Coronavirus (2021) thread

[twosips]

406 deaths

18, 607 cases.

Wow Looks very good news.

Looks like tests were well down over the weekend though.

Great stuff. Not a huge drop in cases but can't argue with that massive drop in deaths. Amazing.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Are we seeing the beginning of the end? I really hope so now.

 

[Healdplace]

3.3% positivity lowest yet.

18, 607 cases from 556, 564 pillar 1 & 2 tests.

No wonder there is a press conference

 

[Len Rum]

3.3% positivity lowest yet.

18, 607 cases from 556, 564 pillar 1 & 2 tests.

No wonder there is a press conference

You mean they're only held on 'good' days?

 

[Healdplace]

Positivity over the weekend

Saturday 645, 083 tests reports 23, 275 cases = 3.6% positivity

Sunday 420, 207 tests reports 21, 008 cases = 5.0% positivity

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

You mean they're only held on 'good' days?

that's why Boris stood there like a melon when 100,000 deaths were announced...

 

[Healdplace]

You mean they're only held on 'good' days?

I did not mean that at all no. We should share good news as well as bad.

Though I expect there will be some of that too - they will want to push the testing for the new variant.

Even so vaccinations going up and up, deaths and cases well down is a thing to report not just doom and gloom.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Vaccinations is the obvious answer. Globally numbers are adding up fast.

Way too soon for any significant global impact of vaccines. Only just starting to be apparent in Israel, and even there only in the older population, not total numbers.

More likely:

- majority of cases are N hemisphere
- most places reacted very slowly to rising cases in 2nd wave in Autumn
- Chickens have came home to roost - lockdowns or other significant restrictions in place almost everywhere to respond to 2nd wave
- reduction in cases is following those restrictions, aided somewhat by the level of immunity acquired through infection (likely ~20% in UK, for example).

 

[crazyg]

Just received my call-up letter today for my vaccination..
Going on line, it appears that he nearest centre to me is 5.7 miles away and there are appointments available all week.
Does anyone know where Manchester Sportcity is on Alan Turing Way in Manchester? Someone told me that it's near Johnson's Wire works on Grey Mare Lane, but I can't find it on the map.

 

[worsleyweb]

India have gone from 90,000 cases a day in September to 13,000 last few days.

Thats good news - must be related to the fact that so many have had it they cant catch it again.