COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[roubaixtuesday]

Jees, that's actually quite a scary thought, but understandable. Could theoretically end up in a far worse position in a few years time if and when the virus evolves to work around any vaccine which is fighting against it then.

Not sure how much of a problem it would be. We seem to manage flu vaccines adequately, and that's much faster mutating, though I've no idea what testing would be required for managing new versions of these vaccines.

 

[mrbelfry]

GM Scoreboard:

CASES 793 46% of NW total.

3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v today:- 1508 v 1049 v 807 v 793 TODAY

Still falling but more slowly and close to stall.


Manchester 176 – up from 95. Total cases 32, 306. Weekly 1004. Biggest GM rise today and enough to top the 1000 a week cases again. Pop score up 32 to 5844. Weekly Pop up 4 to 182.

Wigan 111 – up from 80. Total cases 17, 322. Weekly 624. Pop score up 34 to 5271. Weekly Pop down 3 to 190. (Higher cases last Wednesday is why there are rises)

Bury 105 – up big from 36. Total cases 10, 296. Weekly 435. Pop score up 55 to 5391. Most in GM today and in quite a while. Bury have clear problems as I have been flagging up in these reports but which it was starting to look like may have stabilised. Hopefully a blip. Weekly Pop up 7 to 228. Bury has the worst Pop in GM,

Rochdale 84 - up from 41. Total cases 13, 243. Weekly 451. Pop score up 37 to 5954. Weekly Pop down 7 to 202.

Oldham 65 - up from 61. Total cases 15, 285. Weekly 393. Pop score up 27 to 6446. Again Blackburn which rose to 71 cases today and its pop score rose to 6780 – so is now 334 above Oldham as worst in UK Weekly Pop up 3 to 165.

Bolton 63 - up from 49. Total cases 15, 674. Weekly 447, Pop score up 22 to 5451. Weekly Pop down 8 to 156.

Salford 59 up from 37. Total cases 13, 801. Weekly 348. Pop score up 23 to 5332. Weekly Pop down 1 to 134. .

Stockport 58 – up from 50, Total cases 10, 961. Weekly 347. Pop score up 20 to 3736. Weekly up 1 to 119. Not doing terribly but by its standards not doing well. It has suffered from staying out of restrictions when Trafford said no to the offer and never fully recovered.

Trafford 40 – up from 26. Second best again today. Total cases 8975. Weekly 213. Lowest weekly score in GM but back over 200. Pop score up 17 to 3781. Weekly Pop up 6 to 89. Cuts another 3 on Stockport's lead in chase for the overall Pop across the pandemic. Only 45 behind. It was over 200 more than that a month or so ago.

Tameside 32 – up from 18. Total cases 10, 741. Weekly 228. The race with Trafford is really now on and just 15 behind – closest anyone has been in weeks and Tameside not the one expected to be challenger! Pop score up 14 to 4742. Lowest rise in GM today. Weekly Pop down 12 to 100. Best fall in GM today and massively cuts into Trafford's lead for best current weekly Pop – taking it from 29 yesterday to just 11 now. We might have TWO sub 100 Pop Scores tomorrow with Stockport being neither of them.

Hopefully these rises are a result of yesterday's lower number of tests however I think it would be incredibly naive not to expect a rise after the end of a lockdown. It's a race against time to vaccinate the most vulnerable so that the increase in cases doesn't result in increased deaths

 

[Len Rum]

Canada approve the Pfizer vaccine.

 

[artfuldodger]

Greater Manchester summary:

Cases well up to highest in a week but slightly down from last Wednesday. Up to 793 - 300 up in the day. But 14 down on last week.


Everywhere up as you might expect - Manchester by the most and Stockport by the least.

However, from nobody over 100 that rose to THREE boroughs over 100 today. The third being quite a surprise unless you have been following my reports on the place in the most trouble as it is not one of those that has been driving the big problems up until the last week or two.

Full report in a while.

As you’ve suggested all along, celebrities getting the message out

• Marty Wilde is to become one of the first celebrities to get the Covid-19 vaccination. The 1950s pop star, best known for his hit Teenager in Love, will be given the jab on Thursday. Vaccinations began being administered at 70 hospital hubs across the UK from Tuesday - starting with healthcare workers, people living in care homes and the elderly.

 

[andyhinch]

Watch areas on request:

Cheshire East 49 cases - down from 56, Total cases 9496. Pop score up 13 to 2472. Weekly Pop down from 107 to 99. Cracks the sub 100 Pop Score.

You can have a drink on that Andyhinch!


Dartford 33 cases - down from 39. Total cases 2859. Pop score rises by 29 to 2539.

Medway 152 cases - down from 197. Total cases 8275. Pop score up 55 to 2971. Likely to join the 3000 club tomorrow

I can’t do a double like but cheers

 

[worsleyweb]

Jees, that's actually quite a scary thought, but understandable. Could theoretically end up in a far worse position in a few years time if and when the virus evolves to work around any vaccine which is fighting against it then.

I read that post without seeing who posted it and then thought to myself that it will have been written by either you, two sips or Blue Matt.

Bingo.

 

[SidJames]

People who suffer from allergies now being advised against taking the vaccine.

