Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

[KYli]

What is the rate of long COVID among the vaccinated and boosted?

Didn't the few studies show that vaccinated and boosted did very little to lower long COVID.

 

[Phead128]

Didn't the few studies show that vaccinated and boosted did very little to lower long COVID.

Those studies looked at the old vaccines which targeted the original strain, none studied the updated Omnicron-specific boosters.

 

[Petrolicious88]

Didn't the few studies show that vaccinated and boosted did very little to lower long COVID.

Some of the studies showed significant reduction in long covid among vaccinated. Other studies showed limited protection (only 15% in one UK study). Studies reach a wide range of estimates due to differences in how they were designed, how long they tracked participants, how they defined long covid, etc.. Overall, vaccines offer at least partial protection.

 

[coolgod]

Those studies looked at the old vaccines which targeted the original strain, none studied the updated Omnicron-specific boosters.

I'm not aware of any studies on omicron-specific boosters effects on long covid. There are barely any good studies on the efficacy and safety of these omicron-specific boosters yet.

 

[Petrolicious88]

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Major testing lab in Shenzhen was found to have reported fraudulent Covid test results in multiple cities for profit.

 

[PeoplesPoster]

Latest news is that Guangzhou has relaxed almost all covid measures. Waiting for more official info.

 

[EtherealSmoke]

Latest news is that Guangzhou has relaxed almost all covid measures. Waiting for more official info.

Yep, exciting news. Things moving more quickly now. Guangzhou is done with most restrictions, rest of the country will have to soon follow.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597855203612676096

 

[LawLeadsToPeace]

Yep, exciting news. Things moving more quickly now. Guangzhou is done with most restrictions, rest of the country will have to soon follow.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597855203612676096

These adjustments/easing of restrictions are all on the city level. Contrary to popular belief, the implementation of zero Covid is up to the cities (if I remember correctly), and Guangzhou, Urumqi, and several other cities went way too far with their restrictions. If other cities follow suit despite not having any protests, then that means the central government is gradually getting rid of zero Covid. We need to wait for more information instead of jumping the gun here.

 

[LawLeadsToPeace]

Crossposting some updates from the China news thread:

seems like completely. people get what they wanted.

Conghua district of Guangzhou (the city that currently has the highest number of covid cases in China) announced they will resume operations of public venues such as entertainment centers (KTV), cinemas, swimming pools, bars, gyms, saunas etc... as well as indoor eating.

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I don't think that you can say that Zero Covid is dropped. What actually changed now is as follows in Beijing which I am following.

1. Certain people are exempted from swiping test. People who work from home, old people, these people do not move around much.
2. Lockdown area is reduced from whole district to individual residential complex, from residential complex to individual building, from building to individual apartment.
3. Only close contacts (1st tier) of known cases need to be quarantined excluding close contacts of close contacts (2nd tier).
4. Close contacts are allowed to be quarantined at home instead of centralized facilities.

So the measure is relaxed a lot, but they do not stop tracking, swiping test, quarantine and lockdown. No infected persons and asymptomatic carriers are allowed to move freely. So Zero Covid policy is still in place for the moment, only exempting the lower risk population.

 

[sunnymaxi]

Crossposting some updates from the China news thread:

on country level ZEROCOVID has not dropped. the implementation of zero Covid is up to the Provinces/Cities ..

this is update from just one district of Guangzhou

they will resume operations of public venues such as entertainment centers (KTV), cinemas, swimming pools, bars, gyms, saunas etc... as well as indoor eating.