Coronavirus (2021) thread

Status
Not open for further replies.
Three nation cases wk to wk:

2186 v 1965 v 1611 v 1442 v 907 Today


Deaths with out of England to add:

863 v 675 v 513 v 355 v 293 Today
 
Being reported that 95% of the AZ vaccine sent to Saxony has not been used as they effectively made people think it was useless.

That makes the UK look like world beaters but will turn into a humanitarian tragedy when someone in Germany inevitably works out how many lives that has cost.

The US media are trying to claim UK people are turning it down too and demanding Pfizer instead.

We had one person on here as I recall trying to play that game but I think we have rightly adopted a have the vaccine and don't ask who made it policy.

When there are about 4 or 5 of them being used this will become meaningless as nobody will be able to stage manage those options. And I doubt it has really been that big a deal in the UK either. I know loads of over 60s who happily had AZ and would have crawled there to get it. And 99% of those I know had to look on their card to even see which one they had.

The way the testing was done and stop/start in the US tests to check a case did not help but much of this has been fuelled by misunderstanding of what matters with a vaccine. And the absurd league tables the media have created to make people think there are bigger differences than there are.

The world really does not need this mess as we need to get the planet inoculated ASAP and if we slow that down by dissing one of the easiest to get to remote villages we are in effect handing a goal start to the virus.
 
Last edited:
Did you you receive a text or letter or did you use the link I posted on Thursday evening?

My wife booked hers then but today she received her letter saying she is eligible.
No, I used the link that you sent. Thanks again, otherwise I wouldn't have known anything about it.
My wife and I had Chromebook/iPad synchronised and booked together 10 minutes apart.

I guess Salford must be working their way through the lists efficiently to open it up to all over-50s.
 
Being reported that 95% of the AZ vaccine sent to Saxony has not been used as they effectively made people think it was useless.

That makes the UK look like world beaters but will turn into a humanitarian tragedy when someone in Germany inevitably works out how many lives that has cost.
If they are not using it, they should send it to poorer countries.
 
Just back from my vaccine,and the nurse was saying, my part of Scotland was the lowest covid area in the mainland UK,at 29/100,000/week think thats's @Healdplace Pop score of 29. My vaccine was 2.45 so after watching our win. Things getting very bright.
Murky for me. We know the vaccines and 'natural' immunity will wipe out the wild-type and the UK variant but we are going to be selecting mutations that evade antibody responses hence we are likely to be left with a host of semi-resistant strains. What happens with Covid depends on whether they can replicate in the vaccinated population, and the severity of the illness they cause.
 
Regional scoreboard:

Everywhere down today

North West included though today again the only region to be over 1000. All the others below.

Yorkshire down 11 to 909

North East down 1 to 419

East Midlands down 111 to 812

West Midlands down 154 to 899

East down down 127 to 543

South East down 75 to 680

South West down 122 to 319

and London 106 to 678


The North West by comparison fell by the most - 210 - to 1155.

This is the lowest NW total since a week or two before Christmas.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.