The average age of Brits testing positive for Covid has fallen from 41 at the beginning of the year to just 29 – the lowest average age recorded yet. This decrease is being attributed to the success of the vaccine rollout (though increased testing of younger people could also have something to do with it) which has seen almost 25 million people receive two doses of a vaccine. The MailOnline has the story.
The median age stood at 29 for the week ending May 19th – down from 35 at the start of April and 41 at the beginning of the year.
Compounding the apparent efficacy of the vaccine rollout, analysis now shows that two thirds of people admitted to hospital with the coronavirus are under 65, the Times reports.
But despite Boris Johnson’s desire to announce an end to social distancing this week, this has been pushed back amid the ongoing threat of the Indian Covid variant.
The Prime Minister has said that he has not seen “anything currently in the data to suggest that we have to deviate from the road map”, but hinted that the Government would wait until the June 14th deadline before announcing a relaxation.
The fast-spreading strain now makes up between half and three quarters of all cases in the U.K., Matt Hancock said yesterday.
The Health Secretary told a Downing Street press conference it is now dominant in Britain, taking over from the Kent variant that had been the most common one since Christmas.
But official data has now revealed that just three per cent of Britons infected with the Indian variant had received two jabs.
More than 38.6 million adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 24 million have had two.
While many people in hospital with the virus have not been fully vaccinated, reported Covid deaths continue to be very low (often in the single figures). Despite this, SAGE members insist that the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown could be “derailed” because of the Indian variant.
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Why is this a story?
And are they ‘infected’ or ‘tested?
My heart sinks when I see ‘”he Mail/Online has the story”
I can think of several explanations – none of which have anything to do with infection.
Could it be because of who is getting tested? The figures really need to be adjusted for that.
You would have to be brain dead and/or have some kind of agenda, to not realise that’s what this is.
Exactly. Numbers pushed up and the average age pushed down partly by LFT in schools. I can’t believe that so many parents are consenting unquestioningly to their children having these. Mine has been withdrawn from the madness. No effing way am I playing even the smallest part in this ridiculous neurosis by allowing a stick to be shoved up her nose twice a week. Total waste of time, taxpayers money and the world’s resources too.
And the point is?
Positive test results does not equate to being infected. Lateral flow test has specificity of around 99.7% i.e. up to 300 per 100000 are false positives. If there are no symptoms there is no infection, except fo the 48 hours immediately before symptoms start. Why is this article so important?
I think it’s interesting in that the virus is continuing to infect younger and younger people but deaths from the virus remain in single figures and hospital admission figures are in the doldrums.
Which all goes to confirm what we have been saying all along – that the virus is not a threat to younger people and vaccinating younger people is at best unnecessary and at worst, dangerous.
Of course the spin on the article is somewhat different, as it comes from a place of “we want zero COVID”, and that “the virus is still circulating amongst young people, so we need to vaccinate them all and prolong the emergency”
Hang on. What is ‘interesting’ about the detection of random RNA strands?
The test is bollox, but given that it’s the same bollox test that’s been used throughout, a difference in the average age testing positive is still interesting, because the information is no doubt being used to drive government policy, even if it’s driving it in the wrong direction.
What age groups are being tested?
Fair point. Younger age groups. The people who they want to be vaccinated, I imagine.
I’d still prefer the story was published here than not, though. Although it would be nice if there was a sceptical slant to it, given this is supposedly a site for sceptics.
Despite the story stating that the numbers are people “rushed to hospital with coronavirus” they are only the number of patients testing positive while in hospital. I’d give good odds that most of the patients under 40 are pregnant women being admitted to give birth, and who have no symptoms just a positive PCR. There are around 10000 deliveries per week in England and Wales, so with even a 1-2% positive rate that’s a lot of young healthy women showing up in “coronavirus” hospitalizations.
I had to laugh when I read this .. ‘(though increased testing of younger people could also have something to do with it)’ .. I assume they were LF tests which are more meaningless than the PCR tests .. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hr32Q2Zn9yfe/ ..
What gives you the impression that PCR tests are more ‘reliable’?
Getting bored of this now … what’s next?
Ah yes I know … a climate emergency!
Lets put the fear of god into everyone about the potentially life-threatening climate disaster thats heading our way which can only be averted if we all hand-over all our freedoms and money to the government and obey everything they tell us to do.
F**k the pandemic and vaccine – thats old skool stuff now and no one is interested – what we need now is good old-fashioned international emergency whereby the human race is only months, weeks maybe even hours away from certain extinction unless we all shut ourselves away permanently.
The slogan on the Prime Minister’s press conference podium could be … ‘Save the Earth – Kill Yourself’ and everyone will be offered the opportunity to blow their brains out for Britain.
Those that refuse the offer will be labelled by the msm as complete and utter selfish bast**ds and Richard Madeley will demand that they be all rounded-up and sent to concentration camps.
Greta Thunberg will be appointed successor to Jesus Christ.
