Coronavirus outbreak

[vickster]

Daughter 2 currently self isolating after testing positive for a 2nd time, (and possibly the third time) she has had the virus. - Fully vaccinated and boosted. Her boyfriend also isolating after he caught it for a second time. - Also fully vaccinated and boosted.

Have they done the antibody testing?

 

[Bazzer]

Have they done the antibody testing?

Not so far as I aware. But my wife may suggest it to her when they speak later today.
She may also qualify for one as she is due to work in a care home when college time permits.

 

[midlife]

Why test for antibodies?

 

[vickster]

Why test for antibodies?

Just out of interest given they’ve had multiple infections

 

[vickster]

Not so far as I aware. But my wife may suggest it to her when they speak later today.
She may also qualify for one as she is due to work in a care home when college time permits.

I don’t know if you can ‘apply’ after entering PCR result. Can’t recall exactly when the tick box appears and not everyone gets the test through

 

[mjr]

Novaxovid approved by MHRA, the fifth vaccine available in the UK (about 6 weeks after the EU?) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-nuvaxovid-approved-by-mhra

Researchers are racing to understand long covid, worried by the capitulation of several countries to omicron. One summary of where we're at, describing the two leading theories as being immune system disruption and virus persistence: https://www.vox.com/22906853/omicron-long-covid-vaccinated-symptoms-cause

 

[Ajax Bay]

The (blue) death certificates daily count is starting to plateau as its extra reporting lag plays out. It's becoming a decreasingly smaller fraction of the 28-days (date of death) dashboard measure (black). This suggests the amount of "incidental" deaths (with (ie +ve in last 28 days but not mentioned on death certificate) edit: is increasing.
Furtehr edit: increasing as a proportion but as dashboard daily figure reduces, is decreasing (thank goodness) in real daily number terms.

 

[midlife]

Sorry, is it me or is the last sentence incomplete?

 

[Ajax Bay]

By date of registration. The purple line shows the ghastly peak 13 months ago. The black line shows how January has gone: lowest January monthly death rate for seven years: hurrah.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-florence-nightingales-daigrams-for-deaths/
(Note that Oxford scientists have problems with webpage address speeling; or maybe this is a 'tip of the hat' to the Welsh.)

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

By date of registration. The purple line shows the ghastly peak 13 months ago. The black line shows how January has gone: lowest January monthly death rate for seven years: hurrah.

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https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-florence-nightingales-daigrams-for-deaths/
(Note that Oxford scientists have problems with webpage address speeling; or maybe this is a 'tip of the hat' to the Welsh.)

Which does make me wonder whether a degree of extra social isolation works as a cure (or at least, a significant mitigation) for flu.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Which does make me wonder whether a degree of extra social isolation works as a cure (or at least, a significant mitigation) for flu.

C-19 in all its variants is much more infectious than 'the flu' so all and any sensible actions taken to reduce the spread of C-19 - even if only minimally-effective against certain variants of C-19 - will significantly reduce the spread of flu, and many, if not most, other airborne infections.
Obviously I am saying 'sensible' actions because wearing a radioactive necklace won't help anyone, nor will daily dosing with bleach ... yet those 'actions' have been recommended by some --- persons --- as a means of avoiding infection ...

A neighbour of mine phoned me this morning to say she's tested +ve on LTF. I spent most of yesterday with her, helping her pin and fit a dress she's making. She's new to dressmaking. The only place she's been where she was actually in contact with strangers was to the hairdressers on Saturday. No-one was masked in the hairdressers. Damn.

 

[Johnno260]

By date of registration. The purple line shows the ghastly peak 13 months ago. The black line shows how January has gone: lowest January monthly death rate for seven years: hurrah.

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https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-florence-nightingales-daigrams-for-deaths/
(Note that Oxford scientists have problems with webpage address speeling; or maybe this is a 'tip of the hat' to the Welsh.)

Those spikes are scary.

I had been using this site.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?country=~GBR

 

[classic33]

Cases are on the increase locally, in some areas more than others. Different areas with different demographics. Age groups and nationalities in those areas seeing the biggest increases.


Figures used were for last week, 4th March.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Cases are on the increase locally, in some areas more than others. Different areas with different demographics. Age groups and nationalities in those areas seeing the biggest increases.


Figures used were for last week, 4th March.

Looking at Zoe's figures, which are pretty much real time, give a day or so for the daily update, shows Kirklees as the worst, Wakefield slightly better, Leeds better still and Bradford down with under half that of Kirklees. My local figures, while falling, are still up there round about the Kirklees level. And they've been there since mid-January.

 

[classic33]

Looking at Zoe's figures, which are pretty much real time, give a day or so for the daily update, shows Kirklees as the worst, Wakefield slightly better, Leeds better still and Bradford down with under half that of Kirklees. My local figures, while falling, are still up there round about the Kirklees level. And they've been there since mid-January.

They were dropping locally, Calderdale, but have been reported as being on the increase this month.