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Is long covid still an issue for those that have been vaccinated, after all, the vaccines are supposed to significantly reduce the risk of serious illness / hospitalisations, or does it mainly affect those who were infected pre-vaccines?

Cheers, interesting reading, still lacking a little context as mentioned in the footnote : Also, when it comes to 'deaths' themselves, the stats show for anyone under the age of 50 it is considerably less than 50% of patients dying with / of Covid.

Haveyou got a link to this data?

Do you never have any hope or belief before kick off at a Saints match before 'things' manifest in reality? If not, your life must be worse than you portray on here....

Which experts to trust?

You need to play catch up, some places are already planning 4th jab. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-59749967 Seems odd that they would need a fourth jab to protect against Omicron, yet we're being told that getting the 3rd will give amazing protection. It's almost like it's being made up daily depending on how many spare jabs a country needs to use up....

Trust the experts

Not just wrong uns in the Met... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-59744052

SimpleSi?

So that's it? 3 jabs and you're fully vaxed? Defintely no more 'boosters' next summer / autumn / winter?

Even when you are 'fully vaxed' you still aren't fully vaxed as you only have around 80% or so of protection (which coincidentally is the figure that was given once you'd had two jabs back in the summer!). Factually, you can never be 'fully vaxed'.

The Welsh are banning spectators from all sporting events from Boxing Day to control the spread. Covid passports have been mandatory in Wales for a while now and were introduced to control the spread. Logically they must have concluded that covid passports simply don't work if they've had to take additional measures....

It's the 'PC' thing to do.

Not that rare at all to be fair....

As I'm sure many others have as well, my Mrs has now had two letters from the NHS asking her to take part in a random testing sample - I assume they are running this to try and more accurately gauge the wider rate of infections, but the timing is very convenient, just when they need to find more cases they embark on a mass testing program....

And that's even with the new reporting criteria to bump those hospital numbers up!!

It's not about the victims! It's hard enough being a criminal these days without having sexual stereotypes thrown around - the criminals will then become victims themselves...

It was rhetorical.

2 million cases was mentioned this morning! It's gonna need to start doubling pretty soon to reach that magnificent figure - and when it does it'll only be a month and a bit before every single person in the country has tested positive. I'm not sure the testing service could cope with that, let alone the NHS

Yes, but what about the 'potential' you were mentioning yesterday, where does that sit at the moment?

Strange isn't it.. Covid deaths are reported as covid no matter what the actual cause of death was if someone tested positive up to 28 days before they died (this includes all those who caught covid whilst they were already dying in hospital which is a not insignificant number!). Flu deaths, on the other hand follow this criteria for reporting : Saucy Source

Why would you mention something so irrelavant on the Covid thread, as the common cold has no vaccines (when you made it clear you were talking about covid vaccines), you thick cunt?

How do you reach that conclusion? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59711474 There's no doubt that cases are rising - and no doubt hospitalisations will rise, especially for those that aren't vaccinated. However, if 90k new positive cases were reported and 10k of those are Omicron, it stands to reason that the other 80k are NOT Omicron. It could well turn out that Omicron IS mild but the hospitalisations are being driven by the other variants.... Too early to jump to conclusions either way at the moment.

Why would you mention the 'common cold'?

And if you don't go to those countries then it lasts a lifetime - as you've pointed out the risk of exposure in the UK is minimal. Likewise, if I went to the moon, I'd wear a spacesuit!