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A couple of points... 1. You don't need a PCR to enter the US - a lateral flow (supervised, either in person or over online video) is fine. We used DocHQ for our recent visit to the US. You won't have time to sort similar now, but you may be able to make a face-to-face appointment for an LFT...

I'm out. Have fun.

Once again, I'm absolutely delighted that football fans know more than epidemiologists and scientists and relieved that this will all prove to be a fuss over nothing. I'm not being sarcastic here: I genuinely am. Omicron being a fuss over nothing is the best news we could possibly have, and...

I swore I was going to just leave you group of denialists and thumbsup crew today, but I'm weak. What about all the not-foolish fully vaccinated who get Covid? Do you just lump them in with your second class service hospitals? What about the cancer patient who comes in for treatment and tests...

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I hope you're right - that will be amazing for all of us. Fingers crossed.

Indeed. And as I said if we get it wrong by acting early, we row back relieved. (And, let's be clear, Plan B really doesn't make much difference - everything is open, at full capacity and we have to wear a mask now and again.) If we act late and get it wrong, people die, possibly lots and lots...

I'd be delighted if it's a diversionary tactic. Let's check back on this in 6 weeks shall we, and see? Your theory seems to suggest that Omicron is a fuss over nothing and we should all just carry on as we were. I will be absolutely delighted for you to be right on that call.

Amusing? Really? Maybe go back to February/March 2020 on this thread and all the comments like... "Only 23 people have it - what's the fuss about?" "More people die brushing their teeth than have died of this coronavirus thing - why's everyone making a fuss? ...and much more besides. How did...

It's a fine idea. I'm not sure how we accomplish that unless we check vaccination status at the entry to hospital.... Infected with Covid? - check. Vaccinated - check. In you come - we'll sort you out. Next... Got Covid sir? Can I ask if you are vaccinated? Oh you're not? I'm ever so sorry -...

Firstly, I'm absolutely not predicting anything at all! Like everyone else on here, I imagine, what I want is for this thing to fade away sooner rather than later and for the last 20 months or so to just feel like a rather bad dream not too far from now. The unvaccinated are a problem...

It depends on what you mean... As has been the case throughout this, the risk to any of us, individually, remains pretty small particularly if you have no underlying health conditions and are fully-vaxxed up. But, at a country level, I think there are still grounds for quite serious concern...

No, it's OK - you get thumbs up from #TeamNothingToWorryAbout whilst I don't, so I'll leave yours there to harvest those. :lolol:

You've literally posted what I posted in the previous post.

Pfizer have just released their own study >>> https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-provide-update-omicron-variant - Preliminary laboratory studies demonstrate that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine neutralize the Omicron variant...

"The places I've highlighted [UK and Denmark} are seeing the Omicron wave first, but that's because they're set up to find it. A very big wave of cases is coming everywhere; probably this month." The South Northamptonshire case growth illustrated in this thread of tweets shows where this is...

Might be a good time to pick up some FFP2 masks before they become difficult to find and/or prohibitively expensive. The things most of us have probably been using won't be much good against Omicron. £8.99 for 20 was about the best I could see from a quick search - https://amzn.to/3rMWg9Q

Third study in which includes data on boosted vaccinations... "Those results suggests that a large proportion of the population globally is at risk of (re-)infection by the omicron variant over the coming months." "The silver lining is that the far milder omicron symptoms observed to date in...

The media wasting no time to create scare headlines about something they don't really understand: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/pfizer-vaccine-omicron-variant-covid-b1971679.html

You wait for a bus and then two... Second study also in. Tweet from one of the lead scientists here (open for full thread etc): https://twitter.com/BenjMurrell/status/1468341478363746310?s=20 Paper here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CuxmNYj5cpIuxWXhjjVmuDqntxXwlfXQ/view Summary...