Coronavirus

[IamNY]

NYC Covid positivity doubles in 3 days:

‘We've Never Seen This Before in NYC': COVID Positivity Rate Doubles in 3 Days on Omicron Spread

The percentage of people in New York City testing positive for COVID-19 doubled in three days this week, and a top advisor to Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was an indication of the omicron variant evading immunity in a way the virus never had before. Meanwhile, the state of New York reported a...

www.nbcnewyork.com

 

[bonerland citizen]

This really makes one question who runs Canada.
It is like our country is being remote controlled by foreign entities.
G7 consists of the most highly vaccinated countries. Sketchy as F.

G7 brands Omicron 'biggest threat to global public health' and ...https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-10318967

 

[sene5hos]

Explosion des cas à la prison de Bordeaux

Les cas de COVID-19 ont quadruplé à la prison de Bordeaux au cours des cinq derniers jours.

www.journaldemontreal.com

COVID-19 cases have quadrupled at Bordeaux prison in the past five days.

The Montreal detention facility now has 160 prisoners and 11 infected staff within its walls, while 37 people were infected with the virus last weekend.

 

[gallantca]

This really makes one question who runs Canada.
It is like our country is being remote controlled by foreign entities.
G7 consists of the most highly vaccinated countries. Sketchy as F.

G7 brands Omicron 'biggest threat to global public health' and ...https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-10318967

The wealthiest liberal democracies with the highest vaccination rate. Sounds fishy to me.

I smell aliens with space lasers being directed by the UN. The same ones that were lighting forest fires.

 

[sene5hos]

Yesterday in USA

+164 k new cases.

2074 dead and total is + 804 k

Imagine 804,000

 

[wetnose]

Yesterday in USA

+164 k new cases.

2074 dead and total is + 804 k

Imagine 804,000

About 66M Americans are sitting ducks for Omicron - never been exposed, never been vaccinated.

 

[Womaniser]

About 66M Americans are sitting ducks for Omicron - never been exposed, never been vaccinated.

Some possibly havre duck brains !

 

[gaby]

La mairesse Valérie Plante---doublement vaccinée---- en isolement depuis Vendredi car testée positive...dit bien se porter....et Jean-Charles Lajoie----animateur sportif bien connu ici---doublement vacciné-----en isolement aussi avec des symptômes sévères et perte du goût/odorat.

Cela porte beaucoup à réfléchir quand des personnalités de chez nous et près de nous sortent publiquement avec de telles déclarations....les 2 nous invitent à la prudence......message bien recu. On va leur souhaiter de bien s'en tirer et un retour rapide à
leurs activités .

 

[wetnose]

Holland going hard:

Covid: Dutch go into Christmas lockdown over Omicron wave

Non-essential shops, schools, bars, restaurants and other public venues will be closed until at least mid-January.

www.bbc.com

People are being urged to stay at home as much as possible. Strict limits will be placed on the number of people who can meet - a maximum of two guests aged 13 and over will be allowed in people's homes, and four on 24-26 December and on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Events are not permitted other than funerals, weekly markets selling groceries and professional sports matches with no spectators.
All schools will be closed until at least 9 January, while other lockdown measures will remain in place until at least 14 January.
Restaurants can continue to sell takeaway meals, and non-essential shops can offer click and collect services

 

[sene5hos]

Il Divo Singer Carlos Marin Dies at 53 of COVID Complications

Carlos Marin, a singer in the British opera-pop crossover group Il Divo, died on Sunday. He was 53.

variety.com

Carlos Marin, the ever smiling and sharply dressed baritone powerhouse of multi-national quartet Il Divo, died Sunday of COVID complications. He was 53.

After feeling ill, Marin had been hospitalized on Dec. 8 in the Intensive Care Unit of the Manchester Royal Hospital while on tour in the U.K. His death was announced on Sunday by Il Divo via the group’s Twitter account.

Il Divo, Ave Maria

 

[cloudsurf]

Marin was supposedly vaxxed and healthy. There is no hiding from Mother Nature`s wrath.

 

[wetnose]

Marin was supposedly vaxxed and healthy. There is no hiding from Mother Nature`s wrath.

No vaccine is 100% effective. Still better than 0%.

 

[sene5hos]

Yesterday in Quebec

4571 new cases

397 hospitalizations

 

[Fradi]

Yes and the majority by a large margin are fully vaccinated people.
Break thorough infection is no longer a small percentage.
The gap of likelihood of infection and even hospitalization keeps getting smaller between vaccinated and unvaccinated
Booster shots are only in a small minority. The race between booster shots and omicron is on and our three musketeers with Yo Yo Legault leading the pack have given the full advantage to Omicron.
Got to love politicians, of course they are not in the least to blame Health Canada is lol.

