08-03-2021, 07:01 AM
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After Covid.
HiA sober thought.
Lockdown as achieved a number of things.
Firstly, the children have not been mixing as normal and developing immunity to all sorts of things.
Now the adults.
The UK has not recorded one single Hospital Admission or case of Flu this winter, so no immunity developed in the population.
This coming Winter could be interesting.
08-03-2021, 09:30 AM
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Re: After Covid.
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Future events are always interesting Swimmy because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
08-03-2021, 11:54 AM
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Re: After Covid.
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiA sober thought.
Lockdown as achieved a number of things.
Firstly, the children have not been mixing as normal and developing immunity to all sorts of things.
Now the adults.
The UK has not recorded one single Hospital Admission or case of Flu this winter, so no immunity developed in the population.
This coming Winter could be interesting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56312621
The UK must prepare for a "hard winter" because the population immunity to respiratory viruses other than Covid could be lower than usual, one of England's top medics has warned.
Dr Susan Hopkins said the NHS must be "ready" for surges in flu and other similar illnesses.
Dr Hopkins, who is in charge of Public Health England's Covid strategy, said the UK needed to be "better prepared" than it was last autumn, when new, faster-spreading variants of the virus emerged.
Dr Hopkins told the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show:
..Anyway, I thought the flu vaccine was supposed to prevent flu? We should let nature take its course because it will eventually anyway...
08-03-2021, 04:05 PM
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Re: After Covid.
Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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Interesting what she calls "other respiratory pathogens"....she already mentioned virus, so I wonder what she means by that
I read in yesterday's newspaper that the take up of MMR jabs has fallen over this last year so I expect we can see an increase in the number of ankle-snappers contracting measles, etc in the near future.
08-03-2021, 07:57 PM
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Re: After Covid.
The flu will be back. The protein capsids that surround the virion and protect their DNA or RNA make them not very susceptible to freezing, heat, drying out, etc. They are out there lurking ready to get back to replication.The biggest problem next year will be which flu shot to use? Each year, data on previous strains, susceptibility, and geographic spread are used to formulate the next year's season.
With so much reduced incidence, we could see a higher incidence of flu if virologists make the wrong guess.
It's a virological roll of the dice.
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