Serious Jialat! Can close shop for 2021 lockdown forever!

[Hypocrite-The]

Covid-19 UK: Strain more transmissible than Delta hits UK
Fast-spreading Lambda variant puzzles Covid scientists due to 'unusual set of mutations'
The world’s most transmissible Covid-19 strain has infected the UK with six cases reported and worrying research it may be more infectious than the Delta variant.

The Lambda strain has puzzled World Health Organisation scientists after it spread to nearly 30 countries in the last four weeks. The mutation was originally discovered in Peru and is related to 81 per cent of the country’s cases since April.

Peru currently has the highest mortality rate of anywhere in the world.

Most all social restrictions related to Covid-19 are anticipated to end in England on July 19. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images.Source:Getty Images

It is a worrying sign for the UK which has recently relaxed Covid-19 restrictions after 37 million people received at least one dose of a vaccine.

The country had returned to normality in recent weeks with pubs flooded by revellers enjoying their country’s recent success at Euro 2020.

However, these civil liberties could change if the highly transmissible Lambda strain spreads across the community.

Cayetano Heredia University Professor Pablo Tsukayama said the strand has exploded in Peru with the new variant currently making up 82 per cent of cases in the South American country.

“That would suggest its rate of transmission is higher than any other variant,” he said.

His claims were backed up by a report from London’s Covid-19 Genomics Initiative at the Welcome Sanger Institute director Jeff Barrett.

Compulsory mask wearing is expected to end soon in the UK. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

“Lambda has a unique pattern of seven mutations in the spike protein that the virus uses to infect human cells. Researchers are particularly intrigued by one mutation called L452Q, which is similar to the L452R mutation to contribute to the high infectiousness of the Delta variant,“ he told the Financial Times.

There is also concerning research that current vaccines are not as effective in neutralising the new strand, according to a report from scientists at the University of Chile, Santiago.

“Our data show for the first time that mutations present in the spike protein of the Lambda variant confer escape to neutralising antibodies and increased infectivity,” they wrote in a pre paper report published last week.

 

[glockman]

To vaccinate or not vaccinate, that is the question.

 

[laksaboy]

To vaccinate or not vaccinate, that is the question.

To believe or not to believe, that is the question.

 

[Leongsam]

Hey Ah Nehs can you please conjure up more new variants the rest of the world needs something serious for the media to concentrate on.

 

[Leongsam]

Covid-19 UK: Strain more transmissible than Delta hits UK
Fast-spreading Lambda variant puzzles Covid scientists due to 'unusual set of mutations'
The world’s most transmissible Covid-19 strain has infected the UK with six cases reported and worrying research it may be more infectious than the Delta variant.

The Lambda strain has puzzled World Health Organisation scientists after it spread to nearly 30 countries in the last four weeks. The mutation was originally discovered in Peru and is related to 81 per cent of the country’s cases since April.

Peru currently has the highest mortality rate of anywhere in the world.

Most all social restrictions related to Covid-19 are anticipated to end in England on July 19. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images.Source:Getty Images

It is a worrying sign for the UK which has recently relaxed Covid-19 restrictions after 37 million people received at least one dose of a vaccine.

The country had returned to normality in recent weeks with pubs flooded by revellers enjoying their country’s recent success at Euro 2020.

However, these civil liberties could change if the highly transmissible Lambda strain spreads across the community.

Cayetano Heredia University Professor Pablo Tsukayama said the strand has exploded in Peru with the new variant currently making up 82 per cent of cases in the South American country.

“That would suggest its rate of transmission is higher than any other variant,” he said.

His claims were backed up by a report from London’s Covid-19 Genomics Initiative at the Welcome Sanger Institute director Jeff Barrett.

Compulsory mask wearing is expected to end soon in the UK. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

“Lambda has a unique pattern of seven mutations in the spike protein that the virus uses to infect human cells. Researchers are particularly intrigued by one mutation called L452Q, which is similar to the L452R mutation to contribute to the high infectiousness of the Delta variant,“ he told the Financial Times.

There is also concerning research that current vaccines are not as effective in neutralising the new strand, according to a report from scientists at the University of Chile, Santiago.

“Our data show for the first time that mutations present in the spike protein of the Lambda variant confer escape to neutralising antibodies and increased infectivity,” they wrote in a pre paper report published last week.

Should be renamed the "Lampar" variant.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Should be renamed the "Lampar" variant.

Is it really that deadly to justify lockdowns and masks etc?

 

[dredd]

Is it really that deadly to justify lockdowns and masks etc?

Death is not the only reason. The fear is that hospitals and healthcare facilities will be overwhelmed by those who are seriously ill, and deprive those sick with other ailments from getting healthcare. Cases in point: India and Brazil. Although many may think this factor is not important and tend to overlook it, the truth is that it is not. There are only a limited number of ICU rooms and hospital beds. Those who have elderly relatives will know this fact. This is not a trivial matter...

