Category: Hospitalization
Britain plays Russian roulette with Covid – 130,000 symptomatic cases and rising
THE UK Covid app ZOE is reporting 129,970 new symptomatic covid cases in the UK today, as the Omicron variant spirals out of control. More...
Netherlands goes into hard lockdown until January 14th 2022
The Netherlands will enter a strict lockdown starting at 5 a.m. More...
Denmark: Omicron patients just as ill as Delta patients
The symptoms in Omicron patients have been the same as in other variants in Denmark. More...
Imperial College: Omicron is NOT milder than Delta
“We find no evidence (for both risk of hospitalisation attendance and symptom status) of Omicron having different severity from Delta, though data on hospitalisations are still very limited… Omicron was associated with a 5.41 fold higher relative risk of reinfection compared with Delta.” More...
Plague Island: highest ever UK Covid case rate, Omicron now dominant in London
Another dismal Covid record has been broken in Britain today. More...
Environmental pollution increases the severity and mortality of Covid-19
People who live in cities where airborne pollutants exceed the threshold set by the WHO suffer from COVID-19 more severely and are more likely to die. More...
Denmark: ~90% of Omicron cases are double or triple vaccinated *17 UPDATES*
Denmark’s SSI has revealed that the vast majority of people currently infected with the Omicron variant are double or triple vaccinated. More...
Norway: new Covid restrictions introduced as highest ever hospitalizations recorded
UPDATE: Norway has the highest infection rate by in Europe. More...
Omicron in Norway: a warning to the world
Norway’s latest Covid figures show soaring numbers of infections and hospital inpatients, with big increases in both ICU and ventilated patients. More...
UK: Omicron infections could exceed one million by New Year
The UK Health Security Agency estimates that the number of infections will be around 20 times higher than the number of confirmed cases and so the number of infections is closer to 10,000. More...