Who is testing positive? Have they been vaccinated? Are they very ill?

[stupidstupider]

Just as the title really. Loads of cases in our Secondary school, almost non of the kids or vaccinated, and no-one is really very ill with it of the cases I've heard about. So who is testing positive - just the unvaccinated?

@Bibidy You don't need to wait to be invited for second dose, go on the NHS vaccine site and book it!

[quote littlepieces]@Bibidy You don't need to wait to be invited for second dose, go on the NHS vaccine site and book it![/quote]
There are walk-ins round here but they all say only for those whose first dose was 8+ weeks ago. So I will book/go to the walk in when it's been 8 weeks.

I was just explaining to PP that there are many people over the 18-25 group who haven't had both jabs.

A friends unvaccinated, through choice, 28 year old currently very ill on a ventilator in hospital.
DD's friend early 20's double jabbed with AZ got it very mildly, flatmate similar age unvaccinated for it feeling very rough, not hospitalised though.

[quote Firstbornunicorn]@Oblomov21 I’ve spoken to several people I work with (around my age, so late 20s/early 30s), who say they’re just in no rush to be jabbed as they aren’t worried about COVID. A very high number of people I work with think it’s all exaggerated or a hoax. Very few of them stuck to social distancing, even during the first lockdown. Many of them say they don’t know anyone who’s had COVID. There are a few who believe the microchip conspiracy.

I need to leave that job. I took it as a temporary thing while between jobs, but now I’m pregnant so I’m there for the mat pay [/quote]
In what way could it be a hoax?! That’s bonkers. I don’t know anyone who thinks that, where on earth do you work? I’d be moving jobs. 😂

Several people i know who are double jabbed all currently very unwell with covid, one of which was admitted to hospital and ventilated but only for a short time. A friend's 20yr old daughter tested positive on Sat, double jabbed and really unwell. My son, unvacced, on day 8 of it, has been quite unwell and on antibiotics for a chest infection as well as covid - early 30's and very fit and healthy usually. He will now get the jab !

Maybe look at government website statistics that confirm hospital admissions.
With everyone who went to the sports events it would be likely that those people have caught something and passed it on.

@Mrstreehouse someone in my work actually insists it’s to force us to become a cashless society! Others think it’s real but just greatly exaggerated (very small numbers actually dying from it, no worse than a cold, etc).

I took this stupid job working in a call centre while I got my business off the ground and now I’m pregnant and running down the clock for the maternity pay. I hate it. HATE it. Some of my colleagues aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, and they can’t help that, but I feel like I’m banging my head off a brick wall when they’re all refusing to wear masks or organising house parties for the weekend, and then saying they didn’t know those were the rules when it’s explained they can’t do that. URGH.

@Oblomov21

What age groups are only single vaccinated other than very young 18-25 year olds who have only just been offered their first? Everyone else should be double jabbed. I don't know anyone, any adult, who isn't double jabbed.

And I don't have much sympathy for those not taking up the vaccine. Other than for medical reasons. But we know it's largely not for medical reasons.
Eg : wonkeylegs "Vaccine uptake in the area isn't great and the case rate is extremely high. "
Why have they not taken up the vaccine?

@Oblomov21, I'm 33, booked the day vaccines opened for my age group, took the first appointment available in my area (less than a week later) and my second jab isn't until mid-August, although now that I've had my whooping cough vaccination I should be able to pull it forward a few weeks. My husband is 29, again booked ASAP on opening and he's only 6 weeks past his first jab. Ditto my younger brother, his fiancée, and a bunch of our friends and colleagues who are under 36 or so.

@IncessantNameChanger yeah, it’s definitely possible. However, these people in my work are just deluded, as a couple of our managers have had it, and a few people in another department.

My DH double jabbed has just tested positive after teen DS had it. Initially cough and feeling run down (worse than cold he had last week) but now high temperature has developed too. Hope it doesn't get worse as he is 58 and overweight.

