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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Very scarily, this looks like a "Don't Look Up!"... Concern over flu and winter viruses but Covid levels unchanged wrote: ... The flu season has started early and some children under five are ending up in hospital, health officials say. Meanwhile, our hospitals are already at breaking point and look more like the desperate mess of a third world country (not for lack of superhuman dedicated work by completely overwhelmed staff): 'I wouldn't bring a member of my family to this hospital,' says medic wrote: Steve Barclay is back as England's health secretary, just as the NHS prepares for what its chief executive Amanda Pritchard says could be a "very, very challenging winter". And no surprises here: Biggest NHS union ballots staff over strike action wrote: ... Unison is not the only health union taking action. The other major ones, including the Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Midwives, GMB and Unite, have all started to, or are planning to, ballot members... How much further are going to abuse the NHS into destruction? How come our MPs are seemingly doing nothing useful about this?... Undoubtedly, people are dying unnecessarily. Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
And we have... NHS boss Amanda Pritchard says patients not always getting care they deserve wrote: ... Ms Pritchard told the King's Fund annual conference in London that demand was rising more quickly than the NHS could cope with. ... And the solution is? And there is also the question of why the NHS is suffering yet increasingly more unhealthy people?... Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
"Watching the river flood and being swept away just the same..." NHS disruption driving rise in heart deaths... wrote: Extreme disruption to NHS services has been driving a sharp spike in heart disease deaths since the start of the pandemic... Yet this has long ago been foreseen: 23 August 2022 - ONS: Why is the number of deaths higher than expected? wrote: The threat from Covid may have receded, but renewed concerns are being raised about the high number of total deaths being recorded... Stay healthy?!!... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36800 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
A listeria outbreak is about in the U.S.. 1 dead, over a dozen sick from outbreak tied to deli meat. A food poisoning outbreak tied to deli meat and cheese has sickened 16 people, including one who died, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Oh dear, this is nasty and senseless: Measles outbreak erupts among unvaccinated children in Ohio daycare wrote: ... “Measles is both highly contagious and preventable,” Joe Mazzola, Franklin County health commissioner, said in the release. “It can be a severe illness, so we strongly encourage anyone who has not been vaccinated to get vaccinated to prevent further spread.” I knew a girl who was very athletic and attractive. Unfortunately she had suffered measles as a child before having been vaccinated, and was left with some lifelong damage that was occasionally very disabling and disruptive. Very definitely a nasty one to avoid! Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36800 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Oh these cruise ships are a health problem. Cruise ship Majestic Princess with hundreds of COVID-infected passengers docks in Sydney. Health authorities are working with the operators of the Majestic Princess cruise ship that has docked in Sydney Harbour with hundreds of people infected with COVID on board. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Mmmmm... The problem is with covid, is that you can test negative showing no present infectious spread, yet still be infected to start spewing out virus a few days later... All of those passengers should be quarantined in isolation for a three or four days and retested to keep with reality. I wonder if this is why we have a continuing pandemic?... We really need more to be vaccinated to stop this ongoing deadly silliness... Stay safe folks... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Opinions and evidence differ... Indeed, the present vaccines for covid do not guarantee that you are somehow invulnerable and can never get infected. However: The vaccines do usefully prime your immune system to avoid the infection progressing further... That aspect is significant to reduce the viral load that is spewed out. Less virus means fewer other people around you get subsequently infected from you (unknowingly, or otherwise...). Hence the continuing official advice to get vaccinated. However, if only people were better aware and better prepared to stay vaccinated... For our very human culture, vaccination is the quickest way out of the continuing pandemic. Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
You are correctly back peddling from your previous all encomassing statement. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Not at all. If we can reach a critical threshold of people being vaccinated, the reduced viral load pulls the infection rate down to then bring the pandemic to an end. To reduce the "Replication Rate" 'R' down to less than 1.00 (so that an infected person infects no more than one other person to then have the pandemic die out), we can isolate everyone, enforce wearing good masks, or vaccinate. Of those options, the vaccination route is the least likely to cause riots... Or we just suffer a much degraded way of life until Darwin catches up... Note how (the consequences of) the Black Death, hundreds of years later, still affects most of us even today... Stay healthy folks... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
