Fuck me the media in this country are a joke for the way they’ve tried to analyse Omicron
The General Covid19 Thread
Jules’ post looks like a Strudders formation post.
LOL Oakland caved to business interests. No vaccine requirement until February 1st.
Which is pointless.
LT rooting for a negative Omicron outcome just to win an internet argument.
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Jules72 SGTF infections diagnosed between 1 October and 30 November 2021 compared to Delta infectionsdiagnosed between April and November 2021 had a lower odds of severe disease (aOR 0.3, 95% CI 0.2-0.5)
Just checking my maths here… So these findings would suggest that in those that are hospitalised, with Omicron you’re 30% LESS likely to experience ‘severe disease’ and the 95% confidence interval is that it might be as low as 20% less likely, but might be as high as 50% less likely?
Severe disease = hospitalisation? ICU admission? Something in-between?
LT42 I agree [that this is a hugely positive study]
Which then circles back to my original point - which was that it was therefore very strange why you originally only highlighted the one negative claim in the study (which turns out to be spurious) by way of an attempt to summarise its findings.
Case closed.
Are there any papers out there analysing the impact of drinking bottles of Becks on the Virus, aka the Mark Fowler Theory?
Funky Don’t panic, you’re restricted to only 30 people in any one household!
The scaremongering continues, great use all these extra hospitals with no-one to staff them. Also I’m sure they would be well used like Nightingale. I get the need to plan for worst case, but that’s all this is, a reference to the capability if required
Hursty The Guardian is awful and it’s been consistently and massively wrong throughout the whole pandemic. Cunts.
Along_the_Wire The Guardian is awful and it’s been consistently and massively wrong throughout the whole pandemic. Cunts.
Have to say I’m going right off it.
Jay Rayner aside that is.
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Its the spectre of widespread absenteeism in the public services and the wider economy as a result of Omicrom that will guarantee the circuit breaker
South Africa’s Omicron-wave seems to be going down already. So if the rest of the world follows this wave’s short.
We’ve lowered the “isolation” time to seven days for the breakthrough vaccinated cases. And going outside for a walk or doing some food shopping (hence isolation being in quotes) is considered fine if mild to no symptoms as long as a mask is worn. The only worry is people spending considerable time indoors with groups of unmasked people - like isolate from that.
One doc, my actual boss on all this, basically said she’s whatever about Omicron. It’s very infectious but not causing many issues and the incubation period is short. Covid could be burning itself out . I have no evidence of this or any link to point to, it was just said on a call. But her and this other dude George are the leading infectious disease experts at UCSF/SFDPH and both raised the alarm bells when needed so I’m inclined to trust their opinions.
May be bollocks but universal vaccine in dev by US Army?
Some similar sounding data points coming through for UK cases…
Was just reading about Japan’s wave completely dropping off which has experts baffled.
LOL!
hugopal So the only problem becomes how many people get it at once, right? If it’s 20-50% less likely a positive case will end up experiencing ‘severe disease’ there only need to be 20%-50% more cases for hospital admissions to balance out at similar peaks to the top of the delta wave. Have I got that right?
I meant also outside of health workers. Not everyone can work from home with SNIFFLES.
Interesting reading from ONS