COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Doctor daughter has caught Covid but is totally asymptomatic. Great for her but not great for everyone else that lives with her or works with her.
 
Everywhere down as you might expect from 6000 fewer cases but up on where they were 3 days ago, of course.

The split seems pretty even.

London 2917 - down from 3939 - but other than yesterday a record high for here.

Midlands 3150 - well down from 4348 and still higher than most recent days but not the highest.

North East 1883 - down from 2086 and much like Midlands higher than most recent days but has been higher.

Yorkshire 3832 - down from 4583 - same as above higher than the norm but has been higher lately.


And North West 4365 - down from 5172 - but pro rata not quite as much as others. But there are more days above 4365 in past month than for the other regions having days higher than today. Which is good news.

Greater Manchester is 416 down on yesterday - at 2171. So 416 of the 807 fall in the NW is in GM. That is 52% of the reduction. Which is on par with what you would expect.

At 2171 that GM total is 49.7% of the NW total - so it is heading in the right direction - slowly.
 
If we all have to be monitored, they should give people devices that can record the calls they make, monitor what they do on the web, read their emails, with always-on GPS, alarm clocks, health and sleep monitors. I might be getting carried away here, but these devices could have cameras that upload their photos to central servers. And people could log into a site where they post all this stuff so we can monitor who their friends are. I mean, if it had NFC / bluetooth, people could use it to pay for things, and that would all go through this one organisations servers.

Also they should be shockingly easy to use status symbols, so easy to use nearly no-one has the first idea how it all works behind the scenes.
 
I hope so Tonster but we shall see. The authorities have said a vaccine is not a magic bullet so i expect masks and social distancing all of next year at least. The extension of furlough to March also suggest a series of lockdowns from January to March next year.
 
peter101 said:
No but my point is we are not sure of the vaccines effect on severe covid. it is this which causes hospitals to be overwhelmed. I agree the evidence points to it preventing mild covid but this is not what we are worried about. The authorities have already said masks and social distancing will continue after the vaccine. Even they know a vaccine is not a magic bullet.
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The scientists, and those running trials say otherwise, you without any knowledge or scientific links are just guessing.
 
Highlights of GM today :

Everywhere down except Bolton which has started climbing again.

Nobody over 400.

Only 4 boroughs under 200.

Trafford and Stockport had reasonably good days as usual.

Not much else to report.
 
artfuldodger said:
Secondary pupils have UK's highest rates of positive tests

There is a higher percentage of secondary school pupils testing positive for Covid-19 than any other age group, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Based on a national survey, the ONS said an estimated 1.65% of Year 7 to Year 11 students tested positive on 6 November, compared to 1.05% for primary pupils.

It comes as the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) examined more than a thousand outbreaks of coronavirus that have occurred since schools reopened in September.

Reopening schools means children aged between 12 and 16 played a "significantly higher role" in spreading infections in households, the scientific advisors said.
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Anyone with 3 brain cells knew that was going to happen.

Let's put hundreds of humans in the same building and hope nothing goes pear.
 
Highlights elsewhere:

Top scorers Birmingham with 596 and Leeds with 572 but that was low enough for Birmingham's pop score to rise by less than everywhere in GM today and Leeds beat all but the lowest rises in GM.

Bradford had 444 and Leicester at 247 was well down on the previous day. Though still high for here.

Blackburn had a better day than Oldham with its 118 cases (well down from 190) putting it up to 5590 - a lower daily rise than several GM boroughs. Though this is still the worst Pop Score in the UK Oldham closed the gap today.

On Merseyside Wirral was back down at 82, but Knowsley was up for third straight day at 91.

Liverpool was down from its recent high of 281 yesterday to 245 but that is still back to where it was a couple of weeks ago. Not at the levels it was in the low/mid 100s before tier three became lockdown.
 
artfuldodger said:
Secondary pupils have UK's highest rates of positive tests

There is a higher percentage of secondary school pupils testing positive for Covid-19 than any other age group, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Based on a national survey, the ONS said an estimated 1.65% of Year 7 to Year 11 students tested positive on 6 November, compared to 1.05% for primary pupils.

It comes as the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) examined more than a thousand outbreaks of coronavirus that have occurred since schools reopened in September.

Reopening schools means children aged between 12 and 16 played a "significantly higher role" in spreading infections in households, the scientific advisors said.
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What a surprise - NOT.
It's why lockdown 2.0 will have minimal effect.
 
BigJoe#1 said:
Dont know if its been said before, way too many pages to check but.....

If the Government want the public to believe them and in this vaccine....

The whole Board(s) of the Company(s) that produce the vaccine along with all our front bench Members of Parliament need to stage an event where they all go on live television and are televised live taking the vaccine.... my money is on that wont be happening.

Its the only way to public confidence raised and public buy in.

Anything less raises suspicions and rightly so.
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Then folks will complain that privileged politicians have jumped the vaccine queue :-D
 
BigJoe#1 said:
Dont know if its been said before, way too many pages to check but.....

If the Government want the public to believe them and in this vaccine....

The whole Board(s) of the Company(s) that produce the vaccine along with all our front bench Members of Parliament need to stage an event where they all go on live television and are televised live taking the vaccine.... my money is on that wont be happening.

Its the only way to public confidence raised and public buy in.

Anything less raises suspicions and rightly so.
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Like happened with Gummer and beef during the BsE crisis. No thanks I’d rather listen to the scientists, rather than a political stunt.
 
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