Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

I don't know the answer to that, but I'm defo not spokesperson for the prevailing boards opinion. Also not sure I'm reading the question right.

Elderly who still wish to cocoon can still do so?

Don't let your head get too big there, Adam. Many posters have said throughout that the elderly/unwell/concerned should mind their own business and let others go about their business as usual.

Not really in situations where people who live with them aren't also cocooning, no. In some other situations, of course, they can.

Yes, but only a very small proportion of cases. Spread can be a bit uneven or unpredictable. In my brother's family one kid tested positive on antigen, then two days later everyone else did except the mother. She kept coming back negative on antigens and didn't come up on PCR until 7 days after the original positive. Then her antigens started coming up positive. So it can be really odd. Down to various factors.

I feel like there's been very poor communication with how much weaker Omicron is to other variants and I suspect it's because it's not politically opportune to ever acknowledge this since they'd rather backslap themselves for the vaccination program and restrictions rather than accept the pandemic has potentially been ended by a factor completely out of their control.

The data currently on deaths and ICU with the omicron variant would suggest there's no significant threat to life to anyone in any sort of age or underlying condition bracket. Nobody should be cocooning or feel like they have to cocoon at present but I'd understand with the fear and anxiety of a much greater threat over the past two years why many would be reluctant to change so quickly.

I agree the communication has been very poor, I keep reading things like "It's believed Omicron could be milder" and "Omicron may be less serious than other variants", implying that it's still unknown.

Obviously it is milder so why not say so.

A lot of people will only watch the likes of RTE and if they're reading vague information like the above then no wonder they're confused and concerned about the sudden reopening.

So, non-human trials, i.e. stuff in petri dishes.

We knew this two years ago. It showed some promise in the lab. Outside of the lab, it failed to deliver any benefit at all.

I wonder does Kowa manufacturer Ivermectin.

Edit: Other sources say that they're in Phase 3 trials at the moment. Still no data though, just the words "antiviral effect" without context or elaboration 🤷‍♂️

I wonder is this a badly interpreted statement re-reported as news.

Press release claims they're conducting phase 3 trials which would be conducted in humans. Presumably if they have observed an "antiviral effect" this would not be solely in vitro as theyd have enough data from human trials by this stage, otherwise why announce you saw an effect in preclinical trials, but not in phase I, II and III trials?

oh crap yeah I forgot - they may well have done that

Just tested positive for Covid, first time i guess it was inevitable at some stage,

I reckon the little one brought it home from school, she was coughing over the weekend and tested positive yesterday, We are the only 2 to not have caught uptothis point and now are the only 2 with it

I’m probably jinxing it here, but it does have the feeling we could be near the end of the Pandemic phase now. We’re probably still in the paranoid mindset of waiting for another Variant but you couldn’t blame us for that.

on a side note, I gave up the smokes recently and there’s not a hope I’d even tackle that when all this sh1t came in nearly two years ago, so there’s that on a pure selfish level.