Coronavirus (2021) thread

[KS55]

Just seen breaking, over 800,000 doses in the day. Just wow!

 

[Indaparkside]

Compare and contrast. Tony Blair, for all the good things he did, will have Iraq as his legacy. Boris, for all the tomfoolery and botches, will have the defeat of the pandemic as his.

It’s not defeated yet

 

[Healdplace]

Northern Ireland data:

1 death - was 0 last week

125 cases - was 143 last week

9.4% positivity - was 10.8 last week

8 care home outbreaks - same as yesterday - was 14 last week

7 day rolling cases total 1072 - was 1085 yesterday & 1311 last week

158 patients - down 2 on yesterday - was 180 last week

13 ventilated icu - down 3 on yesterday - was 18 last week

Yet more good data here. The part of the UK that Zoe App says has the most cases oddly.

Most of those - as likely everywhere - are just not sick enough to need to end up on the hospital stats now - which is great news

 

[mancity1]

It’s not defeated yet

Do people believe that strict hygiene, high testing rates , social distancing and mask wearing combined with good tracing , infection control and quarantining alone could keep the virus in check?

there is good evidence in Australia that this works although it comes at the expense of limiting air transport of passengers and very few would want to quarantine for 18 days if they arrived for a holiday.

I am not sure that in populations that are much more dense per capita with large populations in relatively smaller confines its a guarantee.

interested in peoples thoughts on this as its important moving forward for new variants that might require different vaccines.

 

[Healdplace]

35 England hospital deaths

By region:

Midlands 12 NE &Yorkshire 7, South East 5, North West 4. East 3, London 3, South West 1

Highest 4 in Bradford and in North West 2 in Blackpool


By age:

20 - 39 (1) 2.9%

40 - 59 (6) 17.1%

60 - 79 (9) 25.7%

80 PLUS (19) 54.3%

One fifth (20%) under 60 is the highest percentage I can recall. Meaningless as these are now imo.

 

[Indaparkside]

Do people believe that strict hygiene, high testing rates , social distancing and mask wearing combined with good tracing , infection control and quarantining alone could keep the virus in check?

there is good evidence in Australia that this works although it comes at the expense of limiting air transport of passengers and very few would want to quarantine for 18 days if they arrived for a holiday.

I am not sure that in populations that are much more dense per capita with large populations in relatively smaller confines its a guarantee.

interested in peoples thoughts on this as its important moving forward for new variants that might require different vaccines.

I think we still have a long way to go, years even for the world to resemble what we once knew

 

[somapop]

Yes. I read somewhere that the virus mutates after it has infected about 80 ppl. So there must be millions of variations which are nugatory.

Is that Lidl’s version of Nutella?

 

[Cityfan]

Only the ones you’ve read about out of the however many tens of thousands there have been!

I said the variants of note, which have been the ones we have read about.
I also mentioned lots of neutral variants.
If there has been a variant that is significantly less dangerous it would not appear to have a competitive advantage.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths wk to wk:

301 / 49 NW / 16%

258 / 23 NW / 9% (14 % fall wk to wk)

149 / 25 NW / 14% (42 % fall wk to wk)

90 / 7 NW / 8% (39 % fall wk to wk)

49 / 1 NW / 2 % (46 % fall wk to wk)

35 / 4 NW / 11% (29 % fall wk to wk) TODAY

 

[mancity1]

I think we still have a long way to go, years even for the world to resemble what we once knew

Interesting ,I certainly think as far as plane travel is concerned you could be right.