Coronavirus (2021) thread

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somapop said:
New film?
Love Scarlett....
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Next phase of Marvel films, although it is a retrospective as she perished on Vormir in Infinity War. It was for a good cause (saved half of the human race). Best Scarlett action is in Captain America: Winter Soldier (good film too).

It should have been released middle of last year. Available in the UK from 17 May.
 
Eds said:
What's worrying is that under half million tests on Sunday found a similar amount of positive case that 1.8 million did. That's either the case that most of the 1.8m tests are useless or incorrectly done or Sunday was a weird anomaly. I wish we had an age breakdown of who tested positive. Is it mainly under 30's who are catching it, most over 50's have had on jab and would hopefully be less susceptible to catching the virus. Just hope that people are still isolating if positive as that message seems to have been diluted recently and almost forgotten
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Here you go; total cases (not adjusted by population etc) by age band in England by specimen date (by region), up to 17th March

school kids, plateauing of anyone under 50.

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M18CTID said:
No I haven't. He was implying that the poster was being played by Johnson when anyone with half a brain cell can see how poor the rollout has been across Europe and how well we have done so far in comparison. We can also see how poor our government has been on a lot of things during this pandemic, and how shite our figures were before the vaccine rollout. Oh, and we don't need jay to tell us all how fucking wonderful things currently are in Spain and how shit things have been over here.
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I read it three times and still it makes no sense. You seem to be having an argument with yourself.
 
GM Weekly Pop Scores after today:~

Borough / Score Today / Score 7 days ago / up or down wk to wk/ Testing is % of local population who have tested positive for Covid over past year.

As ever with Pop scores going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop Score is total cases in past week versus 100,000 POPulation to even out the comparison versus size and expected cases based on numbers living there.



Tameside 122 / 117 / UP 5 Testing positive 7.9%

Bolton 114 / 97 / UP 17 Testing positive 8.8%

Salford 113 / 112 / UP 1 Testing positive 8.7%

Rochdale 106 / 125 / down 19 Testing positive 9.3%

Oldham 105 / 96 UP 9 Testing positive 9.4%

Wigan 104 / 99 / UP 5 Testing positive 8.6%

Bury 100 / 69 UP 31 Testing positive 8.8%

Manchester 92 / 94 / down 2 Testing positive 9.3%

Stockport 81 / 97 / down 16 Testing positive 6.9%

Trafford 39 / 61 / down 22 Testing positive 6.8%



The top three cutting away a little - with the other 7 boroughs back in 3 figures.

Trafford still miles in front for overall Pop score on 6763 (went up just 3 today) from Stockport a whopping 182 behind in second place on 6945 (up by 12 today). No way that gap will be closed. Though I said that before! Stockport likely to exit into the 7000 club in the next five or six days but at the rate it is going Trafford will be alone in the 6000 club until everyone in the UK has had their vaccine.
 
To anyone who's interested dr John Campbell just uploaded a video, hes chatting with professor tim Spector of the ZOE app...
 
shemnel said:
so Boris expects the current wave on mainland Europe to come to the UK; "on the continent right now you can see, sadly, there is a third wave under way, and ...previous experience has taught us that that when a wave hits our friends, it I’m afraid washes up on our shores as well. And I expect that we will feel those effects in due course."

hmm. i'd rather got the impression that the wave in mainland europe was lagging behind our kent variant-driven wave of Dec/Jan? he is saying we are to expect another wave? as that would mean goodbye to roadmap as we know it.
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Call me a cynic, but my guess is that Boris is teeing this up for the banning of international travel for holidays for this year. Of course, the odd trucker might bring the virus and a new variant over, but why should we get a big 3rd wave at the moment if very few people from abroad are entering our shores and we’ve also had a far bigger 2nd wave than the majority of western europe due to the more transmissible variants already having ran through the UK. Add to that our excellent vaccination levels, we should be fine.
 
