The Coronavirus Thread

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, but we're vaccinated in the West, so who gives a shit?

[pErvinalia]

More dead Republicans.

[Brian Peacock]

That too. And if it costs a bit more to import a salty snack or bag of rice then, well, that's just a market opportunity.

[laklak]

It's an ill wind etc.

[Sean Hayden]

The situation is still improving here.

[Brian Peacock]

Infection rates in Scotland still not falling. In fact, they seem to be drifting the other way atm.

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Scotland. COVID-19 Daily Dashboard.

[macdoc]

Infection rates are nearly meaningless as it is spreading too rapidly, people are not getting tested, people are not reporting mild cases.
Hospitalization, intensive care and deaths are the markers.
Many places have just given up on the testing and concentrated on getting third doses and sometimes any dose into people.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/om ... ba2-ny-nj/

[Sean Hayden]

All still heading down here. I should add that we're considered a highly vulnerable area too.

[macdoc]

Where is here?

[Sean Hayden]

Houston Texas area macdoc

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Hospitalizations, cases & deaths trends for my area specifically ~600,000 people

[macdoc]

Ur just late to the BA-2 party

Another COVID Wave Is Looming

About three weeks ago, COVID case rates in the United Kingdom made an abrupt about-face, spurred on by a more transmissible Omicron subvariant called BA.2. (So far, there is no reason to believe the new subvariant causes more severe disease.) Case rates are rising, too, in Switzerland and Greece and Monaco and Italy and France. Given that BA.2 is already present in the United States, The Washington Post reports that epidemiologists and public-health leaders suspect that North America will be next. After all, the paper said, “in the past two years, a widespread outbreak like the one in Europe has been followed by a similar surge in the United States some weeks later.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ve/627094/

[Sean Hayden]

Maybe.

[Sean Hayden]

Maybe not.

WHO: COVID CASES AND DEATHS CONTINUE TO FALL GLOBALLY

It's still going well here too. Most of us have already had it, and some 70% are vaccinated.

[Tero]

NYT morning letter:
In liberal parts of the U.S., vaccination rates can be even higher than in Europe. In conservative communities, many Americans have been so dismissive of Covid that they have long been living almost normally. As a result, the virus has already swept through these communities, conferring at least some immunity on many people.

[laklak]

It's over, done and dusted. It got it's two years on center stage, now it's going the way of all pandemics.

You heard it here first, folks.