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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    Yes I am sure. Even allowing for the zero covid approach I can't see why they can't do it apart from total stupidity.
    Yeah and how do those sensible countries COVID death rates stack up compared to HK?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuruA:
    Yeah and how do those sensible countries COVID death rates stack up compared to HK?
    So you think holding a four year old in quaratine away from her parents is acceptable? That those who are completely asymptomatic have to spend weeks in hospital? That a kindergarten class is quarantined? That because you live with someone who went somewhere that someone who tested positive went you have to be imprisoned in Penny Bay?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuruA:
    Yeah and how do those sensible countries COVID death rates stack up compared to HK?
    you are comparing COUNTRIES vs a small iddy biddy CITY called HK

    How can you compare 331 Mil (USA) / 67 MIL (UK) vs 7.4 Mil (HK)???

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    Quote Originally Posted by chuckster007:
    you are comparing COUNTRIES vs a small iddy biddy CITY called HK

    How can you compare 331 Mil (USA) / 67 MIL (UK) vs 7.4 Mil (HK)???
    Taiwan is pursuing Zero-Covid and has a very low mortality rate.

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    https://news.yahoo.com/covid-hospita...191511869.html

    Since mid-December, as the highly contagious Omicron variant has spread furiously around the country, the hospitalisation rate in these youngest children has surged to more than four in 100,000 youngsters, up from 2.5 per 100,000.

    That compares with a current rate of about one per 100,000 for children ages five to 17, according to CDC data.
    At a briefing, she said the numbers include children hospitalised because of Covid-19 and those admitted for other reasons but found to be infected.
    At a White House briefing this week, Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious-disease expert, said many children hospitalised with Covid-19 have other health conditions that make them more susceptible to complications from the virus. That includes obesity, diabetes and lung disease.
    Dr Jennifer Kusma, a paediatrician with Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, said she has seen increasing numbers of kids hospitalised with Omicron, and while most are not severely ill, she understands parents’ worries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chuckster007:
    you are comparing COUNTRIES vs a small iddy biddy CITY called HK

    How can you compare 331 Mil (USA) / 67 MIL (UK) vs 7.4 Mil (HK)???
    Try a little math and dividing by the population

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    As of midnight, those who are fully vaccinated and have tested positive for COVID-19, or are showing symptoms after being in close contact with someone who has tested positive, will now have to self-isolate for seven days instead of 10.

    Fully vaccinated close contacts of someone with COVID-19 who don't have symptoms will have to self-isolate for five days if they are able to isolate themselves from the case and non-household contacts, and seven days if they cannot.

    Those times are down from seven and 10 days, respectively.

    Unvaccinated household contacts of someone with the virus will have to self-isolate for 10 days, whether they isolate themselves from the case or not.

    "We've looked closely at the evidence around Omicron, and we know it has a shorter incubation period and perhaps infectious period than the variants that have come before it," Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald said during a briefing Friday.

    Fitzgerald said evidence also shows those who are fully vaccinated shed the virus for less time. The new isolation timelines also apply to those already in isolation, she said.


    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...g-nl-1.6307529
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    Australia has hit a new milestone. 100k positive cases in a single day


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheeky Kiwi:
    To be fair the lawmakers and government officials are trying their hardest to fill it themselves
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