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Dr Suzanne Hopkins said that they need 250+ covid in-patients in hospitals before they can get an idea how dangerous Omicron is. That may be why Raab mistakenly told Sky that we have 250 in hospital with Omicron. The number was 10 yesterday.

If 90% of the samples they tested are Omicron, that's good news.

I am watching Chris Whitty answering questions by MPs. He backpedalled a fair bit, especially on the question of the link between number of cases and hospitalisations. He obviously knows that some of those that need a covid pass will have to be tested which will increase the number of daily...

it's a whole ecosystem based on conservative party values. Liz Truss has pretty good parents which is more than the other candidates: Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Rishi Sunak, Pritti Patel and Matt Hancock.

:D:D

if Patel considers running, the bar to replace Bojo is pretty low.

she did and does much better than her predecessors in the same posts: FCO: replacing Dominic Raab and Boris Johnson International Trade: replacing Liam Fox Chief Secretary to the Treasury: replacing David Gauke

they discussed the subject on Newsnight last night. The general idea is BJ will not be leading the conservatives into the next election and likely be out next summer. Liz Truss is the new Mrs T. and in pole position to replace him.

I am sure there are lessons to be learned. There is a new vaccine going on test at the moment based on a segment of the virus RNA that has not changed so far to see if it remains efficacious against all variants.

his view seems to confirm that Omicron evades previous infections an vaccines but not T-cell defense. It's good to see more jabs but the end result wouldn't be much different if the jabs were delayed until the new year.

This article singles out two paths that help the virus to mutate, super spreader events and immuno-compromised patients. Perhaps more effort should be made there.

Dominic Raab said this morning that there are 9 patients in hospitals with Omicron. Today is the day that Omicron will take over Delta, I would have expected an Omicron wave as big as Delta but apparently not yet. I am generally for erring on the side of caution and covid preventative measures...

or governments' fear mongering.

we don't know how many have had covid without reporting though. Death rates this year is a quarter of last year same time. I think hospital admissions is a better yardstick. The way to deal with covid in the future is going to be taking one antiviral tablet after you have a positive test. I am...

from initial reports two years ago, the kill rate from covid19 was put at 2.3%. 97% will brush it off. However, I dispute that humans went back as far ago as that.

I am worried about the long term effect of constantly keeping the immune system overactive, ready to fight covid.

What do you mean? you don't trust Dr Google then?

none of those vaccines works properly. They are all based on some small fragment of the virus, so when the virus mutates as it has done, their primary neutralisation capability is useless, they all rely on the broad T-cell boost of the immune system to work. If I have to choose, I would just...

I am a bit fed up with covid to be honest. We've got 3 jabs, the rest is in our genes.

I am sure some people at the Daily Express would like the WHO to have that power!