Coronavirus (2021) thread

[grunge]

fucks sake, what does he want now?!

didn't he do daily updates in the last lockdown at 5pm every day? Id guess this is just that.

 

[shemnel]

didn't he do daily updates in the last lockdown at 5pm every day? Id guess this is just that.

im trying to re-watch game of thrones whilst eating leftover celebrations, cant he just fuck off for a few weeks

 

[Healdplace]

It a a man in the arm not surgery.

Jab

In my experience a man in your arms is usually far more fun than a jab. Kind of depends on the man mind you.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

It took 3 months to gain traction here. 1st spotted in Sept, wasn't until mid Nov it gained traction. May have a similar lead time elsewhere too.

Fair point!

 

[Marvin]

There's something I don't get regarding the new variant. They've found isolated cases of it in various EU countries, but for some reason it's not spread there anything like it has over here. It sounds as though they've been really really lucky and managed to catch the only very few cases withinn these other countries before it's spread any further, which seems unlikely given how transmissible we're told it is.

Even with the banning of UK flights etc, surely the chances are it was too late and already spreading, but we're not seeing that in daily figures at all?

The Kent variant is thought to have formed in an immune-compromised patient who was given very extended convalascent plasma treatment. I think it started to circulate back in September 2020.

Exponential growth from very low levels i.e. a handful of cases is at first slow.

 

[ganganvince]

Even still, they were finding 50k cases in France of the 'original' strain per day not too long ago, it's inconceivable that they're now reporting 10k cases per day (or 4k in yesterday's case!) if this new strain is over there, and also seems equally as inconceivable that the new strain *wouldn't* be over there. I take BA's point on board about population density, but even with that factor it just seems all a bit strange. I'm in no way calling conspiracy or some shite btw, just puzzled by this.

Just looking at Frances numbers they seemed to peak cases end of Oct and deaths in Nov is it possible it was there then and blew itself out?

 

[mrbelfry]

Vaccinations need to be done properly. Getting Hermes to drop a needle at your house is so obviously not going to happen. First van out of the depot is gonna get hijacked and vaccines will be on Ebay within 20 minutes. Grandmas will be giving it their grandkids etc they have to go to the right people first otherwise we solve nothing

 

[Pedestrian]

This is E-learning for Health (Government funded) courses that tend to be over the top. Most of these courses can be completed on-line quickly.

For NHS Trusts, getting staff to complete these stat and man courses contributes to reducing their insurance bills. All these courses might be overkill for volunteers, though.

Taking away the vaccine specific courses the rest are mandatory requirements for anyone working in the NHS.
Anyone who decides not to volunteer based on having to complete half a days online training is probably doing the right thing. I can’t imagine there’s many. It appears to me that this issue is being used as yet another stick to beat the NHS with by those with ulterior motives.
The workload in the NHS is heavily unbalanced at the moment. There’s plenty staff who’s daily routine has been greatly reduced whilst others have had an increase. If properly managed there’s enough already employed members of staff that could administer the vaccines. The amount of volunteers needed will be relatively small.

 

[domalino]

You have to be monitored for 15 mins post injection to monitor for any allergic reactions.

Hopefully when they've given a few million doses without incident they can get rid of this as it's the biggest reason GP offices can't do the vaccine - they don't have 2 waiting rooms or the space to keep people for 15 minutes.

 

[mexico1970]

Hopefully when they've given a few million doses without incident they can get rid of this as it's the biggest reason GP offices can't do the vaccine - they don't have 2 waiting rooms or the space to keep people for 15 minutes.

I had my flu and pneumonia inoculations through a window in the surgery car park.