Corona Virus Treatment

are you sure it flu and not covid

 

Omicron will be kept under control for vulnerable people - by popping a pill.

A new oral COVID-19 treatment has been approved for adults in Britain who are at high risk of developing severe infection.

The treatment called Paxlovid has been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) after it was found to be safe and effective at reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death in people with mild to moderate COVID-19 infection who are at an increased risk of developing severe disease.

If any country in the UK tries to introduce another lock down - I don't think that they are going to like the public reaction.

 

My oldest son and his partner have Covid. They got their positive results yesterday. She is asymptomatic and can go back to work after 5 days. He is not well but no worse than having a nasty cold/touch of flu so I am not at all worried. He said his symptoms are already starting to recede so he'll be fine in a few days. They were both double vaxxed so that is probably why the mild or non existent symptoms.

New rules over here are:
If you are asymptomatic with a positive test, it's 5 days isolation for you.
If you are symptomatic, it is 5 days after the symptoms disappear.
If you maybe, possibly came in contact with someone who is infected but are double vaxxed, you don't have to isolate.

And even if your rapid test shows positive, unless you have severe symptoms, don't turn up looking for a PCR test. Those are for people who are really sick, not just suffering with cold/flu like symptoms.

In other words, if you aren't going to die, suck it up butter cup. Be a responsible adult. No whinging!

Someone said here previously but I don't remember who. The new omicron covid is the old flu.

 

I was under the impression that covid was similar to sars and was a relative of the common cold.

I thought Flu was a totally different virus.

Not got anything to back that up, just think I read it somewhere.

If the tests are really showing positives for things like the common cold and flu, are you suggesting that the thing we are all calling Omicron is just a cold that it is probably not covid at all.

 

Well all I can say is, if the tests they are sending out in their millions cant tell the difference between a cold, flu or covid, then the whole thing is a farce.
And a very expensive one.

 

Cases going down in South Africa. What's happening is South Africa will happen here - are you listening Boris?

Their approach is back to normal if you don't feel ill - including asymptomatic. If feeling iffy isolate for a couple of days.

Apparently a touch over 800 people are in UK hospitals because of covid - from a population of 67 million.

It will all be over February - at least in vaccinated countries - we now need to turn our attention to countries with low vaccination levels and chuck everything we have at them.

 

The test can tell the difference - I don't think that even BoJo is silly enough to shell out all that dosh on dodgy tests.

My understanding is that the cold is a corona virus but the flu is not. We live with colds - soon we will be living with covid.

I wonder if it would be possible to artificially engineer an Omicron equivalent for when the next virus hits us? Omicron has saved our collective back sides. Lord help us if Omicron turned out to be more harmful as well as more easily transmitted - or perhaps he already has.

 

Not sure if this is relevant, not read it all, but looks suspicious.
Freedom of Information request on accuracy of lateral flow tests (FOI 21/727)

 

I've just nipped over to the BBC and a local news outlet. Both doom mongering over the increasing number of infections. Perhaps someone should point out that infection leads to natural immunity - which is stronger immunity than the jab and which will help us fight off any other variants that pop their head up. We will all end up getting Omicron - it's inevitable - all we have to do is make sure that we are ready to fight it off. Anti vaxxers take note....

The facts are manipulated so much in the media - I'm all for freedom of the press - but for goodness sake...