“Getting bored of this now … what’s next?”
The only quibble I have with that sentence is the ‘now’.
Just wait until the G7 meet in Cornwall in a fortnight. The moon will be reflecting the virtue signaling emanating from Carbis Bay (although it won’t be a full moon by then).
I hope the G7 luminaries and their vast retinues from the other 6 countries, all of which are on the Amber list, will be arriving in the country very shortly, in order to spend the required 10 days in quarantine, in a grotty hotel at a price of £1750 a head. They should, of course, take all the tests before travel and whilst here as well.
What will probably happen is that they’ll import another “variant”, which will put the pusillanimous Johnson in a panic, stoked up by Ferguson and the rest of the stinking gang. Of course, it won’t be anything to do with Johnson’s desire to grandstand, but will be the fault of Joe Public for not getting vaccinated, following the rules or some other specious reason.
It’s started today with the announcement of the new “Thai Variant”. We already know the script by heart. “Scientists believe it could be up to twice as infectious as the Kent Variant” and “We expect the existing vaccines to have some effectiveness in dealing with it, but we may all need further vaccinations in the Autumn.) Twats.
Re the Thai variant our Health minister says there isn’t one and that it really came from Egypt in January!!!
“The next milestone is June 21st, with the lifting of restrictions. That won’t be allowed to happen.” (Paraphrasing)
Full moon a couple of days ago.
There’ll probably be no visible moon by then.
“Getting bored of this now … what’s next?”
Well I heard…. staged alien invasion. Don’t laugh, it could happen. And the media has been full of UAP videos for the last couple of years. Maybe we really are being primed for this…
Who gave you that copy of the script?
Universities and workplaces are pushing testing, so of course the “average age of infection” is coming down…
This is the answer
Yes – and don’t forget the pantomime of testing in schools.
The mass testing of healthy people with an inaccurate test
Chuck in a few 85+’s who tested positive with a duff test but actually died from being 85+ and hey presto a crisis is born
It’s over.
So why is the BBC still pushing “everything you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning”?
One thing for sure : the BBC is the last place to find ‘all you need to know’ about the virus.
In many people’s minds, it is not over. And coronatheatre is now ingrained in most aspects of everday life. The other day I made a long list of all the things I used to do. I do hardly any of them now, because they are either still banned/closed or subject to varying degrees of coronabollocks theatre. Sadly most of that theatre will be with us a long time, either legally mandated or de facto mandatory on the initiative of businesses and organisations everywhere. The “new normal” evil has worked, and many people are resigned to life never being the same again.
Had to chuckle today radio 5 presenter said that young people need to get information about the vaccine from a trusted news source like the BBC.
Now that IS funny!!
Because the sun is out and the forecast is good.
Not in North Cornwall I am afraid.
“though increased testing of younger people could also have something to do with it”
In which case, parroting this article is totally meaningless (as opposed to predominantly meaningless).
If LS is just going to repeat articles from mainstream media without rigorous scrutiny, it might just as well be one of them.
It is not a new “strain”; it is a variant. No wonder we are in such a fucking mess when the media are full of biologically ignorant idiots, supporting the equally ignorant Cabinet.
They may not be biologically ignorant idiots, but hoping the majority of the public is.
Roll up! Roll up!! Get your vaxopropaganda here!!!
It is nothing to do with the success of the vaccine and everything to do with mass testing of schoolchildren.
Why are absolutely bollox articles like this getting published?
We all know that the virus is either gone, attenuated or never existed. We have a story based on PCR tests which we all know are at least being misused if not fraudulent.
I’m sick of this shite, shame on Toby and Curzon for prolonging the scam.
I don’t think the intention from TY is to prolong the scam. There’s nothing wrong in linking to MSM articles and keeping us abreast of what the enemy’s current set of lies is, but more critical commentary would be helpful, though obviously that takes time and effort and I’m sure resources are limited. Personally I would rather see fewer links to MSM but more in-depth demolitions of them, and more original material, but it’s easy to snipe from the outside. I don’t suppose TY’s budget is limitless.
LS is part of Covid problem, not the solution.
Just more fear porn to coerce the younger members of the population. Anyone surprised? Deaths are flat, all they have are bogus PCR related ‘cases’.
I’d wager the vaccinated elderly folks are not interested in taking a test anymore, it’ll be the younger ones making up the vast majority now. Purely a function of this I reckon. Test more young people = more young test positive. Meh
Yes what’s wrong with old people, why on earth don’t they like unqualified louts shoving overlong contaminated asbestos buds up their noses and damaging their cribriform plates, all for no good purpose? Shame on you old people.
If you are considering buying something novel for your Covidian friends then my new book ‘Coups for Dummies’ will be out in time for our next cancelled Christmas
Some of the reviews are promising
‘Super stonking soar away, page three explains everything’ The Sun
‘A great insight into how the regime murdered millions of black people’ The Guardian
‘Free pair of elasticated waist slacks with the first 100 copies’ The Mail
‘Vindicated’ Cummings Free Press
‘Lots of big words’ The Times
‘Please take up a one of our subscriptions for 4p a year’ The Telegraph
Sumption shot himself in the head quite some time ago.
