Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed some statistics in the Commons yesterday about the Delta (Indian) variant: out of 12,383 Delta variant positive tests in the U.K. up to June 3rd, 464 went to emergency care and 126 were admitted to hospital. Of those admitted to hospital, 83 were unvaccinated, 28 had had one jab and three had had both doses.
Keen-eyed readers will spot that 83+28+3 is not 126 – there are 12 hospital admissions unaccounted for. A Department of Health source told the Financial Times‘s Sebastian Payne that nine of these “don’t match to a vaccine status at present” while three were within 21 days of their first dose so didn’t count in any category.
Can we use these figures to make some crude calculations of the severity of the Delta variant?
126 hospital admissions out of 12,383 positive tests gives a 1% hospitalisation rate, or 99% not needing hospital. How does this compare to the Alpha (British) variant?
Last week Public Health England (PHE) released a study claiming the Delta variant had around double the risk of serious disease or hospitalisation compared with the Alpha variant. However, according to the ONS, during the winter peak when the Alpha variant was dominant, around 2% of the population of England was infected with COVID-19 and around 0.04% of the population was being admitted to hospital with the virus each week, giving around 2% of British variant infections leading to hospital admission. This is double the rate for the Indian variant on Hancock’s figures – and furthermore, Hancock’s figures use positive cases, not an ONS population infection estimate, which would reduce the hospitalisation rate for the Indian variant further.
However, what we don’t know, because these are just statistics delivered verbally in Parliament not a proper report (more science-by-press-release), is how many of the 12,383 positive cases are too recent to have led yet to hospital admission. We also don’t know how elderly or vulnerable those in the sample of 12,383 are, or what impact the vaccines are making on the hospitalisation rate.
The figures are of limited use as well in estimating the effectiveness of the vaccines against hospital admission with the Delta variant. That’s because we don’t know what proportion of the 12,383 infected were vaccinated, so we can’t control for that key factor. Having said that, the three versus 83 hospital admissions for fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated seems encouraging.
Overall, this data is very limited. Nonetheless, the fact that the hospitalisation rate even among positive cases is so much lower with the Delta variant now than with the Alpha variant in winter is further evidence that the latest scariant is nothing to fear.
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Oh, I see, here we go again with a story designed to put the wind up people. I wonder what the cost of shooting down a balloon with an F16 is these days.
Another non- newsworthy event.
Well the missile costs about $380 000 for starters.
$380,000 Dollars? That’s an awful lot of balloons!
I’m all for having some light relief or another subject to talk about but this story just takes the biscuit. Are we all meant to forget the fact it’s the Pentagon that’s behind this entire plandemic shitshow and subsequent toxic death shots? Give me strength!
https://rumble.com/v295j18-rfk-jr-the-pentagon-and-the-national-security-agency-ran-the-entire-pandemi.html
Isn’t it interesting that of all the places aliens could make an appearance, they chose the US? Not Congo, not Paraguay, not Turkmenistan, but the US, probably the most trigger happy of all the places they could chose.
Talk about bad luck.
“Talk about bad luck.”
Not half Stewart. Definitely shows a lack of forward planning on the part of the ET’s. Once the Pentagon get Spock on the job and the remains of the UFO have been combed through I an sure all will become clear.
So they haven’t ruled out UFOs? If it is a UFO that travelled many miles to get here with presumably advanced technology, then how come it couldn’t escape the clutches of an F16??
Maybe this is the start of an ‘alien invasion’!
Agree with ‘huxleypiggles’.
From the ‘Hitchhikers Guide’, re the vi’hurgs…
Maybe thats what we’ve got…
Hope so. I have H E L P spelled out with bedsheets in my back garden.
Funnily enough a commenter over at TCW is doing exactly the same thing.
Anything that is:
An Object
Flying
and Unidentified
is by definition a UFO
How do you say “UFO” in Chinese?
Do aliens cause global warming? The data say Yes.
time to read again Dr Roy Spencer’s spoof article that mocked correlation and causation – and the climate worriers thought he was serious about the aliens – read it here and smile:
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/04/do-aliens-cause-global-warming-the-data-say-yes/
Squirrels
Do you think the US is expecting bad news? On Ukraine, perhaps.
Must be the UFOs causing all the excess deaths then?
One should keep in mind that UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. Which means the real story is something like Gung-ho US F16 pilots shoot at flying things because they have no idea what they are. Let’s hope a few climate rescuer private jets were among them.
