Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

Wales first minister says in every part of Wales the weekly Pop score is now below 100 and in 5 boroughs it is below 50.

Recall the LOWER the pop score the better you are doing (it is basically cases per 100,000 people).

For comparison nowhere in GM is below 100,

Trafford is lowest at 107 and Bolton highest at 183.

The North West as a region is at 139.

Other regions are East Midlands 160 (worst), Yorkshire 146 (up to second worst from best not long ago), West Midlands 144 - then North West - North East 124 - then all the southern regions now far ahead of the north and Midlands as their cases have plunged - East 88, London 75, South East 73 and South West 63.

 

[Healdplace]

Those Welsh numbers by the way are their lowest daily case total for nearly 6 months!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Those Welsh numbers by the way are their lowest daily case total for nearly 6 months!

We got a lads mini break booked in for June, the way it's going they'll not let us in!!!!

 

[Healdplace]

Oh and there is work underway to use the RNA techniques applied to design these brand new vaccines against Covid to create a Malaria vaccine.

The only one in existence now is about a third as effective as all the new Covid ones and if they can bump a malaria vaccine up to the Covid like levels using the new methods applied to Covid it will save many lives.

As I said a few weeks ago for me the most exciting thing about getting through this pandemic is that it has seen science accelerate in this area by about a decade in just a year out of global need.

anti vaxxers worry about the speed in a negative way. In truth it will change many lives because we have been forced into spending time and money we never would to win this fight. And it has uncovered new ways to do things that will have far wider application.

And we will see that impact none Covid related diseases in the coming years.

We could end up saving more lives than Covid has taken as a result of the coordinated fight to beat Covid.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Sun shining, cases in somewhat rapid decline again, hospital patients even more so, vaccine programme going well. Come on!!

You forgot to mention dippers sliding down the league.All is getting back to normal slowly

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Oh and there is work underway to use the RNA techniques applied to design these brand new vaccines against Covid to create a Malaria vaccine.

The only one in existence now is about a third as effective as all the new Covid ones and if they can bump a malaria vaccine up to the Covid like levels using the new methods applied to Covid it will save many lives.

As I said a few weeks ago for me the most exciting thing about getting through this pandemic is that it has seen science accelerate in this area by about a decade in just a year out of global need.

anti vaxxers worry about the speed in a negative way. In truth it will change many lives because we have been forced into spending time and money we never would to win this fight. And it has uncovered new ways to do things that will have far wider application.

And we will see that impact none Covid related diseases in the coming years.

We could end up saving more lives than Covid has taken as a result of the coordinated fight to beat Covid.

I read something a few months back and posted it on here that the Oxford team were also looking to produce a vaccine for malaria. The advantage if they can do so is that it will be really cheap so those countries that really need it could afford it (RNA is far more expensive) and it can be distributed easily.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths:

The good news keeps coming.

127 with 12 from NW - was 178 and 14 last week.

Monday data is always artificially low but still a good week to week fall given how low numbers are.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths by age:

40 - 59 (13) 10.2%

60 - 79 (53) 41.7%

80 PLUS (61) 48.1%

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths by region:

40 Midlands. 31 NE & Yorkshire, 21 South East, 14 East, 12 North West, 8 London, 1 South West

North Cumbria 13 and Leicester 11 only trusts in doyble figures.

Highest in NW 4 in Blackpool.

Remember NW always under reports weekend deaths - will catch up midweek.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths wk to wk:

609 / 54 NW / 7%

350 / 23 NW / 6%

313 / 23 NW / 7%

231 / 16 NW / 7%

178 / 14 NW / 8%

127 / 12 NW / 9% Today

Low % due to the under reporting in NW every weekend but consistently low which is good as it shows minimal upswing.