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Anyone absolutely dreading the figures next week after Wembley

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Homeontherangeuk · 14/07/2021 23:34

49 deaths reported today, 50 yesterday & 42,000 cases plus today, I am feeling very nervous about the weeks ahead... The govt simply have to man up & take ownership of this escalating catastrophe....

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Bluebelle100 · 16/07/2021 19:40

British Grand Prix this weekend with a crowd of 140K........ :(

Bertiebiscuit · 16/07/2021 19:41

You people who seem to believe that young people are not affected by covid need to catch up with the News - they can get Long covid, and other complications - plus they will spread it to other people who may be vulnerable duh

SmidgenofaPigeon · 16/07/2021 19:46

@Bluebelle100 yeah, DH is there, I hope everyone has a blast.

IcedPurple · 16/07/2021 19:51

@Bluebelle100

British Grand Prix this weekend with a crowd of 140K........ :(
Not my favourite sport but I hope they have a great time. Weather looking good too!
jwpetal · 16/07/2021 19:53

They weren't checking the tests at the euro. We had friends attend an one checked their results.

JeanneDoe · 16/07/2021 20:25

Nah. I’m only dreading the correlation between cases and hospital admissions. If that remains low then who cares?

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Tigger1895 · 16/07/2021 21:24

@PopcornMuncher

No, I couldn't care less
And there-in lies the problem. People are tired of the situation and now don’t care.
wingardium8 · 16/07/2021 21:32

COVID status checks were abandoned at Wembley - I’m not sure if it was simply impractical and staff therefore gave up, or if it was linked to the ticketless fans storming the stadium and needing to get queuing people safely past the barriers.

Anyway, totally mad really with no masks, no SD etc - and I (double vaxxed) now have covid. Yay. But the family is football mad so getting tickets was a dream come true. Not sure I wouldn’t make the same decision to go, even with hindsight

AnTeallach · 16/07/2021 21:35

@tealightsandd
Post viral syndrome has been a thing for quite a while now, but "Long covid" grabs so many more headlines, doesn't it?

I've had both in the past 3 years and they've been totally different beyond the fatigue. Post-viral syndrome didn't give me pneumonia or a heart condition. Nor did flu. And for those who still believe that Covid doesn't really affect fit and healthy people, think again. I was very fit and healthy with no underlying conditions and had a mild dose of Covid. Long Covid caught up with me months later, as it has done for so many thousands of others.

MarshaBradyo · 16/07/2021 21:37

Not really

winnieanddaisy · 16/07/2021 21:47

A young woman died in our local hospital today . She had covid and it will go down as a covid death even though she actually died of liver disease of which she was suffering for a long time .
These inflate the covid numbers

pam290358 · 16/07/2021 22:30

Not sure that the daily reporting of Covid statistics is helpful any more - and it definitely jars with the ‘grand opening’ on monday. I heard somewhere that the incidence of Covid has gone up among a particular male age group, which they’re putting down to the get togethers during the football. Wasn’t Wembley a test event ?

justasking111 · 16/07/2021 22:35

I expect cases to fall because school children won't be testing twice a week

Tealightsandd · 16/07/2021 22:46

[quote AnTeallach]@tealightsandd
Post viral syndrome has been a thing for quite a while now, but "Long covid" grabs so many more headlines, doesn't it?

I've had both in the past 3 years and they've been totally different beyond the fatigue. Post-viral syndrome didn't give me pneumonia or a heart condition. Nor did flu. And for those who still believe that Covid doesn't really affect fit and healthy people, think again. I was very fit and healthy with no underlying conditions and had a mild dose of Covid. Long Covid caught up with me months later, as it has done for so many thousands of others.[/quote]
@AnTeallach

You've replied to the wrong poster?

What you've quoted wasn't me. It was another poster who was replying to me... when I was raising concerns about Long Covid.

So sorry you've been through that. I hope you're able to access some support Flowers

Tealightsandd · 16/07/2021 22:52

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57840825

Covid: Younger adults still at risk of serious organ damage - study

The study, published in the medical journal the Lancet, found that those with pre-existing conditions were more likely to report complications but the risk was high even in young, previously healthy individuals.

lljkk · 16/07/2021 23:17

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57840825

I'm confused about that story.
It's about people admitted to hospital.
Although 30-49 yr olds with covid are very rarely admitted to hospital.

