Coronavirus (2021) thread

[worsleyweb]

No impact to the road map for relaxation will be caused by the supply issue Matt Hancock says in parliament.

Nobody who has a first or second jab booked already for April will have it cancelled.

Blue Matt - see thats hopeful!

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

It certainly has not in Wales from friends there who have had both in past 4 weeks. Perhaps they have taken that decision unilaterally.

Maybe but in England it changed around the second weekend in January to 12 weeks between jabs.
Either way the 12 million doses doesn't match the number vaccinated in January/earlyFebruary.

 

[Healdplace]

Nicola Sturgeon just put a number on the shortfall.

Expecting 500,000 fewer doses in April.

And 'there will be periods when we have to prioritise second doses'

 

[Healdplace]

Scotland data:

7 deaths - was 22 last week

624 cases - was 591 last week.

2.7% positivity - was 2.5% last week

405 patients - down 17 on yesterday - was 556 last week

38 ventilated - same as yesterday - was 46 last week

 

[Healdplace]

Going to be back over 1000 cases for the three nations today. Already at 921 with N Ireland to come.

But likely without the 99 January backlog in Wales we might not.

 

[Healdplace]

Scotland vaccination update:

2, 023, 102 first doses given - 41, 184 today - was 38, 311 yesterday & 16, 642 last week

192, 100 second doses given - 10, 221 today - was 10, 987 yesterday & 8673 last week.

 

[Healdplace]

4.6 million lateral flow tests in England schools in the first week up to 10 March.

Only 2588 positive. Gov UK reports.

I make that 7.6 % of the 33, 971 cases in England in those 7 days.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Nicola Sturgeon just put a number on the shortfall.

Expecting 500,000 fewer doses in April.

And 'there will be periods when we have to prioritise second doses'

great, 2 tier country. Open up with no vaccines for the people expected to go back to work. Cue another wave. Just abysmal.

 

[blueparrot]

great, 2 tier country. Open up with no vaccines for the people expected to go back to work. Cue another wave. Just abysmal.

Why ? they are saying they can still meet targets, just won't get as far ahead of targets as we hoped.

 

[mancity1]

what happens if you have a dependent who obviously isn’t vaccinated but you and the wife are concerning holidays abroad

Keep them quarantined unless you and the dependant believe the reward outweighs the risk.

The vast and I mean vast majority of the worlds population will never contract the disease and hence will not be able to transmit it.

What the world didn't learn well bar a few countries albeit by geographical location in many cases that aided them contracting larger case numbers per capita from the last pandemic is how to effectively quarantine those at most risk and have an effective contract tracing program in place to minimise the spread in a world where the heightened desire to travel given technological change is much simpler and cost effective than ever before.

I doubt much will change when the next one spreads throughout the world whenever that may be.

Interestingly the death rate in Australia where case nos per capita have been low attributed to the virus is nearly twice as high as in the USA.

Entrusting governments at the local level to manage the pandemic with financial assistance at the Federal level would likely to have resulted in the least number of deaths attributed to the virus however at the expense of the health , well being and livelihoods of many more.