Covid 19 Part XXX-113,332 ROI(2,282 deaths) 81,251 NI (1,384 deaths) (05/01) Read OP

Inquitus

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

5,325 cases 17 deaths..

That's the maximum we can test for - 25k tests @ 22% positive = 5,500 a day maximum positive cases that can be identified!

Steve012

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Sorry to hear.

Was he otherwise ill? Or just Covid?

Yes he was in hospital for past 8 weeks, he was getting better, caught covid 3 weeks ago went down hill quick, ended up on a ventilator.

rm212

Stheno wrote: »

Positivity was 25% yesterday iirc

Oh, you may be right, seems I was looking at the moving average of the positivity rate: https://covid19.shanehastings.eu/api/swabs/

I can’t see any way to get yesterday’s rate there?

Boris saying that 25% of over-eighties already vaccinated in the UK. Seems like it’s kicking in fast over there now

Stheno

stephenjmcd wrote: »

New members of NPHET

https://twitter.com/Philip_Ryan/status/1346517255878811648?s=19

Didn't Mary Horgan have a barney with i think NPHET last week?

Or maybe it was about no communications to.GPs about vaccinew

The Inbetween is mine

harr wrote: »

Doesn’t make it any less shocking

Didn't say it wasn't

BorneTobyWilde

Dublin and Cock City have big numbers, should be some stricter rules there,

On one hand they say virus is spreading by gathering indoors, on other hand ...a stay at home order.

Arduach

Stheno wrote: »

Signs of positive progress

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1346516664343474178?s=19

Surely it's a given that people's contacts would lessen in comparison with Christmas and New Year.

D.Q

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Dublin and Cock City have big numbers

Oi Oi

lawrencesummers

Steve012 wrote: »

Yes he was in hospital for past 8 weeks, he was getting better, caught covid 3 weeks ago went down hill quick, ended up on a ventilator.

I’m sure a lot of people have a similar story, in hospital for other treatment and caught COVID while in there.

RIP.

is_that_so

Deleted User wrote: »

Boris saying that 25% of over-eighties already vaccinated in the UK. Seems like it’s kicking in fast over there now

We'll be able to make claims like that when we have THREE vaccines to use.

caveat emptor

SuperRabbit wrote: »

I read, i think it was bbc, that they think the new variant is just better at getting into your cells.Higher viral load would also make it more dangerous, it's just more infectious... right?

GooglePlus wrote: »

Can you explain that weird graph, they both look much the same?

It's a bit complicated but basically the variant (s drop out / LEFT side) reaches the threshold for detection with less cycles in the PCR test. i.e it doesn't take as many cycles so more virus present. The black bars show the median values for both variant and non variant. There is a clear difference between the two.

This analysis suggests that patients whose samples exhibit the S-dropout profile in the TaqPath test are more likely to have high viral loads at the time of sampling. The relevance of this to epidemiological reports of fast spread of the SARS-CoV-2 in regions of the UK is discussed.

Paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248834v1.full.pdf

As for mortality. It is possible the higher viral load is only in the upper respiratory tract and creates more aerosols but same amount of people suffer serious illness as the old variant.

Incredibly this was hypothesised in March 2020 by Carl T. Bergstrom biologist and author of "Calling Bull****: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World" Great book by the way.

We don't know if this is the reason for the higher viral load observed.

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1242317101529837568?s=20

titan18

Still about 10k in backlog

Gael23

Steve012 wrote: »

Yes he was in hospital for past 8 weeks, he was getting better, caught covid 3 weeks ago went down hill quick, ended up on a ventilator.

That’s why I have no intention of going near a hospital

Louis Friend

The new strain (UK etc) is accounting for a far higher number of cases than posters were claiming recently. It seems De Gascun wasn’t accurate.

Jim_Hodge

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

The deaths are over the last 4 days..not just yesterday

So what? Nobody thought they were.

blade1

Saw my mother through a glass door today.
While speaking on the phone she says come in or I'll kick the door down.
Sad in a way but have to admire the fire in her still at the same time.

Loafing Oaf

Louis Friend wrote: »

The new strain (UK etc) is accounting for a far higher number of cases than posters were claiming recently. It seems De Gascun wasn’t accurate.

Proportion may have increased since he made his comment?

Crocodile Booze

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Dublin and Cock City have big numbers, should be some stricter rules there,

Feckin Langers

CIARAN_BOYLE

Louis Friend wrote: »

The new strain (UK etc) is accounting for a far higher number of cases than posters were claiming recently. It seems De Gascun wasn’t accurate.

Have you a source?

GooglePlus

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

So what? Nobody thought they were.

I'm sure plenty will think they are all from today or do you have the word from the entire population?

Stheno

I lolled

https://twitter.com/THedrof/status/1346518370674479106?s=19

bb1234567

https://twitter.com/KarenSquires18/status/1346513067987898371
People like this just scare me and totally make me question the motives of every 'sceptic' of COVID (obviously I did already but evil **** like this just further consolidates my doubts of their character). Like the chances of this person having at least 6 'mates' die after testing positive for COVID in the last 9 months of the 75,000 total in entire of the UK are exactly zero. What do they think they will achieve this this kind of crap? We'll all believe them and pretend COVID isn't killing large numbers of people? Are they bots, or somebody with vested interests?Anarchists? I can't figure out who they are, what they could possibly hope to get out of posting this kind of nonsense. But it's truly sadistic and evil. Whatever about misinterpretation of statistics and associated misinformation, but this is just a completely transparent and sick way of deceiving and brainwashing people.

Happy4all

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Have you a source?

It's stated in today's news briefing

The Inbetween is mine

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

So what? Nobody thought they were.

The person I replied to prob thought they were..

sonofenoch

blade1 wrote: »

Saw my mother through a glass door today.
While speaking on the phone she says come in or I'll kick the door down.
Sad in a way but have to admire the fire in her still at the same time.

What wing of the Joy is she in?









it's a joke btw......

CIARAN_BOYLE

Happy4all wrote: »

It's stated in today's news briefing

Thanks I missed that.

Seems to be growing quickly from 10% to 25%

Eod100

stephenjmcd wrote: »

New members of NPHET

https://twitter.com/Philip_Ryan/status/1346517255878811648?s=19

Interesting to see Prof Butler on, seems like she already has a role in briefings but maybe it's more formal now and about vaccination process.

blade1

sonofenoch wrote: »

What wing of the Joy is she in?







it's a joke btw......

We'll see who's joking when I tell you said that! :pac:

CharlieHaghy

Cases down from yesterday, turning the tide hopefully. With restrictions cases should be well under 500 this day two weeks time.