Just that if they are that unlucky, they seem to have 37-40% chance (compared to 51% chance seen in age 50+, if hospitalised with covid) to have serious covid legacy side effects.

Did we not know that being sick enough with covid to need hospitalisation meant you had a higher risk of other covid problems? You wouldn't be in hospital for covid if it wasn't hitting you hard.

It doesn't mean most infected people

Tealightsandd · 16/07/2021 23:36

It's more likely to be people admitted to hospital, they think on that study (but perhaps only because they're already on the radar and having check ups and/or more aware of possible symptoms). But - it's not only people admitted to hospital. It's others as well.

Other studies have found it can affect people who had mild or seemingly asymptomatic initial infections - only to discover months down the line that they're suffering Long Covid issues.

And like the article says, the risk was high even in young, previously healthy individuals.

a1poshpaws · 16/07/2021 23:38

I think Boris Johnson saw his popularity start to slide when people got less & less tolerant of restrictions, so decided to just abdicate all responsibility and blame the public for not being careful enough. It'll be a sad but interesting watch as the positive rates rise exponentially over the next few weeks. Because frankly, if it's truly left to people's "good judgement", then having watched the behaviour of all the sporting crowds and people crammed onto beaches - we're doomed.

Anyone absolutely dreading the figures next week after Wembley
DogFacedWoman · 16/07/2021 23:40

[quote AnTeallach]@tealightsandd
Post viral syndrome has been a thing for quite a while now, but "Long covid" grabs so many more headlines, doesn't it?

I've had both in the past 3 years and they've been totally different beyond the fatigue. Post-viral syndrome didn't give me pneumonia or a heart condition. Nor did flu. And for those who still believe that Covid doesn't really affect fit and healthy people, think again. I was very fit and healthy with no underlying conditions and had a mild dose of Covid. Long Covid caught up with me months later, as it has done for so many thousands of others.[/quote]
That was me who posted that, not the poster you tagged.
I'm sorry that has happened to you. Various illnesses affect different people in different ways. I've had double pneumonia that left my lungs in a terrible state. I thought catching covid would be the end of me, but I did catch it and it wasn't. I felt a bit unwell for a few days,no worse than a bad cold tbh, then I was fine. I was luck unlike many others.
It's a horrible disease that hits in so many ways.
My managers MIL is 93 and she had a stroke. In hospital she tested positive but had no symptoms. A friend of mine, 42, very fit and healthy, non smoker etc. caught it and ended up in ICU for 3 weeks. They are still on oxygen now 5 months later.

Tealightsandd · 16/07/2021 23:41

Obviously also many (perhaps most) people won't have had access to the diagnostic scans yet. And, standard scans aren't necessarily picking up all the problems.

I posted an article a while back. A young (30s) woman suffered life threatening clots in her lungs. Her symptoms were dismissed by doctors as 'health anxiety' and a routine scan didn't find anything. It was only when she sought out a specialist that she was then given a different scan which found the clots.

sweetgingercat · 17/07/2021 01:05

Our elderly population
The CEV
Unvaccinated kids
Long covid
Virus mutation and vaccine escape

These are the reasons why we should all be nervous. People who say they don't care are either selfish or stupid...

FlyingBattie · 17/07/2021 01:05

There was no need to wear a mask, it was all outdoors.

The data is very clear that the link between infections and serious illness/death has broken.

AnTeallach · 17/07/2021 01:21

@tealightsandd
@DogFacedWoman

Apologies for mixing up your posts and thanks. I'd thought my brain fog had finally gone; but maybe not!

DogFace : single pneumonia was bad enough for me, so I'm very impressed your lungs coped so well with Covid.

Please everyone be aware that Covid can cause organ damage - as tealight's highlighted above - regardless of age, or severity of the disease. It's not just among those who've been hospitalised. My heart condition started 5 months after I'd recovered from a mild dose of Covid and was finally diagnosed when I also got pneumonia, 2 months later. It took a trip to resus, 2 cardiologists & a host of other wonderful medics to sort me out. Six months on, I've just gone back to work. Be warned!