Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

She is not the only one. Mother in law only got it Friday. If you live in an old pit village in Co Durham the vaccine may not be as quick to reach you. I have spoke to the practice manager who assured me they will get to the last batch of over 80s in the next few days. This is with appointment dates. Just highlighting Boris's will say anything and has no ideas what is going on at ground level. We even have some non essential shops open. Unless of course shops selling local crafts, blinds shops and a shop selling second hand furniture are now classed as "essential". I work as a bus driver and in certain areas we have put on extra services due to demand in the last few weeks.

So you haven't got involved and said over the last couple of weeks that you want a quicker appointment for your Mum and that you were prepared to drive her to a vaccination site outside of her village. Clearly there will be isolated cases of administrative errors or a relative handful of people who are in logistically difficult places but when 15 million people have received their first jab when yesterday's figures are announced later its a bit of a stretch to say that Johnson will say 'anything'.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths 301 with 49 from the North West. So NW running still at quite a high level but week to week nationally that is another hefty drop. Think to the lowest in 2021.

Sunday numbers are always a bit low remember as they face limits from Saturday registration.

3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v Today


623 / 61 NW / 10%

563 / 82 NW / 15%

410 / 49 NW / 12%

301 / 49 NW / 16% Today


That NW percentage remains a concern as it is not a one off as recent reports show.

No question more are dying pro rata in the NW than they were. But numbers falling everywhere mean this will be a temporary effect hopefully.

Last night's hospital numbers I posted in here for England were the best yet and huge falls are occurring everywhere and North West now falling too in both patients and ventilated patients so that is bound to be reflected soon.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

15 million first does jabbed

 

[Healdplace]

301 England hospital deaths

By age group

20 - 39 (3) 1.0%

40 - 59 (23) 7.6%

60 - 79 (132) 43.9%

80 PLUS (143) 47.5%


More data supporting the over 80s death numbers are falling and I think the closest yet gap between the two upper age ranges,

Early days still but day by day this is looking more like evidence of the vaccines working as the over 80s have had this in numbers now long enough to start to see signs in that age range whereas the under 80s have mostly been getting it too recently to show the same impact yet. But will do so in the coming days and weeks.

 

[unicorn]

Believe me I know. And I would not mind if you were getting at me, This is all about opinions and they are bound to differ based on experience.

I have sadly been there, done that at the hands of more than one tabloid who got about 20% of the story right because I declined to 'help them by speaking up and 'telling the truth' (as in what they wanted to BE the truth).

But as the BBC once told me - you wait and see what this will do to our ratings They were right, of course. But it was galling that this mattered more than truth even years ago. Nowadays I dread to think what truth is any more.

I just hate the way stories are manipulated by both sides for different reasons and what really happened is often barely of much consequence unless it sells papers or can be used to rubbish a rival tabloid who got the story wrong.

Don't answer if you don't want but do you feel the BBC have got worse at informing us over recent years @Healdplace ?

You'll notice there's a number on here who despair of the BBC (and other media) seeming inability to present information in context. I don't think they're biased, just increasingly poor at their job.

 

[Healdplace]

Scotland data:

4 deaths - was 7 last week

903 cases - was 584 last week - a rather large jump

Positivity 7.3% - was 6.9% last week

Patients 1442 - down 7 - was 1710 last week

Ventilated icu beds 104 - down 6 - was 118 last week

Long term icu (over 30 days) 31 - down 2 on yesterday.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I see the NHS is getting away with its bloody awful record on infection control in UK hospitals.
20% of cases caught Covid-19 whilst in hospital for somthing else and a larger percentage of these patients than those admitted with Covid-19 died as a result.
MSRA, now Covid-19. When is something going to be done about dreadful infection control in UK hospitals?

 

[Bluesince1979]

No, it wouldn't. But that comes with celebrity status. Dominic Cummings got slaughtered last spring for his jaunt up to Barnard Castle. Rightly or wrongly, you're under scrutiny all the time. You can't go courting the media some of the time, then slate them at other times. The media don't care about your feelings. They build you up, then knock you down.


Not having a go at you, by the way.

Amanda holden has had her arse on enough front pages to know that she cant have it both ways.
shes earned a fortune and good luck to her on that but with limited talent she has, as u say, courted the media to her advantage.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Scotland data:

4 deaths - was 7 last week

903 cases - was 584 last week - a rather large jump

Positivity 7.3% - was 6.9% last week

Patients 1442 - down 7 - was 1710 last week

Ventilated icu beds 104 - down 6 - was 118 last week

Long term icu (over 30 days) 31 - down 2 on yesterday.

I think last week there was an issue with data and the following couple of days had a catch up of figures iirc. Possibly explains such a large jump today.

Despite that, throughout the week there seems to have been a number of signs of a either a slowing in decline, plateau or even a slight rise in infection data. Too early to jump to conclusions at the moment but it is quite a concern given the numbers here are still very high.

 

[ayrshire_blue]