Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

1001 deaths

13, 013 cases

However 60,000 fewer pillar 1 & 2 tests yesterday

547, 937

2.4% positivity - which means around double given the multiple testing

The number of tests is similar to 2 days ago when 14, 104 cases were found.

 

[twosips]

Really encouraging still. Would guess we'll have some sub 10k case days next week at this rate

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Was hoping we'd be 'only' in three figures today with the way it's been dropping...pretty close though and going the right way.

 

[Healdplace]

UK cases Wednesdays in 2021

62, 322 v 47, 525 v 38, 905 v 25, 308 v 19, 292 v 13, 015 TODAY

Really put it in perspective how far numbers have fallen since the 62, 322 on 6 January (and that was not even the highest that week as on Friday 8 Jan we were 68, 053).

 

[zerox]

62,322 v 47,525 v 38,905 v 25,308 v 19,292 v 13,015 TODAY

Really put it in perspective how far numbers have fallen since the 62,322 on 6 January (and that was not even the highest that week as on Friday 8 Jan we were 68,053).

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Scotland vaccination data


985, 569 first doses - 57, 447 yesterday - down from 61, 299 - second highest ever despite blizzards Nicola Sturgeon noted.

Also adding they will top one million first dose vaccinations today.

About 5,5 million people live in Scotland so it is already over 20% of the adult population.

99.8% of all older care home residents now vaccinated

96% of over 80s living in the open community

80% of those aged 75 to 79 in the open community

45% of those aged 70 to 74 in the open community

And there it is, sorry just adding on from your stats from earlier as its a good news post and that particular milestone has now been reached!

 

[cleavers]

Was hoping we'd be 'only' in three figures today with the way it's been dropping...pretty close though and going the right way.

In the real world of "date of death", rather than "date reported on", we're probably around the 600-650 mark.

 

[Healdplace]

Was hoping we'd be 'only' in three figures today with the way it's been dropping...pretty close though and going the right way.

That is only 262 or so added on from England out of hospital (ie care homes mainly) which is under one half what it was 2 or 3 weeks ago. Wednesday is always a big catch up day and there were quite a lot of cases added on from the past few weeks back before even Christmas in some cases today.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Regarding the proportion of deaths with say the over 80s.

It appears to be reducing but am I right in saying that the daily announced death toll includes many from weeks or even months ago? If that is the case then it really isn’t real time information as many of those deaths are from before vaccinations even began. I assume the government will be seeing the actual numbers of daily deaths and the proportion of those in the vaccinated groups within them. You would hope that the over 80s group in particular is falling much faster than what has been posted on here today.

 

[Healdplace]

In the real world of "date of death", rather than "date reported on", we're probably around the 600-650 mark.

Indeed.

I posted the exact England date of death numbers for the past 3 weeks a couple of pages back (at 5 days anyway so they are only up a bit from add ons since).

That number has fallen in 3 weeks from 800 a day to high 400s. So adding on the other nations (which were just 71 today from all settings) we are certainly nowhere near 1000 per day.

These reported numbers can be deceptive as Wednesday always has a large catch up of back dated deaths.

Those 664 England hospital deaths are from 43 different dates - not yesterday.

In fact only 56 actually happened yesterday!