 

[Leongsam]

Death is not the only reason. The fear is that hospitals and healthcare facilities will be overwhelmed by those who are seriously ill, and deprive those sick with other ailments from getting healthcare. Cases in point: India and Brazil. Although many may think this factor is not important and tend to overlook it, the truth is that it is not. There are only a limited number of ICU rooms and hospital beds. Those who have elderly relatives will know this fact. This is not a trivial matter...

At the height of the "pandemic" many countries set up supplementary ICU facilities. Most were never used and were dismantled.

All this scaremongering is for the Media to sell ads, pharma to sell vaccines and government to clip the ticket.

 

[Leongsam]

Published on March 25, 2021

Written by huffingtonpost.co.uk

The Nightingale Hospital at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Image: ITV


Only three of England’s seven Nightingale hospitals have ever been used to treat Covid patients – despite costing the taxpayer more than £500m to set-up and keep on standby, HuffPost UK can reveal. An investigation by this website has shown just how underused the landmark hospitals have been – with the government under fire for overseeing a programme described as a “massive white elephant” from the start.


We found four of the Nightingales, opened during the first wave of the pandemic, have never treated people with Covid-19 despite the government’s promises the hospitals would provide vital overflow capacity for the NHS.


And only two of the hospitals have been used to treat Covid patients in the current deadly second wave – despite Covid-19 alert levels being raised to five due to a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed and patients being moved out of London from full hospital wards.


We can also reveal just how costly the Nightingales have been, with the set-up bill totalling up to £1.27m per inpatient as of January, according to figures we collated.


Justin Madders MP, shadow health minister, said: “It seems, from the information that has been gathered, that the Nightingales were criminally underused and were a massive white elephant conjured up by [health secretary] Matt Hancock to create a good headline without any real thought having gone into how they could best be used and whether they would be properly staffed.”


Medical unions also slammed the government’s failure to heed warnings there were never enough critical care staff to run the Nightingales from the outset.


Dr Claudia Paolini, president of HCSA, said: “They were effectively deployed as a political symbol to show that something was being done at a time when the government was failing so dismally at the things we really needed, such as PPE to protect staff or quicker actions on lockdowns.”


NHS England has robustly defended the Nightingales, saying they were “the ultimate insurance policy” in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed.

 

[Leongsam]

Yawn... will the new variant please appear as Covid is getting rather boring with numbers so low they are hardly newsworthy.

 

[Leongsam]

Another day and another plunge in the number of cases despite the supposedly deadly and highly transmissible ah neh variant that is purportedly causing a worldwide disaster!!!

Come on ah neh variant please do you job. Don't disappoint us.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Death is not the only reason. The fear is that hospitals and healthcare facilities will be overwhelmed by those who are seriously ill, and deprive those sick with other ailments from getting healthcare. Cases in point: India and Brazil. Although many may think this factor is not important and tend to overlook it, the truth is that it is not. There are only a limited number of ICU rooms and hospital beds. Those who have elderly relatives will know this fact. This is not a trivial matter...

So its just an excuse for gahmens to cover up their inadequacies in managing the health care system? N how many are that sick to b hospitalised?

 

[dredd]

So its just an excuse for gahmens to cover up their inadequacies in managing the health care system? N how many are that sick to b hospitalised?

No healthcare system in the world, no matter how good it is, can keep pace with a runaway pandemic that sickens millions. It will collapse. The number of beds, ICUs, spaces, doctors, nurses... are all limited. Some things that we take for granted are simply beyond us to understand unless we are in that situation.

I know what you and everyone thinks... If you are sick, just go to hospital lah? simple right? In reality, you will need a doctor to attend to you, nurses to look after you, even a bed space for you with the necessary equipment, medication... now imagine thousands like you. And what about those other thousands who are not suffering from COVID but from cancer, other diseases that require the same space and attention you need. If you read in detail about Italy in the early days, the US, Brazil, India... you will understand the plight of the doctors and healthcare professionals. Some doctors have even died from overwork. In Malaysia now, they are experiencing this problem where doctors and healthcare professionals cannot rest and work non stop.

So you ask how many are that sick to be hospitalised? Same as the shallow-thinking Sam? The simple reason why you ask this question is because you are lucky enough to live in a place where vaccinations are easy to come by and combined with tough restrictions and policies, unlike the other countries where scores of people are dying and lying sick in hospitals. You are like the frog in the well who looked up and thinks the world is just the sky he can see.

If you are living in India, Brazil, Indonesia, the US... I am sure you will not ask this question: "How many are that sick to be hospitalised?"

