Coronavirus...post your thoughts here...

[Colin_T]

and how many FROM COVID vs WITH COVID

that doesn't make sense

 

[Oblio]

that doesn't make sense

From means COVID was the Root Cause of Death, and not a secondary cause of failure. With means the decedent had COVID at the time of death. Big difference. Here in the US, providers were being paid a stipend for deaths from COVID, so naturally everyone who had COVID at time of death was determined to have died from COVID.

Follow the money (and politics)

 

[Naughts]

yep, it's a super spreader virus. it's more contagious than the common cold virus.

The depressing thing is that Omicron's transmission rate has the potential to end the pandemic. We would have herd immunity within a few weeks. But the world's nations fail to coordinate and cooperate regarding vaccines and lock downs/ travel restrictions. So we will continue to play 'covid tag', as one country shuts down to control it another will open up just for it to spread again.

 

[Colin_T]

the virus will mutate again when it gets to Africa, India and China. Lots of people to get it and mutate it.

 

[Caesar]

Running through our house right now. Pretty much like a cold (duh, it's a Coronavirus). Runny nose, sore throat, mild fever, fatigue. For us as a whole, probably less effects than the 'vaccines'.

That sounds preferred to my vaccine side effects! I had a sever fever, stabbing pains, fatigue, stiffness - and that was prior to the heart inflammation.

 

[FishHobby99]

That sucks, Caesar. I had minor injection site soreness after #1, some nausea & fatigue after #2 & no side effects after the booster, other than waiting in a long line at Wal mart. Got the booster right after they made everyone over 16 eligible. Now there’s talk of #4, but I don’t know much about it.

 

[Essjay]

I have been following this blog on and off. It is written by an intensive care consultant at a local hospital starting in March last year at the beginning of the first lockdown in the UK.

Coronavirus | There are no more surgeons...

NoMoreSurgeons - The pandemic diary of an Intensive Care Consultant in Middlesbrough

www.nomoresurgeons.com

 

[FishHobby99]

I’m sure it’s very informational, but I have Covid Fatigue ( as in information overload) & won’t be opening the link. I get the NYT & Washington Post, digital editions everyday & much on Covid since ~2/20 or so. The NYT allows one to enter their city for specific details, or any other area for that matter. I’m so saddened by it all.

 

[Essjay]

The blog is just the diary of one doctor, rather than articles written by journalists. But I agree, that's why I have only read it on and off with breaks between

 

[Colin_T]

Western Australia and covid19 is spreading at an alarming rate through Perth (the capitol city of WA). Pretty stupid really considering we had closed borders but still let it in from Queensland. Idiot government.

 

[FishHobby99]

I can’t believe the US will be reopening borders to Africans

 

[Naughts]

The UK put several South African states on the red list for a while. Within a few days it was futile because Omicron had become so widespread here. Travellers have a PCR on arrival and isolate until it's negative.

 

[emeraldking]

Got my booster shot today... I had Pfizer twice and today I had Moderna as a booster shot. My arm starts to get sore a bit...

 

[emeraldking]

Got my booster shot today... I had Pfizer twice and today I had Moderna as a booster shot. My arm starts to get sore a bit...

I got sick the day after...Feeling miserable and a sore arm that lasted the whole day. Completely different from my first two shots.

 

[Fishmanic]

This is chart from Wednesday Dec 29th, 2021
UK and US are among the worst affected​

#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	New Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	284,884,068	+1,606,530	5,438,607	+7,344	252,416,408	+603,745	27,029,053	89,435	36,548	697.7
1	USA	54,656,866	+465,670	844,272	+1,777	41,408,291	+83,181	12,404,303	17,182	163,693	2,529	809,008,481	2,422,923	333,897,730
2	India	34,822,040	+13,154	480,860	+268	34,251,292	+7,347	89,888	8,944	24,869	343	675,246,143	482,238	1,400,235,552
3	Brazil	22,263,834	+9,128	618,870	+147	21,414,318		230,646	8,318	103,643	2,881	63,776,166	296,892	214,812,911
4	UK	12,559,926	+183,037	148,089	+57	10,229,561								____