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30th Jan 2021: UK Infections - 183,037 Deaths - 57 Patients in hospital with Covid - 8426 31st Jan 2020: UK Infections - 49,510 Deaths - 820 Patients in hospital with Covid - 26,577

Jan 14th 2021 - South Africa: Infections: 18,668 Deaths: 712 Dec 9th 2021 - South Africa: Infections: 22,388 Deaths: 22 Fully vaccinated population: 25.8%

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) model published today has a best case scenario of 1/119 Omicron infections being hospitalised. Fingers crossed but we’re currently on 0/1,265. South Africa have had 4 huge spikes in Covid-19 infection but only 3 huge spikes in deaths...

Fear of Omicron certainly will. What is happening now though is that scores of 20’s-40’s are getting Delta and getting very ill from it. The double doses are expiring with the booster not being rolled out quick enough. Thousands of people will have their Christmas wrecked by catching Covid...

Well it’s clear that Omicron is a few levels up from Delta in terms of transmissibility. However, this sort Omicron data (no matter how statistically insignificant) does at least give a tiny bit of hope that it could be less severe than Delta. “And despite the infectiousness of the new...

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Neither do I! [emoji3526] But I was wondering why the common cold has not mutated into a killer virus? My assumption is that it’s evolution baby, we know that viruses need living hosts, they are not in the business of killing people, their aim is simply to replicate, corpses are ineffective...

So far, scientists know that Omicron is highly transmissible. However, they are also reporting "extremely mild symptoms". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59450988 If this variant continues to be extremely mild, even in vulnerable people, it could become the dominant strain and finally...