Analysis of data from England by the UKHSA released today confirms that the Omicron variant is causing less severe illness than Delta. The new Technical Briefing, number 33, finds that risk of emergency admission to hospital with Omicron compared to Delta was reduced by 62%, confirming earlier results from South Africa, Denmark, Edinburgh and Imperial.
Read the BBC story here.
The briefing also shows that the Omicron household secondary attack rate (the proportion of household contacts an infected person infects) has dropped to 13.1%, meaning nearly 87% of people who live with a person infected with Omicron do not go on to test positive. This compares to a current household secondary attack rate for Delta of 10.1%, so almost the same, differing by only 3%. Note that the direct secondary attack rate for Alpha this time last year was 15.6%, so the claim that Omicron is spreading much faster than previous variants – is much more transmissible – is not supported by this data.
Stop Press: Michael Simmons, a data journalist at the Spectator, has summarised the most recent data about Omicron, nearly all of which makes the case for another lockdown less persuasive.
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My god, they really are desperately scraping the barrel aren’t they??
In this part of the Southern Hemisphere, now entering spring, plenty of people have had “colds”, but no excess hospitalisations from flu that I am aware of. My local hospitals are busy, anecdotally mainly driven by an increase in cancer patients. Unexplained sudden deaths are mounting, but fortunately even the jab enthusiasts are having second thoughts (although not officialdom). We have about 20 million jabs due to expire shortly. Any offers?
Are you in SA? Do you happen to know percentage take up of the latest booster?
Cape Town. About 34% total population at least 1 jab. Less than 10% have had at least 1 booster, 3rd Pfizer 2nd J&J (which seems safer). Don’t have figures for 2nd booster but anecdotally take up appears minuscule. Currently less than 10k jabs given per week in population of 60 million, average total daily deaths 2. Downward trajectory continued through winter. It’s over folks. Looking forward to looming court cases regarding vaccine injuries and mandates (imposed by corporates NOT government).
Amazing!
If course no one will hear about it in MSM.
Thanks.
This short interview by John Campbell re. Uganda might be of interest, if you haven’t seen it before (about 18 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYyoiFEUq-Y&list=WL&index=8
Thanks for the update from S.A.
“We have about 20 million jabs due to expire shortly. Any offers?”
No thanks – good riddance to them.
Errm it’s still the jabs causing the problem, amplifying any illnesses through weakening of the immune system.
So yeah there will be problems.
And that my dear, is by design.
Aussies getting hit by excess deaths for months not caused by Covid.
A real head scratcher:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11133519/Undertakers-kept-busy-abnormally-high-numbers-Aussies-dying-not-just-Covid.html
‘Estimates’…’Could’…’Might’…
The primary reason the NHS is busy, is trying to catch up from shutting down the health services during the last ‘crisis’, despite more resources and money than ever.
Any signs of there being a plan to alleviate the issues? It seems like more money/less service is the first port of call. Why do these highly educated and well paid people just throw up their hands in horror every time they are confronted with the possibility of a challenge to deal with.?
Well if they dare to start plastering posters everywhere and investing millions more in a fear campaign that basically tells everyone to “stay home, save lives” once again then they’re going to have even more blood on their hands, ironically.
I rather hope so. It may be the only way to inject sanity.
Highly educated – questionable. Highly paid – certainly. Why do they do it? Because they know it works. Think Pavlov and his dogs.
To be fair they are probably highly educated but I do question their intelligence and common sense which as an old boss of mine used to say isn’t very common.
I don’t normally wish ill on anyone, but these idiots can just FOAD
In the past, the medical profession has dealt with WW1, WW2, and polio epidemics, where the burden on hospitals and medical staff may have been a teensy bit heavier than a few busy years of respiratory viruses.
The attitude seemed to have been roll up one’s sleeves and get on with it.
This is the generation of medical snowflakes.
Did the legendary queue (and make no mistake, it is legendary: almost a parody of the British tradition of queueing) remember to keep a social distance? Is that why it was five miles long? Will this “twindemic” be attributed to “the queue”, just like a “summer wave” (which fizzled out) was blamed on celebrations of platty joobs? Did queueing all night perhaps have an effect on one’s health? Was this ever mentioned?
Bingo card ready for a connection being attributed to “the queue”, which nobody did out of any obligation. Allegedly.
Indeed. Certain organisations have changed their attitude to broadcasting events with large groups of people. Don’t forget that you can’t officially die on Monday, ‘cos the ONS will be closed.
