It has been fairly stable in terms of the consistent number since the reopening. Various peaks and troughs on a linear level.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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It has been fairly stable in terms of the consistent number since the reopening. Various peaks and troughs on a linear level.
Without wanting to underplay this, but is SA/Botswana the best setting to assess the new variant against vaccines? What has the roll-out of vaccines been like there/which vaccines are in circulation?
So I caught covid last week and my self isolation is up on Sunday, but my booster is booked for the 3rd and I read the UK says wait 28 days after a positive test to get the vaccine. Does it actually matter from the health standpoint? Can I just lie to them when I arrive…
Pretty poor to be honest in SA (not sure Botswana), so agreed on that front regarding vaccine efficacy. However, the sequencing has shown that this variant seems to have overtaken Delta which may indicate increased transmissibility.
Is there a benefit other than convenience? If you’ve just had COVID you’ve just had a booster of sorts?
I dunno if it gives you more of a boost. It’s just all the booster sessions here are Fridays and I’m busy every other weekend and don’t wanna ruin them with horrible side effects
They have 28 days as a set period so that you fully recover, and are not contagious when arriving to get a jab.
To be honest, you could skip it altogether. If you were fully vaccinated in the summer then catching covid now gives you fantastic protection for at least another 6 months. Probably a lot longer.
So youre saying I’m invincible, excellent news
Slowly inching back to square one aren't we.
Basically, yes.
I'm in the same boat but gonna get my booster end of next month nhs says I need 4 weeks between my positive test and the booster. Hopefully won't get it again for some time.
I may have this wrong so best double check but I think I read somewhere that up to 1/4 of those who recover from covid dont produce antibodies. Hopefully someone can correct me or point me in the right direction.
I would love Austrians approach here
With each of these new mutations seemingly worse than the last, isn’t it a matter of time before this virus and it’s variants spell the end of the human race? We’ve had a good run tbf
The way I understand it is there’s a trade off as the mutations build up. It gets better at some things, worse at others. It may end up a lot more transmissible but much less severe (best case scenario) There are twists and turns to come, that’s for sure. This Nu variant has the potential to be an almighty cnut that’s for sure.
I'm in the same boat as @Snowjoe. Just caught covid a couple of weeks before my booster was due. Don't see the point in having the booster now, not for a good while at least. Haven't quite decided whether to leave it to February or well into next year, but protection for at least six months does sound very promising.
U.K. government have stuck 6 countries on the red list and banned flights from certain areas due to this new variant. The United board and the U.K. govt seemingly acting competently on the same day…incredible stuff.
We know someone who was meant to be flying to South Africa
Good. Of course, unlike United we need everyone else to make a good decision too. I hope to feck the EU do the same thing pronto.
I can't remember the exact figure but I do remember that the response from infection was far more variable than vaccination.
Here we are treating people with past infection as unvaccinated.
Given the transmissibility, I’d be very surprised if this isn’t already in Europe.
Not to mention reinfection from overseas. We are giving boosters 6 months after your previous shot. I'm already booked on for late Jan.
That's the thing with this virus....just when you think you're winning a small war on it the bleeding thing comes back with a vengeance.
Hopefully it's not as bad as predicted and makes vaccines redundant as no idea what the alternative or plan B is.
Hopefully it's not as bad as predicted and makes vaccines redundant as no idea what the alternative or plan B is.
Are there others who don't mind a total lockdown? It never really bothered me as I don't leave the house that much. In fact, the quietness on the streets was refreshing.
Yes. Loads. Everyone who works in the hospitality business for starters. And all of their customers!
Please not again.
I think vast majority can cope with what we have now so would be very frustrating to go back to April 2020 standards.
Guess this is the trade off really for not donating vaccines to poorer parts of the world quickly enough with a new lethal variant potentially emerging as revenge. Hopefully it won't be as bad as predicted but it will hit U.K soon enough. Pretty sure it was this time last year the Delta variant first hit the U.K and produced a tough few months with vaccine roll out only in very early stages.
This variant is going to suck isn't it? I can feel it.
The world really needs to ramp up their health care systems. There’s no way around it now and it’s the only way we can get live with this
It looks like the real deal.
Delta was June this year. Alpha was last year.
It was one of the few times I was genuinely ITK (see below). It was lost in translation with my colleague but by S protein, she actually meant S gene, and was the Alpha variant.
Back to the bunker it is.
Sorry to be lazy but are there any stats on whether vaccinated people are easily infected, and the chances of hospitalisation if they are?
edit: should have asked @jojojo of course, the man's an information superstar of galactic proportion.
How long has this new variant been around? Is there any sense of fatality rate yet? Hopefully what this variant has in abundance (tansmissibility) it lacks in fatality. Seriously hope so, anyway.
There was always going to be a few twists and turns. At least the other variants had the decency to wait until when things were starting to look up. This cnut is looming out of the shadows when everything is already looking grim.
It’s so crazy the way each new variant makes the previous one seem completely benign, despite once seeming horrific. Imagine how benign original covid would seem if it suddenly became dominant?
Will be so weird to be looking back fondly on Delta. “Sure it wasn’t that bad, was it?”
I think it was only detected on Tuesday.
Too early to say.