Coronavirus (2021) thread

[mackenzie]

Love the cold me

I bloody don't. Fell on my way to work this morning (just a few bruises) and then again on the way home (smacked my head on the pavement). Felt dizzy like I never have before but it's lessening now.
Oldham council.....sort the bloody pavements out when there is snow and ice!!!!! :-(

 

[metalblue]

Our local is now 25% Covid positive. Adding another 32 critical beds and is being geared up as a surge hospital for the region. Deaths doubled in last week and around 150 new patients hospitalised.

As one senior nurse there put it today “this is it”. Mrs MB in tears...again...but tomorrow she will go back for some more.

A situation I imagine replicated up and down this country. Good luck to you all

 

[kaz7]

Did they even bother to ask if she has a history of allergies? That is gross incompetence if we are being honest.

No it isnt ,they will have done it the same as any other person

 

[Healdplace]

ENGLAND HOSPITAL DATA

Not good news again.

Patients up from 26, 467 to 27, 727 - 1260 increase in 24 hours. Up 5014 in past 7 days. Almost 25% up in a week.

Ventilators up from 2378 to 2530 - 152 increase in 24 hours. Up 676 in past 7 days. A rise of 33% in a week.

These are really concerning escalations as they are far up on anything we have seen.

The ventilator bed numbers are especially worrying as these are the patients most likely to die.

We are rapidly closing in on the numbers on them in the first wave after already overtaking by far the numbers in hospital in April.

 

[Healdplace]

ENGLAND HOSPITAL DATA REGIONAL


REGION // PATIENTS Up/down in 24 hrs // VENTILATORS Up/down in 24 hrs


EAST 3802 - up 282 // 291 - up 50

LONDON 7034 - up 218 // 908 - up 42. Patients up 1510 in 7 days. Ventilators up 268 in 7 days.

MIDLANDS 4629 - up 76 // 399 - up 22

NE/YORKS 2865 - up 5 // 204 - up 14

NORTH WEST 2996 - up 74 // 254 - up 12 Back over the numbers in the October wave when briefly passing most ever.

SOUTH EAST 4902 - up 523 // 394 - up 50

SOUTH WEST 1499 - up 85. // 100 - up 2

 

[Summerbuzz]

Oh no. And this cold snap is going nowhere.

Not going to talk about the recent past.

But I can't really swallow what we've done to the NHS workers here.

 

[Healdplace]

Cheshire East

Cases 214 up from 180

Total cases 13, 665

Pop Score up 55 to 3557

Weekly Pop up from 442 to 448.

 

[Healdplace]

Swansea

Cases 157 up from 137

Total cases 14, 611

Pop score up 63 to 5916

Weekly Pop 377 down from 403

 

[worsleyweb]

43 percent of our staff (197) have had it confined by tests. Actual will be much higher as lots Ill in March and not tested. I would estimate 60 to 70 percent.

 

[Healdplace]

KENT

Dartford

Cases 197 up from 122.

Total cases 6906

Pop score up 175 to 6177

Weekly Pop 1272 - same as yesterday


Medway

Cases 468 - down from 481

Total cases 19, 323

Pop score up 168 to 6937

Weekly Pop up from 1098 to 1113

 

[RobMCFC]

Does anybody have a breakdown of hospitalisation and ventilators by age group? The government have been suspiciously quiet about the ages of those hospitalised.

 

[unicorn]

The 1 In 50 is a scary stat but it’s still not “on the doorstep” in a lot of cases, and a lot of people are still really ignorant. I’m not convinced that the death toll is what will scare people, I think it’ll take the NHS collapsing before the majority start abiding.

I think that's spot on; it was the pictures from Bergamo and the rest of a (well funded and highly skilled) health service with doctors choosing who to save that made me take it seriously last March. Terrifying.

 

[Summerbuzz]

I think that's spot on; it was the pictures from Bergamo and the rest of a (well funded and highly skilled) health service with doctors choosing who to save that made me take it seriously last March. Terrifying.

Footage from NHS hospitals was banned.

 

[Nellies left peg]

43 percent of our staff (197) have had it confined by tests. Actual will be much higher as lots Ill in March and not tested. I would estimate 60 to 70 percent.

