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8ball
Decolonise colons!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh I had it some weeks back
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Cheers, not too bad thanks
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Hope you're better now x
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I wanted a blighty wound but I got back to work
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I think I get to WFH but that's about it
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
it'll be that latest slew of variant coming under the lovely name FLiRT
Joke, get well soon buddy.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
you can come round and do my place if you like
hope you're feeling better soon
Thanksyou can come round and do my place if you like
hope you're feeling better soon
I got some sleep..but desperate heartburn woke me up.
This steroid energy is awful. It's false energy. I'll be a wreck in z few days when it wears off.
Anyway.
Onwards & upwards...or whatever.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
hope you get over this soon ((()))Thanks
I got some sleep..but desperate heartburn woke me up.
This steroid energy is awful. It's false energy. I'll be a wreck in z few days when it wears off.
Anyway.
Onwards & upwards...or whatever.
AnandLeo
Tipple Ripple
The term alarming is a personal perception. I only read the latest figure. I had no interest in getting involved with the death figures on the whole as it is a complex subject involving many social, economic, medical, political, and environmental factors.If that one counts as alarming then so do all the other weekly death figures of recent years, including ones from June last year. I suspect that a lot of people dont see that amount of deaths as alarming because there isnt much focus on such numbers so they dont regularly even see them, and when there is, its treated as something to view relative to the much higher death peaks we got in the pre-vaccine, pre-Omicrom and 'vaccines still fairly new' eras. Personally the only reason I ever stopped going on about such figures was because of how many people had moved on, the general acceptance that covid isnt going away, etc.
Certainly we've reached the stage in this current wave where the BBC felt the need to do an article on it. With all the usual stuff, relying on Paul Hunter to continue the normalisatyion rhetoric, a purpose for which he has been used dating back to well before the normalisation agenda stood any chance of winning. Mostly all thats changed in his rhetoric is that at some stage he was forced to drop the expectation that this disease would adopt a seasonal pattern.
The usual contradictions are present, we are invited by his rhetoric to treat it as another cause of the common cold. But official advice to avoid contact with the vulnerable if you have symptoms is inconsistent with the 'common cold' comparison, as are other things like the vaccines and the likes of the BBC feeling the need to write an article about it in the first place.
Surveillance data is weaker than it used to be due to the erosion of a multitude of testing regimes, so there is less I can say about waves these days than I used to be able to.
Covid: Is there a summer wave and what are FLiRT variants?
Lots of people seem to have Covid at the moment but what is behind it and is it serious?www.bbc.co.uk
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elbows
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Midlands Today did a piece on some hospitals in the region reintroducing mask wearing. They listed the number of covid patients at some hospitals and started going on about part of the picture that seems to show people being in hospital with it for longer, implying more serious cases.
It was something of a spectacle to see them describe the reduction in testing but then still make comparisons between recent case data and one of the early wave peaks. And then laying on certain reassurances rather thickly.
It was something of a spectacle to see them describe the reduction in testing but then still make comparisons between recent case data and one of the early wave peaks. And then laying on certain reassurances rather thickly.
12 days on and dad still not better but getting there. This has taken a lot out of him
Mum has only started wanting food yesterday. She was picking at very little. Thankfully she took a high calory vit protein drink every day. Her Dr prescribed them 2 years ago and she takes one a day.
I finished paxlovid yesterday.
Weirdly...I have started to cough this evening. I hope this doesn't rebound. Thankfully my sister has stayed negative. Which is great.
Mum has only started wanting food yesterday. She was picking at very little. Thankfully she took a high calory vit protein drink every day. Her Dr prescribed them 2 years ago and she takes one a day.
I finished paxlovid yesterday.
Weirdly...I have started to cough this evening. I hope this doesn't rebound. Thankfully my sister has stayed negative. Which is great.
Thanks Epona
Since finishing paxlovid I've been having awful anxiety & heart pounding ..sweats... like withdrawal symptoms. I knew there could be some interaction with my steroid meds but this is really shit.
On the plus side..covid symptoms are gone.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I'm sure this is fine
Covid hospital admissions in Scotland exceed last winter
A total of 443 people with the virus were in hospital because of acute symptoms last week.
www.bbc.co.uk
elbows
Well-Known Member
Lack of data due to reduced surveillance makes it harder to unpick the current picture.
It would certainly be useful to know to what extent the current picture is driven by features of the current variants, and whether other factors are playing a part, for example whether the narrower criteria for getting a spring booster is having a notable impact on population vulnerability to severe illness now.
If we are lucky and previously observed patterns hold true again this time, the school summer holidays will play a part in diminishing this particular wave. Scotland has more favourable timing in this respect due to the earlier holidays, but the usual lag between diminished opportunities for the virus to spread and this showing up in hospital data of course still applies.
It would certainly be useful to know to what extent the current picture is driven by features of the current variants, and whether other factors are playing a part, for example whether the narrower criteria for getting a spring booster is having a notable impact on population vulnerability to severe illness now.
If we are lucky and previously observed patterns hold true again this time, the school summer holidays will play a part in diminishing this particular wave. Scotland has more favourable timing in this respect due to the earlier holidays, but the usual lag between diminished opportunities for the virus to spread and this showing up in hospital data of course still applies.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I only had a tiny bit of time to look at Scottish data, in response to that story.
2 things I had time to note:
Scotland still collects and publicly publishes covid wastewater data, which is especially useful given the decline in other forms of surveillance.
Articles that mention how the Scottish Covid hospital numbers recently went higher than they did last winter, probably should have described an even broader context too - eg the figures also went that high in March 2023. Its still a story worth drawing attention to though.
2 things I had time to note:
Scotland still collects and publicly publishes covid wastewater data, which is especially useful given the decline in other forms of surveillance.
Articles that mention how the Scottish Covid hospital numbers recently went higher than they did last winter, probably should have described an even broader context too - eg the figures also went that high in March 2023. Its still a story worth drawing attention to though.
2hats
Dust.
You mean the diagnostic Rapid Antigen Tests (aka Lateral Flow Tests)? Most of them key off highly conserved portions of the nucleocapsid (itself highly conserved anyway). A few use envelope (also well conserved), whilst a very small number use spike (does vary, though the tests use the regions with the least variation). SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid and envelope couldn't vary hugely without it not being SARS-CoV-2 any more. Spike can only vary in certain manners, otherwise it risks losing cell entry capability and thus pathogenicity.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Both of us had symptoms for a week, and then they went. But I still had the breathlessness while we were on holiday (immediately after) but it didn't inhibit me much. What I wasn't banking on was catching a virulent summer cold on return from holidays - not COVID as far as I can tell. Proper felt unwell again and the catarrh stuck around for ages, yuk.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Did the symptoms go suddenly do you think? I've had symptoms for about 5 days now.
My parents were both pretty sick for 2 weeks.. then gradually improved over the next 3 weeks.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Wasn't there a variant that wasn't picked up on the tests as much as others?
Mum's symptoms literally followed a day behind dad's. Temperature and sore throat and headache, followed by stuffy nose, cough and then tummy issues. But she had tummy issues for about 10 days. As did dad. But they are both in their 80s.
A friend of mine had it recently and was starting to feel better after a week.
I hope you'll feel better soon..
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