Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Eds said:
Why does everyone believe so called gloomy news from people who aren't qualified to write about the subject or from people who haven't done the proper research etc. Think it was the scientists who suggested that to have more people with some immunisation the UK should spread out the jabs to 12 weeks and everyone at the time said ' what a great idea, brilliant, genius etc. Now with little research those same people are blaming the government for making a crap decision.
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There were certainly plenty on here who were saying before Christmas that they thought it was the way to go and that the government should adopt the policy of getting as many first jabs done as was possible.
 
Hartley-Brewer really doesn't like being called out for spreading lies and disinformation.



It's now "sinister" to point out that she and her go-to "sceptics" are misleading us.
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
There’s no reason why care homes can’t be done in conjunction with the other cohorts. A team of three people comprising of a doctor, a nurse and an administrator did all 2000 care home residents in over 50 care homes in just over a week in Newcastle.
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There isn't, I agree.
We're not doing it for some reason. It's plain nuts.
 
Vaccination data for yesterday

Wales:

First doses 175 816 (13, 884 yesterday)

Second doses 370 (105 in the day)

Total 13, 989 doses yesterday (it was 10, 259 on Monday)


Scotland

309, 909 as of yesterday - which means 21, 449 were done yesterday. (It was 19, 773 on Monday)
 
Spoke with the Mrs last night and she is on board with the stay in England decision i have made for this year. Just heard of someone else with it today and has had to call an ambulance!

Far too close to home.
 
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Healdplace said:
Nicola Sturgeon just claimed the reason England are now doing fewer daily new vaccinations is that they have belatedly decided to do what Scotland has done from day one. Treat care homes as a priority.

Scotland are now well over 90% covered. And so now outside care home daily vaccinations in Scotland will noticably accelerate whilst England's may fall.

England have - she says - now decided this is important to do too.

All the deaths yesterday in England out of hospital (many in care homes) show Scotland got this right and England did not. A very unusually high number of those England deaths were not in hospital creating that unexpectedly high total of 1610 when just half of them were in England hospitals.
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Not going to get into the rights and wrongs of how things have been prioritised, frankly I am nowhere near qualified or educated enough to make that opinion. What IS reassuring and satisfactory is a clear explanation for an apparent slightly lower rollout per head of population. This makes sense, and answers any questions as to why it's the case.
 
ayrshire_blue said:
Not going to get into the rights and wrongs of how things have been prioritised, frankly I am nowhere near qualified or educated enough to make that opinion. What IS reassuring and satisfactory is a clear explanation for an apparent slightly lower rollout per head of population. This makes sense, and answers any questions as to why it's the case.
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Agreed her clarity is why I never miss her updates as regardless of politics they are data rich and clear and you do not have to second guess what any graphs mean as they are put up and taken down in haste whilst things are spun around them by doctors and politicians as if it is a scene from Fantasia.
 
Priti Patel apparently has confirmed they now know not shutting the borders early in the pandemic was a mistake.

That is good to hear too as it was obviously true and fessing up is the right thing to do if it means mistakes do not get repeated.

You can forgive getting it wrong when nobody knew the true path. You cannot forgive pretending you did the right thing and repeating the same error so as not to admit you screwed up.

BBC just played the scratchy video - asked was it a mistake - she says 'yes' and 'I was an advocate of it last March'.

Boris replies when asked to comment by Starmer something about windmills.

Hopefully that means he now knows it was wrong hence acting faster now.

I do not care who makes the decisions as long as they are ones that secure the future of the country based on what we know and we clearly know now that those who shut borders fast did the right thing.
 
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Healdplace said:
Priti Patel apparently has confirmed they now know not shutting the borders early in the pandemic was a mistake.

That is good to hear too as it was obviously true and fessing up is the right thing to do if it means mistakes do not get repeated.

You can forgive getting it wrong when nobody knew the true path. You cannot forgive pretending you did the right thing and repeating the same error so as not to admit you screwed up.

BBC just played the scratchy video - asked was it a mistake - she says 'yes' and 'I was an advocate of it last March'.

Boris replies when asked to comment by Starmer something about windmills.

Hopefully that means he now knows it was wrong hence acting faster now.
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A historic moment. The first time that any one of these Vote Leave clowns in government have admitted any kind of mistake whatsoever. Johnson will murder her.
 
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blueparrot said:
Don’t see why not though there is a limit to supply will always be some group asking why another group are getting it before their group.
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yes but police are another group in the front line and I think they should get it as a priority personally, same with ambulance/paramedics and firefighters
 
England vaccinations update:

301, 362 doses yesterday (2989 were second doses)

4, 419, 704 in total now -

3, 985, 579 1st doses

This is an encouraging rise and the other nations were up today too (see posts earlier with the Wales and Scotland data around 1 pm).

We are at present on track to be doing 3 million a week soon in UK. As required if we are to hit targets by mid February.
 
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