If you can’t scare people enough with a pandemic then scare them by hinting at an invasion of extra-testicles. Apparently, these hyper-intelligent beings are smart enough to fly across the universe, then they reveal themselves almost exclusively to the U.S. military who shoot them down. They sound really smart. And to think they call us conspiracy theorists. The only space travel going on here is the journey between biden’s ears.
Extra-testicles? Is that your way of saying the story is a load of bollocks? Or could it be an alien civilisation has watched our reaction to a virus, taken pity on us and have decided to replenish our supply.
Oh I love that last sentence.
If only the Yanks had been as good at shooting things down on 9/11.
Well if aliens were to invade I’m sure they’d be intelligent enough to know by now that their best bet is to just walk in via the Mexican border. Stick a mask on and you’d have no bother. Nah, I smell red herring..
Or jump in a dhingy in the Channel and wait for their RNLI taxi service to drop them at a convenient Border Force depot before onward transportation to a Four Star Hotel at our expense.
Following the unprovoked destruction of the US Air Force by Alpha Centauri terrorists, NATO refuses to negotiate, saying that to “appease aggressors” only encourages them. In late news, Detroit has suffered a total communication failure, following that of Salt Lake City half an hour ago…
If the little green men are looking for signs of intelligent life, they will be sorely disappointed.
Laurence Fox on Twitter: “Not long now. https://t.co/0ZV3NdhBY8” / Twitter
One of my all time favourite jokes is The best proof that there’s intelligent life on other planets is that nobody ever visited us.
Well they definitely wouldn’t want to harvest our blood now if most of the human race are walking spike protein-producing factories with abnormal erythrocytes. If they try then maybe the mRNA might be the death of them, like bacteria in the film….Either way, I’m really hoping we have confirmation of alien beings existing before I pop my clogs. Otherwise being brought up on a wealth of Sci-Fi shows/movies seems like a total anticlimax to me.
Look carefully at the first footage on the “asteroid”.
Tell me if you see anything unusual around it as it falls snd then explodes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11744137/Astonishing-moment-asteroid-explodes-Channel-creating-fireball.html
I see a small light thingy. As if the meteorite is being shot at before it explodes. It could just be a spark/debris from the meteorite perhaps…Any astronomers in the house?
*asteroid* I mean.
Yes it seems to move around it then runs towards it really fast just as it explodes! I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw it. Makes me wonder if it was shot at to detonate it as well.
But what moves that fast?
https://youtu.be/_eJq6DcIEzM
Im seeing it called a meteoroid.
All the meteors I have seen have moved considerably faster than the object shown. That one looks like it is being slowed by air resistance which is pretty unlikely for a large chunk of rock. It looks more like an aircraft being downed.
Edit – According to the American Meteor Society, meteorites usually hit the Earth’s atmosphere going around 160,000 MPH. Meteors enter the atmosphere at speeds ranging from 11 km/sec (25,000 mph), to 72 km/sec (160,000 mph!)
Downed satellite?
“All the meteors I have seen have moved considerably faster than the object shown”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Let us not forget that the Yanks knew about it for several days when they declined (or failed) to shoot it down. They must have assessed that it was not much of a threat to their military installations, so what changed? Was there something in the sea that they didn’t want it to see?
I guess pointing the finger at China makes a change from blaming the Big Bad Putin.
What’s the betting they’re the USA’s own spy balloons
Looks like Hunter Biden is handing the ciggies around at the Pentagon
“We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason,” said Mr VanHerck.
Is the reason because they are not the balloons, perhaps? You gotta admire the militwawy. Also, VanHerck goes from being a General to a Mr is just a few sentences. Was he perhaps demobbed after his amazing insights?
High altitude (weather) ballon parachute. There are hundreds launched every year.
‘Course there are. Launched by China, just of the US coast.
So all they’re going to find in the remains are meteorological instruments, then, if that’s true.
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First one shot down was obviously Chinese spy equipment.
The rest are probably weather, research, or hobbyist launched from the US by US citizens, easily available and quite popular, see The-Rocketman.com
Lyin’ Biden – too ashamed to acknowledge further Chinese (drone) surveillance – is now blaming aliens instead of Donald Trump.
“No joke!”
Well, the answer’s obvious, innit?
Wot we clearly need to do is get Bill Gates, George Soros, that bloke running PayPal and all the rest of the WEF oligarchs to direct the world’s response to this alien attack, whilst the rest of us go and hide in caves, giving up on using gas, electricity, cars, houses, fertilisers, etc., all of which signals our presence to the aliens.
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Billy will be working on a “vaccine” to defeat the aliens as I type this.