Martin is correct; there is scientifically accepted, peer-reviewed data showing that COVID-19 vaccines among others prevent exposure to an infectious agent from resulting in infection with signs/symptoms, as well as reducing severity. Scientific Citation: Kelly M Hatfield, James Baggs, Hannah Wolford, Michael Fang, Ammarah A Sattar, Kelsey S Montgomery, Steven Jin, John Jernigan, Tamara Pilishvili, Effectiveness of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection Among Residents of US Nursing Homes Before and During the Delta Variant Predominance, December 2020–November 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 75, Issue Supplement_2, 1 October 2022, Pages S147–S154 For adults: 58% overall, without prior infection 67% < 150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Pfizer-BioNTech, pre-Delta period 75% <150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Moderna, pre-Delta period 33% >150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Pfizer-BioNTech, Delta period 77% >150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Moderna, Delta period (This is only for one adult mRNA study. There are dozens of others supporting it.) As this is not a matter of opinion, posts to the contrary will be handled as spreading of false medical info. (Note: I had to change the less-than-or-equal signs to less-than as the forum choked on them and threw an error.) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
For yet another example: Have I dodged Covid and what does it mean? wrote: ... The virus has swept the world since it emerged in China nearly three years ago. Fresh variants have become better and better at infecting us. Even vaccines make Covid milder rather than being an impenetrable shield. Personally, I'd rather not chance my good health to just "luck", or to "tempting fate"... Instead... Improve your chances? Especially so for what is now an extremely well tested family of vaccines... Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
There are multiple levels of painful consequences: Solve worker shortages with immigration - CBI boss wrote: ... "First, we have lost hundreds of thousands of people to economic inactivity post Covid," he said. "And anyone who thinks they'll all be back any day now - with the NHS under the pressure it is - is kidding themselves. IIRC, here in the UK we have over Two Million people suffering long term sickness from covid. And that's before you start counting those unable to work due to waiting for NHS treatment... So... The 'Russian Solution' is that we import people in to hide the gaps? Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
There are consequences... The puzzle of UK’s half a million missing workers wrote: For the first time, more than 2.5 million people in the UK are out of work because of a long-term health problem... The puzzle is why that all might be some sort of puzzle... All very unhealthy. Stay healthy?! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
"Watching the river flood and being swept away just the same..." Patients dying as ambulances face crippling delays in England wrote: Ambulance crews are facing crippling delays when they arrive at A&E with sick patients, NHS bosses are warning. ... And yet?... Stay healthy folks!!! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36800 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
There's hope yet. A drug to beat dementia and slow memory-robbing Alzheimer’s has been proven to work for the first time. A drug to beat dementia has been proven to work for the first time. Tests found the treatment, called lecanemab, slows memory-robbing Alzheimer’s. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3345 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
OKAY, this makes NO SENSE... “As European countries battle to limit the spread of the virus, Verein Sterbehilfe – the German Euthanasia Association – has issued a new directive, declaring it will now only help those who have been vaccinated or recovered from the disease,” The Spectator explains. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36800 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Have they found the answer? Moderna mRNA melanoma vaccine may be 'the penicillin moment' in cancer treatment, researchers say. A world-first melanoma vaccine which personalises treatments for patients may put an end to melanoma as a "death sentence", according to Australian experts. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
"Watching the river flood and being swept away just the same..." There are consequences: Largest nursing strike in NHS history starts wrote: Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have started a nationwide strike in the largest action of its kind in NHS history. Except... Is not the primary issue that of the quality of life for the NHS staff, undoing all the management incompetence, profiteering, and the Government neglect that is destroying the service? ... And unnecessarily killing people?... ... And yet?... Stay healthy folks!!! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21227 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Read all about it... In the very recent news, we have quite a mixed list... Large, real-world study finds COVID-19 vaccination more effective than natural immunity wrote: In one of the first large, real-world studies comparing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines versus natural immunity in protecting against death, hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for any cause, including COVID, research-scientists ... report that people of all age groups benefited significantly more from vaccination than natural immunity acquired from a previous COVID infection. The lower death rate of vaccinated individuals was especially impressive for adults ages 60 years or older... Pandemic's two-year global death toll may be close to 15 million wrote: Almost 15 million people likely died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, nearly three times more than previously reported... More exercise linked to less-severe COVID-19 outcomes wrote: ... study of nearly 200,000 adults showed an association between physical activity and improved COVID-19 outcomes across major demographic groups regardless of whether patients had chronic medical conditions. Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients had a greater risk of adverse outcomes compared with white patients, in line with prior research. However, within each racial and ethnic group, more exercise was still associated with less severe COVID-19 outcomes. Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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