Fresh COVID wave sweeps Asia; New Zealand warns of pressure on hospitals

[Scott]

Fresh COVID wave sweeps Asia; New Zealand warns of pressure on hospitals

By Lucy Craymer

and Elaine Lies

 

 

 

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A woman wearing protective a face mask is seen at an open-air restaurant as the government

 

 

WELLINGTON/TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters) - A new wave of coronavirus infections is rapidly spreading through Asia, prompting warnings for residents from New Zealand to Japan to take precautions to slow the outbreak and help prevent healthcare systems from being overwhelmed.

The renewed surge in cases, mostly of the BA.4/5 Omicron variants, provides a further challenge for authorities grappling with the economic fallout of earlier waves of the pandemic while trying to avoid extending or reintroducing unpopular restrictions.

The New Zealand government on Thursday announced free masks and rapid antigen tests as it tries to relieve pressure on the country's health system, which is dealing with an influx of both COVID and influenza patients during the southern hemisphere winter.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fresh-covid-wave-sweeps-asia-nz-warns-pressure-hospitals-2022-07-14/

[RichardColeman]

12 hours ago, Scott said:

provides a further challenge for authorities grappling with the economic fallout of earlier waves of the pandemic

exactly why we live with it, come hell or high water, the tanking of the economies - apart from China - is not worth the risk anymore. We are almost constantly back at the beginning again - or 12 months ago. 

 

The human race is NOT at risk. I'm pretty sure most old people near to life expectancy would rather risk their last years too thank be locked up again 

 

 

[ifmu]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

The human race is NOT at risk. I'm pretty sure most old people near to life expectancy would rather risk their last years too thank be locked up again 

 

 

speak for your yourself        

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To start with the last piece of nonsense first. The First Pandemic War etc... is just agitprop.

As for claims that the unvaccinated are more likely to die than the vaccinated. As has repeatedly been pointed out by epidemiologist, the unvaccinated are far more likely to be younger and healthier than the vaccinated. So you have to compare within cohorts..

Huge Study Finds Second COVID-19 Booster is ‘Life-saving’ for Over 60s

A second booster of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine reduced mortality rates among elderly people in Israel by 78%, according to a new study by the country’s Clalilt Health Services, Sapir College and Ben-Gurion University.

This is the largest study of its kind to date, and involved more than 560,000 people aged 60.

“The main conclusion is that the second booster [fourth shot] is lifesaving,” Dr Ronen Arbel, Health Outcomes Researcher at Clalit Health Services and Sapir College, told Health Policy Watch.

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/95297-2/

 

Third, Gibson directs a lot of his criticism at the testing regime that preceded the release of the covid vaccines. The problem with that is we now have a huge amount of real world data about the morality rate of the unvaccinated vs. the vaccinated. So even if his critiques of testing were valid, which I doubt, that's been superseded. Significantly, in the USA, there occurred something that economists would call a natural experiment. They compared the covid mortality rate of various regions in the US based on the level of opposition to vaccines. Before vaccines mortality rate was virtually the same. But once vaccines became available, mortality dropped far more in those regions in which the populace was less opposed to vaccination.

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-12063-2

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34226856/

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/republican-us-counties-saw-more-covid-19-deaths

Edited July 15, 2022 by Scott

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