DOOM: "Omicron Covid cases ‘doubling every two to three days’ in UK"

[AtW]

FTFY

As you have missed the temp wards being built in the car parks.

Italy will look organized in comparison

I'll start getting mildly worried when they prep temp morgue on site of Bham Airport

HTH

[SueEllen]

11,918 in hospital (+3659) - that would be people who were diagnosed couple of weeks ago when we "only" had 60-70k

They'll have to call lockdown at 20k in hospital car parks, so that's 2 weeks from now max.

FTFY
As you have missed the temp wards being built in the car parks.

Italy will look organized in comparison

[BR14]

and a happy new year from the chuckle twins, painful swellin' and ivan ackeroff.

[AtW]

11,918 in hospital (+3659) - that would be people who were diagnosed couple of weeks ago when we "only" had 60-70k

They'll have to call lockdown at 20k in hospital, so that's 2 weeks from now max.

[SueEllen]

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

189, 846

[SueEllen]

I just read a cautiously optimistic piece in The Times. The most recommend comment rants and raves about how MSM is scaremongering and all restrictions should be relaxed, since Omicron is "no worse than flu".

Crazy.

What like the flu pandemic of 1918?

[NotAllThere]

Not often I say this but I'm 100% in agreement with you.

Proper restrictions should have been brought in probably 4 weeks ago on mass indoor gatherings and restrictions on numbers in shops etc should have come back.

Instead of pumping out a public health message, mainstream TV news has been getting their expert public health opinion pieces done by nightclub, bar and restaurant owners.

I just read a cautiously optimistic piece in The Times. The most recommend comment rants and raves about how MSM is scaremongering and all restrictions should be relaxed, since Omicron is "no worse than flu".

Crazy.

[TestMangler]

It's going to get bad in hospitals. I think they suspect its going to be worse than before. There is quite a bit of initial work that gets done when you go in for covid, xrays, heart trace, blood work and not everyone that goes in will be hospitalised. It takes about 4 hours to do all this and you're probably going to be in a corridor. They have a blood test they give you at the usual 10 day point that tells them if you're going to be screwed. If that bit gets overwhelmed and I think that is the worry then it's going to go bad. I'm guessing these extra bits in the hospitals is for this triage space. Which they have never bothered with before.

I was told 4 weeks ago we would absolutely have to go into national lock down, I'm not sure if that will be the case but i'm surprised people are still dismissing this as hospital admissions are rising like crazy.

Not often I say this but I'm 100% in agreement with you.

Proper restrictions should have been brought in probably 4 weeks ago on mass indoor gatherings and restrictions on numbers in shops etc should have come back.

Instead of pumping out a public health message, mainstream TV news has been getting their expert public health opinion pieces done by nightclub, bar and restaurant owners.

[minestrone]

It's going to get bad in hospitals. I think they suspect its going to be worse than before. There is quite a bit of initial work that gets done when you go in for covid, xrays, heart trace, blood work and not everyone that goes in will be hospitalised. It takes about 4 hours to do all this and you're probably going to be in a corridor. They have a blood test they give you at the usual 10 day point that tells them if you're going to be screwed. If that bit gets overwhelmed and I think that is the worry then it's going to go bad. I'm guessing these extra bits in the hospitals is for this triage space. Which they have never bothered with before.

I was told 4 weeks ago we would absolutely have to go into national lock down, I'm not sure if that will be the case but i'm surprised people are still dismissing this as hospital admissions are rising like crazy.

[NotAllThere]

Can take 4-5 weeks till death from infection and this variant was discovered a month ago.

But the lag for hospitalisation are about 10 days after the peak infection, deaths about 2 weeks. Deaths and hospitalisations are still very low compared to 1 or 2 weeks before the January 2021 peak. The death curve is even trending downwards at the moment.