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Sounds good to me, I’m in Fife!
Ayyyyyyyyy bonie lassies and gals!!!!
DP64 - if this all pays off I'll buy Britannia and moor it next to Thoth's yacht.
It seems a lots of guys/girls are from Scotland. So we could a SAR 20P party in Scotland as well.
Am in Scotjand too Hbd. Feel reasonably safe here as on edge of nowhere.
Hi Basser, the article didn't cover long term effects of flu but it did say this on it -
Winter usually means outbreaks of respiratory viruses including influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and those that cause common colds. They barely touched us last winter, suppressed by measures to limit the spread of covid-19. But what about after restrictions are lifted?
Making global predictions is almost impossible, says Azra Ghani at Imperial College London. “Every country is almost unique,” she says. But the UK at least can probably expect a worse-thanusual flu season, according to a new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences.
There are still multiple unknowns, including how bad this winter’s flu strain will be, how effective the flu vaccine is and how much natural immunity has waned. But the UK can expect 1.5 to 2.2 times the normal number of flu cases, says Ghani, a member of the report’s expert advisory group. Flu normally kills 10,000 to 30,000 people a year in England.
RSV is also expected to be up to twice as prevalent than it is in a normal year, which sees 20,000 children under 5 admitted to hospital. The vast majority recover.
There is also the added risk of co-infection, which is when an individual is infected with two or more viruses at the same time, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes covid-19. “Co-infection is quite common in the winter months – some people can harbour three at the same time – and there is evidence that RSV can make covid-19 symptoms quite a lot worse,” says Stephen Holgate at the University of Southampton, UK, the report’s chair.
This all points to a bleak midwinter in England. “The NHS is already under pressure, so is likely not to be able to cope with these challenges,” he says.
So there you have it, a bleak midwinter predicted for England. Glad I'm in Scotland :-)
Good article. But does influenza for example lead to as many different long term illnesses as Covid? The article does not seem to factor in any lasting effects in weighing up how we will be treating it ie through vaccinations?
Part 3 of 3 - New Scientist article 24/7/21 :
The covid-19 pandemic will one day be history, but the virus that caused it will not. Just as the 1918 influenza virus is still with us, we will have to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 and its descendants, says Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London. But what form that relationship will take is unknown.
According to Amalio Telenti at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, we are currently in a transition period as vaccines wrestle the pandemic under control. After this, he says, we won’t eliminate the virus, but it will become endemic, meaning it is a constant presence that ebbs and flows over years or decades.
Once this happens, broadly speaking there are three scenarios, he says. The worst case is a future with waves of severe disease like the deadly flu outbreaks of 1928-29 and 1934-36, both of which were caused by descendants of the 1918-19 flu virus. This scenario could occur if global vaccination rates remain too low, immunity doesn’t persist or the virus mutates so it can evade the immune response or becomes more virulent.
The second and most likely scenario, he says, is that SARS-CoV-2 turns into a seasonal virus like flu. But that would still mean intermittent epidemic peaks, as with flu.
The best-case scenario is that the virus fades to become just another seasonal coronavirus like the four that cause the common cold.
Ferguson agrees that the middle scenario is more likely, with low levels of infection and flare-ups where levels of immunity decline. “It will become a classic endemic respiratory disease which we manage, probably through vaccination,” he says.
But that wouldn’t entail any return to pandemic restrictions, says Graham Medley at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We don’t put special measures in to deal with the flu and in the same way I don’t think we’ll have special measures in to deal with the coronavirus.”