Reckless bunch of fuckers obviously. I've noticed on building sites people are still crawling all over each other and not wearing masks. Essential workers in spreading the virus

 

[Healdplace]

Birmingham had 1511 cases today - with Pop score up 132. The third time in a week it has been over 1500.

It is the largest borough in the UK but the Pop score shows this is very high.

Blackburn struggling and driving the NW increases with Liverpool. Its Pop Score today was up 101 to the highest in the country by some distance and at 8362 way ahead of the rest and the only one in the 8000 club.

Liverpool had 673 cases today - down from 720 but still double Manchester, Its Pop score rose by 135 to 6248. A rise that is way over anywhere in GM today.

Wirral up 307 cases - third straight day in the 300s.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

The Telegraph are reporting that the Johnson & Johnson single shot vaccine should be approved in the next few weeks. It is similar to the Oxford vaccine and the UK has an initial 30 million doses on order with an option for 22 million more.

 

[Lee1983]

The Telegraph are reporting that the Johnson & Johnson single shot vaccine should be approved in the next few weeks. It is similar to the Oxford vaccine and the UK has an initial 30 million doses on order with an option for 22 million more.

That’s a great boost if true. What’s the delivery timescale looking like on that?

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

That’s a great boost if true. What’s the delivery timescale looking like on that?

They say that the government are hoping to receive doses in February.

 

[sky tot]

The Telegraph are reporting that the Johnson & Johnson single shot vaccine should be approved in the next few weeks. It is similar to the Oxford vaccine and the UK has an initial 30 million doses on order with an option for 22 million more.

I’ve just google the J&J vaccine and this was a Q&A regarding it....

Q:
You are also studying a two-dose regimen. Can you tell us more about this?​

A:
At Johnson & Johnson, we’re extremely thorough and driven by science. The ENSEMBLE 2 study, which we’re now recruiting for, will give participants two doses of the vaccine spaced two months apart. The reason we are running this second study is to see if a second dose might provide greater, or longer, protection

 

[Healdplace]

GREATER MANCHESTER SCOREBOARD

1583 cases - up from 1152. 27% of NW total 5793.

3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v TODAY:- 794 v 997 v 1048 v 1583 TODAY


MANCHESTER 369 cases - up from 237. Total 37, 577. Weekly 2017. First time over 2000 in nearly 3 months, Pop score up 67 to 6797. Weekly Pop up 31 to 362.

TRAFFORD 146 cases - up from 100, Total 11, 347. Weekly 963. Trafford been over 100 for 8 of last 9 days after only 1 above in the previous 2 months. Pop score up 62 to 4781. Twice as bad as Manchester as the Pop rise shows where the cases do not. Weekly Pop up 3 to 408.

WIGAN 146 cases - up from 137. Total 20, 465. Weekly 1364. Pop score up 51 to 6227. Weekly Pop up 13 to 418.

BURY 141 cases - up from 106. Total 12, 333. Weekly 720. Pop score up 73 to 6457. Weekly Pop up 30 to 387.

STOCKPORT 140 cases - down from 156. Only faller today. Total 13, 601. Weekly 1107. Pop score up 44 to 4635. Giving it another 18 lead on Trafford for best GM Pop score across the pandemic - now at 146. Weekly Pop up 3 to 378.

OLDHAM 137 - up from 74. Total 17, 425. Weekly 756. Pop score up 58 to 7349.Weekly Pop up 22 to 313.

SALFORD 131 - up from 122. Total 16, 160. Weekly 895. Pop score up 50 to 6243. Weekly Pop up 22 to 343.

TAMESIDE 129 - up from 65. Total 12, 479. Weekly 729. Pop score up 57 to 5510. Weekly Pop up 36 to 324.

ROCHDALE 126 - up from 52. Total 15, 434. Weekly 716. Rochdale new holder of lowest weekly total with Bury and long time holder Tameside all within 13. Pop score up 56 to 6939. Weekly Pop up 23 to 325.

BOLTON 118 - up from 103. Total 17, 940. Weekly 861. Pop score up 41 to 6239 Lowest rise in GM today. Weekly Pop up 4 to 300 Now no borough in GM is in the 200s. Let alone the 100s

Every GM borough increased its weekly pop meaning week to week every place in GM today was up on this day last week.