UK Covid hospitalisations increase following emergence of new variant

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1. Thanks to long covid I’ve been too sick to work or even manage around the house for a full year since my last COVID infection. I thought that, as a young, fit and very active person I had nothing major to worry about – oh how wrong I was… Stay safe out there people, you roll the dice every time you catch it.

2. Interesting, the major study along with numerous others, have found that “long covid” is no more common than people reporting longer term symptoms woth the flu.

   Perhaps more interesting, is that they found that roughly the same amount of people that didn’t have covid at all (pcr test) reported symptoms as those that did have Covid.
   This suggests that the thought of having covid is equally likely to lead to long covid as actually having it.

   https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/15/long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold

3. Fake news. Just in time for Liebour to take power and lock us all down and mandate face nappies 24/7

4. OP may I make a suggestion to not post on Reddit, a place for back and forth discussion, when you are wholly against any discussion. It makes no sense. Especially with a subject that always causes some controversy

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6. Jesus, not this again.

   Commence the arguing between plague rats and booster junkies.

7. Didn’t know covid was still a thing but no doubt as we get towards the end of the year and start of next the new cycle will kick in again about it.

   Personally have tested or isolated in like a few years now and don’t know anyone that does 🤷. I got my 2 jabs (which personally made me much more ill then covid ever did) because I had to and that was that.

   I caught it that many times though as basically worked the entire pandemic and didn’t really do the whole not seeing people and no one on site worse masks 👀

8. And the COVID funding for POCT services has only recently stopped too. What wonderful timing

9. This is like gas prices.

   Gas prices always increase.

   Except when they decrease, but that’s never interesting, so not in news headlines.

10. My friend, a 37 year old woman in relatively good health has just caught Covid and it’s *bad* she’s debating going to hospital right now. Wonder if she caught this variant. .

11. I’d believe it. Covid has not been on my radar at all, and I’ve barely heard of it, for about 2 years (and have the privilege to say that, i guess), but I had it two weeks ago and several friends from different social groups have it currently.

12. > Hospitalisations were highest in those aged 85 years and over. Covid ICU admissions were “very low” but increased slightly to 0.12 per 100,000.