Coronavirus (2021) thread

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cleavers said:
It's 10% higher than yesterday, that's not good, given we are all in "lockdown".
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The roads are rammed, even during the day outside of rush hour.

We walk to the supermarket or go for a walk, barely drive anywhere, I honestly don’t know where people are going at 11am on a Friday.
 
grunge said:
Depends on the date of sample. could just be a backlog on tests.
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It could but I've been following the numbers for "date of specimen" for my local area, and it's rare that there are "add ons" in tests back more than 3 or 4 days.

Clearly it has peaked in case numbers, with the highest daily total being 29th Dec at over 81k, followed by the 4th Jan at at 76k.
 
Healdplace said:
Yes but it is nearly 8000 up from past few days. And rising.
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Must say I'm a bit surprised by your reaction to these numbers today given responses to my own on Scotland's numbers posted yesterday. Think both have extremely high numbers and although reductions in a various scale on the previous week, a sad end to a steady enough decline we've seen up until the past couple of days.

On the positive side, there do seem to be certain days of the week where infection numbers will post higher than others, as is the case with deaths but for different reasons perhaps. It seems likely that next week's numbers will start off at decent low's compared to what we've seen of late but again increase to higher numbers by the end of the week, although lower than this week's... If I can just about get my head around that.
 
Ban-jani said:
The roads are rammed, even during the day outside of rush hour.

We walk to the supermarket or go for a walk, barely drive anywhere, I honestly don’t know where people are going at 11am on a Friday.
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yea the roads are rammed. Just heard one of the scientific advisors say people are sticking by the rules. Loads of people aren’t and there’s still millions going to work
 
ayrshire_blue said:
Must say I'm a bit surprised by your reaction to these numbers today given responses to my own on Scotland's numbers posted yesterday. Think both have extremely high numbers and although reductions in a various scale on the previous week, a sad end to a steady enough decline we've seen up until the past couple of days.

On the positive side, there do seem to be certain days of the week where infection numbers will post higher than others, as is the case with deaths but for different reasons perhaps. It seems likely that next week's numbers will start off at decent low's compared to what we've seen of late but again increase to higher numbers by the end of the week, although lower than this week's... If I can just about get my head around that.
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The numbers are high but the trend down in the positivity is what matters I would think.

To me the Scottish numbers seem to be going in the right direction as is the positivity. Though slowly and a way to go yet yes.

Todays 8000 rise is significantly mitigated by the huge rise in testing - but even with that positivity has risen a bit.

I am not a statistics expert so I cannot really judge on anything but instinct.

And the real concern is not the cases right now it is the hospital numbers which pretty much everywhere is far higher than ever before and not showing any major signs yet of falling.

Deaths will likely not plateau until they do. Cases are the first link in that chain. And positivity more important to watch than raw numbers. But in the UK today both are up. Though not by as much as it might have seemed once you work positivity out.

And I think England is the main driver of this.

Though why we have to work it out is bizarre given how crucial it is. Should be emphasised in England and never is.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I agree. The figures look really bad. I’m seeing posts saying basically it’s a positive sign, but the numbers are ridiculously high still.

50+ thousand infections and it’s seen as better....
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There is just one positive thing about the figures: they are not going up, and almost certainly trending down. As it wasn't certain we would be able to contain this variant at all, that really is very, very good news indeed. An exponentially growing epidemic would have outrun vaccination very quickly. So we've dodged the worst case bullet.

Everything else is very bad.

Cases are appallingly high, almost the highest in the entire world right now.

Hospitals are overrun, cancelling allsorts and I dread to think how the staff are coping.

Our death rate is currently the second highest in the world.

Stay home blues.
 
I reported one Range Rover Sport V8 because I heard it out all hours and the guy was driving recklessly and anti-social, blipping the throttle for maximum noise and accelerating then braking hard even behind other cars. Got a message back this morning saying it would go in the traffic briefing.

The silence this afternoon - on the v8 idiot score - has been golden!

But honestly, you can hear the young lad's in their four pots chivving up and down the roads at all hours.
 
Summerbuzz said:
I reported one Range Rover Sport V8 because I heard it out all hours and the guy was driving recklessly and anti-social, blipping the throttle for maximum noise and accelerating then braking hard even behind other cars. Got a message back this morning saying it would go in the traffic briefing.

The silence this afternoon - on the v8 idiot score - has been golden!

But honestly, you can hear the young lad's in their four pots chivving up and down the roads at all hours.
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not only are people on the roads but they also think the speed limit has doubled where I live !
 
Healdplace said:
I wish had not bothered with this as I have now reposted about 10 times and nobody has even noticed despite my saying this lunch time why I was going to be doing this. And updating EVERY time a nation reported new data so the latest post was totally up to date when I posted it.

Not going to bother doing this again as it is time consuming and if people just read a post at the very start and ignore the rest after it then it is meaningless trying to be up to date.

The four nations report at different times in the day so I was updating it every time one did so it was always right at THAT point of the day.
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Thanks.
Youre doing a great job.
 
Healdplace said:
VACCINATIONS UPDATE:-


ENGLAND

2, 769,164 now had first dose of vaccine as of Thursday night.

Up 274, 793 in day - it was 239, 815 on Wednesday.

There were also 420, 510 second doses in total as of Thursday. 4834 were added Thursday v 8362 Wednesday.



SCOTLAND

224, 840 now had first dose of vaccine as of Thursday night.

Up 16, 633 in day - it was 16, 242 on Wednesday.

There were also 3190 second doses in total as of Wednesday. Update later for yesterday - 200 were added on Wednesday v 133 Tuesday.



WALES

126, 375 now had first dose of vaccine as of Thursday night.

Up 13, 402 in day - it was 11, 602 on Wednesday).

There were also 129 second doses in total as of Thursday - 8 were added on Thursday v 13 Wednesday.



NORTHERN IRELAND

114, 567 now had first dose of vaccine as of Thursday night.

Up 11, 866 in day - it was 11, 284 on Wednesday.

There were also 254 second doses in total on Thursday - it was 1170 on Wednesday.




TOTAL UK VACCINATIONS (updated as far as published data in dates above allow)


1ST DOSE:- 3, 234, 946

2ND DOSE ;- 443, 234

TOTAL VACCINATIONS :- 3, 678, 180
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No need to shout
 
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