Every day the vaccine rolls out

[tHeArAb]

Reported by the London based BBC correspondent who is self isolating, that an early study in Scotland is saying the expected number of Omicron patients in hospital should be 47, but only 15 have actually been admitted!

Take from that what you will!

Jason Leith also saying the 500 fan cap isn't based on science but that you 'have to draw the line somewhere'. In otherwards they've plucked a number out the sky and gone with it.

[tHeArAb]

Pretty much exactly what I was saying earlier. Vaccinating the unvaccinated will get us out of this quicker than continually boosting our own.

"WHO says vaccine booster programs will prolong Covid crisis: 'No country can boost its way out of the pandemic"

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject....-pandemic.html

[Chick A Saw]

Jason Leith also saying the 500 fan cap isn't based on science but that you 'have to draw the line somewhere'. In otherwards they've plucked a number out the sky and gone with it.

Utterly baffling as to how they have come to this decision! Absolutely none of this was based on the opinion of experts in South Africa with no consideration of the available data.

They must have had early sight of the Omicron hospitalization data, and with daily hospitalizations in decline week on week, it just does not add up!

[Yeats 62]

Unfortunately, it is exactly the same as the original issue. There MUST be contingency plans, even though lots of them were not required . They all know this will (probably ) be exactly the same, but.... the powers that be, demand that we are good to go if the sh*t hits the fan.

Data, experience etc, call it what you will, but if experts are saying that having been through this, there is no need for mass overreaction, why oh why are we not listening??? :/

[Chick A Saw]

Im probably well wide of the mark, but since the new ant-viral drug became available, numbers in hospital seem to be steady, but deaths seem to have dropped.

[tHeArAb]

Reported by the London based BBC correspondent who is self isolating, that an early study in Scotland is saying the expected number of Omicron patients in hospital should be 47, but only 15 have actually been admitted!

Take from that what you will!

I've just read this article. It really feels like there's been a serious case premature sh!t the beddery on this one.

[JamesMcClean]

I've just read this article. It really feels like there's been a serious case premature sh!t the beddery on this one.

Early study of data in Scotland is demonstrating that risk of hospitilisation with Omicron is 70% less than that of Delta. Would seem to back up that found in South Africa.

[VanDerHoorn]

Pretty much exactly what I was saying earlier. Vaccinating the unvaccinated will get us out of this quicker than continually boosting our own.

"WHO says vaccine booster programs will prolong Covid crisis: 'No country can boost its way out of the pandemic"

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject....-pandemic.html

Spot on, apart from the fact that vaccinated people can still get infected and pass the virus on.

Oh, and that vaccine immunity wanes after 6 months or so, meaning you need continuous boosters to keep that kind of immunity up.

What will get us out of this is growing a set of balls and realising that you can’t mitigate - or run away from - every risk.

We’ve spent billions of pounds, millions of life years on mitigating or hiding from covid, this is as low risk as it gets. It’s time to get on with life.

[Jeztheshed]

Spot on, apart from the fact that vaccinated people can still get infected and pass the virus on.

Oh, and that vaccine immunity wanes after 6 months or so, meaning you need continuous boosters to keep that kind of immunity up.

What will get us out of this is growing a set of balls and realising that you can’t mitigate - or run away from - every risk.

We’ve spent billions of pounds, millions of life years on mitigating or hiding from covid, this is as low risk as it gets. It’s time to get on with life.

Well said sir

[TerryTheTerror]

It’s time to get on with life.

Unless it's not, by which I mean the virus could kill you.

But, your point is a good one and it's something I agree with. I think things need to change in order to cope with the potential for yearly waves of this, whatever that may be. Going on as we are is just not feasible long term, IMHO.