What’s in hospital now is surely based on when …

Infection levels when they were circa 50 k though. Surely strain will be enormous when this lot filters through even allowing for milder illness ?

Posted By: loz on December 29th 2021 at 22:39:10

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These reports of kids in hospital with this covid variant are a bit of a worry …. (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:11:35
- Seems unlikely to affect children badly (Coronavirus) - paulg, Dec 29, 22:58:42
  - Milder due to vaccination and previous infection (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 23:01:52
    - But kids were never badly affected as a class (n/m) (Coronavirus) - paulg, Dec 29, 23:10:45
      - Yeah it doesn’t seem any worse this time around (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 23:15:08
        
        Surely with 180,000 cases there’ll be a good number (Coronavirus) - jamesward, Dec 29, 23:21:40
        
        Which is why I’d like them kicked out if sick with covid (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 23:33:23
- I suppose kids are now the largest group of unvaccinated people (Coronavirus) - Jim, Dec 29, 22:43:43
  - 2 jabs still protective of serious illness (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:45:37
- Presumably there's more than a degree of 'herd immunity' to the Gov's current approach? (n/m) (Coronavirus) - NxNW, Dec 29, 22:23:43
  - More the NHS can cope surely (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:28:44
    - Will they have enough staff to cope … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:30:53
      - The Gov (rightly or wrongly) will just cut isolation to 5 (or even 0) days (n/m) (Coronavirus) - NxNW, Dec 29, 22:39:42
        
        Talk of 0 days for kids (n/m) (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:40:51
      - At the moment the situation is manageable (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:33:59
        
        What’s in hospital now is surely based on when … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:39:10
        
        That’s the concern (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:40:10
        
        Shouldn’t we be doing something to mitigate that risk until we know … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:41:55
        
        Quite possibly (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:44:22
        
        Backing booster to flatten curve sufficiently? (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SimonOTBC, Dec 29, 23:35:55
        
        Will be interesting to see if data changes … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:48:18
- Doesn’t seem to affect kids disproportionately though (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:16:28
  - This thread doesn’t fill one with confidence … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:18:22
    - That’s just her timeline (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:22:02
      - Not sure you can be over cautious where kids are concerned … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:25:43
        
        You can if you needlessly keep them out of school (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:31:24
        
        But letting it rip is ultimately likely to mean that happens as … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:39:58
        
        Will be due to infection control, not illness though (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:42:52
        
        But the kids aren’t vaccinated and won’t be for a while … (Coronavirus) - loz, Dec 29, 22:45:31
        
        They weren’t vaccinated before either and did ok (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Dec 29, 22:48:40

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