Back in lockdown again.

[frozenpod]

One million a week for 3 weeks is well more than half their adult population. I heard we are getting a million doses of the Pfizer vaccine a week so assuming that is right then why can’t this be done?

I read they expect 80% vaccination rate in NSW by December....I'll be keeping a keen eye on the UK, I dont think they accounted for the Delta variant when deciding to re-open the country this week.

Pretty much as I understand it December.

Troy remember you need to have 2 doses and there is 6 million people to be vaccinated ie 12 million doses required. So if everything went perfectly and no doses went to other states 3 months minimum.

Ultimately we need Pfizer as AZ is not up to the job.

[bowl]

Lots of flogs at melb / Sydney protests today ...

[Lightningx]

Hope it doesn’t result in another outbreak

[Sebb]

Hope it doesn’t result in another outbreak

One person with covid is all it needs.
Let's hope not. I have planned a lot of things to do after Tuesday.
And also holding myself not to purchase fishing gear online
If it goes longer than Tue, I might end up spending $400+ on fishing stuff online

[4liters]

Melbourne one should be ok, there's not much covid here.

I'd be really worried about the Sydney one though.

[Sebb]

Melbourne one should be ok, there's not much covid here.

I'd be really worried about the Sydney one though.

Yeah, a mate in Sydney said the situation isn't nice there at the moment.

[4liters]

This is a long article (but let's face it, no one in the state has anything better to do until Wednesday) talking about long covid:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ecli ... ctitle0013

Abstract

Background

There is growing concern about possible cognitive consequences of COVID-19, with reports of ‘Long COVID’ symptoms persisting into the chronic phase and case studies revealing neurological problems in severely affected patients. However, there is little information regarding the nature and broader prevalence of cognitive problems post-infection or across the full spread of disease severity.


Methods

We sought to confirm whether there was an association between cross-sectional cognitive performance data from 81,337 participants who between January and December 2020 undertook a clinically validated web-optimized assessment as part of the Great British Intelligence Test, and questionnaire items capturing self-report of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 infection and respiratory symptoms.


Findings

People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition.


Interpretation

Interpretation. These results accord with reports of ‘Long Covid’ cognitive symptoms that persist into the early-chronic phase. They should act as a clarion call for further research with longitudinal and neuroimaging cohorts to plot recovery trajectories and identify the biological basis of cognitive deficits in SARS-COV-2 survivors.

[Andrews]

Hope we're fine Melb, despite this aweful weather I'm eager as ever to get a session fishing.

[frozenpod]

This is a long article (but let's face it, no one in the state has anything better to do until Wednesday) talking about long covid:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ecli ... ctitle0013

Abstract

Background

There is growing concern about possible cognitive consequences of COVID-19, with reports of ‘Long COVID’ symptoms persisting into the chronic phase and case studies revealing neurological problems in severely affected patients. However, there is little information regarding the nature and broader prevalence of cognitive problems post-infection or across the full spread of disease severity.


Methods

We sought to confirm whether there was an association between cross-sectional cognitive performance data from 81,337 participants who between January and December 2020 undertook a clinically validated web-optimized assessment as part of the Great British Intelligence Test, and questionnaire items capturing self-report of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 infection and respiratory symptoms.


Findings

People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition.


Interpretation

Interpretation. These results accord with reports of ‘Long Covid’ cognitive symptoms that persist into the early-chronic phase. They should act as a clarion call for further research with longitudinal and neuroimaging cohorts to plot recovery trajectories and identify the biological basis of cognitive deficits in SARS-COV-2 survivors.

I am not sure that explains Boris or Trump.

[4liters]

This is a long article (but let's face it, no one in the state has anything better to do until Wednesday) talking about long covid:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ecli ... ctitle0013

Abstract

Background

There is growing concern about possible cognitive consequences of COVID-19, with reports of ‘Long COVID’ symptoms persisting into the chronic phase and case studies revealing neurological problems in severely affected patients. However, there is little information regarding the nature and broader prevalence of cognitive problems post-infection or across the full spread of disease severity.


Methods

We sought to confirm whether there was an association between cross-sectional cognitive performance data from 81,337 participants who between January and December 2020 undertook a clinically validated web-optimized assessment as part of the Great British Intelligence Test, and questionnaire items capturing self-report of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 infection and respiratory symptoms.


Findings

People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition.


Interpretation

Interpretation. These results accord with reports of ‘Long Covid’ cognitive symptoms that persist into the early-chronic phase. They should act as a clarion call for further research with longitudinal and neuroimaging cohorts to plot recovery trajectories and identify the biological basis of cognitive deficits in SARS-COV-2 survivors.

I am not sure that explains Boris or Trump.

Pre-existing conditions