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CumbrianLefty:
Some chatter in the usual circles about a "scary" new Covid variant.
Any reliable non-alarmist accounts of this?
Blue3:
Quote from: CumbrianLefty on August 15, 2023, 06:44:07 AM
Some chatter in the usual circles about a "scary" new Covid variant.
Any reliable non-alarmist accounts of this?
There's been a big increase in positive cases here
And here's a UK article, although a few weeks old:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/eris-covid-uk-cases-map-b2390137.html
Hospitals in the South-West of England recorded the highest hospital admission rate, with an interactive map showing a 104% increase in Covid cases in Devon in the seven days leading up to 29 July.
Other Covid hotspots include Surrey, with a 103.3% increase, Derbyshire, with a 121.4% increase, as well as Cornwall, Somerset, Staffordshire, Darlington and Cumbria.
Experts have attributed the recent rise to a number of different reasons, including waning immunity, increased indoor mixing and the possibility that cinema trips to watch Barbie and Oppenheimer have caused the virus to spread.
CumbrianLefty:
Cumbria mentioned as a "hotspot" there, but I'm not aware of anybody getting it locally.
Blue3:
From personal experience, I know a lot of people from work and other places in the area who currently have COVID or who got it earlier.
I also wonder how much the lack of access to testing might be people shrugging it off as just a bad cold or bug.
°Leprechaun:
I still see some people wearing masks.
I stopped wearing one in March.
I certainly hope that the deaths or cases don't rise to an alarming level, but who really knows?
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