COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[ayrshire_blue]

Put a policeman on the door.

Need to recruit some first!!

p.s. Agree with sentiment of your post!

 

[BlueAnorak]

Hands, Face, Space and Ventilate.
Dr John's daily update.

 

[cleavers]

Some shops have made more of an effort than others, for sure. Tesco and Waitrose feel much safer than Morrisons. For one thing, they don't let you roll up with four non-mask wearing schoolkids running around.

I think it depends where you live, Morrisons here is OK, not great, but OK, the 2 Tesco's in town both hideous, or they were when I last went in, which is quite a while ago. Waitrose is good, but I think that is more down to both customer "type" and their staff being well briefed. I have used Morrisons occasionally, as our pharmacy is there, so will go round the store when I have to visit. Not been to Asda, as it's a pain to get to, so no idea what it's like.

 

[Stoned Rose]

There was a 'plandemic' in the supermarket earlier mouthing off at anyone and anyone about 'flu is worse...98%...' as he put his shit lager through the self checkouts.
Despite the staff being polite with him, members of the public were clearly getting wound up.
These are rare to be fair, but they share common traits.

Some genuinely believe masks will be compulsory forever...

I've told Ian Brown he needs to pack that shit in.

 

[Healdplace]

Sorry about the delay - been doing a Zoom podcast to the US for my day job. Whatever one of those is as I did not know before the last couple of days Me @ tech numpty


GM scoreboard: Total cases 1396 - up from 1150.


Manchester 268 – up from 165. Total cases 29, 472. Weekly 4711. Pop score up 49 to 5331. Weekly Pop down 16 to 852,

Oldham 183 - - up from 129. Total cases 13, 910. Weekly 1098 Pop score up 78 to 5867. Weekly Pop down 19 to 464.

Wigan 171 – up from 119. Total cases 15, 439. Weekly 1124. Pop score up 55 to 4698. Weekly Pop down 21 to 342.

Bolton 136 – up from 118. Total cases 14, 097. Weekly 1002.Pop score up 48 to 4903. Weekly Pop down 42 to 314. Could be number 6 with sub 1000 cases tomorrow.

Rochdale 129 - down from 158. Total cases 11, 738. Weekly 980. Fifth borough below 1000 now for week. Pop score up 58 to 5278. Weekly Pop down 32 to 441.

Bury 111 - up from 91. Total cases 9105. Weekly 594. Pop score up 58 to 4767. Weekly Pop down 36 to 311.

Stockport 110 - up from 107. Total cases 9874. Weekly 616. Pop score up 38 to 3365. Weekly Pop down 19 to 210.

Salford 108 - down from 111. Total case 12, 741. Weekly 1322. Pop score up 42 to 4923. Weekly Pop down 43 to 511.

Tameside 88 - down from 96. Total cases 9866. Weekly 798. Pop score up 39 to 4356. Weekly Pop down 37 to 352.

Trafford 84 - up from 56. Total cases 8307. Weekly 306. Easily the best in GM but that big -206 will be taken out in a few days so it will rise. But will still be well clear. Pop score up 36 - lowest in GM today - to 3500. Only 135 behind Stockport now. Lowest gap in months. Weekly Pop down 20 to 129. 81 ahead as lowest in GM Weekly Pop.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Nice to see some green back on this chart again. (Scotland)

 

[lancs blue]

Oh look - There's a dip on week 52. I wonder what could possibly cause that?
I don't post bollox on science.

Look again, the bar for week 52 is higher than week 51 and higher than the first two weeks of the new year.

 

[grunge]

Oh look - There's a dip on week 52. I wonder what could possibly cause that?
I don't post bollox on science.

So no links then?

Here’s some more about flu spiking over festive periods

NHS England » Public urged to act fast to avoid festive flu

NHS England » Public urged to act fast to avoid festive flu

www.england.nhs.uk

National flu report summary: 27 December 2019 (week 52)

www.gov.uk

“ during week 51, allowing for Christmas reporting breaks, influenza activity has continued to increase for several indicators”

 

[CTID Chris]

Daughter’s school sent home her year group today for two weeks of self isolation. Being self employed, I was at first dreading the zero income during this period assuming I would also have to self isolate.

... I don’t? What good is keeping her at home without getting out for some fresh air going to do if I’m still interacting with several customers a day (following all guidance of course, but still..). If she has it and is contagious, I’ll be spreading it around unknowingly.

Another half measure.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Have a great weekend all. Im up kinder scout this morning to try and forget The Rona exists. Back down and watch the mighty blues later. Rather be in the pub but a bottle of rioja will do.
Godfather 2 tonight. A corona free day!!!

