Covid: UK records more than 150,000 deaths More than 150,000 people in the UK have now died within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the pandemic began. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59923936
Oh, the irony now of 2020 has now made a full circle in which we debated with the Natural Immunity folks that believed in locking down the elderly and letting everyone else go on with their lives... We (gwb, others, and I) stated that 1/3 of the U.S. population have underlying medical conditions that will cause mass deaths, flatten our healthcare systems, and destroy the country if we let Covid rip through the population to appease the Natural Immunity fanatics... Our population is so unhealthy that something like Omicron that causes mild illness can be deadly due to 1/3 of our population because they have multiple underlying medical conditions that many do not know they have. Think about the very carefully while you absorb the latest health studies of hospitalized Omicron patients... https://www.wsj.com/articles/now-she-tells-us-11641843802 We've been telling many here since early 2020 but too many idiots argue because they wanted to make the Pandemic a political issue. In fact, I counted about a dozen threads in 2020 here at ET that specially talked about exercising, losing weight, eating nutritional meals, immune-system boost supplements...essentially staying healthy. #comorbidities Something else to contemplate, the United States of America has a whopping 42.4% Obesity Prevalence. That's a lot of food source for any Variant of Concern while the elderly are lockdown and the rest of the population are having a good time with Covid...it would not have worked. You Reap What You Sow wrbtrader
Reap what ya Sow? lol. Ironic ya say. LOL. Locking down the elderly = send covid victims into nursing homes. That's Grim. and Redonkulous.
Ben Carson Echoes Trump, Says Covid Test Shortage Isn’t ‘Such a Bad Thing’ Because It Means Fewer ‘Positive People’ According to Carson, who is a neurosurgeon, ignorance is bliss when it comes to the pandemic https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...arson-covid-testing-shortage-not-bad-1282326/
So much for the new CDC 5 day guidance... One in ten people with Covid still infectious after 10 days, study suggests https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-infectious-test-ten-days-b1992797.html
Wastewater monitoring has been very effective at monitoring Covid infection levels and variant types in the community. Scientists can detect COVID-19 in wastewater weeks before anyone tests positive Wastewater surveillance is becoming more widespread in the U.S. to fight COVID-19. https://www.foxnews.com/us/scientists-detect-covid-19-wastewater-weeks-before-anyone-tests-positive The race to track the spread of COVID-19 is taking scientists into the sewers. They’re using wastewater to detect the virus even before people start visiting doctors and hospitals. The state of Nevada announced its first known case of the omicron variant on Dec. 14 after a woman tested positive. Scientists at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas detected the variant a week before. "As we bring it up, we harvest about 500 milliliters of sewage, and this is what you’ll see," said Dr. Edwin Oh, an associate professor at the UNLV School of Medicine and the Nevada Institute of Medicine. For the past two years, Dr. Oh and his students have spent hours each day analyzing wastewater to see how much of the virus is in southern Nevada. "We can go to a stadium and we can tell you that in the stadium, you have extraordinary levels of a virus, therefore it could be a superspreader event," Dr. Oh said. Under the wastewater surveillance program, UNLV and the Southern Nevada Water Authority collect samples from sewers and water treatment facilities. Then, they test the samples in a lab. "In the simplest sense, everybody poops, and so we get that information regardless if they’re going out and getting those clinical tests," said Dr. Daniel Gerrity, the SNWA’s principal research lab scientist. "It’s not just something we want to send down the pipe and get rid of. It’s a treasure trove of information." Scientists have been able to detect new variants of the virus weeks or even up to a month before anyone receives a positive test result. Virus levels may rise in wastewater before an outbreak is detected because people can shed the virus in their waste several days before they might show symptoms and get tested. "Having that wastewater surveillance, you’ll know without testing anyone whether you have a pathogen or you have a drug circulating in that community," Dr. Oh said. The most shocking moment was when Omicron appeared. "For Omicron, in certain cities, we went from 20% of a community having Omicron all the way to 95% in a week, and that was a big surprise for us," Dr. Oh said. "It just shows how quickly a pathogen can enter into a community and just simply take over." Wastewater surveillance has been used before in discovering cases of polio and the presence of drugs. Now, it's becoming more widespread in the U.S. to fight COVID-19. At least 34 states and the District of Columbia have a program like this. The CDC also has its own National Wastewater Surveillance System. The technique helps narrow down where a majority of the virus is, and for tourist cities like Las Vegas, it’s a good indicator of who is infected. "Our hypothesis right now is that we’re getting a significant fraction of SARS-COVID-2 nucleic acid from the people who are visiting and not just the local community," Dr. Gerrity said. "In more recent months, tourism is almost back to its levels of pre-pandemic time. What we’ve seen is that we have higher concentrations in the wastewater than we had seen previously." Wastewater surveillance has also been used to spot COVID-19 upticks in college dorms, prisons and other large settings. They expanded the wastewater surveillance program to monitor flu strains. One question these scientists get a lot is whether you can contract COVID-19 from wastewater. The answer is no.
Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe announced Thursday that he would not follow other provinces in further violations of our rights and freedoms, and furthermore stated clearly that the draconian measures are not working. https://strongandfreecanada.org/iro...wan-refuses-further-violations-of-our-rights/
Virginia joins the Free States, as its new governor ends "vaccine" mandate for state employees, mask mandates in schools https://www.theepochtimes.com/virgi...ployees-mask-mandates-in-schools_4215711.html