 

[Leongsam]

No healthcare system in the world, no matter how good it is, can keep pace with a runaway pandemic that sickens millions. It will collapse. The number of beds, ICUs, spaces, doctors, nurses... are all limited. Some things that we take for granted are simply beyond us to understand unless we are in that situation.

I know what you and everyone thinks... If you are sick, just go to hospital lah? simple right? In reality, you will need a doctor to attend to you, nurses to look after you, even a bed space for you with the necessary equipment, medication... now imagine thousands like you. And what about those other thousands who are not suffering from COVID but from cancer, other diseases that require the same space and attention you need. If you read in detail about Italy in the early days, the US, Brazil, India... you will understand the plight of the doctors and healthcare professionals. Some doctors have even died from overwork. In Malaysia now, they are experiencing this problem where doctors and healthcare professionals cannot rest and work non stop.

So you ask how many are that sick to be hospitalised? Same as the shallow-thinking Sam? The simple reason why you ask this question is because you are lucky enough to live in a place where vaccinations are easy to come by and combined with tough restrictions and policies, unlike the other countries where scores of people are dying and lying sick in hospitals. You are like the frog in the well who looked up and thinks the world is just the sky he can see.

If you are living in India, Brazil, Indonesia, the US... I am sure you will not ask this question: "How many are that sick to be hospitalised?"

People die daily for any number of reasons. Covid is just one small factor in the overall deaths.

At the moment NZ is struggling to cope with a surge in RSV which is far more lethal than Covid for infants compared to Covid 19.

However there is no vaccine and big pharma is not interested in this disease because they can't make money out of it.

RSV explained: What parents, caregivers need to be aware of​

Jane Nixon, 1 NEWS Digital Producer

5:21pm • Source: 1 NEWS

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With RSV rates across New Zealand soaring, basic hygiene measures are vital for keeping it at bay, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ (ARFNZ) says.


Unwell baby, file. Source: istock.com

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Hospitals across the country are struggling with high numbers of babies and young children seriously ill with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and schools and kindergartens are reporting record numbers of children off sick.

With Covid lockdowns keeping many illnesses at a minimum last year, children may now be being exposed to RSV for the first time.

“A 2020 study led by Dr Adrian Trenholme (a member of ARFNZ’s Scientific Advisory Board) and Dr Webb at Kidz First Hospital in South Auckland showed the dramatic effect that Covid-19 health interventions had on levels of respiratory disease in infants,” the foundation said in a statement yesterday.

“Last year, the usual winter peak of RSV hospitalisations didn’t occur. Now that we have travel bubbles in place, children who were not exposed to the virus last year and did not develop immunity are more vulnerable, as they are being exposed to RSV for the first time.”




Doctor urges parents to manage mild RSV in kids as hospitals face high demand

Symptoms of RSV can include:

• Runny nose
• Fever
• Cough
• Short periods without breathing (apnea)
• Trouble eating, drinking, or swallowing
• Wheezing
• Flaring of the nostrils or straining of the chest or stomach while breathing
• Breathing faster than usual, or trouble breathing
• Turning blue around the lips and fingertips

If your child is struggling for breath it is vital to seek medical assistance immediately," says ARFNZ Medical Director Dr James Fingleton.

"If their symptoms are more like a common cold, keep them at home, make sure they stay hydrated, and manage pain and fever with paracetamol as appropriate.

"There is no vaccine against RSV, and no specific treatment, so the most important thing is for us to prevent the spread as far as possible. As well as staying home when sick, it’s important for all of us to be washing our hands thoroughly, covering coughs and sneezes, and cleaning frequently touched surfaces."

“RSV is a common virus, and in many cases the symptoms are like cold symptoms and can be treated at home.

“However, it is also the most common cause of hospitalisation for lower respiratory tract infections in under-two-year-olds and can cause serious illness such as pneumonia and bronchiolitis.

“Those most at risk of becoming seriously ill from RSV are premature babies, and young children with congenital heart or lung diseases or compromised immune systems. Older adults can also be vulnerable.”

 

[Leongsam]

Wards overwhelmed by RSV but why no lockdown to relieve the strain on ICUs and hospital beds??

RSV outbreak spreads to South Island as cases continue to overwhelm hospitals nationwide​

Edward O'Driscoll 1 day ago

© Video - Newshub; Image - Google Maps Watch: RSV outbreak spreads to South Island as cases…
Cases of the infectious RSV illness are now spreading in the South Island, with Dunedin and Invercargill hospitals starting to see cases.
Cases of RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, have broken out among children in New Zealand this winter and are overwhelming hospitals.
District health boards continue to restrict visitors in an attempt to curb the virus' spread, but a paediatrician has warned the worst is yet to come.
Southern DHB paediatrician Professor Barry Taylor is bracing the team for what's to come as more babies get sick across the country.
"I would expect us to be seeing the full onslaught of RSV probably over the next week," he says.
Older children and adults are starting to test positive too.


