Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread

[NaffNaffBobFace]

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets* from today, Saturday 22nd of January 2022:
*claims made by headlines or articles are those of the outlets and have not been independently verified, or in some cases even read, by myself.

- World: Global Confirmed 347,506,972 Global Deaths 5,588,406

- US: U.S. Confirmed 70,289,750

- US: Booster jab gives 90% Covid protection, study says

- UK: Call to delay compulsory vaccines for NHS staff

- UK: Covid vaccine given to male in hot tub

- Kiribati: Pacific island goes into first ever lockdown

- Hong Kong: Hong Kong leader defends Covid hamster cull

- WHO: Risk related to Omicron remains 'very high', WHO says

- Germany: Germany reports record seven-day incidence rate

- Poland: Poland reports record number of new infections

- Japan: Tokyo logs record daily cases for fourth consecutive day

- Ireland: Ireland lifts majority of Covid restrictions

 

[stockish]

Welcome to the next chapter of the pandemic!

Lab test monkey on the loose after truck crash in Pennsylvania

A test monkey is on the lam after a truck carrying 100 apes to a laboratory crashed.

nypost.com

 

[Aramsolari]

Welcome to the next chapter of the pandemic!

Lab test monkey on the loose after truck crash in Pennsylvania

A test monkey is on the lam after a truck carrying 100 apes to a laboratory crashed.

nypost.com

Goddamit. This happened in that documentary I saw!

 

[PeppaPigKilla]

UK: Covid vaccine given to male in hot tub

hold up... this was an option?

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

hold up... this was an option?

If it was I wasn't offered it. I was in a room with like 70 other people.

 

[PeppaPigKilla]

If it was I wasn't offered it. I was in a room with like 70 other people.

Me too, Shaun and Faisal were my jab guys and they did a stellar job, I just feel the experience could of been heightened by a hot tub

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Me too, Shaun and Faisal were my jab guys and they did a stellar job, I just feel the experience could of been heightened by a hot tub

Aye, my three visits to that hub were all smooth sailing but yes, a hot tub would have been the icing on the event. Nice to know they have been able to use techniques like this to soothe people who would not be able to face a needle otherwise. Hopefully a non-needle technique will come along soon to help those even a hot tub can't soothe.

 

[Vavrik]

Goddamit. This happened in that documentary I saw!

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Yeah but that documentary was about apes, not monkies... wait didn't that documentary feature some Hollywood stars? It was nice of them to donate time like that!

 

[Vavrik]

- UK: Covid vaccine given to male in hot tub

Maybe read the article first. ... ... Good you read it then? ...

So yes, there are things that can be done so you would qualify for that kind of treatment. I think some of the brain surgeries they did back in the 50's and 60's might work. It's a lot easier if you're just born with autism though, the surgeries like that are kind of hit and miss and you really don't want to be on the side of a miss.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Maybe read the article first. ... ... Good you read it then? ...

I point you toward the disclaimer on every Corner:

*claims made by headlines or articles are those of the outlets and have not been independently verified, or in some cases even read, by myself.

That said, yes I did read that one I think we were being more of the cheeky scamp scale than the incensed at the injustice of not getting a hot tub scale.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets* from today, Sunday 23nd of January 2022:
*claims made by headlines or articles are those of the outlets and have not been independently verified, or in some cases even read, by myself.

- World: Global Confirmed 349,992,55 Global Deaths 5,593,886

- New Zealand: 'Such is life': NZ Prime Minister calls off wedding

- UK: Two arrests over 'intimidation' on anti-vax march

- UK: Wales could recruit non-jabbed English NHS staff

- Russia: Russia breaks daily case total for third day in a row

- WHO: WHO official cautions Omicron will not be the last variant of note

 

[Jolly_Green_Giant]

Aye, my three visits to that hub were all smooth sailing but yes, a hot tub would have been the icing on the event. Nice to know they have been able to use techniques like this to soothe people who would not be able to face a needle otherwise. Hopefully a non-needle technique will come along soon to help those even a hot tub can't soothe.

I remember I got my flu "shot" a couple times via nasal spray.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets* from today, Monday 24th of January 2022:
*claims made by headlines or articles are those of the outlets and have not been independently verified, or in some cases even read, by myself.

- World: Global Confirmed 352,562,011 Global Deaths 5,599,382

- US: Rising Covid cases in US nursing homes prompts hospital warnings

- US: Trial delayed after Sarah Palin catches Covid

- UK: Tory minister resigns in House of Lords over Covid Business Support Loans fraud

- UK: Prime Minister faces key week ahead of No 10 parties report

- WHO: ‘Paradigm shift’ needed in way WHO is funded, says director general

- Long Covid: Half of first-wave Covid cases may have lasting harm to sense of smell

- Italy: Italy says Omicron has peaked

- Japan: Japan to extend Covid restrictions

- WHO: WHO confirm that 80m global cases of Omicron have been reported to them since it emerged

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets* from today, Tuesday 25th of January 2022:
*claims made by headlines or articles are those of the outlets and have not been independently verified, or in some cases even read, by myself.

