Coronavirus

[sene5hos]

The BA.2 subvariant of Omicron accounts for over half of new U.S. coronavirus cases, the C.D.C. estimates. (Published 2022)

Scientists have been keeping an eye on BA.2, one of three genetically distinct varieties of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

The highly contagious Omicron subvariant known as BA.2, which led to a surge of coronavirus cases in Europe, is now the dominant version of the virus in new U.S. cases, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.

Last week, the World Health Organization reiterated that BA.2 was the dominant version of Omicron around the world, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the C.D.C., said she anticipated it would soon become dominant in the United States.

Scientists have been keeping an eye on BA.2, one of three genetically distinct varieties of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which was discovered by South African researchers in November.

BA.2 was first identified in the United States in December, and it accounted for about 55 percent of new U.S. cases in the week ending Saturday, according to C.D.C. estimates on Tuesday.

 

[gaby]

OFFICIEL....INSPQ-----Le Québec est officiellement en PLEINE 6ÈME VAGUE...quelqu'un de vraiment surpris????...nous connaissons tous des gens autour de nous qui sont infectés.....le nombre de cas est en hausse quotidienne et les hospitalisation aussi.

Heureusement les cas graves semblent sous contrôle surtout grâce à la vaccination. ...MAIS évidemment avec une croissance des hospitalisations cela pourrait changer.

Pour le MOMENT AUCUNE AUTRE MESURE SANITAIRE n'est sur la table...à CHACUN de prendre ses responsabilités.....non...again...rien n'est joué.

 

[gaby]

L'INESSS prévoit jusqu'à 200 hospitalisations par jour d'ici la mi -AVRIL....le taux d'infection du BA.2....1 personne en infecte 12 ..alors que OMICRON c'est de 1 --8....alors oui plus contagieux....BA.2 représente actuellement les 2/3 des cas.

La population---et même le gouvernement qui se fait discret en préparation des élections---semblent être passés à autre chose ..MAIS la réalité risque malheureusement de nous rappeler à l'ordre très bientôt....à nous d'y voir et d'avoir un comportement responsable.

 

[CLOUD 500]

According to Dube the regions are being hit hard by the sixth wave and Montreal is faring much better. What I have been saying since day one you got to let the virus spread the way things happen in nature. Like all viruses they peak then drop once herd immunity is built whether naturally or by vaccines. According to Dube, Montreal is doing much better due to the population who built immunity since they were exposed to Omicron. The regions were spared from Omicron now they are being hit hard. They are choosing the right thing to do to NOT introduce any covid mandates, masks are still there. Time to toss the masks out also. Even though it is the right thing to do, I suspect they are giving us this candy till the October elections then once he is reelected, Legault will take a full 180 degree turn. Time will tell. Best to enjoy the summer and the bars.

COVID-19 in Quebec: despite 6th wave, no new health measures

Quebec's health minister says outlying regions that were spared during the winter Omicron wave are being hit hard by the sixth wave, and that Quebec won't add restrictions or change it's strategy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

 

[2fast2slow]

i dont see how this 6th wave is not going to be as bad as the previous. I know several people around me who have caught it and were boosted within the last couple of months.

At this point, its looking like there will be wave after wave after wave...there is no way we can re-instate restrictions everytime...but, in the meantime, i dont see our (especially quebec's) healthcare system being re-enforced. So in about a month when we are back to 3000+ hospitalizations and -15000 health care workers, what are we going to do??

We need to invest massively in health care and start considering 'covid hospitals' for the future. Doug Ford said Ontario's health care system is ready for the 6th wave, is ours?

 

[CLOUD 500]

The Quebec government looked at healthcare as a business but it is not. Healthcare capacity must be expanded (to accommodate people that might end up in the hospital due to covid) and yes that means more money is needed, a lot more. Other countries established field hospitals, look at Quebec expanding the capacity is a fail. Lockdowns are not the answer (there is a lot of collateral damage like destruction to the economy, mass inflation and deteriorating mental health) and they do not work. Masks too also proved to not do much, if they worked we would not see a spike in cases, currently compared to Ontario that has no forced masks cases are at similar rates to Quebec. Masks also created a lot of pollution and junk because they are made of plastics that take hundreds of years to disintegrate. Vaccines passports are a big fail, these vaccines do not work so why force doses of something that really does not work. Weird. Got to face the music everyone will eventually catch covid. No one will be able to hide from covid because it is like the sun, it is everywhere. The governments strategy has been a big fail (it has been two years of this nonsense). Time to change strategy, let this virus spread and let nature take its course. It is clear the government of Quebec does not know or is interested to manage the healthcare system properly, it is time to privatize it with a 50% cut to everyones income taxes. Let the hospitals manage their resources themselves. The government of Quebec is more concerned with polls and winning the election.

