Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

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Yes, but what I was talking about was a new strain that might/will originate in Sydney as a mutation of delta.
I'm hoping that the numbers need to be in the tens of thousands before mutations occur. I think Australia is just not used to higher numbers but in the viral world, the numbers are tiny. But of course that's maybe just me being Pollyanna.
 
Yes, but what I was talking about was a new strain that might/will originate in Sydney as a mutation of delta.
But what if the new strain is more infectious than delta but less severe. It is believed that that is what happened with the 1918 flu pandemic after the third wave.
 
Yes, but what I was talking about was a new strain that might/will originate in Sydney as a mutation of delta.

For one, they’re variants, not strains.
Also, we’ve had 210 million cases to get 11 variants of concern. That’s around about 20 million per variant. Only another 19,995,000 or so cases fo go 😒
 
But what if the new strain is more infectious than delta but less severe. It is believed that that is what happened with the 1918 flu pandemic after the third wave.

Good! Then we will kill fewer people with our strain if and when it emerges.
 
That’s around about 20 million per variant. Only another 19,995,000 or so cases fo go 😒

This somewhat facile attempt to laugh off the threat is interesting.
If one assumes that we are approaching mid point of the third wave, at circa 600,000 new cases per day, and use the 20m per variant as actual data , we can expect a new variant of concern every 30 or so days.
The current wave is about 40 days old so perhaps we already have a new variant of concern circulating somewhere.
What will it bring to the viral strength and longevity of Covid ?
 
That’s around about 20 million per variant. Only another 19,995,000 or so cases fo go 😒

This somewhat facile attempt to laugh off the threat is interesting.
If one assumes that we are approaching mid point of the third wave, at circa 600,000 new cases per day, and use the 20m per variant as actual data , we can expect a new variant of concern every 30 or so days.
The current wave is about 40 days old so perhaps we already have a new variant of concern circulating somewhere.
What will it bring to the viral strength and longevity of Covid ?
The statistics are the statistics. The several thousand cases in Sydney are statistically unlikely to generate a new variant. The UK with it's 6 million cases (in reality probably double that) managed to generate one (that we know of).
 
That’s around about 20 million per variant. Only another 19,995,000 or so cases fo go 😒

This somewhat facile attempt to laugh off the threat is interesting.
If one assumes that we are approaching mid point of the third wave, at circa 600,000 new cases per day, and use the 20m per variant as actual data , we can expect a new variant of concern every 30 or so days.
The current wave is about 40 days old so perhaps we already have a new variant of concern circulating somewhere.
What will it bring to the viral strength and longevity of Covid ?
I was referring to the ludicrous suggestion there would be a Sydney variant. Of course there will be new varianrs globally but with the case numbers in Australia the way they are, it’s extremely unlikely they would occur here.
 
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Another students tests positive in the ACT.

A student at Lyneham High School has tested positive to COVID-19, plunging a second Canberra school community into quarantine as the ACT's exposure sites grow to more than 75.
The student is the 10th case of COVID-19 recorded in the capital as part of the current outbreak and the second school student.

 
Is Australia ready to accept 20-30 deaths a day in order to open up?

As every arm is jabbed, more people switch to being able to accept this.

It is as clear as day and one of the reasons the lockdowns aren’t working anymore. Once people are vaccinated it’s amazing how their attitude towards things change ;)
 
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He's already updating...now it's <500 but a new record.
Updating = hopeless.

Where is the leak on hopefully a record day of vaccination as well….? Priorities….

The last two Sunday numbers released on Monday have been record testing numbers - probably off the back of asymptomatic/surveillance testing of critical/authorised workers in Canterbury-Bankstown and healthcare /aged care workers in Fairfield and coughberland. A few more days of stabilisation in Canterbury-Bankstown and the surveillance testing will probably move to Blacktown critical workers. Blacktown is starting to grab the 'award' of LGA with most cases consistently.
 
That'll be fun at the checkpoints - and also will be interesting to see if the Commonwealth allows state access into the vaccination database

That's what the vaccine certificate is for.
 
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