Also, a certain f-word is conspicuous by its absence. Remember all those “idiots” who were flocking to the beaches, flocking to the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park, and back in 1999, flocking to see the eclipse? If this week’s behaviour is not “flocking”, then I don’t know what is. It looks like we might also have a “flock” of private jets of world leaders paying their respects, to the chagrin of the New Green King. I hope they remember to respect the “no-fly” zone over London.
Bidens Airlifted Motorcade , very green -NOT !
Hardly anyone in the queue wore a face nappy. That will be the reason for the breakdown of the sainted NHS
‘…none of this is any reason to panic.’
Unfortunately the health service in this country is run by a combination of the Gumby Brothers, Corporal Jones and Private Fraser.
Fortunately, Captain Mainwaring has taken over as Health Minister
So, to all NHS whistle blowers, now’s the time……just don’t tell ’em your name, Pike!
‘Mostly driven by under 30’s’ , who because of the media hysteria have become hypochondriac. Why is the nhs worried, most people of that age do not need any medical intervention.
“Doctor” (for which read businessman, politician with a medical qualification not acting as an actual doctor) who stands to gain power/money/attention from another medical “emergency” says that another “emergency” is around the corner.
In the words of Mandy Rice-Davies: Well, he would, wouldn’t he?
Who cares? Does anybody actually listen to these bozo’s any more?
It’s not news because I have no confidence, and haven’t had any for a long time, that I will ever get any form of treatment for anything from the NHS….……
…….let’s face it if you are waiting eight hours plus for an ambulance it’s not an emergency service of any kind is it?
As some one else put succinctly the NHS should have a new logo…it would be more honest….
“Don’t bother us…’f**k off and die somewhere else”….surrounded by rainbows and with clapping…of course….
I posted this yesterday evening, but a repost here is relevant. It’s a decades old study looking at the positive & negative effects of vaccines on the human immune system.
The annual flu jab is coming up, fear-mongering in the MSM can only increase the number of customers. And the numbers with shafted immune systems who will then fall prey to whatever mislabeling of death is chosen for the winter.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/why-im-an-abolitionist
Or it could go the other way and there’ll be less up-take of flu jabs due to people having ill-effects themselves, or people they know, from the Covid jabs. I can’t be an outlier either, as somebody who will not let another needle near their or their kid’s arm after this entire pseudo-vaccine/PsyOp/Scamdemic crapfest. I’m willing to bet there’ll now be a knock-on effect of an all-time low in people taking up any routine vaccination to be honest. Too many have been damaged or come to realise that they’ve been duped so they won’t be in a rush to trust Big Pharma or politicians again. Perhaps this is just wishful thinking but, going by the masses of adverse event reports around the world, which is only a drop in the ocean of the reality of harms caused, I think too many people’s lives have been negatively impacted and confidence in vaccines will be significantly depleted going forward. Time will tell, of course, but this is what I’m thinking/hoping. That’s why we have to keep sharing the hell out of the stuff we read here, but to the sleepyheads, not just preaching to the choir.
Could well be true. The other side of the coin may be that they (the NHS and associated pharmacies) might have purchased a lot of surplus ’flu jabs, which have a limited shelf life. After all, they have recently extended the age group eligible for free ones, so are quite likely to have over estimated the demand.
Yes I know. But I’m hedging my bets on many being in the ‘I had all my Covid jabs and still caught Covid, as did everyone I know, so why should I have any more or trust the lying scumbags?’ camp. Perhaps I’m over-estimating the intelligence or scepticism of the zombie hordes but I remain optimistic.
Even my ‘vaccine’ zealot Covidian husband has said he sees no point in further Covid jabs if the virus remains this benign to the vast majority of folk, so this small milestone of progress gives me hope that many more are finally getting in touch with reality.
And for more of the same :-
http://vaccinepapers.org/
If you want to do the best thing forever for your kids, don’t get them jabbed, with anything. Ever.
Bigpharma have known this for decades.
You haven’t got a bloody clue as to how powerful these bastards are.
Unless you have serious underlying medical conditions would you be admitted to hospital with flu like symptoms or would you take a hot lemon, take a hot water bottle and take to your bed for a couple of days?.
‘3 weeks to flatten the curve…’
Hear, hear.
Be afraid, be very afraid. Don’t go out again – ever. Hide under the table wearing your best mask…
They would say that, wouldn’t they. And I note that it’s in the Mail.
If pigs COULD fly we’d have to shoot for bacon
Here we go, crank up the worn-out old ‘narrative’ to keep the pressure on for an even bigger slice of public money.
Yeah, time for a Cobra meeting in the garden at No.10. Peregrine, order the canapes.
“Could be”. OMG! Recalling the accuracy of forecasts for deaths from Covid we should be . . . Doing nothing!