D&D and the rising pandemic

[CapnZapp]

16% of hospital admissions here are boosted. A few of them only got it less than 2 weeks before.

Also remember - if everybody is boosted, then everybody admitted to the hospital will be boosted.

Point here is the numbers will be way way way lower than if nobody took the vaccine at all. Ergo: the percentage of boosted patients isn't a great metric.

Please do not go down the route of "percentage of admitted patients even with boosters is high; so the vaccine can't be that great" (which is entirely false).

But math can be hard.

 

[Zardnaar]

Also remember - if everybody is boosted, then everybody admitted to the hospital will be boosted.

Point here is the numbers will be way way way lower than if nobody took the vaccine at all. Ergo: the percentage of boosted patients isn't a great metric.

Please do not go down the route of "percentage of admitted patients even with boosters is high; so the vaccine can't be that great" (which is entirely false).

But math can be hard.

Last I paid attention we had 95% vax rate of two shots in adults, 50% boosted and Idk the amount of kids. That was a few weeks ago

Not everyone qualified for booster as mass vax only started last August so second shot was January and they reduced it to four months in late January iirc.

High risk groups got earlier shots.

18k+ cases with 10 deaths

Covid-19 data visualisations: NZ in numbers

Track the very latest Covid-19 data in New Zealand, with new charts on the current trends from RNZ data journalist Farah Hancock.

www.rnz.co.nz

There's a graph there showing our infection rates. Almost flat through to early February 100 odd cases. Then everything kinda fell apart.

Just not socializing now full stop. We go out to a couple of favorite spots at odd times avoiding crowds. Two weeks ago we had socially distanced picknnick at the park.

Now I think the younger family members are talking if a socially distanced hike.

Brother in law's sisters kid got through fine very mild case. Mother and brother didn't get sick same house. Supposed to peak this week we'll see.

Borders reopening early.

 

[Rabulias]

16% of hospital admissions here are boosted. A few of them only got it less than 2 weeks before.

One of my wife's workmates got the booster and tested positive next day.

This does not strike me as unusual. It may take a week or two after injection to build up the antibodies.

 

[Zardnaar]

This does not strike me as unusual. It may take a week or two after injection to build up the antibodies.

We've been told two weeks.

 

[Baron Opal II]

Mask mandate ended 3/14. No disaster just yet.
Infection numbers for the state, new cases reported per day:

720 on Mar 1
674 on Mar 2
680 on Mar 3
714 on Mar 4
0 on Mar 5
0 on Mar 6
1,058 on Mar 7
352 on Mar 8
437 on Mar 9
418 on Mar 10
380 on Mar 11
0 on Mar 12
0 on Mar 13
598 on Mar 14
401 on Mar 15
299 on Mar 16
300 on Mar 17
238 on Mar 18

Mar 18, 2022
New cases: 238
7-day avg: 262

 

[Ryujin]

Also remember - if everybody is boosted, then everybody admitted to the hospital will be boosted.

Point here is the numbers will be way way way lower than if nobody took the vaccine at all. Ergo: the percentage of boosted patients isn't a great metric.

Please do not go down the route of "percentage of admitted patients even with boosters is high; so the vaccine can't be that great" (which is entirely false).

But math can be hard.

Much like the debate I had with an anti-vaxxer "virologist" who said that the 20 or so people who came down with measles, in a 100% vaccinated town, proved that vaccines are useless.

 

[Zardnaar]

Made the news on CNN.

They were Covid-19 success stories -- then they saw massive outbreaks. These charts show what's really going on | CNN

Millions of people in China are under lockdown. Hong Kong morgues are overwhelmed. And South Korea is reporting the most cases per capita worldwide.

edition.cnn.com

Sister in law detected positive today, her partner on Saturday and their kid on Sunday. Neighbours also have it.

We've stopped socializing no family visits, D&D or whatever. Socially distanced outdoors lunch was canceled on Saturday.

Very few relatively dying though. 15k cases today but we were in the mid 20's not to long ago.

 

[Ryujin]

Canada is officially in the 6th wave now. Waste water detections are up, however, regular testing has pretty much gone by the wayside now. Hospitalization numbers are up, but not alarmingly so, likely due to the high percentage of people inoculated or who have already had it.

 

[NotAYakk]

Canada is officially in the 6th wave now. Waste water detections are up, however, regular testing has pretty much gone by the wayside now. Hospitalization numbers are up, but not alarmingly so, likely due to the high percentage of people inoculated or who have already had it.

In a local community group, it was "does everyone know a pile of people with covid?".

The local poop report is vertical line.

Canada has relaxed almost all mandatory measures to slow its spread. There is about 50% (give or take) voluntary mask wearing indoors in stores. Activities my kid is still in are mask mandatory (we had to leave at least one that wasn't doing mandatory masks). Schools are no longer mask mandatory.

Vaccination rates among kids are around 50%; there is going to be a lot of long covid coming.

 

[Ryujin]

In a local community group, it was "does everyone know a pile of people with covid?".

The local poop report is vertical line.

Canada has relaxed almost all mandatory measures to slow its spread. There is about 50% (give or take) voluntary mask wearing indoors in stores. Activities my kid is still in are mask mandatory (we had to leave at least one that wasn't doing mandatory masks). Schools are no longer mask mandatory.

Vaccination rates among kids are around 50%; there is going to be a lot of long covid coming.

My fear is that Covid is basically the Thalidomide of the 2020s.