Calls for calm over Covid vaccine roll-out amid allergy scare

Both the healthcare workers, who carried EpiPens, are recovering from anaphylactoid reactions following the first day of the mass vaccination programme.

www.dailymail.co.uk

4 people in the US lost feeling in their faces,symptoms described as being similar to a stroke.

4 volunteers develop FACIAL PARALYSIS after taking Pfizer Covid-19 jab, prompting FDA to recommend ‘surveillance for cases’

Four trial participants who received the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine experienced facial paralysis, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the issue should be monitored as the jab becomes more widely available.

www.rt.com

It all feels a bit rushed out to me.

Sure i appreciate the circumstances of this pandemic,meant that testing that normally takes years has had to be done in just months.

Hardly reassuring though.

 

[mrbelfry]

People who suffer from allergies now being advised against taking the vaccine.

Calls for calm over Covid vaccine roll-out amid allergy scare

Both the healthcare workers, who carried EpiPens, are recovering from anaphylactoid reactions following the first day of the mass vaccination programme.

www.dailymail.co.uk

4 people in the US lost feeling in their faces,symptoms described as being similar to a stroke.

4 volunteers develop FACIAL PARALYSIS after taking Pfizer Covid-19 jab, prompting FDA to recommend ‘surveillance for cases’

Four trial participants who received the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine experienced facial paralysis, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the issue should be monitored as the jab becomes more widely available.

www.rt.com

It all feels a bit rushed out to me.

Sure i appreciate the circumstances of this pandemic,meant that testing that normally takes years has had to be done in just months.

Hardly reassuring though.

6 out of thousands. 2 of whom already had severe allergies and 4 who suffered an illness we don't know the cause of. Not overly concerning

 

[ayrshire_blue]

I read that post without seeing who posted it and then thought to myself that it will have been written by either you, two sips or Blue Matt.

Bingo.

Haven't you got some more Tory boots to lick or is that you done for the night?

 

[worsleyweb]

Haven't you got some more Tory boots to lick or is that you done for the night?

Not sure yet. Point still stands.

 

[Len Rum]

As you’ve suggested all along, celebrities getting the message out

• Marty Wilde is to become one of the first celebrities to get the Covid-19 vaccination. The 1950s pop star, best known for his hit Teenager in Love, will be given the jab on Thursday. Vaccinations began being administered at 70 hospital hubs across the UK from Tuesday - starting with healthcare workers, people living in care homes and the elderly.

Must be using Marty to encourage the the Grannies and Grandads to get vaccinated ( or even great grannies/dads).
I remember him back in the day.
Any other punters the same?

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Total rollercoaster of a thread and I still think it could be worth saving/printing all of this at the eventual end.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

I think they call it natural selection

Or fat-ist. FLM

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Jees, that's actually quite a scary thought, but understandable. Could theoretically end up in a far worse position in a few years time if and when the virus evolves to work around any vaccine which is fighting against it then.

You're probably best sticking to hiding behind your sofa for the rest of you life, while the rest of humankind carries on and fights adversity.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

6 out of thousands. 2 of whom already had severe allergies and 4 who suffered an illness we don't know the cause of. Not overly concerning

for context, several malaria drugs have pretty bad side affects and they are still licensed.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

You're probably best sticking to hiding behind your sofa for the rest of you life, while the rest of humankind carries on and fights adversity.

Haha, you keep making yourself sound like some kind of modern day hero behind a keyboard pal. I take it you never bothered to read the article?

 

[03 March 2002]

People who suffer from allergies now being advised against taking the vaccine.

Calls for calm over Covid vaccine roll-out amid allergy scare

Both the healthcare workers, who carried EpiPens, are recovering from anaphylactoid reactions following the first day of the mass vaccination programme.

www.dailymail.co.uk

4 people in the US lost feeling in their faces,symptoms described as being similar to a stroke.

4 volunteers develop FACIAL PARALYSIS after taking Pfizer Covid-19 jab, prompting FDA to recommend ‘surveillance for cases’

Four trial participants who received the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine experienced facial paralysis, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the issue should be monitored as the jab becomes more widely available.

www.rt.com

It all feels a bit rushed out to me.

Sure i appreciate the circumstances of this pandemic,meant that testing that normally takes years has had to be done in just months.

Hardly reassuring though.

Stop towing this rhetoric. There's nothing rushed about it. The clinical trial was conducted in exactly the same fashion it would have without a global pandemic, bar the overlapping of phases which was done to speed up the conventional approach - an approach established under ordinary conditions in which you have to secure funding for the approx $10-15B process of bringing a drug to market. Pharma companies are some of the richest in the world in terms of cash flow and even they wouldn't put that much up in little under a year.

The phase 2/3 trials typically aim to establish efficacy more so than safety. These things are to be expected.

I know we all want 100 efficacy with zero side effects and instantaneous results but it's a pipe dream. No drug in the world has ever achieved it.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Haha, you keep making yourself sound like some kind of modern day hero behind a keyboard pal. I take it you never bothered to read the article?

Nope I just get on and face up to things in life and dont hide. I find that works best, but each to their own.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Nope I just get on and face up to things in life and dont hide. I find that works best, but each to their own.

Well, you manage to judge people spectacularly wrong, so perhaps not. If you haven't read the article then I've no idea why you'd post that condescending shite.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Well, you manage to judge people spectacularly wrong, so perhaps not. If you haven't read the article then I've no idea why you'd post that condescending shite.

i dont think so!