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Originally Posted by Paul
.... or both.
Get everyone afraid of their own shadows, and then take the 'credit' when the world doesnt actually end.
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According the the BBC reports (about an hour ago) ;
The UK records 249 new Omicron cases, of these, 248 cases were in England and one in Scotland.
What it doesnt seem to indicate is how much Delta [other] cases are falling, which is just as important, is one simply replacing the other, or not.
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Well, most cases are clearly still Delta given that we registered around 50k in the UK today (down from around 53k last Thurs, but still a high amount).
Though Javid is probably not wrong when he suggests that the amount may be a lot higher. It is always the situation though, people don't get tested because they think it's a cold, or because they don't have a fever, or various situations. Or if they don't have any symptoms at all.
But then the studies in things like zoe have always said that the amount of covid is higher than the testing.
It's too early I suppose, as we have too few omicron cases (you'd expect the vast majority of omicron cases would show the s-gene dropout which isn't usually observed in delta when a PCR test is done) to see if these are just going to replace delta, or have been seen where you don't have a significant delta outbreak, e.g. where people have come back from abroad, isolated and tested positive for omicron on a PCR, then given it to family or the kids have gone to school or something, which leads to a small amount of spread which is localised.