New Covid wave has begun and we should wear masks again, warn scientists
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    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
      401·
      11 months ago

      You mean this data? https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

      If so, then don’t just look at the positive tests but at the graph that shows tests performed. Positive tests goes up but tests performed is relatively the same. That tells you it is a real increase in positivity. It could be the start of another big peak, or not. Time will tell, but you’d think going through the last years one should pay attention to such statistics. Because if you start taking measures only when you are back to 100.000+ cases a day you are a bit too late.

      • homoludens@feddit.de
        91·
        11 months ago

        If so, then don’t just look at the positive tests but at the graph that shows tests performed

        and patients committed

        • sQuirrel@lemmy.world
          21·
          11 months ago

          I “admit” committed is funny because that’s what COVID and all of the “I did my own research” hoopla has made me feel like. That I’ve been committed to an insane asylum with all of the loonies spreading their theories justifying their behavior without impunity thereby making COVID more deadly as it lasts longer given such time to continuously mutate…

          • homoludens@feddit.de
            162·
            11 months ago

            Can you explain the need for hysteria?

            No, because if hysteria would be an appropriate response it wouldn’t be hysteria. The good news is: no one is calling for hysteria, there’s just a recommendation to wear masks.

        • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
          142·
          11 months ago

          Right back at you. Please show me where I am not “chill” here? There is one person who is not chill and its certainly not me.

          You can still choose to wear a mask or not, theres no law yet or is there? So just don’t, I guess?

          The smaller bumps by the way occur because people kept getting vaccines and boosters. How does that look like where you are? When was the last time you got a shot or a booster? From the sound of it a while ago.

    • morry040@kbin.social
      281·
      11 months ago

      You know you can follow the tweet to learn more about the author, right?

      That “random person” is Trisha Greenhalgh - Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.

      Here’s an excerpt from her Oxford Uni profile:
      Trish is the author of over 400 peer-reviewed publications and 16 textbooks. She was awarded the OBE for Services to Medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2001, made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014, and elected an International Fellow of the US Academy of Medicine in 2021. She is also a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Faculty of Public Health.
      https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/trish-greenhalgh

      Her Google Scholar profile shows that her work has been cited almost 95,000 times in other research papers.
      https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=8KQwEGcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

    • Pringles@lemm.ee
      189·
      11 months ago

      Your idiocy is astounding and it’s a miracle your bloodline hasn’t been wiped out yet by natural selection. This article is a warning against complacency and an effort to prevent a second covid crisis. Idiots like you are for a huge part to blame why the first one was so devestating so shut the fuck up and stick to your esotheric yoga group for middle aged women on facebook.