Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Healdplace said:
It certainly has not in Wales from friends there who have had both in past 4 weeks. Perhaps they have taken that decision unilaterally.
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Maybe but in England it changed around the second weekend in January to 12 weeks between jabs.
Either way the 12 million doses doesn't match the number vaccinated in January/earlyFebruary.
 
Nicola Sturgeon just put a number on the shortfall.

Expecting 500,000 fewer doses in April.

And 'there will be periods when we have to prioritise second doses'
 
Scotland data:

7 deaths - was 22 last week

624 cases - was 591 last week.

2.7% positivity - was 2.5% last week

405 patients - down 17 on yesterday - was 556 last week

38 ventilated - same as yesterday - was 46 last week
 
Going to be back over 1000 cases for the three nations today. Already at 921 with N Ireland to come.

But likely without the 99 January backlog in Wales we might not.
 
Scotland vaccination update:

2, 023, 102 first doses given - 41, 184 today - was 38, 311 yesterday & 16, 642 last week

192, 100 second doses given - 10, 221 today - was 10, 987 yesterday & 8673 last week.
 
4.6 million lateral flow tests in England schools in the first week up to 10 March.

Only 2588 positive. Gov UK reports.

I make that 7.6 % of the 33, 971 cases in England in those 7 days.
 
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Indaparkside said:
what happens if you have a dependent who obviously isn’t vaccinated but you and the wife are concerning holidays abroad
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Keep them quarantined unless you and the dependant believe the reward outweighs the risk.

The vast and I mean vast majority of the worlds population will never contract the disease and hence will not be able to transmit it.

What the world didn't learn well bar a few countries albeit by geographical location in many cases that aided them contracting larger case numbers per capita from the last pandemic is how to effectively quarantine those at most risk and have an effective contract tracing program in place to minimise the spread in a world where the heightened desire to travel given technological change is much simpler and cost effective than ever before.

I doubt much will change when the next one spreads throughout the world whenever that may be.

Interestingly the death rate in Australia where case nos per capita have been low attributed to the virus is nearly twice as high as in the USA.

Entrusting governments at the local level to manage the pandemic with financial assistance at the Federal level would likely to have resulted in the least number of deaths attributed to the virus however at the expense of the health , well being and livelihoods of many more.
 
Healdplace said:
4.6 million lateral flow tests in England schools in the first week up to 10 March.

Only 2588 positive. Gov UK reports.

I make that 7.6 % of the 33, 971 cases in England in those 7 days.
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that is exceptionally low, given it is within the error bounds for false positive rates. That is good news indeed.
 
97 England hospital deaths with 17 from North West

Was 159 and 22 last week.

17 of those 97 were in North Cumbria hospital. Nobody else in England even in double figures.

4 in Warrington, 3 in East Cheshire and 3 in Morecambe Bay most in North West.
 
52 of the 97 England hospital deaths over 80 btw. Biggest percentage in ages. Well over 50%.

I think we can say this data is not going to tell us anything now at this low level as older people are still going to die more often and just not do so in anything like the numbers they once did.

This is the first time in months that the two biggest days of the week for numbers because of weekend catch up and out of hospital add ons have been under 100.
 
True_Blue69 said:
I’m not that bothered if I’m honest as I’ll get there vaccine and get the passport no problem. Just unsure what they are looking to achieve with it if it doesn’t stop you catching or passing it on. Will keep an eye out for the results.
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Think it depends what you mean by stopping you catching it or passing it on. There is increasing evidence from several studies that it both decreases your chances of catching it and spreading it.
Nothing works 100% but we don't stop making seat belts compulsory in cars because some people still die in car crashes despite seat belts.
 
mancity1 said:
Forget the pandemic as bad an impact it has been throughout the world with a few notable exceptions that demonstrate what can be achieved using the grey matter we have been given to maximising risk and reward to the majority of citizens.

My concern is the divisive nature of the EU in forcing countries that choose to reduce emissions using technology as opposed to taxing the individual to symbolise a target that can never be met in a fraudulent attempt to induce an ideology that will make the poor and lot a poorer and the rich a lot richer like we have never seen before.

of course China the greatest threat by far now to world domination will get a leave pass as they have for being responsible for the pandemic in the first place.

Good luck in forcing a will on countries as to how they produce their electricity.

its like telling them what religion they should practice , what freedoms they should have , what type of rule of law they should have and how people in those countries should live their lives.

BTW If any climate change warrior the vast majority of which do nothing practical to reduce their actual carbon footprint wants to take the issue seriously and make a difference go to China , Japan , South Korea and Indonesia to name but 5 countries with over 3 billion inhabitants and tell them and succeed in ceasing the construction of the hundreds of coal fired power stations they are building and will continue to build over the next 40 years and beyond and tell them to save the planet they have to kill all their cattle and sheep just for starters.

I doubt this post will stay in this thread for long like a few others that have been pulled for being critical of woke institutions and stating views that the woke soon will call me a c....t for posting in breach of the code of conduct mind you but will get a leave pass unless this post is pulled as well.

the above is all simple fact if you remember what a fact is or at worst an informed opinion but that is slowly being lost in a world where identity and division pitting person against person is the name of the game.

its a dangerous game being led by those who believe they have a sense of entitlement.

Martin Luther King would be turning in his grave.
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Your posts keep getting pulled because you insist on posting political comments in this thread, despite repeated reminders to place such posts in the relevant thread in the politics subforum. It isn't rocket science fella.
 
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