3 out of 4 of us currently have Covid in our house. Ds not vaccinated (under 18), outbreak at school, had a temperature and headache for a few days, recovered completely by day 5. Dh, double jabbed, no symptoms other than a slight sore throat. Me, single jabbed, was due second jab on Saturday, absolutely knocked off my feet. Day 5 of symptoms today and even walking to the bathroom and back makes me breathless. No underlying health issues and I'm usually pretty robust and rarely get ill. Dd is the only one testing negative and no symptoms

I find it bizarre when people say they don’t know anyone who has had covid. Perhaps it’s having young kids - but covid is rife in our region

Me too, last year I only knew two adults ( working in care homes) and 3 teenagers.

This year it's rife, most of ds's uni mates have had it and now a friend who was double vaxxed has been really quite poorly with it, also her husband too.

Schools have been shut down completely also a couple of restaurants and one of Banks as all the staff have it.

DS (18) tested positive on Saturday. He had symptoms late on Thursday, so given the incubation period for the delta variant is an average of 4 days we think he probably caught it at the pub watching the Euro2020 match on Sunday.
He's had one (pfizer) jab about 4 weeks ago.
So far he's had a runny nose and felt a bit hot (but the weather is hot at the mo). Also lost his sense of taste. He's OK otherwise - up and about and doing stuff. I hope this is as bad as it gets for him.

2 latest at my work both vaccinated (one double for some time and one so file jab)

Majority around here that have covid currently are doubled jabbed adults or school aged children (more secondary age then primary school age).

Two bad cases in the local hospital are a 14 year old girl and a 35 year old male (double jabbed).

*single - not so file !

I didn't know anyone having covid in last waves. But now my dh and dc had it and many dc's friends and dh's colleagues had it. Dc and dh (one AZ vaccine) had it really mild and I with two Pfizer didn't catch it at all.

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor

I find it bizarre when people say they don’t know anyone who has had covid. Perhaps it’s having young kids - but covid is rife in our region

Me too, last year I only knew two adults ( working in care homes) and 3 teenagers.

This year it's rife, most of ds's uni mates have had it and now a friend who was double vaxxed has been really quite poorly with it, also her husband too.

Schools have been shut down completely also a couple of restaurants and one of Banks as all the staff have it.

Touch wood, but I only know of 3 people who've (knowingly) had it and they all had it last year.

My colleagues bubble has it. She had Covid last year and tested negative. Her DH is double vaccinated, tested positive but has a mild cold. Her young DS isn’t vaccinated, tested positive and super mild. Her nanny isn’t vaccinated, tested positive and is EXTREMELY ill. She refused the vaccine because she thought it would affect her fertility .

Hospitalisation figures here broken down by age:

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/hospitals

Yes, there is an increase in infections in the younger groups but the elderly are still the most likely to be hospitalised and die. Our local hospitals don’t have significantly more young people compared to a few months ago. They have fewer older people but they still make up the bulk of hospitalisations.

They have teenagers in ICU.

Which hospital is this?

@fanofsun

I find it bizarre when people say they don’t know anyone who has had covid. Perhaps it’s having young kids - but covid is rife in our region. I worry for the teachers etc we’ve had one very sad loss in our school because of covid via the school - a member of staff to it home to their CEV family member.

Me too. I know lots of people who have had it over the last 18 months, friends of mine, friends of my kids (school age) plus several elderly people, a couple who unfortunately died. I think it's only a matter of time before our household catches it.

Looking at the map and stats for my local area is really interesting. We have very high take up, and a high number of double jabbed in all areas except about four wards, all centred around the university and the student housing, though there are reasonably good stats for first jabs in those areas. The areas with older population, double jabbed, have infection rates well below the national average (about 1/4). The student single jabbed areas of infection are much higher at about 3/4 of the national average. The two can’t be unrelated. Surely, just waiting a few more weeks for the vaccination programme to get through the second jabs to the younger age groups wouldn’t have been too onerous.

Local schools with children off across the age ranges over the last several weeks all back to school after the isolation period. A rally high rate of infection and a huge number of people isolating

Local hospital 1 case.

@AluckyEllie

ICU nurse here- two ventilated patients, both anti-vaxxers. Several others on cpap who are vaccinated and tbh are the age ranges/medical history’s that we would have expected to be ventilated in the previous waves. Hopefully that shows they are getting less severe symptoms when vaccinated.

Thank you for your sensible post. Rather different from the fake HCP scaremongering on Saturday with "her" ICU full of ventilated, double-jabbed teenagers.

No doubt all with the surname Schrödinger