Fantastic thread on where we are now with covid.

I'm not sure fantastic is the word that I would use, and unless you have been living under a stone all the arguments and debates will be nothing that we have not seen before over the last 3 years,. I suppose it's good that all the stuff that we have been talking about endlessly for years is all repeated yet again in one Twitter thread I suppose, so that all the trolls can argue with each other and wind up one another in one safe place.
 
Steer said:
I'm not sure fantastic is the word that I would use, and unless you have been living under a stone all the arguments and debates will be nothing that we have not seen before over the last 3 years,. I suppose it's good that all the stuff that we have been talking about endlessly for years is all repeated yet again in one Twitter thread I suppose, so that all the trolls can argue with each other and wind up one another in one safe place.
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Or it's an all in one place reminder that there are things that people can still do to protect themselves and others.

I'd suggest those who think otherwise would be the ones who would benefit most from reading and digesting it to be honest.
 
A good friend just went down with it and is pretty rough with it too.

Though last time I had it I was more or less asymptomatic.
 
borolad259 said:
A good friend just went down with it and is pretty rough with it too.

Though last time I had it I was more or less asymptomatic.
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Still worth avoiding repeated infections if you can, the research seems to say that being asymptomatic does not mean the complications can't be seen further down the line (y)
 
It’s interesting, but it starts off with a lot of facts and ends up with a lot of conjecture. I don’t have heart palpitations personally, so unless you’re someone who does (or knows lots of people who do) it doesn’t quite land as it’s intended.
 
atypical_boro said:
It’s interesting, but it starts off with a lot of facts and ends up with a lot of conjecture. I don’t have heart palpitations personally, so unless you’re someone who does (or knows lots of people who do) it doesn’t quite land as it’s intended.
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It's making the point that lots of people who think they have fully recovered from a covid infection in fact haven't recovered fully. The complications can take months to appear and the chances of them increase significantly with each repeat infection.
 
Facefuzz said:
Do people still get jabbed? And if so then how many?
I haven’t heard of injections or boosters for ages
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Only targeted boosters now. Spring and Autumn for over 75s, Autumn only for a slightly wider group.

That's the other ticking timebomb here. There are no vaccines available now for the vast majority of the population. People can't even pay for one like the flu jab.

As people's immunity from the initial vaccines wears off completely, the situation could get much worse very quickly.
 
Can anyone provide data to support the comment in the 2nd tweet?
’The vaccination massively reduces the risk of serious illness and death’

Ta
 
1finny said:
Can anyone provide data to support the comment in the 2nd tweet?
’The vaccination massively reduces the risk of serious illness and death’

Ta
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Vaccine effectiveness​


High vaccine effectiveness shown for third dose against COVID-19​

Vaccine effectiveness is the reduction in risk due to receiving a vaccine. It is estimated by comparing the risk between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, taking into account differences in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.

Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation was 52.2% for a first dose for COVID-19 (between 21 March 2021 to 20 March 2022). Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation for COVID-19 was 55.7% for the second dose, and 77.6% for the third dose, respectively.

Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 mortality was 58.7% for a first dose, 88.6% for a second dose and 93.2% for a third dose.

Protection increases with the increase of doses and is high for the third dose or booster, as has been shown in previous research.

While these estimates take into account many sociodemographic and health-related differences between people, some differences may remain.

Last updated: 8 March 2023


From here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...latestinsights/vaccines#vaccine-effectiveness
 
sherlock1969 said:
It's making the point that lots of people who think they have fully recovered from a covid infection in fact haven't recovered fully. The complications can take months to appear and the chances of them increase significantly with each repeat infection.
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I understand that, but without tangible evidence, not everyone will buy into it.
 
What is the tweeter suggesting we do? Go back into lockdown? Sorry if I missed it, I didn’t read all the way to the bottom I don’t think.
 
atypical_boro said:
What is the tweeter suggesting we do? Go back into lockdown? Sorry if I missed it, I didn’t read all the way to the bottom I don’t think.
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No.

Mitigations, particularly improving air quality and filtration. Which isn't happening, but should be, as it would also protect from all other airborne viruses.
 
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