 

[Womaniser]

i dont see how this 6th wave is not going to be as bad as the previous. I know several people around me who have caught it and were boosted within the last couple of months.

At this point, its looking like there will be wave after wave after wave...there is no way we can re-instate restrictions everytime...but, in the meantime, i dont see our (especially quebec's) healthcare system being re-enforced. So in about a month when we are back to 3000+ hospitalizations and -15000 health care workers, what are we going to do??

We need to invest massively in health care and start considering 'covid hospitals' for the future. Doug Ford said Ontario's health care system is ready for the 6th wave, is ours?

For the time beeing, the only way to control the 6th wave is vaccination.
It keeps you from hospitalisation or at least intensive health care

i dont see how this 6th wave is not going to be as bad as the previous. I know several people around me who have caught it and were boosted within the last couple of months.

At this point, its looking like there will be wave after wave after wave...there is no way we can re-instate restrictions everytime...but, in the meantime, i dont see our (especially quebec's) healthcare system being re-enforced. So in about a month when we are back to 3000+ hospitalizations and -15000 health care workers, what are we going to do??

We need to invest massively in health care and start considering 'covid hospitals' for the future. Doug Ford said Ontario's health care system is ready for the 6th wave, is ours?

i dont see how this 6th wave is not going to be as bad as the previous. I know several people around me who have caught it and were boosted within the last couple of months.

At this point, its looking like there will be wave after wave after wave...there is no way we can re-instate restrictions everytime...but, in the meantime, i dont see our (especially quebec's) healthcare system being re-enforced. So in about a month when we are back to 3000+ hospitalizations and -15000 health care workers, what are we going to do??

We need to invest massively in health care and start considering 'covid hospitals' for the future. Doug Ford said Ontario's health care system is ready for the 6th wave, is ours?

You're right, some think nurses and other health workers grow on tree.
Unfortunately not on planet earth !

 

[CLOUD 500]

The government has mismanaged the healthcare system for years and it got especially bad when PLQ was in power. Barrette kept on making cuts and cuts while population was growing. It takes some years to train new healthcare workers but if the budget is constantly being reduced then the schools have to reduce the capacity to train new healthcare workers, this has a ripple effect. This is not rocket science, this is common sense. To add if the working conditions are poor many will leave as is the case during covid. Many left. Many doctors left to go private or to the USA where they are paid much better and the working conditions are better. Governments solution is always to add more red tape as to whip the workers to work harder. Biggest example of what I am talking about is forced overtime. Legault made promises in 2018 but not much became reality. Instead the CAQ focused on Bill 21 and Bill 96. Since covid struck they had two years to do something, all is still the same if not worse. Poor management is the problem. The Federal government also provides significant funding to the provinces for healthcare, instead Trudeau is more interested to send taxpayers money to foreign countries. You got to remember these are problems years in the making. So no I do not accept the "Healthcare workers grows on trees" answer. Covid merely exposed the major weakness and poor management of the healthcare system since the last 30 years.

 

[gaby]

QUUÉBEC....DR.BOILEAU ce jour,

--C'était prévisible...port du masque jusqu'au 30 Avril....hausse de cas et des hospitalisations justifient cette décision....et augmentation à prévoir dans les prochaines semaines....donc petit prix à payer si l'on veut éviter d'autres mesures.

-A rappelé que la pandémie est toujours présente/sévit....invitation pressante aux 50 ans et plus d'aller chercher leur 3ème dose.

-La majorité des hospitalisés ont 60 ans et plus.

-La 4ème dose offerte dès demain aux 70 ans et le 11 Avril aux 60 ans et plus.

