Here we go again?

[Aqua Letifer]

The EU had a bit of a head start with their increase.

[George K]

Almost two years out, we STILL don't know what the hell is going on.

Gibralter, with a vaccination rate of almost 100% is shutting down. Granted it's a small population, but, it's shutting down.

Other countries are doing the same.

[Jolly]

The Chinese did good this time, didn't they?

On the case rate...I wonder what the dominate strain is and I wonder if the virus is mutating to a less lethal form?

[Axtremus]

What vaccines have Gibraltar been administering?
Our usual Pfizer/Moderna/J&J or the other vaccines exported by China, Russia, or even India?

[LuFins Dad]

Another big increase day over day. We have started noticing an uptick in our neck of the woods…

[George K]

@george-k said in Here we go again?:

Almost two years out, we STILL don't know what the hell is going on.

Africa: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-pandemics-united-nations-fcf28a83c9352a67e50aa2172eb01a2f

[LuFins Dad]

7-Day average has increased by over 30% over the last two leek. Big increases locally, too.

Oh, and hospitalizations are up.

[Aqua Letifer]

@lufins-dad said in Here we go again?:

7-Day average has increased by over 30% over the last two leek. Big increases locally, too.

Oh, and hospitalizations are up.

Proportionally, though.

[LuFins Dad]

@aqua-letifer said in Here we go again?:

@lufins-dad said in Here we go again?:

7-Day average has increased by over 30% over the last two leek. Big increases locally, too.

Oh, and hospitalizations are up.

Proportionally, though.

Yeah, but it's a little early for the hospitalizations to start increasing. Typically that is 4-6 weeks after the number of cases increase.

[Aqua Letifer]

@lufins-dad said in Here we go again?:

@aqua-letifer said in Here we go again?:

@lufins-dad said in Here we go again?:

7-Day average has increased by over 30% over the last two leek. Big increases locally, too.

Oh, and hospitalizations are up.

Proportionally, though.

Yeah, but it's a little early for the hospitalizations to start increasing. Typically that is 4-6 weeks after the number of cases increase.

Not at all. Ask Jolly: people are going from "hey I feel funny" to dead within a week now due to the variants. Sometimes in 2-3 days.

The nice thing is, many if not most recoveries are also not taking 30-40 days like they used to.

[LuFins Dad]

We’re already surpassing the last wave. The increase over the last two weeks is insane.

[George K]

Cases up.

Deaths, not so much.

Conflating the two is...

[Jolly]

Hope not. Worried about the sheer numbers of this tsunami...

[George K]

@jolly said in Here we go again?:

Hope not. Worried about the sheer numbers of this tsunami...

As @bachophile said...more contagious and less virulent is worse than less contagious and more virulent when it comes to the effect on the population.

[Copper]

@aqua-letifer said in Here we go again?:

people are going from "hey I feel funny" to dead within a week

Not in Maryland.

[LuFins Dad]

543,415 in one day. Granted, this was delayed Christmas weekend reporting, but wow.

[Rich]

Post Xmas around here, there is also an enormous demand for tests. Our local high school has a weekly testing clinic that ran out of tests this past Sunday.

Driving past an urgent care this morning, there was a line outside of 50+ people waiting for tests.

[Axtremus]

@rich said in Here we go again?:

Post Xmas around here, there is also an enormous demand for tests. Our local high school has a weekly testing clinic that ran out of tests this past Sunday.

Driving past an urgent care this morning, there was a line outside of 50+ people waiting for tests.

See https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/13821/at-home-covid-19-test-kits

[Rich]

@axtremus Yeah, I saw that. I'm not in the market myself, but town Facebook groups are filled with people in near-panic because they're can't seem to get a test...either at a clinic or a self-test ready to purchase in a store.

[Jolly]

So what? What difference is a positive or a negative test going to make, other than monoclonal antibody therapy, which supposedly doesn't work well against Omicron?