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Post by macdoc » Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:15 pm

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Record number of COVID-19 hit Australians in hospital as Omicron surges

A health worker administers a test for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on a member of the public at the Bondi Beach drive-through testing centre during a COVID-19 outbreak lockdown in Sydney, Australia, Oct 5, 2021. (File photo: REUTERS/Loren Elliott)
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:31 pm

it's not paranoia if they are all really sick
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Post by rasetsu » Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:14 pm

I think I'll go for a walk.

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Post by JimC » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:12 pm

A recent article I read discussed the changing evolutionary pressures on the virus. Earlier, when a large proportion of the population had not caught it, and/or were unvaccinated, selection pressure was in the direction of increasing transmissibility. Currently, with a large proportion of the population having at least some immune protection (via an infection, vaccination or both) the selective pressure on the virus is to achieve better evasion of the immune response...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:13 pm

WHO declares Monkeypox a global health emergency!
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Post by JimC » Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:04 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
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WHO declares Monkeypox a global health emergency?
Probably bunch of medicos, Brian... :tea:
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:29 pm

The diktators are at it again.
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Post by JimC » Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:30 pm

A pox on all their houses! :lay:
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Post by macdoc » Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:31 am

Only 15% in the UK have not had Covid :read:
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Post by JimC » Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:58 am

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Only 15% in the UK have not had Covid :read:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... l-new-wave
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-27/ ... /101271784
At least 46 per cent of Australian adults had been infected with COVID-19 by early June, according to results from Australia's most recent blood testing of relevant antibodies.

Researchers have conducted their second "serosurvey", testing blood donations for the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, to find the prevalence of infection had almost tripled since late February when it was estimated to be 17 per cent.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:26 am

JimC wrote:
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WHO declares Monkeypox a global health emergency?
Probably bunch of medicos, Brian... :tea:
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Post by macdoc » Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:27 pm

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UK scientists take ‘promising’ step towards single Covid and cold vaccine
Francis Crick Institute in London says area of spike protein of Sars-CoV-2 could form basis of jab against variants and common cold
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:04 am

Fairy dictator whining?
Devi Sridhar wrote:A scientist in the public eye has taken her own life. This has to be a wake-up call

Lisa-Maria Kellermayr, an Austrian GP, was a doctor who dedicated her life to her patients and was vocal about the risks of Covid-19 on Twitter and in the media. She had endured months of death threats from Covid conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. Colleagues expressed frustration with the lack of support she received for dealing with the daily abuse. Last month, Kellermayr took her own life.

When the news of Kellermayr’s death was shared among the medical community, the reaction was one of sadness but little surprise. During the pandemic, scientists have suffered huge amounts of abuse and blame while just trying to do their jobs. I suffered far less than many of my colleagues, but still got my share of online attacks during the pandemic. I was targeted in tweets, YouTube videos, blogs, viral Facebook posts and malicious revisions to my Wikipedia page. Someone pointed to a talk about global health I gave in 2018 as evidence that I had caused the Covid-19 pandemic as part of the “deep state”.

The attacks came from all directions: anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, conspiracy theorists, anti-Bill Gates, anti-Wellcome Trust, anti-medicine, anti-Scottish government, Tory politicians, all muddled together in puzzling ways.

In the field of public health, academics spend their lifetimes researching problems, trying to find solutions that can save people’s lives and providing advice about how to stop people getting ill. Science is not about getting famous, but about building knowledge.

The job involves teaching the next generation, doing research, hopefully getting robust results and sharing these with others in the discipline. Covid-19 suddenly put scientists in the spotlight. I don’t think anyone working in global public health expected the backlash they experienced during the pandemic...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... kers-covid
I've always found it deeply ironic when people use a computer and the internet to declare that science is a scam and scientists are fake.
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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Aug 13, 2022 12:57 pm

We are unwell.

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