 

[Like_It_Hot]

^^^^^^^^ Bonne nouvelle cette 4ième dose. Je suis moins jeune que j'étais et j'ai des gens plus fragiles dans ma famille. Vers la fin avril, j'irai chercher ma 4ième dose et si nécessaire une 5ième en octobre avec mon vaccin anti-grippe. Je serai prêt pour affronter l'automne et l'hiver. C'est un petit geste, qui en plus de me protéger, protégera plein de gens qui, pour une raison ou une autre, ont un système immunitaire défaillant. Sans compter les autres qui ne sont toujours pas vaccinés, par choix ou parce qu'ils ne sont pas éligibles. Rappelons qu"il n'y a toujours pas de protocole approuvée pour les enfants de moins de 5 ans. Ils sont en général épargnés par des symptômes graves nécessitant une hospitalisation, mais il y a des cas ou le bambin est décédé. Malgré un protocole éprouvé pour les 5-11 ans, certains parents vaccinés hésitent encore à faire vacciner leurs jeunes enfants.

 

[gaby]

QUÉBEC ce jour.....Hospitalisations 1,582 sont en constante croissance +42 today.....soins intensifs 64 sous contrôle MAIS encore 28 décès pour un tragique total de 14,482.....oui tragique tragique tragique.

Dans un previous post je disais que le variant BA.2 était de 30-40% plus contagieux que OMICRON MAIS pour bien citer le DR.BOILEAU il serait même plus contagieux de près de 50%....et à la hausse dans les semaines à venir.

On en voit d'ailleurs déjà les effets sur les hospitalisations....et aussi autour de nous....famille/amis.....donc oui appel à la prudence ....heureusement à ce jour les cas graves sont sous contrôle.

Oui le vaccin--bien petit geste--- demeure l'outil/ l'arme ultime pour livrer bataille.

 

[wetnose]

FYI for you "freedom fighters" bitter about Trudeau's "tyranny", this is what a REAL lockdown looks like:

 

[sene5hos]

UK has detected a new Covid variant. Here’s what we know so far about omicron XE

A new omicron sub-variant has been detected in the U.K. as the country faces a renewed surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations.

www.cnbc.com

The XE variant has so far been detected in 637 patients, according to the latest statistics from the U.K. Health Security Agency.

It is what’s known as a “recombinant,” meaning it contains a mix of the previously highly infectious omicron BA.1 strain, which emerged in late 2021, and the newer BA.2 variant, currently the U.K.’s dominant variant.

Such recombinants are not uncommon, however health authorities said there is currently not enough evidence to draw conclusions on its transmissibility or severity.

 

[gaby]

Hey boboy...QUÉBEC ce jour....+35 décès pour un total de 14,579 ...+145 hospitalisations ...pour un total de 1938 ...heureusement les soins intensifs demeurent sous contrôle avec 67.

DR. BOILEAU nous avait bien prévenu la semaine dernière que le BA.2 frapperait fort dans les prochaines .....he was right on....alors prudence prudence prudence.

 

[sene5hos]

Shanghai easing COVID-19 lockdown by letting some residents out - National | Globalnews.ca

About 6.6 million Shanghai residents can go outdoors, but some must stay in their own neighborhoods, the online news outlet The Paper reported, citing city officials.

globalnews.ca

Some residents of Shanghai were allowed out of their homes as the city of 25 million eased a two-week-old COVID-19 shutdown.

The United States has ordered non-essential employees of its consulate in Shanghai to leave the city, against the backdrop of an epidemic outbreak and strict containment measures in the metropolis, the American embassy said on Tuesday.

 

[IamNY]

Tampa federal judge voids U.S. mask mandate for planes and other travel​

Tampa federal judge voids U.S. mask mandate for planes, other travel

The decision Monday by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa also said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention improperly failed to justify its decision and did not follow proper rulemaking.

www.tampabay.com

 

[IamNY]

Update on masks:

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[2fast2slow]

covid is pretty evenly distributed around the continent, but the rules vary quite a bit area to area...that cant hold

At least we are not in Shangai. the chinese are screwed unless they accept to buy western vaccines.

 

[sene5hos]

A new variant of omicron, the BA2.12.1, it's under surveillance.

 

[sene5hos]

Unfortunately, it's not over.

This virus is exhausting.