Tangled up in Blue
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1.I can link you some studies giving the rationale behind this becoming a milder disease if you like
2.I think to help the isolation issue, I think we should move towards not testing for mild/asymptomatic cases anymore. If the evidence of mildness for the majority keeps coming, the case for changing our policy increases IMO.
I think if we tested for all flu cases in years gone by we would have seen huge numbers of daily infections, but we only test to confirm when cases result in more serious consequences such as visits to GP/hospitalisation. We also didn't treat each other as potential bioweapons back then.
3.As for the rise in hospitalisations, some will be incidental as it's winter and health tends to deteriorate so more people get admitted to hospital anyway and some will test positive during their stay. Otherwise, it can be explained easily by people associating with each other more indoors during colder months. Winter has always been a hotbed for respiratory viruses and that will probably never change unless we lockdown every year (which isn't possible)
1.certainly.
2.Surely the point is that a LFT doesn't tell you if you're asymtomatic or not.Merely if you're postive or negative (or that the test has been incorrectly adminstered) .
3.I was unfder the impression (as you suggest) that many people currently are being admitted to hospital and only then testing positive for covid afterwards.