Coronavirus (2021) thread

[BlueAnorak]

Baggage retrieval system at heathrow?

Monty Python fan me thinks.

 

[ganganvince]

Baggage retrieval system at heathrow?

 

[BlueAnorak]

The UK is steadily falling down the list in terms of deaths per million of population.

Has to be the effect of vaccines.

Italy overtook us in deaths per million today. We're currently 13th.

 

[give it to gordon]

Havent really been following the covid news much lately.

I was reading that we were to have a asymptomatic test twice a week. Our local testing centre is closing which now instead of a 5 minute drive with easy parking for hundreds of cars. We are meant to driver about over an hour round trip to two small villages try and find somewhere to park , twice a week. Sadly I wont have time for this anymore.

 

[Healdplace]

HOSPITAL DATA


More good news. Another fall of over 100 patients in day and UK now below 3000 patients in hospital with Covid when it was nearly 40,000 in January. Ventilators sub 400 in England and soon too in UK. With dates when numbers were lower slipping back regularly in early October. A few small rises in ventilators in England of mild concern but every region had small falls in patients and North West contributed the second biggest patient fall and over half the total ventilator fall today so easily had the best day of any region. Its fall in patients week to week is also the best of any region.





UK total:


Patients down to 2883 - it was 39, 248 at the peak on 18 Jan - (fall of 36, 365 in 80 days) :- lowest since 3 October

Ventilators down to 423 it was 4077 at the peak on 24 Jan - (fall of 3654 in 74 days) : lowest since 6 October


England only:-


ADMISSIONS:-

183 Covid admissions (5 April) following 188, 156, 179, 178, 180, 225, 283 in the week before.



PATIENTS:-

Patients down today by 104 to 2382 v 2928 last week :- lowest since 3 October.

Peak was 34, 336 on 18 Jan (fall 31, 954 in 80 days)

Ventilators: down 16 to 377 v 470 last week :- lowest since 9 October

Peak was 3736 on 24 Jan (fall 3359 in 74 days)



Regions:



Patient // Ventilators // change in past 5 days to today and v last week



East down 11to 189 v 212 // UP 2 to 30 v 42

London down 8 to 569 v 668 // UP 1 to 122 v 147

Midlands down 11 to 491 v 606 // UP 1 to 80 v 104

NE & Yorks down 17 to 437 v 498 // down 8 to 62 v 75

North West down 23 to 434 v 558 // down 10 to 51 v 68

South East down 26 to 184 v 276// down 2 to 25 v22

South West down 8 to 78 v 110 // stays at 7 v 12`

 

[Healdplace]

More good hospital data - details above. NW had the best day today.

Highlight UK now has UNDER 3000 patients in hospital with Covid in all 4 nations combined.

For first time in 6 months.

Thought you might like to know this a day or two before the media bother to find that out.

 

[mrbelfry]

Yes, I would imagine you're seeing some deaths reported by staff returning to hospitals and GP practices etc. after the holidays.

Like they've found bodies in the waiting room?

 

[Manc in London]

Jesus - 954 new deaths in Poland

That's really grim.

 

[Healdplace]

GM Weekly Pop Scores after today:~

Borough / Score Today / Score 7 days ago / up or down wk to wk/ Testing is % of local population who have tested positive for Covid over past year.

As ever with Pop scores going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop Score is total cases in past week versus 100,000 POPulation to even out the comparison versus size and expected cases based on numbers living there.


Rochdale 64 / 88 / Down 24 Testing positive 9.5%

Bolton 57 / 96 / Down 39 Testing positive 9.0%

Oldham 54 / 106 Down 52 Testing positive 9.6%

Tameside 53 / 94 / Down 41 Testing positive 8.0%

Manchester 51 / 94 / Down 43 Testing positive 9.5%

Wigan 48 / 74/ Down 26 Testing positive 8.8%

Stockport 43 / 59 / Down 16 Testing positive 7.1%

Bury 42 / 61 / Down 19 Testing positive 9.0%

Trafford 35 / 75/ Down 40 Testing positive 6.9%

Salford 34 / 81 / Down 47 Testing positive 8.9%



Everyone had a good day and some big falls. These numbers have started looking better every day and all are going in the right direction.

48.3 is the lowest average for the ten boroughs weekly Pop scores I can remember.

Salford stay top with a huge 47 shift inside the week. But only 9 separate the bottom 4 so it is up to anyone to reclaim.


Weekly cases:- Quite a scrap for lowest cases in the week brewing. Even Manchester has nearly halved in 10 days.

Bury 80 Trafford 81 Salford 88 Tameside 119 Stockport 125 Oldham 130 Rochdale 141 Wigan 158 Bolton 163 and Manchester 283

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The UK is steadily falling down the list in terms of deaths per million of population.

Has to be the effect of vaccines.

Vaccines and three months of the hardest lock down on earth.

Compare to USA - where they peaked about the same time and have a similar vaccine coverage.

We've dropped over 20x from our peak, US only 3x.

The lock down has had a much bigger effect than vaccines, but now the vaccines are really kicking in too, and should enable us to open up without those figures going south.

We've gone from the worst death rate in the whole world in Jan to one of the lowest now, and outright lowest in Europe.