- World: Global Confirmed 356,366,271 Global Deaths 5,609,576

- US: U.S. Confirmed 71,757,900

- Vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech start trials of new Omicron jab

- UK: Prime Minister birthday event held in No 10 during lockdown

- UK: A million pupils out of school as Covid worsens

- UK: Met police investigating Downing Street parties, says Cressida Dick

- US: US to distribute 400m free N95 masks to pharmacies and health centres

- Italy: Italy's daily cases more than double in a day to 186,740

- Long COVID: Long Covid: doctors find ‘antibody signature’ for patients most at risk

- World: Inflation and Omicron will dent world growth in 2022, says IMF

 

[stockish]

Omicron 2: Viral Avenue apparently is getting a release date after starting filming. Like most sequels thought, it seems it wont meet expectations.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets* from today, Wednesday 26th of January 2022:
*claims made by headlines or articles are those of the outlets and have not been independently verified, or in some cases even read, by myself.

- World: Global Confirmed 359,878,263 Global Deaths 5,619,931

- US: U.S. Confirmed 72,247,263

- US: Unvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston hospital

- UK: New Covid drug therapy works, says arthritis patient

- UK: 'Counterfeit' masks warnings repeatedly dismissed

- UK: Two-thirds with Omicron say they had Covid before

- Restrictions: Netherlands lifts toughest curbs, with France and Denmark to follow

- Long Covid: Coronavirus vaccines may reduce long Covid risks, study finds

- New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern shrugs off car chase by anti-vaccine protesters

- Sweden: Sweden extends pandemic curbs by two weeks as Omicron spreads

- Austria: Austria ends lockdown on unvaccinated as pressure on hospitals eases

- Denmark: Denmark proposing to end all remaining Covid restrictions next week

- Germany: Germany sets new record of 164,000 daily Covid cases as parliament to discuss compulsory vaccines

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets* from today, Thursday 27th of January 2022:
*claims made by headlines or articles are those of the outlets and have not been independently verified, or in some cases even read, by myself.

- World: Global Confirmed 363,995,815 Global Deaths 5,630,836

- UK: Man spent most of £50,000 Covid loan on drugs

- UK: No 10 parties report to be published in full

- UK: Chris Whitty assault: Man jailed for eight weeks over attack

- UK: ‘I’ll still wear one’: masks abound despite England rule change

- Outsiders: German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay

- Vaccines: Boosters increase protection against death from Omicron in over-50s to 95% – UKHSA

- UK: English hospitals still under 'sustained pressure', despite over half of patients with Covid treated primarily for something else

- Europe: Boosters could cut Europe's Covid hospitalisations by up to 800,000, says ECDC

- Hong Kong: Hong Kong to shorten 21-day quarantine to 14 days for incoming travellers

 

[Vavrik]

- Vaccines: Boosters increase protection against death from Omicron in over-50s to 95% – UKHSA

- UK: English hospitals still under 'sustained pressure', despite over half of patients with Covid treated primarily for something else

- Europe: Boosters could cut Europe's Covid hospitalisations by up to 800,000, says ECDC

Hang on, we're going for a ride. Includes the US too.

Technical shit below. Stuff = News behind the news, all this is way over your average journalist's head.
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Also, berried in the news is a story from the CDC in the US saying that people with a natural COVID infection AND having at least 2 but preferably 3 COVID jabs is like a firewall to the virus. I have seen the PDF of the study, but the data is very hard to read, as is the CDC's norm - it missed giving the order of these events or saying that there is or is not a significant delta between different orders of shot/jab vs infection. I suspect they couldn't figure that out, or it is based on COVID up to Delta.

There are also scientists trying to figure out how Omicron came - seemingly out of the blue. There are 2 versions as of yesterday, a B.1 (similar origin to what's been infecting us, but we've never seen this before.) And B.2, which appears to be a human adaptation, but has a lot of questions too. Scientists have identified the marker for this over other COVID versions is a deletion of a previously identified insertion that all B.1 versions of the virus have - so it is possible to test for it specifically by looking for the deletion.

There's a bit more. Other scientists are looking at human genetics to see if there is a predictor for what COVID will do. It's just that there is an odd cluster of genetic origin in people who have required hospitalization and/or have died of COVID to date.

 

[Montoya]

Ok, can we move onto the next variant or are we done? :D

 

[Aramsolari]

- Outsiders: German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay

Man….they gotta quit it with all these sequels and remakes!