Quebec will continue to lead Canada in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths yet our CAQ is as popular as ever WTF.! !

 

[gallantca]

Yes and the majority by a large margin are fully vaccinated people.
Break thorough infection is no longer a small percentage.
The gap of likelihood of infection and even hospitalization keeps getting smaller between vaccinated and unvaccinated
Booster shots are only in a small minority. The race between booster shots and omicron is on and our three musketeers with Yo Yo Legault leading the pack have given the full advantage to Omicron.
Got to love politicians, of course they are not in the least to blame Health Canada is lol.

Quebec will continue to lead Canada in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths yet our CAQ is as popular as ever WTF.! !

Yes and no. "by a large margin" is open to interpretation.

In number of cases 65% of cases are vaccinated people, but if you prorate it to the number of people vaccinated vs non, you still have a 4x higher chance of catching if unvaccinated. We will see if this evolves, but that was the situation up to Dec 17th

edit after I originally posted. The under 12s are skewing the numbers. They are a big percentage of the cases and a big percentage unvaccinated. Your statement is accurate for the older age groups.

Cloudsurf posted a tidbit that double vaccinated that had a break through infection developed a very high level of immunity. The study was at a small scale but if it pans out, great news. May make some heads explode if they need to get vaccinated to develop their natural immunity LOL.

Antibody Response and Variant Cross-Neutralization After SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infection

This study of fully vaccinated health care workers examines antibody levels and variant cross-neutralization after COVID-19 breakthrough infection.

jamanetwork.com

 

[Fradi]

Yes and no. "by a large margin" is open to interpretation.

In number of cases 65% of cases are vaccinated people, but if you prorate it to the number of people vaccinated vs non, you still have a 4x higher chance of catching if unvaccinated. We will see if this evolves, but that was the situation up to Dec 17th

edit after I originally posted. The under 12s are skewing the numbers. They are a big percentage of the cases and a big percentage unvaccinated. Your statement is accurate for the older age groups.

Cloudsurf posted a tidbit that double vaccinated that had a break through infection developed a very high level of immunity. The study was at a small scale but if it pans out, great news. May make some heads explode if they need to get vaccinated to develop their natural immunity LOL.

Antibody Response and Variant Cross-Neutralization After SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infection

This study of fully vaccinated health care workers examines antibody levels and variant cross-neutralization after COVID-19 breakthrough infection.

jamanetwork.com

Interpretation or not numbers don’t lie. Just a couple of months ago hospitalization stood at X25 times more likely for the unvaccinated today it is X14.8 and the gap keeps closing and real numbers for Omicron have not come yet.
What Cloudsurf published is for Delta and may or may not hold true for Omicron.
Truth is right now it is scary shit and there are conflicting news South Africa is claiming less severe symptoms for Omicron while news out of the UK where Omicron is rapidly replacing Delta is that it is just as severe as Delta so right now we don’t know what to believe.
Give it a month before we can have any real value put to the data we are receiving

 

[gaby]

DUBÉ ce jour....avec la hausse fulgurante des cas c'était prévisible....le Québec reconfine....

-Fermeture des écoles primaires et secondaires dès demain.....garderies restent ouvertes.

-Fermeture dès ce soir des bars---casinos---gyms---cinémas et salles de spectacle

-Les restos ouverts MAIS DE 5h à 22 heures....pas de problème pour les take out et livraisons.

-TÉLÉTRAVAIL OBLIGATOIRE

-APPEL ENCORE pressant à la vaccination....et à se procurer les tests rapides en pharmacie.

-Ne déroge pas ENCORE aux rassemblements de 10 personnes VACCINÉES pour les fêtes...MAIS fait appel au bon sens/discernement des citoyens.......ne serait pas surprenant d'ailleurs qu'il révise sa position dans les prochains jours....

-NOUS avons atteint le max pour les tests de dépistage....45,000/jour...le réseau est saturé.....rappel urgent ...les centres de dépistage sont pour ceux SEULEMENT présentent des symptômes....et ne sont pas de nature PRÉVENTIVE.

 

[Skym]

So ..with this new variant and almost everything shutting down in Quebec, will agencies close down too?

Similar to when they closed down in the first wave?

 

[Blackshirts]

Do massage parlors fall under the SPA qualification and thus have to close? Bummer if they do

 

[mauricevachon]

A small group of Canadian doctors are starting to push back against the vaccines in a major way.

Ths presentation is mind-blowing.

The Pfizer Inoculations Do More Harm Than Good - Rumble