Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Watch areas for readers:

Cheshire East:

Better day than Stockport again Andyhinch

Cases 193 - down from 241.

Total cases 15, 700

Pop score up 50 to 4087.

Weekly pop down 23 to 388. Heading the right way Andy.
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
It's being widely reported that the government are aiming for 500k a day plus next week. The vaccination roll out is a success story at last.

Edit: I've just read a bizarre article in the Guardian which reports that the Lower Saxony region of Germany (where cases are extremely high) has decided that due to privacy laws they can't look at people's medical records in order to write to over 80s to invite them for a jab. Instead they are using partial postal records and guessing based on peoples first names.

WTAF???
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I think they’ve got more than they are letting on tbh

Seem really keen to keep it quiet, usually they’d be shouting from the rooftops
 
My friend who has her jab at the Etihad next week tells me she had a 'nice' letter signed 'Matt' from Hancock telling her all she needed to know. I think she thought he had written to everyone personally but she was impressed nonetheless.

Quite a contrast to that story from Germany.

If they cannot look at records for privacy reasons how do they check for dangerous allergies that might be a risk or other factors that patients might not realise are a problem - or even put them on the list and identify them in the first place?
 
Del_Bosque said:
I think they’ve got more than they are letting on tbh

Seem really keen to keep it quiet, usually they’d be shouting from the rooftops
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Which is why Sturgeon's Twitter post about how quickly Scotland do the vulnerable groups was deleted almost immediately yesterday. They get a set proportion of UK supply so it was easy to extrapolate the figures.

The government seems to be very confident at the moment. Regardless of political views, previous balls ups etc the fact is that vaccinations are going extremely well.
 
Watch Areas

Swansea

Cases 109 - up from 72.

Total 15, 479

Pop score up 42 to 6267

Weekly Pop down 16 to 257

Everything back in order here.
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
Which is why Sturgeon's Twitter post about how quickly Scotland do the vulnerable groups was deleted almost immediately yesterday. They get a set proportion of UK supply so it was easy to extrapolate the figures.

The government seems to be very confident at the moment. Regardless of political views, previous balls ups etc the fact is that vaccinations are going extremely well.
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If they fulfil their promise to get to all over 65 by end of February I will be delighted and they will win back a lot of kudos. You would think they would not risk such a tight timetable if they were not reasonably sure they can pull it off. And it is rather important to get there if these variants are coming thick and fast and tweaks to the vaccines become necessary as they are going to set the world back weeks or a few months however fast they can react.

Though rather a lot rests on how efficacious the Oxford vaccine proves in real life as we will be primarily vaccinating with that in coming weeks.
 
Scientific advisers to the government have set out measures to reduce the transmission of coronavirus within homes, which they say can help cut the number of infections by up to 15% in just three weeks.

news.sky.com

COVID-19: What you should do if you live with someone with coronavirus

A SAGE document has set out a range of simple measures for all households to follow to reduce COVID transmission within homes.
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Healdplace said:
If they fulfil their promise to get to all over 65 by end of February I will be delighted and they will win back a lot of kudos. You would think they would not risk such a tight timetable if they were not reasonably sure they can pull it off. And it is rather important to get there if these variants are coming thick and fast and tweaks to the vaccines become necessary as they are going to set the world back weeks or a few months however fast they can react.
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As a 66 year old I'm with you on this:..
 
kaz7 said:
Scientific advisers to the government have set out measures to reduce the transmission of coronavirus within homes, which they say can help cut the number of infections by up to 15% in just three weeks.

news.sky.com

COVID-19: What you should do if you live with someone with coronavirus

A SAGE document has set out a range of simple measures for all households to follow to reduce COVID transmission within homes.
news.sky.com news.sky.com
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All sensible which sadly may mean only the sensible will follow them.

Especially the opening of windows if there is a blizzard going on as quite likely this month and next. Any self respecting virus would go lock themselves in for a bit and wait until the sun shines at least before trying to infect us.
 
Healdplace said:
I am not leaving so nobody needs to panic. Just don't get angry at Kaz and I am fine.

We may disagree but she has a right to express disapproval of my posting. Anyone does.

Let you into one tiny secret I was once not a (very minor) character in the plot of a Hollywood movie because the author took umbrage at something I had said. Or rather a reviewer had said which was not entirely the same thing.

So a disagreement on here is not going to upset me.

As I said I will do my best to stop using capitals and am fine with that.

I just do not want to trigger any rows.

And dining out on that story was way better than ten seconds in a movie!

Revenge is often sweeter if you do not go looking for it.
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House of Lords and Hollywood movies...can you do a big identity reveal when this is all over :)

On a serious note, many have done so already but thank you for your efforts over the last few months, both now when we are at a critical point in this crisis but also over the summer when cases and therefore general interest was lower. Your updates are extremely useful and this thread as a whole has been very informative.
 
Gabriel said:
Cases still worryingly high in Israel but the R number looks to be decreasing,and those aged 45 and over can have their first vaccination next week.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/c...45-eligible-for-vaccine-from-next-week-655574
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Relying on Google translate of Hebrew for this, but it seems possible positive news on the vaccine front but really early days and may be other factors at play. Still too early to tell. I had hoped the picture would be clearer by this stage, but that's just be being impatient.
 
Watch areas Kent

Dartford

Cases 130 - down from 132.

Total 8373

Pop score up 116 to 7436

Weekly Pop down a lot to 887.


Medway

Cases 325 - up big from 198

Total 22, 077

Pop score up 117 to 7926.

Weekly Pop down to 707.


These Kent areas also tracking well down now.

Manchester on route to overtake them soon if things do not turn around here.
 
Seems like Ireland have thankfully turned a corner, short of 3500 cases today from over 8000 last Friday. They were struggling so it's good to see things improve.
 
Blue Potato said:
House of Lords and Hollywood movies...can you do a big identity reveal when this is all over :)

On a serious note, many have done so already but thank you for your efforts over the last few months, both now when we are at a critical point in this crisis but also over the summer when cases and therefore general interest was lower. Your updates are extremely useful and this thread as a whole has been very informative.
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Honestly you would be really disappointed if I did as I have said many times I am not remotely famous.

It was just the job I did. But have not done in years as I gave it up having other family commitments.

But thank you for assuming I was a celeb.

Closest I got was interviewing the Liverpool captain on Wembley Way which made my hubby very jealous but was also not at all what it seemed.

I said I would make it up to him and did.

A box when these were rare and expensive for a match v Stoke.

At Goodison Park.

He still went!
 
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