Good grief. Some of the £37bn on our "World-beating" (not) test and trace would have been better spent on vaccines for poor countries.
but hospitalizations are going down!
Now, yes,so all good we don't yet know what impact the new variant will have. So we need to watch carefully and try and stay ahead of the curve not wait until crisis hits
fair pointIn some of these countries it’s not the supply that’s the issue, people don’t want them. There is a lot of scepticism in places like Africa due to things that have happened in the past with medication that has been given to them.
COVID hospitalisations are going down but not everyone in hospital has COVID. Historically the hospitals get smashed every winter for many reasons that aren't COVID.
i think people are more bothered about how far the gov will take it from mask wearing and then what comes next! its not made a jot in scotland and wales as their case figures are worse than england ! if people want to wear masks they should get ones that actually protect themselves instead of the paper ones that litter the pavements up and down the country!Now, yes,so all good we don't yet know what impact the new variant will have. So we need to watch carefully and try and stay ahead of the curve not wait until crisis hits
Scotlands case numbers are not worse than England and for the last few months have been about half Englands.i think people are more bothered about how far the gov will take it from mask wearing and then what comes next! its not made a jot in scotland and wales as their case figures are worse than england ! if people want to wear masks they should get ones that actually protect themselves instead of the paper ones that litter the pavements up and down the country!
believe it or not my wife is a sister in icu / covid ward my biggest worry is that most of the icu staff on her ward have left ! taken pay cuts and moved to other nhs jobs! another one is doing his hgv this winter because he is getting sacked in march for not being jabbed ! my biggest fear is that the staff that are left wont be qualified to treat people in intensive care for other things !COVID hospitalisations are going down but not everyone in hospital has COVID. Historically the hospitals get smashed every winter for many reasons that aren't COVID.
Even a small number of COVID admissions in the winter could be more serious than for example a much bigger number of COVID hospitalisations in the summer.
I'm not in favour of lockdowns but certainly in the winter and with this new variant things might change where we might have no choice. With Delta that's what's happening in Germany, Austria etc, they just don't have the capacity to cope with a normal winter plus a large case influx.
Scotlands case numbers are not worse than England and for the last few months have been about half Englands
more people live in englandon average they are worse!
Yes, Scotland as a population should be at about 10% of Englands cases they are at about 6%.when England was getting over 40,000 caes Scotland weas 2-3000 It may not be just masks but as wearing a mask is no hardship at all even if it's only a part of the lower numbers then just do it.more people live in england
Yeah it's extremely early days still as far as the age of COVID so it's definitely going to be potent no matter what.All the variants so far have been roughly as potent as each other so the likelihood is that the new variant will have similar potency. It may not of course:
Your wife has a colleague who works in ICU and doesn't want to be vaccinated?!believe it or not my wife is a sister in icu / covid ward my biggest worry is that most of the icu staff on her ward have left ! taken pay cuts and moved to other nhs jobs! another one is doing his hgv this winter because he is getting sacked in march for not being jabbed ! my biggest fear is that the staff that are left wont be qualified to treat people in intensive care for other things !
Bit of indepth reading on the whole "Virus's become less deadly". All in all, no guarantees.
on average they are worse!