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Coronavirus

Everyday this goes on without any reports of serious illness in South Africa, the more promising its looking.

We're 10 days or so now since cases really started to rise, and hospitalisations come something like between 2-12 days from first symptoms IIRC (day 5 has tended to be the crucial one, where it turns one way or the other, with previous strains).
 
Gutter Boy said:
Everyday this goes on without any reports of serious illness in South Africa, the more promising its looking.

We're 10 days or so now since cases really started to rise, and hospitalisations come something like between 2-12 days from first symptoms IIRC (day 5 has tended to be the crucial one, where it turns one way or the other, with previous strains).
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Optimistically cautious I reckon
 
Gutter Boy said:
Everyday this goes on without any reports of serious illness in South Africa, the more promising its looking.

We're 10 days or so now since cases really started to rise, and hospitalisations come something like between 2-12 days from first symptoms IIRC (day 5 has tended to be the crucial one, where it turns one way or the other, with previous strains).
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Feels very much like the next natural phase of the virus being with us.
Right to be cautious, but a positive sign for the future
 
Cases up 12% week on week. Deaths up 3% in the same period; hospitalisations down 0.1%.

Let’s hope the latter two numbers remain steady. They’ve begun heading in the wrong direction again.

The WHO’s latest statement seems to indicate that they are increasingly confident that vaccines should largely hold and severity of disease may be reduced. Sounds positive.
 
Mikey10 said:
Cases up 12% week on week. Deaths up 3% in the same period; hospitalisations down 0.1%.

Let’s hope the latter two numbers remain steady. They’ve begun heading in the wrong direction again.

The WHO’s latest statement seems to indicate that they are increasingly confident that vaccines should largely hold and severity of disease may be reduced. Sounds positive.
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Fauci was fairly positive again yesterday that illnesses weren't coming through in South Africa: "There is some suggestion that it might even be less severe, because when you look at some of the cohorts that are being followed in South Africa, the ratio between the number of infections and the number of hospitalisations seems to be less than with Delta."
 
markysimmo said:
The clam can fudge off

https://twitter.com/x/status/1468529920758493194
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Report from south africa. Thankfully there is still no sign of any increased strain on the health service. Ofcourse they are concerned the sheer numbers may do so in the next week.

 
(Bloomberg) --
Netcare Ltd., which operates the largest private health-care network in South Africa, is seeing milder Covid-19 cases even as as omicron is driving up the number of people testing positive for the virus.
The symptoms displayed by patients in Netcare’s hospitals in the epicenter of the current fourth wave, the province of Gauteng, “are far milder than anything we experienced during the first three waves,” Chief Executive Officer Richard Friedland said in a statement Wednesday. About 90% of Covid-19 patients currently in Netcare hospitals need no oxygen therapy and are considered incidental cases, he said.
 
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