You should stay at home if you have cold-like symptoms as one in three colds are due to covid, according to Kings College London Professor Tim Spector.
The genetic epidemiology expert said yesterday that people with cold symptoms should work from home and avoid Christmas party’s. Appearing on Times Radio Spector said:
“At the moment, we’re estimating that somewhere between one in three and one in four colds are actually due to Covid. And so that’s quite a high rate of people that are currently not even bothered to get a lateral flow test, or getting a PCR test, going to parties and spreading it around.
So, if that transfers to omicron then we’re going to be compounding that problem much faster than we would need to. We want to tell people that if you don’t feel well that day, don’t go out, don’t go to work, work from home, because the start of that sniffle, the start of that sore throat, that headache could be a mild dose of Covid that is just breaking through your vaccine.
The first few days of infections are when you are most contagious. Whether it’s a respiratory virus, you’re just giving someone a cold, or you might be giving them omicron or delta, then it’s those first few days.”
For the 500th time, how can presenters just sit there and not laugh goons like Spector off the air? I mean, he told Times Radio that when you have the sniffles, stay home because you are contagious and you don’t know if you’re passing on the delta or the omicron! I’d have given him such a doing over, that he’d never agree to an interview again.
They used to fear us you know? Back in the day, politicians used to ask us to go easy on them. When I was producing, they knew I’d be feeding questions into my presenter during the interview. When I was in the presenters chair, they knew I’d ask anything and that I’d believe nothing. That’s the way it ought to be.
Journalists are merely nodding dogs now.
