Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Rammy Blue]

Of course but we need to remember most schools are operating at about 40-50% capacity this time since January so the impact along with the vaccines should mean the impact in cases and any hospitalisations (relative to Sep) will hopefully be less.

My post was in reply to someone expecting the cases to drop through March, I was just pointing out we will be doing well if that ends up being the case and it’s more likely they will rise, just hopefully not too much. I’m well aware of everything you’ve posted though being correct mate, ta.

 

[Healdplace]

Worrying to see the Manaus variant now in the UK via travellers who flew in from Brazil via Paris then London then into Aberdeen.

And a separate outbreak in Gloucestershire.

This is one of the more serious of the new variants.

 

[Tonster]

My post was in reply to someone expecting the cases to drop through March, I was just pointing out we will be doing well if that ends up being the case and it’s more likely they will rise, just hopefully not too much. I’m well aware of everything you’ve posted though, ta.

Yeah hope so. If at the end of March it’s similar to now it won’t be too bad.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Worrying to see the Manaus variant now in the UK via travellers who flew in from Brazil via Paris then London then into Aberdeen.

And a separate outbreak in Gloucestershire.

This is one of the more serious of the new variants.

Marvellous.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

He’s a weird ****.

He's just a ****. Don't do him the courtesy of trying to explain away why he is a **** and nothing else.

 

[Gabriel]

RW deluded fuckwit Hitchens has his jab then rages against being "forced" to have it and blaming on Blair. He is now getting pelters from the anti-vaxxers he has encouraged on Twitter - so is that other mad deluded RW anti-vax promoter Swayne who guess what? - yep he has had his first one too - charlatans the lot of them

PETER HITCHENS: I've had Covid jab- and all it cost me was my freedom

PETER HITCHENS: So sorry, Your Majesty, but I have had my first Covid vaccination for wholly selfish reasons. I did not do it for the good of others but for my own convenience.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Presumably, the 'important part of his family' would have been unable to travel to the U.K. and visit him and his principles.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Schools back in a week so bound to be an increase, just got to hope we keep it under control.

The rate at which cases are coming down now corresponds to R~0.7

The vaccination programme should be constantly reducing that further now, and that will make more of a difference as we get to younger people.

There's bound to be an effect, but I'm cautiously optimistic that R will remain below one with schools back.

In principle, test/track/trace should start to make more of a difference as numbers reduce too. We need more support for people isolating.

Fingers crossed, most things are looking really good right now.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital data:

More good news here.

Patients down 427 to 10, 663 - last Sunday it fell just 146 to 14, 140 (week before it rose on Sunday to 17, 787)

Ventilators down 117 to 1630 - last Sunday they fell just 20 to 2122 - week before up 19 to 2611.

Regional numbers to follow.

 

[Quad]

Worrying to see the Manaus variant now in the UK via travellers who flew in from Brazil via Paris then London then into Aberdeen.

And a separate outbreak in Gloucestershire.

This is one of the more serious of the new variants.

The virus not going away , don’t think we will be locking down again , we really need to open back up

 

[Healdplace]

UK patients total today is 12, 824. (Not just under 15,000 as the BBC stated earlier but that is because the Gov UK is two days out of date as usual at weekend))

Last time we had fewer in hospital in UK was 1 November.

Patient numbers peaked on 18 January at 39, 248 - so numbers have fallen by 26. 424 in 41 days.

Or to put it another way it has fallen by MORE than the total number we had in UK hospitals at the peak of the first wave in April - which was 21, 687.

We passed that number on the way up in this wave on Christmas Eve and passed it coming down two weeks ago on 13 February.

Ventilators supposedly 1971 but in reality the number as of today is 1792. This peaked on 24 January at 4077 - so it has fallen 2285 in just 35 days.

First wave peaked at 3301 on ventilators on 12 April.