COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[cleavers]

Not sure , he said 530,000 at hand, I took that to mean in place ready to use on Monday. Not the total available and ready to roll out from wherever it’s made and stored to the vaccination centres. I could be wrong though it wasn’t very clear from his answer.

He did stress that the hold up in roll out is supply, pretty sure he said 530,000 were "approved", so maybe others need approval first but are made ?

 

[BlueHammer85]

Mortified that we haven't just locked down for two months while we roll out the vaccines. Why?

This. what is the point in these tiers, they can't be making much of a dent on the economy. just lockdown!

 

[Len Rum]

Germany hit record number of deaths today too, not sure if lag or not but it doesn’t look to be under control over there either.

Cases lot lower in Germany than here.
So this may be their peak deaths whereas we are not there yet.

 

[squirtyflower]

Cases lot lower in Germany than here.
So this may be their peak deaths whereas we are not there yet.

Can I buy your crystal ball?

 

[kaz7]

He did stress that the hold up in roll out is supply, pretty sure he said 530,000 were "approved", so maybe others need approval first but are made ?

I suspect it has to be released in batches and each one is double checked to make sure the expiry dates are correct etc

 

[twosips]

This. what is the point in these tiers, they can't be making much of a dent on the economy. just lockdown!

We're fucked economically anyway. May as well just go for it. If for a penny, in for a pound etc. Lockdown. Vaccinate the vulnerable. Open up end of Feb.

Dreading my mum going back into classrooms next week on a personal level. Shite.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

981 deaths and another 50k cases today

Jesus that is shocking and utterly depressing. I read on here the other day that some thought we were keeping the deaths down a little due to new treatments? Clearly not by the sound of things.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Grim

Grim indeed when you consider that the 981 deaths are of people who got infected 3 or 4 weeks ago when the infection rate was a third of what it is now.

On that basis, daily deaths of a couple of thousand in 3 or 4 weeks time, looks pretty much inevitable at this point.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Utterly ridiculous to be considering sending the kids back to school at this point, BTW.

 

[Gaz76]

Just announced secondary schools wont be back until 18th of January apart from exam year kids who will be back on the 11th of January.
Primary schools back as normal, hard to fathom how this is considered safe, surely with the numbers being as high if not higher than first time around, and the new strain being far more potent it would make more sense to close the whole lot down until its safe to reopen

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Bent over for HanCOCK few months back and are being rewarded

Rewarded by more of them dying.

Not the best reward ever...

 

[Jamiblue]

Tier 4 areas could be kept until April.

 

[Healdplace]

Today

Manchester 202 cases Pop score up by 36

Liverpool 258 cases Pop score up by 52

And Wirral 227 cases Pop score up by 59

So as you see these two Merseyside boroughs were both higher in cases than Manchester and much higher in Pop Score rises because both have smaller populations.

So they BOTH beat the highest in Greater Manchester today easily. And this has been happening for most of the last two weeks.

I know other factors are involved BUT unless there is clear evidence that Merseyside hospitals are much lower than GMs then the difference in tiers is very hard to defend.

 

[kaz7]

Boris up in a min

 

[oddfellows]

just spoke with a lad i know and apparently the oxford one has something in it to make you infertile.i just laughed and said shame it wasnt about when your mum was childbearing age.

Was he a rag or a dipper ?

 

[bluemoon32]

Just announced secondary schools wont be back until 18th of January apart from exam year kids who will be back on the 11th of January.
Primary schools back as normal, hard to fathom how this is considered safe, surely with the numbers being as high if not higher than first time around, and the new strain being far more potent it would make more sense to close the whole lot down until its safe to reopen

It's purely just to allow their parents to keep working, secondary school kids can look after themselves

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Reports of a pub in Greenock, Inverclyde, prior to Christmas having officially been open as a 'takeaway service' selling pizzas and such like. Only, what they were really doing was putting pizzas through the till but not actually making them, instead having crowds of 50+ people inside and having a big fuck off Christmas party. Everyone mixing, drinking alcohol, no distancing, singing Christmas songs.

I've seen the video and it's fucking disturbing. Made me feel sick watching it.

Expect it to hit the media soon.

 

[oddfellows]

Can this Oxford vaccine be self administered?

After my op in Feb, I had to self inject Heparin once a day for about a month.

In which case, they could post them out like a tax bill.

We'd get them next day.

 

[willipp]

Sounds like a significant change to how vaccines will be delivered.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Just announced secondary schools wont be back until 18th of January apart from exam year kids who will be back on the 11th of January.
Primary schools back as normal, hard to fathom how this is considered safe, surely with the numbers being as high if not higher than first time around, and the new strain being far more potent it would make more sense to close the whole lot down until its safe to reopen

Just been announced on Sky primaries in tier 4 will be opened if and when their councils choose.