Coronavirus (2021) thread

[grunge]

Did he say 80,000 people tested positive on 29 Dec? I was distracted at that point so may have misheard.

80664 and still not complete data.

Official UK Coronavirus Dashboard

GOV.UK Coronavirus dashboard

coronavirus.data.gov.uk

the 55k type figures are in the dates of announcement. 80k is the number of positive tests taken on the 29th.

 

[Len Rum]

The Government were dishing out 100k laptops to schools IIRC so advise your mate to get in touch with the kids’ school, in case they have a laptop available.

Yeah.
Just looked it up
Seems very heavily qualified and bureaucratic scheme and stingy.
Better than nothing but pretty shit.
Will advise my mate.

 

[twosips]

so the south african strain could be resistant to vaccines ffs,so says bbc news shoot me now

Context always needed tbf. Not quite doomsday stuff yet.

"Prof Madhi said it was "unlikely" that the mutation in South Africa would make the current vaccines useless, but might "weaken the impact"."

"It's a theoretical concern. A reasonable concern… that the South African variant might be more resistant,"

 

[roubaixtuesday]

so the south african strain could be resistant to vaccines ffs,so says bbc news shoot me now

"Could be" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Chill until any hard data comes out would be my advice FWIW.

 

[sniff]

Context always needed tbf. Not quite doomsday stuff yet.

"Prof Madhi said it was "unlikely" that the mutation in South Africa would make the current vaccines useless, but might "weaken the impact"."

"It's a theoretical concern. A reasonable concern… that the South African variant might be more resistant,"

They also said it would be really easy to modify the vaccines already approved to cope with it

 

[Marvin]

BBC News at Ten report from Johannesburg reported that the South African variant may well one of neutralising antibody reactions. That wasn't actually what they said. I think their words were partially resistant. It's theorectical at this stage and yet to be confirmed.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Context always needed tbf. Not quite doomsday stuff yet.

"Prof Madhi said it was "unlikely" that the mutation in South Africa would make the current vaccines useless, but might "weaken the impact"."

"It's a theoretical concern. A reasonable concern… that the South African variant might be more resistant,"

And the vaccine makers have always been confident they can adapt the vaccine to it, so give them a chance. It may mean some people need a booster but the focus should be on killing its presence here in the next six weeks and keeping it out.

 

[johnnytapia]

Two staff seriously ill in hospital after Covid outbreak at Salford school

The headteacher says the situation at Holy Family has highlighted “exactly how dangerous this virus can be”.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

schools are safe...

 

[squirtyflower]

Two staff seriously ill in hospital after Covid outbreak at Salford school

The headteacher says the situation at Holy Family has highlighted “exactly how dangerous this virus can be”.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

schools are safe...

Clearly not safe from the staff....

 

[Bluesince1979]

My heads gone west tonight. Worries about work as im self emp, worries about my little uns who have broke there heart tonight when told they dont see there pals again (only 8&5 my youngest 2, so they know its because of c19 but they dont really understand). Worries about my terminally ill mum.
I literally cannot foresee a time of relative normality in life.