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| Thread ID: 150417 | 2022-01-16 08:24:00 | Newspaper apologises for covid reporting | piroska (17583) | PC World Chat |
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| 1483581 | 2022-01-17 03:41:00 | World's COVID-19 cases rise 25%; India up 150%, Brazil 129% www.upi.com In addition, studies have shown the outbreak is not as deadly. "I think it's pretty clear Omicron causes less severe disease than the Delta variant, but that's not saying much," University of Western Australia epidemiologist and biostatistician Zoe Hyde wrote in an email to The Scientist. "We know that Delta was more than twice as severe as the original strain, and if Imperial College is right to say that Omicron is about 40-45% less likely to put people in hospital [than Delta was], we're back to 2020 but with a more contagious strain." |
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| 1483582 | 2022-01-18 00:45:00 | Omicron is not milder . so it is milder then :-) "it's pretty clear Omicron causes less severe.." Some virologists saw Omicron as a good thing , as its less severe & will help with herd immunity Perhaps its the next strain of covid we need to worry about . The death rate isnt that high for covid , its hospitals getting overloaded thats the real issue . Perhaps thats why NZ Govt was so worried, no way would NZ's hospitals be to cope . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1483583 | 2022-01-18 00:57:00 | It's milder amongst younger people, still killing older people like most on PressF1 if they remain unvaccinated just like the strains before if you are unlucky or have some form of disease which compromises your immune system. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1483584 | 2022-01-18 03:33:00 | Grim prediction realised as Covid deaths surge nz.news.yahoo.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1483585 | 2022-01-18 04:46:00 | Sorry, they have also been predicting a tropical cyclone here for a week. Weather has been great! Ken |
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| 1483586 | 2022-01-18 08:05:00 | ‘People are spooked’: Australia’s January consumer confidence sinks to three-decade low over Omicron: www.theguardian.com |
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| 1483587 | 2022-01-18 20:20:00 | Grim prediction realised as Covid deaths surge nz.news.yahoo.com more spreading of fear "died with covid" , NOT died because of covid . 36 deaths in 24 hours . how many of those had other medical issues that even the flu would have killed them We forget the flu can be a killer to the very sick . How many would have died within a year regardless . Before covid, what was their death rate for bad flu outbreaks ? Died with Covid IS NOT the same as died because of covid . in that article 29,830 new cases , 36 deaths WITH COVID even IF they all died from covid , thats a very very small % How many die from other issues daily there, I'd bet its alot more than 36 Its time we had a reality check on actual death rates . "Grim prediction realised", DESPITE NUMBERS DROPPING "It brings the total number of active cases in the state to 235,035 - a fall of about 10,000 cases since Monday. There are 1152 patients in hospital, a decrease of 77 on the previous day" Just more scaremongering for the sake of a news story . The headline should have been : covid number declining . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1483588 | 2022-01-18 20:42:00 | Governments keep records of normal number of deaths over the years, the extra mortalities due presumably to Covid are much higher all round the world where records have been kept, even if they are dying of co-morbidities plus Covid, having Covid won't be helping and is probably contributing to their deaths as the older one gets the less it takes to push one over the edge. According to some reports I have been reading Australians are starting to question whether letting Omicron run wild was a good decision by the Government, the next week will give us an answer, maybe we should start to think what a similar strategy will do in NZ which is the direction we seem to be headed in. I feel you are splitting hairs 1101, if one dies and has Covid plus something else maybe multiple illnesses, it is quite likely having the Covid part of disease hasn't helped and has contributed in some way to an extra death especially since the respiratory component of Covid is such a big factor and older people often have those sort of problems as they age. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1483589 | 2022-01-18 22:20:00 | quote " bias leading to misreported causes of death " "New pandemics are often associated with biased changes to cause of death coding" www.bmj.com |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1483590 | 2022-01-18 22:38:00 | 1101, can you not see that the Government is being pressured by right wing, read businessmen to get things back to normal, ie business as usual, the propaganda to achieve this is also ramping up, I am saying to you that the Aussie Gov has made a mistake and we will too if we open up because the pandemic "isn't really that serious". Many people are sick in Aussie, people are hiding in their houses and are certainly not going out shopping, even the business word is starting to recognise that scared people do not make for a flourishing economy, businessmen are now asking the Aussie Gov to do something else since opening up hasn't produced the desired result. So money hungry they can't even recognise reality when it is shoved in their faces. |
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