Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Indaparkside]

They have identified a new symptom - though - that makes your sense of direction go completely wonky.

Apparently it was imported here from Brazil.

And gives you cold feet

 

[inchy14]

Remember the outrage when footballers celebrated a win after the game ... meanwhile

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yet they all stood 2 metres apart for the anthems..........

 

[unicorn]

I completely forgot about covid for the last hour. Shows how important it is for football to continue for me. It’s not then same but by god it’s better than nothing.

Yep, never watch football on TV, only go to games. Hid behind the sofa today with fingers in ear till lad shouted 4-1. Changed my mind about bringing it back today. I was wrong.

 

[Healdplace]

GM Scoreboard:

1050 - up from 968, 40.0% of North West Total which rose by by 136 to 2625. 1.1% rise on yesterday to highest in two months.

3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v Today:- 1294 v 1107 v 1212 v 1050 - Lowest of the four most optimistic I can offer.



Pop Score is cases across whole pandemic v 100,000 people - rises daily but lower the better.

Weekly Pop is same measure across last 7 days only. Can rise or fall depending on if more cases or less occur today v the same day last week.


Either way Up is bad, down is good.



Manchester 215 – up from 210. Total 47, 147. Weekly 1472. Pop score up 39 to 8528. Weekly Pop down 5 to 266.

Bolton 158 - up from 125. Total cases 22, 445. Weekly 827. Pop score up 55 to 7806. Biggest jump today. Weekly Pop up 9 to 288.

Wigan 116 up from 97. Total cases 25, 695. Weekly 761. Pop score up 35 to 7818. Weekly Pop down 13 to 231. Big drop in cases versus last week is why.

Salford 109 - down from 126. Total cases 20, 404. Weekly 705. Pop score up 42 to 7883. Weekly Pop up 2 to 272.

Stockport 98 - up from from 94. Total cases 18, 078. Weekly 682. Pop score up 33 to 6161. Weekly Pop down 8 to 232.

Rochdale 73 - up from 68. Total cases 18, 697. Weekly 519. Pop score up 33 to 8407. Weekly Pop down 1 to 234.

Tameside 71 up from 60. Total cases 15, 750. Weekly 436. Pop score up 31 to 6954. Weekly Pop down 16 to 193. Huge week to week fall takes second GM borough sub 200.

Oldham 70 up from 66. Total cases 20, 510. Weekly 505. Pop score up 29 to 8650. Weekly Pop down 13 to 213.

Trafford 63 - up from 62. Total cases 14, 788. Weekly 442. Pop score up 26 to 6230. Lowest rise of the day again and picks up another 7 on Stockport's overall pop score lead cutting it to just 69. Halved in a week. Weekly Pop down 7 to 186. Best weekly Pop score in GM.

Bury 57- down from 60. Total cases 15, 203. Weekly 392. Lowest weekly total in GM again and still falling. Very consistent low numbers here daily now for over 2 weeks. Pop score up 30 to 7960. Weekly Pop down 2 to 205.


Pop Scores Today v 7 Days ago // Up/down over past week (lowest best)


Trafford 186 v 234 // down 48

Tameside 193 v 298 // down 105

Bury 205 v 257 // down 52

Oldham 213 v 258 // down 45

Wigan 231 v 269 // down 38

Stockport 232 v 266 // down 34

Rochdale 234 v 260 // down 26

Manchester 266 v 307 // down 41

Salford 272 v 291 // down 19

Bolton 288 v 287 // UP 1


Bolton still struggling a little and the falls are slowing but other than Bolton - which week to week has barely moved - everywhere still trending down and Tameside has had a particularly good week - easily the biggest fall in the past 7 days with the other 8 boroughs week yo week much the same kind of modest drop.

 

[somapop]

Not caught up lately with this virologist guy on Twitter but I remember from the start of the pandemic his clarity & voice of reason (he always insisted a vaccine was the only way out).

 

[somapop]

^^ the thread really needs reading as the first tweet makes it sound a little negative...

 

[Meatbag]

^^ the thread really needs reading as the first tweet makes it sound a little negative...

Thread by @PeterKolchinsky on Thread Reader App

Thread by @PeterKolchinsky: New data from Novavax vaccine just showed that UK & esp South African variants are more problematic in real world than lab experiments suggested. Implications are profound for 2021 and b...…

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[crooky]

^^ the thread really needs reading as the first tweet makes it sound a little negative...

I've read it and the NY times article and sadly 2021 is going to be a wash.

By the time we vaccinate for the original virus then the UK/SA variant and then whatever new variant(s) comes out it'll be over a year.

Would be interesting to hear whether the original variant with no vaccine is more, or less dangerous than the new variant with the 'version 1 vaccine' that doesn't protect as much as first thought?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

And gives you cold feet

 

[Marvin]

The vaccine has become a medicine that for the moment should prevent serious illness. That is still valuable though. If you don't get seriously ill, why worry about it?