Coronavirus (2021) thread

[splinter]

Financial times: EU prepares digital coronavirus vaccine passport plans..a push by Greece and other EU member states to introduce EU vaccination passports to help revive the travel industry and wider economy.

 

[Del_Bosque]

are the rapid lateral slow tests going to be inlcuded?

If so cases will go up next week surely if kids are going to be tested twice a week.

 

[Healdplace]

The positivity rating for the past four days is:-

1.2% on Friday

1.3% on Saturday

1.6% on Sunday

1.1% Today

This number is absurdly low but that is what I meant about including multiple test types now in pillar 1 & 2 makes it difficult to compare.

 

[Marvin]

Downing St Press Conference at 5pm

 

[Healdplace]

are the rapid lateral slow tests going to be inlcuded?

If so cases will go up next week surely if kids are going to be tested twice a week.

PCR tests already are included- hence my point about working out the true positivity rating now being difficult because of keep adding different types into the pillar 1 and 2 mix.

Multiple tests on one person could be getting factored in reducing the numbers.

A good guesstimate is to triple that positivity number and it is likely to be near the true positivity - so in the past 4 days case would be in the UK be

3.6% - 3.9% - 4.8% yesterday and 3.3% today.

But it is very much less helpful than it once was and hard to compare across countries as they use different guides - hence why N Ireland has positivity numbers around 14% but they are similar to the 3 or 4 % in the other nations.

Trends up or down are really the only good guide nowadays.

On that basis today is much better v yesterday than yesterday was v Saturday. Even though on both days cases fell. Because tests were up 143K today and down 121K yesterday.

So over the weekend there has still been a real fall.

I think!

 

[unicorn]

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.

Thanks again @Healdplace . Wish we could get as good an analysis of the numbers and caveats on the BBC !

 

[N1985]

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

I'm guessing it's a staffing issue if its happening on a Sunday. Or less people booking on to that day as they want Sunday for themselves.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Downing St Press Conference at 5pm

alot of talk about this Brazil Variant going on...

 

[Healdplace]

Cases across Mondays in 2021

58, 784 v 46, 169 v 37, 535 v 22, 195 v 18, 607 v 14, 104 v 9765 v 10, 641 v 5455


A fall to one tenth of its number across 8 weeks.

 

[frothy]

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.

Hope everything works out OK, he will be well looked after