Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Bluemoon dan]

Fucking hell! Quite astonishing drop that in cases.

Bloody hell. That's amazing. Not far short of a 50% week on week drop that! Today has been a good day.

 

[ell]

I don't know what they did in Portugal but they've gone from just under 12k cases on Feb 1st to just under 400 on March 1st.

 

[KennyG]

Bloody hell. That's amazing. Not far short of a 50% week on week drop that! Today has been a good day.

Three cheers for underreporting, hip hip...

 

[Eds]

Only 185k 1st doses yesterday although that was up around 40k from previous Sunday. Need a big ramp up this month...

 

[Healdplace]

Just a cautionary note on the case numbers.

Pillar 1 & 2 Testing very low in past 2 days.

It was 716, 212 at end of last week to find 8523 cases

But was 589, 191 Saturday to find 7434 cases

Then fell to 367, 716 on Sunday to find 6035 cases.

Happily though it is back up to 510, 944 today for this even lower number of 5455 today.

So no major influence it would seem. But possibly a little impact on the degree of fall in last few days.

Still clearly going downward though.

 

[somapop]

My Dads been admitted to hospital today, he’s developed pneumonia on the left side, had a chest infection, and on 15L of oxygen. Any more than that and it’s ICU.

Sorry to hear this mate.
Fingers crossed for you all.

 

[unicorn]

Just a cautionary note on the case numbers.

Pillar 1 & 2 Testing very low in past 2 days.

It was 716 K at end of last week

But was 589, 191 Saturday, but fell to 367, 716 on Sunday

Happily though it is back up to 510, 944 today for this even lower number.

So no major influence it would seem.

Question in my ignorance - Would we not expect the number of tests to start to decline if there are many less people with symptoms needing tests ? I appreciate a number of groups (e.g. City) are getting tested irrespective of symptoms.

 

[somapop]

Posted last night I felt brand new, after the vaccine, still feel weirdly great, arm hurts a bit, throat a bit sore. But previous issues are awol.

Hope this has finally shifted for you mate.
Would love that boost myself now!

 

[twosips]

 

[Healdplace]

Question in my ignorance - Would we not expect the number of tests to start to decline if there are many less people with symptoms needing tests ? I appreciate a number of groups (e.g. City) are getting tested irrespective of symptoms.

Yes, of course - but that is why the ratio of tests to cases found matters. The positivity number I keep mentioning that the three other nations give you daily and England flat out ignore and make hard to even work out.

If tests fall by nearly 50% as they did in the data above and then rise back up as they did today but still well below the numbers on Friday that is bound to have some impact on the cases found.

But the drop is real - as I noted - just potentially a little exaggerated by the impact of weekend testing.

The positivity rating is the clearest measure as it is cases v tests - complex as that is now with the multiple types of test.