New Covid strain spreading across the UK that's less likely to cause symptoms

[Mitz]

Have you watched the Telegraph video i posted?

Yes mate. I don't think it's panicking to try and stop the spread of a variant that could potentially evade vaccine immunity to a large degree and be far more contagious from sweeping the entire country unchecked until the hard data is in. Have we got the actual data from SA about severity? Age groups? Genders? Long term effects? How many cases do we currently have per day? Do we want it up to hundreds of k a day with a virus that's already mutated so much and clearly worries many medical and scientific professionals? What if it mutates once or a dozen times more over here? Will it remain (allegedly) less harmful, if mutations are random? Can we be certain?

I'll hold fire until there's more empirical data than one doc giving an interview about what she's seeing in SA before I'll agree that any new variant should just be allowed to let rip across the population this far in to a pandemic and vaccination campaign.

But it's interesting, granted. Happy to hear her say cases appear mild. Time will tell. Just my opinion tho. YMMV.

 

[SirLugg]

I see this as good news.
What we want is a less deadly more transmissible strain to pop up, become more dominant somit to pushes all the other more deadly ones aside.
Something like Omnicron might be just the ticket!

Agreed Ripple old lad. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[mention]mick brown [/mention] when are you *not* in a funny mood? [emoji1787]

 

[mick brown]

Agreed Ripple old lad. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[mention]mick brown [/mention] when are you *not* in a funny mood? [emoji1787]

Point Chris [emoji16] a very valid one at that [emoji23]

 

[Mitz]

3rd case confirmed. Tryna trace thousands of fliers over that last couple weeks. Good to make the effort imho, but if we should've learned one thing during this pandemic it's that once the cat is out of the bag - the f****** is virtually impossible to get back in.


Think Mr. Ripple's stance is most likely gonna play out whether we like it or not.

 

[Mr Ripple]

3rd case confirmed. Tryna trace thousands of fliers over that last couple weeks. Good to make the effort imho, but if we should've learned one thing during this pandemic it's that once the cat is out of the bag - the f****** is virtually impossible to get back in.


Think Mr. Ripple's stance is most likely gonna play out whether we like it or not.

Any of these cases proved fatal or lead to hospitalisation yet?

 

[Mitz]

Any of these cases proved fatal or lead to hospitalisation yet?

Which cases?

 

[Mr Ripple]

Which cases?

Am i in the twilight zone and this thread is not really about Omnicron?

 

[Mitz]

Am i in the twilight zone and this thread is not really about Omnicron?

I posted about a 3rd case in the UK and you asked if "any of these cases" led to death or hospital.

Just clarifying whether you're referring to UK or global? UK cases are just detected so clearly not. Global, I have no idea.

 

[Mr Ripple]

I posted about a 3rd case in the UK and you asked if "any of these cases" led to death or hospital.

Just clarifying whether you're referring to UK or global?

Ah globally.
Everything I've seen so far suggests as I've said its more transmissible but doesn't appear to be worse with some reports suggesting it's not even leading to hospitalisation.

 

[Mitz]

Ah globally.
Everything I've seen so far suggests as I've said its more transmissible but doesn't appear to be worse with some reports suggesting it's not even leading to hospitalisation.

First detected in SA on the 23rd and reported to the WHO by SA on the 24th? Mebe a little premature to be drawing too many conclusions just yet?