In Invercargill, the children's ward at Southland Hospital has been at capacity all week, and nine out of 10 kids in isolation are battling a respiratory illness.
"For some reason, it's arrived in Southland slightly before Dunedin but it does mean we have got even more time for planning," Taylor says.
The Southern DHB is calling on the public to exercise extreme care visiting high-risk wards across the lower South Island.
On Thursday, Whangārei, Wellington, and Hutt Valley hospitals all placed restrictions on children visiting wards there.
Health Minister Andrew Little says DHBs have enough PPE as patient numbers soar.
"All hospitals are always prepared for winter spikes in infections, we're seeing a winter spike in infection and they're being supported to meet the demand that's on them," he says.
There's currently no vaccine for RSV, but the option is on the horizon. Trials are underway at the moment, including here in New Zealand.
"In 20 years of paediatrics, bronchiolitis with RSV is your bread and butter and it would be lovely to see that change," paediatrician Dr Rebecca Griffith says.
Mum-to-be Heidi Wilde is part of the study where pregnant women are given the vaccine in the hope it'll pass on immunity to the baby.
"As a new mum I would do anything I can to make sure my little boy's protected," she says.
But for other families, keeping sick children at home is the best protection we've got.

 

[Leongsam]

https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/rsv

In infants, RSV is the main cause of bronchiolitis. Most cases of bronchiolitis are mild and can be managed at home, but about 3% of cases will need hospital care. Worldwide, RSV is the second largest cause of death in children under one year of age (second only to malaria). In 2017 the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that RSV causes around 33 million serious respiratory infections a year. This results in more than 3 million hospitalisations and nearly 60,000 deaths in children under 5 years of age every year. Nearly half of these hospitalisations and deaths are in children under 6 months of age.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

People die daily for any number of reasons. Covid is just one small factor in the overall deaths.

At the moment NZ is struggling to cope with a surge in RSV which is far more lethal than Covid for infants compared to Covid 19.

However there is no vaccine and big pharma is not interested in this disease because they can't make money out of it.

RSV explained: What parents, caregivers need to be aware of​

Jane Nixon, 1 NEWS Digital Producer

5:21pm • Source: 1 NEWS

---

With RSV rates across New Zealand soaring, basic hygiene measures are vital for keeping it at bay, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ (ARFNZ) says.


Unwell baby, file. Source: istock.com

---

Hospitals across the country are struggling with high numbers of babies and young children seriously ill with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and schools and kindergartens are reporting record numbers of children off sick.

With Covid lockdowns keeping many illnesses at a minimum last year, children may now be being exposed to RSV for the first time.

“A 2020 study led by Dr Adrian Trenholme (a member of ARFNZ’s Scientific Advisory Board) and Dr Webb at Kidz First Hospital in South Auckland showed the dramatic effect that Covid-19 health interventions had on levels of respiratory disease in infants,” the foundation said in a statement yesterday.

“Last year, the usual winter peak of RSV hospitalisations didn’t occur. Now that we have travel bubbles in place, children who were not exposed to the virus last year and did not develop immunity are more vulnerable, as they are being exposed to RSV for the first time.”



Doctor urges parents to manage mild RSV in kids as hospitals face high demand

Symptoms of RSV can include:

• Runny nose
• Fever
• Cough
• Short periods without breathing (apnea)
• Trouble eating, drinking, or swallowing
• Wheezing
• Flaring of the nostrils or straining of the chest or stomach while breathing
• Breathing faster than usual, or trouble breathing
• Turning blue around the lips and fingertips

If your child is struggling for breath it is vital to seek medical assistance immediately," says ARFNZ Medical Director Dr James Fingleton.

"If their symptoms are more like a common cold, keep them at home, make sure they stay hydrated, and manage pain and fever with paracetamol as appropriate.

"There is no vaccine against RSV, and no specific treatment, so the most important thing is for us to prevent the spread as far as possible. As well as staying home when sick, it’s important for all of us to be washing our hands thoroughly, covering coughs and sneezes, and cleaning frequently touched surfaces."

“RSV is a common virus, and in many cases the symptoms are like cold symptoms and can be treated at home.

“However, it is also the most common cause of hospitalisation for lower respiratory tract infections in under-two-year-olds and can cause serious illness such as pneumonia and bronchiolitis.

“Those most at risk of becoming seriously ill from RSV are premature babies, and young children with congenital heart or lung diseases or compromised immune systems. Older adults can also be vulnerable.”

U also ppl need to add in those died or get sick bcos of the flu..how different is tat to the Wuhan virus