Coronavirus (2021) thread

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M18CTID said:
Funnily enough, I was thinking exactly the same after I rocked up at work with a stonking hangover on Monday morning!
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A stonking hangover is a sign that we're heading back to normal. Met my lad in sunny Stockport Monday lunchtime and was regretting it 3 hours later. Mixing Unicorn and Plum Porter unwise at any age.
 
England hospital deaths on what is often the biggest weekend catch up day of the week when in January we had over 1000 deaths just in England.

20 with 4 from the North West.

Moreover 5 of these are over 2 months old so may be discounted.

Last week was 25 with 4 NW, week before 26 with 5 and week before that 42 with 8 NW.

Even after the peak on Wednesday 27 January the equivalent England hospital only number was 973 with 138 from the North West.

To be down to 2% of that number in 13 weeks is amazing testimony to lockdown and vaccine dual impact.
 
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Healdplace said:
Bit scary to think we might be the dinosaurs trying to find a way to divert that asteroid ushering them to extinction or the tiny mammal burrowed underground who has a degree of natural protection from the looming catastrophe and will by fate inherit the world about to be overturned.

Evolution is usually something we think we are masters over. Forgetting we as humans are only here today because we are not.
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Very profound HP
 
Northern Ireland data

1 death - was 1 last week

98 cases - was 116 last week

0,9% positivity - was 1.0% last week.

4 care home outbreaks - same as yesterday - was 5 last week

Rolling 7 day case total 643 - was 670 yesterday & 808 last week

60 patients - down 2 on day - was 69 last week

3 ventilated - same as yesterday - was 6 last week.
 
Scotland vaccinations:

2, 789, 978 first doses given - 7816 given today - was 8392 yesterday & 2523 last week

1, 142, 947 second doses given - 40, 257 today - was 33, 986 yesterday & 50 388 last week
 
And just as things we're starting to look rosy, phone call from school, someone in eldest daughters bubble has tested positive, back to home schooling for the next 10 days. Aaaarrrrgghhh!
 
So total deaths reported today (with a few to be discounted probably though possibly some England out of hospital to add too - the other 3 nations include these in the single number given daily unlike England) is 22.

Wk to wk:- 47 v 30 v 27 v 22 TODAY


Cases for the three nations with England to come is 337

Wk to Wk:- 459 v 437 v 453 v 337 TODAY

We have not seen three nation numbers like this in many months.
 
To put that 337 cases for the three whole nations into context - the city of Liverpool alone had more than that every day until late in January. And the city of Manchester was only just a few behind doing so.

Liverpool by the way despite the recent increase (mostly focused on areas around the city it seems) has had three consecutive days with single figure numbers - like quite a few GM boroughs are doing at the moment - though not yet quite Manchester. Although at the rate it has fallen lately it cannot be far off a single figure Manchester number one day.
 
ONS Antibody report
An estimated seven in 10 adults (68.3%) in Englisg private households in England are likely to have tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in the week to April 11 - up from an estimated one in two, (53.1%), two weeks earlier.
That means we are close to overall herd immunity for the Kent variant (around 71.4%).
Young people are well away from this level though so the Herd immunity doesn't apply to age Cohorts.
 
What's people's opinions that covid marshall's are still being advertised for when all restrictions are supposed to be removed in June? These posts start in June and are for 6-12 months. I find it a bit disconcerting.
 
paulchapo said:
What's people's opinions that covid marshall's are still being advertised for when all restrictions are supposed to be removed in June? These posts start in June and are for 6-12 months. I find it a bit disconcerting.
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The pandemic will not be over in June. We might well release most restrictions cautiously here but it will still involve ongoing checks and tests in places like airports and big events - I expect - and so I do not think it unreasonable to plan for the possibility the winter might drive small outbreaks again either.

Even another wave might occur given the season. Hopefully not at anything like the level we have had but it is much better to plan just in case than assume we are done and then have to reorganise in a hurry.

I find it reassuring, not disconcerting. that they are covering all the bases.
 
Healdplace said:
The pandemic will not be over in June. We might well release most restrictions cautiously here but it will still involve ongoing checks and tests in places like airports and big events - I expect - and so I do not think it unreasonable to plan for the possibility the winter might drive small outbreaks again either.

Even another wave might occur given the season. Hopefully not at anything like the level we have had but it is much better to plan just in case than assume we are done and then have to reorganise in a hurry.

I find it reassuring, not disconcerting. that they are covering all the bases.
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Thanks, that is more reassuring. My imagination was starting to run away a bit there.
 
Healdplace said:
Bit scary to think we might be the dinosaurs trying to find a way to divert that asteroid ushering them to extinction or the tiny mammal burrowed underground who has a degree of natural protection from the looming catastrophe and will by fate inherit the world about to be overturned.

Evolution is usually something we think we are masters over. Forgetting we as humans are only here today because we are not.
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If you squeeze all of the earths life over the last 3billion years into a 24hs day. land animals have only been around since about 9-10pm, The dinosaurs became extinct at 11.40pm and man kind evolved at 11.58 and 40secs and therefore we have been around for about 80seconds.
 
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