HOSPITAL DATA


Headline:

First hint of trouble today with some small rises - not uncommon on Monday. UK patients 5500, England 4500. UK ventilators below 800 - down a huge 3300 in under 8 weeks. And England under 700. They at least are still falling Every region has less than 1000 patients when London alone had 7000 in January. No wonder deaths are tumbling. And most England regions down on both patients and ventilators again. Though the North West today had the biggest rise in patients of anywhere and also increased ventilators even though they fell as a nation.

UK total:


Patients 5509 - it was 39, 248 at the peak on 18 Jan - (fall of 33, 739 in 63 days) :- lowest since 13 October

Ventilators 753 it was 4077 at the peak on 24 Jan - (fall of 3324 in 57 days) : lowest since 23 October


England only:-

ADMISSIONS:-

287 Covid admissions (19 March) - following 283, 351, 343, 364, 431, 357, 385 in the week before.


PATIENTS:-

Patients up 9 in day to 4501 v 5976 last week :- lowest since 14 October.

Peak was 34, 336 on 18 Jan (fall 29, 835 in 63 days)

Ventilators: Down in day 16 to 676 v 930 last week :- lowest since 26 October

Peak was 3736 on 24 Jan (fall 3060 in 57 days)



Regions:



Patient // Ventilators // change in past 24 hours and v last week


East up 6 to 414 v 566 // stays at 73 v 90

London down 6 to 922 v 1185 // down 11 to 198 v 298

Midlands down 17 to 948 v 1303 // down 6 to 148 v 207

NE & Yorks up 7 to 737 v 985 // down 1 to 95 v 115

North West up 21 to 787 v 992// up 4 to 86 v 115

South East down 8 to 517 v 713 // down 1 to 55 v 75

South West up 6 to 176 v 232 // stays at 22 v 30
 
Rammy Blue said:
Call me a cynic, but my guess is that Boris is teeing this up for the banning of international travel for holidays for this year. Of course, the odd trucker might bring the virus and a new variant over, but why should we get a big 3rd wave at the moment if very few people from abroad are entering our shores and we’ve also had a far bigger 2nd wave than the majority of western europe due to the more transmissible variants already having ran through the UK. Add to that our excellent vaccination levels, we should be fine.
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Re. the truckers - do they need a negative test to come here from the EU now as well ?.
 
feelymcfeel said:
Ive heard the same thing from a few unrelated people so the rumours coming from somewhere.

I would be less than surprised if the opening up plan was extendended significantly.
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It's the press trolling.
When we're out of lockdown they want to know why we're not being locked down.
Vice versa, rinse and repeat.
 
CJH said:
Re. the truckers - do they need a negative test to come here from the EU now as well ?.
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No idea, just saw someone mention them earlier, and thought it’s a decent example of we can’t stop everybody getting into the country.
 
somapop said:
Haha.
Ronnie Corbett likes this post ;)
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Lol, I've posted this before, in my early 20's I was really attracted to a girl called Liz who I met for the first time whilst out with quite a few friends. I got chatting to her and after a few drinks I asked her out. She said something like, "you're a nice lad but you remind me of someone I don't like so I can't take you up on the offer"

My pride was hurt but we had a good laugh for the rest of the evening. When it was time to go home, Liz told me who I reminded her off, yep, Ronnie fucking Corbett. I'd been called Plug in my younger days because my teeth developed before I did but this hurt more. Biggest mistake I made was telling friends on a lads holiday after we'd had a few drinks.

I still get called Ronnie from some of the lads who were in on the story. TBF, I'm just over 5ft 5", wear glasses and golf jumpers, sorry to ramble on, just doing Ronnie proud.
 
feelymcfeel said:
Ive heard the same thing from a few unrelated people so the rumours coming from somewhere.

I would be less than surprised if the opening up plan was extendended significantly.
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My take on this is that they need these powers in autumn for a 'just in case' scenario, as autumn is obviously the time it can potentially come back. If they let the powers lapse they will have very very little chance reinstating them, given the Tory rebels and the national fatigue, so an extension bridges the summer gap. That and possible vaccine shortages for the foreseeable.

Switching to cynicism for a moment, give people some summer freedom, lock em down again, find the balance between economics and control. That, of course, is unfounded and just the silly shit that swirls around my head.
 
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