Sumption did sterling work on the issue of rights.
But he is shaped more generally by a profoundly establishment mindset.
He was ok on the radio this morning, suggesting the public could ignore the rules and restrictions after 21st June, though he couldn’t officially advocate law-breaking.
Jabs seem to be working in Indian variant hotspot – vaccine expertVaccines seem to be working in an area of the UK hardest hit by the Indian coronavirus variant, a vaccine expert has said.
Dr Helen Wall, senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccine programme in Bolton, tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme patients in hospital in the area are not as sick as previous patients with Covid-19 and “vaccines seem to be working”.
She says there are “significant numbers of 30 and 40-year-olds” going into hospital in Bolton, adding there are “tens of thousands of young people” who have only just become eligible for the vaccine “that we need to get vaccinated really rapidly now”.
But she says there are not as many people as sick as there would have been pre-vaccine.
She says there i only a “handful” of patients in hospital who have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, and some of those who have been double-vaccinated have only had the second dose recently.
And she adds the oldest patient in hospital is 101.
More made up stuff
Enough to charge her with manslaughter when the time comes
There would be even fewer sick people in hospital if they were using the treatments available such as ivermectin.
The fact that they’re not means they should all face criminal charges, ministers, ‘experts’ and doctors.
We know the test is a lie. Its what the whole pandemic is based on to get people to believe that all these cases exist and that there is a dangerous virus on the loose.
The biggest fraud in history on mankind and it is worldwide.
Cases through, not actual infections! Christ, I’m boring myself now.
Meanwhile can we even get hold of the figures for hospitalisations after the vaccine?
This should be a speed-up sign to reopening fully. No where in the globe has 80% of infections been in the under 50 age category caused a stain on healthcare resources. I’m all in favour of continued vaccination of 35+, but this data alongside global data on recovery rates is a sign to keep moving forward, not slowing down.
35? Strange number that. Better to do it by BMI if you ask me
Why do you want to kill over 35 year olds?
What have they done to you?
Oh they will find a new variant all right when the time comes for it. A few months ago the BBC was allowed into ‘the lab’ where the Kent variant (I think it was) was purportedly ‘identified’. All that was to be seen was wall to wall computers. The reporter said to the man in charge on getting this ‘scoop’ “Oh so this is the equipment used to identify the Kent variant”. To which the reply was “Well not exactly. It’s the computer used to model the variant”. Says it all. Another variant? Just re-programme the computer.
Utterly meaningless unless you normalise for the number of tests carried out on each age group – which takes about 10 seconds to do in excel.
It is blindingly obvious that Johnson has sunk huge money into these lateral flow tests and they must be used. This conveniently dovetails with the appearance of different variants across regions, they can push hospitality, for example, to test their (very young) staff even more than usual.
29 year olds are not seeking out tests because they’re sick. The tests are coming to them.
I think we all know the script by now. As deaths, real infections and hospitalisations head towards the vanishing point, the contrived nature of these non-stories increases in inverse proportion. In my district, we’ve had one ‘Covid death’ since 5th March. You’d never guess it from the ads at the bus stops.
Don’t we think that testing among the vaccinated older people has plunged? I think I remember reading some story that said that vaccinated people don’t need to be tested as often. Combine this with the fact that there is some on-going testing programs for the younger populations (perhaps at schools and colleges) … and this is exactly the result you would get.
Anyway, the story needs to present the ages of people who ARE being tested and compare this to the ages of people who were being tested weeks or months ago to have meaningful context, or a basis for a good comparison.
We need data on the number of “tests administered” to different age cohorts … Which this story doesn’t provide.
Here is Brian Gerrish on the Corona Ausshuss yesterday from 2hr 18 min.
BG describes the use of applied behavioural psychology and propaganda by UK Gov to
induce fear and confusion. The role of Common Purpose spreading their philosophy ‘power without authority’ and their targeting younger people ..using NLP (neurolinguistic programming). Explains how the population has been manipulated for political objectives.
https://corona-ausschuss.de/sitzungen/
Two questions spring to mind.
The first, already raised, is it the younger population that is being tested more frequently?
The second, are we using the CDC protocol for testing with PCR – that is vaccinated are run up to 28 cycles and the unvaccinated are run up to 40/45 cycles?
It’s all going to be false positives by now, after 18mo of a reputedly highly infectious respiratory virus scooting about.
More than 25% of the population has at some point tested positive, which is greater than in the Petri dish that was the Diamond Princess.
Another factor is the natural lifecycle of any virus (as pointed out by Mike Yeadon and others months ago). It’s run out of dry-tinder and so is desperately adapting to hang on to naturally healthier people. More contagious / less deadly in it’s effort to survive.