Coronavirus (2021) thread

[M18CTID]

Jesus - over 34,000 cases and 520 deaths reported in Poland today

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Some unbelievable stats in this thread if you scroll down. The ones I particularly liked showed the percentage in each of the nine priority groups who have had at least one vaccination dose.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Some unbelievable stats in this thread if you scroll down. The ones I particularly liked showed the percentage in each of the nine priority groups who have had at least one vaccination dose.

Brilliant figures.

I particularly love the fact than a significant number of 75-79 year olds have apparently come out of hiding to get vaccinated.

Who are they? Why were they previously incognito? Enquiring minds want answers.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

As a for instance - the Northern Ireland cases today were 183, up from 139 yesterday and 169 last week.

BUT the positivity rating today was lower than both those two lower case numbers as way more testing today.

And equally importantly when you look at the age ranges of those testing positive - whilst the number of the 7 day total has gone UP by 40 today the key thing is that the age bands have changed too.

There were 130 of 1014 people over 60 who tested positive yesterday

Today there are 40 more cases added to the rolling total but the number over 60 FELL to 127 and the younger ages (under 30) rose day to day.

If the cases in the older more at risk groups are falling really in terms of the course of the pandemic that is the key not the up or down day to day cases.

Probably school children and work tests then?

 

[Healdplace]

PHE has announced they think by end of February vaccinations had saved 6100 lives in England.

5900 over 80 and the other 200 aged 70 - 79.

Half of them were from the vaccine denied to lots of people in Europe and the US because it is not safe enough to save those lives.

 

[M18CTID]

Some unbelievable stats in this thread if you scroll down. The ones I particularly liked showed the percentage in each of the nine priority groups who have had at least one vaccination dose.

Terrific take up. Obviously they’re still doing 50-54 year olds so that percentage will undoubtedly go up in the next week or two.

 

[worsleyweb]

See Gundogen talking about how ill with it he was earlier. Says like no flu he has ever had. Also how lonely he has been at times in lockdown. Seems an absolutely genuine bloke him and makes what a great season he has had even more of an achievement. Glad he plays for us! sorry to talk football!

 

[i8rags]

On the admissions of over 85s. Not quite following why it is odd. I am probably missing something simple as if it is baffling you then it is obviously for real.

Firstly, raw numbers are now very low. There are 4005 in England in hospital with Covid as of yesterday. So any % that who is over 85 is likely less than were dying every day in January. When there were nine times as many.

And inevitably there will now be more ability to try to save older patients as resources are less stretched - 600 on ventilators instead of 4000 from 9 weeks ago. - who at that age are all but certain to have other significant health issues that Covid is impacting - who in the past were likely too resource heavy if the choice was to use 50% of your resource saving one 90 year old or the same resources to save half a dozen 75 year olds.

Grim choices like that were made daily for months and are probably now less often needed as numbers are low and new treatment methods give hope even to the once hopeless who may well have just not been put through the trauma but now for all these reasons they can try to save.

Was watching on Sky 1 last night the excellent drama series set in a hospital in San Jose - The Good Doctor - starring Freddie HIghmore as an autistic but brilliant doctor. The first two episodes of the new series were all about how they battled Covid and they showed well the choices they had to make regardless of age and the priorities they had to adopt. And the decisions about who to put on ventilators.

From the documentaries I have seen it was like this all over the world for real- from China to Italy to the UK.

I’d like the data published on admissions of un vaccinated people above 50. I believe it must be reasonably high and might kick a few butts into the centres.

 

[i8rags]

Have you received a vaccine jab yet?

I’ve got a colleague who had long covid for 4 months but his first jab more or less cleared it up.

Exactly what happened to me mate. The vaccine was like a cure.

 

[Bluewonder]

There were still very substantial restrictions through the summer, if not called a lockdown, and we had R>1, from a low level of cases, direct from the point where the last restrictions were lifted. Current roadmap has all restrictions lifted June 21st, so very different to last summer. Just how seasonal COVID is still seems to be very unclear. "Somewhat"



I think the vaccine supply is still consistent with the original plan, just no acceleration. Could be wrong.

This simply isn't correct. People admitted to hospital continued to decline until the end of August last year, despite restrictions being lifted throughout May, June and July.