had Omicron (I presume) for the last week - my second dose of Covid in four months. I (also) presume that I had the Delta variant last time.
It was substantially worse this time round - I have been hit for six - high temperatures, constant cough, headaches...bizarre sleep patterns and hallucinatory dreams.
For the purposes of this thread, the good news is that I have just tested negative on day 9. Still don't feel right though - the level of fatigue is huge.
I tested negative on day 7 & 8…………symptoms never got any worse than a ‘normal’ winter sniffle really - it it wasn’t Covid would have carried on normally. Interestingly, did sleep much longer (almost double in one case) than I normally would the first couple of nights. Mrs D still testing positive but a couple of days behind me I think (also only has mild symptoms, but a high degree of irritation because she can’t go out
)Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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I tested negative on day 7 & 8…………symptoms never got any worse than a ‘normal’ winter sniffle really - it it wasn’t Covid would have carried on normally. Interestingly, did sleep much longer (almost double in one case) than I normally would the first couple of nights. Mrs D still testing positive but a couple of days behind me I think (also only has mild symptoms, but a high degree of irritation because she can’t go out
Yes, that's another annoyance. I am SO bored of isolation, having had to suck it up so often.
The sun is shining today. I'm going to have a walk down to the beach.
Infection numbers reported today the lowest since mid-December…….
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=overview&areaName=United Kingdom
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=overview&areaName=United Kingdom
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Ye but has Pogue got back from his walk yet
Some great news; Laurence Fox, vaccine refusenik… “I don’t need no vaccine, I have an immune system” …has Covid.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Good it’ll make his immune system stronger as long as it’s not a worst case scenario for him.
Let's hope for everyone else's sake, he doesn't get it mild. Suffers a bit and becomes a convert.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
I’m going to bounce this
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Don't panic if the numbers look much higher this week, it is due to reinfections being included for the first time so they will bump up the numbers. No need to worry unnecessarily!
Postman Pat
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I've stopped focusing on case numbers, they are pretty irrelevant. Hospital numbers and deaths are the only useful numbers now. Happily these are heading the right way. Patients in ITU as low as last summer.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Yep, I hope we are soon at the point where they are not announced at all. They are less and less use as a metric.
Good point - today is the day - will be a huge jump in numbers
Here's an extract from the DT for anyone worried about it when it happens at 4pm :
Readers with a delicate constitution may want to avoid the government website at around 4pm on Monday afternoon.
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, coronavirus reinfections in England will be included on the daily Covid dashboard, in a revision that is likely to add hundreds of thousands of new cases to Britain’s cumulative total.
The wince-inducing rise will undoubtedly lead to hand-wringing from the usual quarters, and it will be remarkable if we get through this update without renewed calls to mask up and lock down.
But it is actually fairly good news. It means that we have significantly underestimated the mildness of omicron.
The biggest upside to the change is that the percentage of people dying from each positive test – the case fatality rate (CFR) – will fall.
Currently, the number of people dying after testing positive for coronavirus is hovering at around 0.95 per cent, after peaking at 10 per cent in April 2020 when testing was minimal.
But adding hundreds of thousands of cases to the figures will send the CFR towards something approaching flu fatalities.
Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that around 0.1 to 0.2 per cent of symptomatic flu cases result in death. Adding such a large number of new cases will certainly take coronavirus towards that figure in Britain.
This change in the lethality of Covid can already be seen in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection data, which is based on a random sample of people who test positive, and so scoops up those who do not have symptoms and would not ordinarily have been tested.
Latest ONS data suggests that the infection fatality rate (IFR) has fallen to about 0.1 per cent from around one per cent last January, meaning the death rate is now a tenth of what it was.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that flu also has an IFR of 0.1 per cent or lower, while New Zealand has put it at 0.039 per cent – a little less than half.
This suggests we are very close to seeing an endemic disease which has a similar severity as flu.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...-set-resemble-flu-figures-reinfections-added/
Fat Boy Fat
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- Aug 21, 2020
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Agree case numbers are a bit of an irrelevance released daily. Week on week would still be good.
However, having said that, with this Government’s track record for treating the public with disdain I would like to see the figures produced as they are, to give a level of accountability. It would be far to easy for an unscrupulous administration to hide a new trend, so don’t give them that opportunity!
On the good news, my wife had her fourth vaccination yesterday, no side effects as of yet!
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Agreed. I think the figures will be available, but just not promoted on the news unless something startling happens. And they will probably be on a weekly basis which again is more useful for analysis anyway.
One thing we have learned from the Covid pandemic, is that England's public health data is second to none, certainly amongst larger countries, and is a genuine world leader. I have seen so many Americans gnashing their teeth at their lack of data compared to ours. I don't see that changing and this helps with continued transparency.
Fat Boy Fat
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- Aug 21, 2020
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100% this. Meaningful analysis is only useful if you have a meaningful data output. It is a shame that there are so many changes over time, like today's introduction of reinfection rates, as it makes historical data comparison difficult.
South west gull
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Does your wife work in a social care setting ? Hence a 4th jab
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