Coronavirus

[ceecee]

Delta CEO asks CDC to cut quarantine time for breakthrough COVID cases

Delta Air Lines Inc's chief executive asked the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday to shrink quarantine guidelines for fully vaccinated individuals who experience breakthrough COVID-19 infections, citing the impact on the carrier's workforce.

www.reuters.com

CDC shortens recommended Covid-19 isolation and quarantine time | CNN

The CDC shortened the recommended times that people should isolate when they've tested positive for Covid-19 from 10 days to five days if they don't have symptoms -- and if they wear a mask around others for at least five more days.

www.cnn.com

 

[Red Herring]

Delta CEO asks CDC to cut quarantine time for breakthrough COVID cases

Delta Air Lines Inc's chief executive asked the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday to shrink quarantine guidelines for fully vaccinated individuals who experience breakthrough COVID-19 infections, citing the impact on the carrier's workforce.

www.reuters.com

CDC shortens recommended Covid-19 isolation and quarantine time | CNN

The CDC shortened the recommended times that people should isolate when they've tested positive for Covid-19 from 10 days to five days if they don't have symptoms -- and if they wear a mask around others for at least five more days.

www.cnn.com

Over here they are expecting massive staff fallout in basically all industries due to omicron.

As for quarantine, the duration depends on the virus variant. If you are fully vaccinated and show no symptoms, you only have to quarantine for beta, gamma and omicron. The duration is either 10 days without a test or 5 days with a negative pcr test or 7 days with a negative antigen test.

Masks are a non-issue because they are compulsory nationwide anyway (actually all over the continent, as far as I know).

Which leads m to my initial reaction to the rules you posted:

HOW COME YOU GUYS STILL DON'T HAVE A NATIONAL MASK MANDATE???

 

[Virtual ghost]

UK + 129 400
France + 179 800
Italy + 78 300


This is going to be fun.
Today we are clearly going over a million in a day globally.

 

[ceecee]

Over here they are expecting massive staff fallout in basically all industries due to omicron.

As for quarantine, the duration depends on the virus variant. If you are fully vaccinated and show no symptoms, you only have to quarantine for beta, gamma and omicron. The duration is either 10 days without a test or 5 days with a negative pcr test or 7 days with a negative antigen test.

Masks are a non-issue because they are compulsory nationwide anyway (actually all over the continent, as far as I know).

Which leads m to my initial reaction to the rules you posted:

HOW COME YOU GUYS STILL DON'T HAVE A NATIONAL MASK MANDATE???

Biden saying there is no federal solution to COVID means our patchwork response continues

Biden saying it's up to the states to end the pandemic puts a spotlight on just how different the states have reacted.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Stigmata]

Biden saying there is no federal solution to COVID means our patchwork response continues

Biden saying it's up to the states to end the pandemic puts a spotlight on just how different the states have reacted.

www.usatoday.com

Red states: The federal government doesn't have the consitutional authority to place vaccine mandates on private business!

Also red states: Biden isn't doing anything to help with our surging covid numbers!

 

[Virtual ghost]

Here we are
World: +1 070 000
Plus there will be a few more hundred thousands before the end of the day.
Btw. this could be the worst day on the record for the US.

 

[Virtual ghost]

With adding of some numbers the previous US record has fallen already on 24th.
However now there is a tie with new record and there are still some states to count. So the record will fall again today.


Edit: 10 seconds later: new record it is

 

[Virtual ghost]

I never thought that I will say something like this but lately I got hooked up on Indian right wing news (on English). I mean it is interesting since you get out of the bubble of first world media. Plus I must say I like how straight forward this is in a number of global issues as the channel.


Therefore this makes a decent closing thought of 2021.

 

[Virtual ghost]

This is just to see how much higher we are getting relative to the past peaks globally.
What is btw greatly rising the risk of another variant.


Worldometer

 

[ceecee]

Red states: The federal government doesn't have the consitutional authority to place vaccine mandates on private business!

Also red states: Biden isn't doing anything to help with our surging covid numbers!

I was using that article to illustrate why there is no national mask mandate but yeah...this too.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Today the incoming numbers are visibly worse than yesterday. What means that this wasn't anomaly but just "the newest normal".

 

[Virtual ghost]

US: +461 000
World +1 575 000


And counting ......

 

[Vendrah]

Worldwide cases are spiking due to new year celebrations worldwide! Although in my country, it is still low... "Theoretically" (its not like this country do much COVID tests anyway...).

 

[Abcdenfp]

After 2 years of dodging Rona, I contracted Omicron, it has been mild so far i still have a nagging cough. I was one week away from my booster time frame but I consider myself boosted now. I wont be getting any more vaccines or boosters at this time.

 

[JAVO]

I've been away from this thread for some time because life has been busy, but also because I (and my immediate family) had what was likely Delta in October. It was annoying enough that I found no joy in posting about it. I missed about 2-3 scattered days of work even though I already work from home, mostly so that I could get some rest (sleeping about 12-16 hours per day). It was similar in impact to handful of severe influenza infections I've had, but it didn't come close to the viral pneumonia I had in my early 20's.

Anyway, I wanted to post this because I think it's a good summary of why we're quite possibly at a good point in the pandemic with the latest Omicron variant.

Besides, there are only so many letters left in the Greek alphabet.

 

[Vendrah]

Daily new cases are highest than ever on Worldmeter globally.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I hope the vaccines work well at least holding the deaths a bit.

If the virus actually keep mutating in ways to turn out to make useless most of our measures, then we may live with full hospitals and death and maybe another crisis on this whole decade, but I hope that doesn't happen.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Daily new cases are highest than ever on Worldmeter globally.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I hope the vaccines work well at least holding the deaths a bit.

Yeah, the curve is evidently flattening. Although on the wrong axis.

 

[ceecee]

U.S. reports 1.35 million COVID-19 cases in a day, shattering global record

The United States reported 1.35 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, the highest daily total for any country in the world as the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant showed no signs of slowing.

www.reuters.com

#1 baby!

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

If it came from a lab, then it was designed to keep mutating and to maximize any effects of "long COVID" on the infected, even after the recovery from the so-called flu stage of infection. You'd think Trumpies, who, at the start of this thing, were more likely to spout the conspiracy theories suggesting COVID is human-made, would thus recognize that this is anything but another simple flu and approach it as a deadly, unpredictable contagion. But ya know.

This is likely far from over. Those who want it to end the most are among the people allowing it to thrive. But ya know.

 

[FemMecha]

There is one theory with research that proposes that Omicron developed independently from the original Wuhan strain in the mice population in Africa. I know Stanford is also doing research that it developed in immunocompromised human populations in Africa, likely connected to the HIV epidemic there. I don't have any personal conclusions, but it is just interesting.

mice population theory

[video=youtube;aH1u1GIPU2A]

immunocompromized human population theory

[video=youtube;hwX5D4PP9jo]

Also, hospitalizations have broken previous records in the U.S., with much higher proportion than what happened in South Africa or the U.K. It is making me wonder if Omicron is slightly mutated here. Some propose that the U.S. has more comorbidities, which could be true, but then hospitalizations should have been higher throughout the pandemic.