 

[west didsblue]

Over 200,000 new cases in a day for the first time yesterday in the US.

 

[The Northern Baptist]

Daughter’s school sent home her year group today for two weeks of self isolation. Being self employed, I was at first dreading the zero income during this period assuming I would also have to self isolate.

... I don’t? What good is keeping her at home without getting out for some fresh air going to do if I’m still interacting with several customers a day (following all guidance of course, but still..). If she has it and is contagious, I’ll be spreading it around unknowingly.

Another half measure.

You wouldn’t necessarily catch it from her though. You have a 28% chance of catching it from a partner you share a bed with, for example.

 

[ganganvince]

Daughter’s school sent home her year group today for two weeks of self isolation. Being self employed, I was at first dreading the zero income during this period assuming I would also have to self isolate.

... I don’t? What good is keeping her at home without getting out for some fresh air going to do if I’m still interacting with several customers a day (following all guidance of course, but still..). If she has it and is contagious, I’ll be spreading it around unknowingly.

Another half measure.

If she develops symptoms you will have to isolate for 14 days or she gets tested negative.

 

[ganganvince]

How confident are people that the millions of doses of vaccines our government has ordered will be delivered given we had orders for PPE at the start that were blocked by export bans from amongst others France and Germany will this stunt be repeated?

Germany and France condemned after blocking export of medical supplies

Fearing a possible shortage in masks and protective equipment, top European Union officials are urging members to put solidarity above national interests as the virus spreads quickly.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[1.618034]

Hands, Face, Space and Ventilate.
Dr John's daily update.

That's going to be the updated advice/slogan from HMG. It was filmed last week, so I'm told... Not sure when, if ever, it will be announced though. My guess is when this "lockdown" ends on Dec 2nd or for over Xmas when people have visitors.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Vaccine. Always thought they prevented the disease or do they combat the disease once you catch it?

 

[Fred_Quimby]

How confident are people that the millions of doses of vaccines our government has ordered will be delivered given we had orders for PPE at the start that were blocked by export bans from amongst others France and Germany will this stunt be repeated?

Germany and France condemned after blocking export of medical supplies

Fearing a possible shortage in masks and protective equipment, top European Union officials are urging members to put solidarity above national interests as the virus spreads quickly.

www.dailymail.co.uk

More like how confident are we that this lot will be able to roll out the vaccine as scheduled without cocking it up.

 

[Healdplace]

As data is always slow on Saturday/Sunday here is a table of all the 9 England regions yesterday with their case numbers recorded for yesterday in ascending order. Which shows nowhere under 1000 and the spread bunching together as the pandemic moves by reducing up north and increasing elsewhere. Two months ago the gap top to bottom was double what it is now.

Alongside is the Pop Number for each region, This is measured just as are the ones for each town or borough you see daily. As in it is basically cases across the pandemic per 100,000 population so showing as it rises day to day how relatively good or bad the number of cases is there as it increases for each region compared to everywhere else.

As always with a Pop Score the LOWER the better. As it means fewer cases there v 100K population. If places with high Pop Scores are rising up this list it means they are improving, If those with lower pop scores are going below others with higher scores then it means they are heading in the wrong direction,


East England 1150 Pop 1205

South West 1333 Pop 1271

North East 1439 Pop 3442

East Midlands 1530 Pop 2556

South East 1707 Pop 1255

London 1908 Pop 1565

Yorkshire & Humber 2711 Pop 3578

North West 2886 Pop 3936

West Midlands 3038 Pop 2460

 

[Gabriel]

How confident are people that the millions of doses of vaccines our government has ordered will be delivered given we had orders for PPE at the start that were blocked by export bans from amongst others France and Germany will this stunt be repeated?

Germany and France condemned after blocking export of medical supplies

Fearing a possible shortage in masks and protective equipment, top European Union officials are urging members to put solidarity above national interests as the virus spreads quickly.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Much will depend on the AZ/Oxford vaccine. The government has only just ordered a relatively small number of shots from Moderna, and they’re not due until ‘spring’, so that leaves 20m shots from Pfizer, but those will not all be arriving immediately, and ‘access to’ does not mean they are all necessarily destined for U.K. arms; so to get the vast bulk of the population vaccinated by summer, then much surely hinges on AZ/Oxford.

 

[Healdplace]

Wales data up first and sadly not good, They are still in trouble it seems.

Deaths 28 Cases 1016 from 13.8 K tests.