Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Tim of the Oak]

Some GPs are reporting that many people who ignored invitations for vaccines early in the roll out are now booking for jabs. They have seen the success of the vaccine programme. I saw this on the news this morning and thought it was useful to balance fears that people might be put off going to be vaccinated.

 

[artfuldodger]

UK sport bodies back use of 'vaccine passports' to allow return of capacity crowds

The UK's leading sports bodies are backing the use of 'vaccine passports' and Covid testing as a "credible" means of allowing full capacities at venues.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[unicorn]

Daily second doses.

DateSorted column (descending) - Apply ascending sort.
United Kingdom dailyUnsorted column - Apply ascending sort.
United Kingdom totalUnsorted column - Apply ascending sort.
07-04-2021 408,396 6,091,905
06-04-2021 186,793 5,683,509
05-04-2021 64,590 5,496,716
04-04-2021 47,708 5,432,126
03-04-2021 178,913 5,384,418
02-04-2021 246,631 5,205,505

Daily first doses

DateSorted column (descending) - Apply ascending sort.
United Kingdom dailyUnsorted column - Apply ascending sort.
United Kingdom totalUnsorted column - Apply ascending sort.
07-04-2021 99,530 31,807,124
06-04-2021 85,227 31,707,594
05-04-2021 40,744 31,622,367
04-04-2021 48,055 31,581,623
03-04-2021 107,886 31,533,568
02-04-2021 107,420 31,425,682
01-04-2021 170,818 31,318,262

Back to half a million doses again on the 7th after the Easter holiday, sounds good news. Still a decent number for 1st doses too.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Is this how other countrys report it too

Everyone does it slightly differently.

The gold standard for comparison between countries is "excess deaths" - the number above those you would expect at the time of year.

That measure requires very careful analysis for true comparisons. Generally, whilst different, it gives similar trends tob the published figures.

In the first wave, UK was pretty much the highest excess deaths in the entire world - here's a definitive study in a top journal.

Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries - Nature Medicine

Application of Bayesian models to vital statistics data from 21 industrialized countries shows that approximately 206,000 additional people died than if the COVID-19 pandemic had not occured. The heterogeneous distribution of excess deaths across the countries reflects differences in how the...

www.nature.com

Second wave, I expect we would be more middle of the pack.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Vaccine refusal rate amongst black people has improved from 22% to 6%. This gives confidence that safety from Covid will be shared widely in the U.K.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

The science in the Moderna Vaccine and the cells it impacts on might lead to a breakthrough towards curing AIDS. So said an NHS Consultant on the BBC just now.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Based on data wales are accelerating their unlocking, more pressure going to be placed on boris I expect

 

[unicorn]

Some GPs are reporting that many people who ignored invitations for vaccines early in the roll out are now booking for jabs. They have seen the success of the vaccine programme. I saw this on the news this morning and thought it was useful to balance fears that people might be put off going to be vaccinated.

Yes, take-up of the vaccine has been far higher than many predicted. I don't know anyone who's turned it down.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

Based on data wales are accelerating their unlocking, more pressure going to be placed on boris I expect

That may be so, however it is a lot easier to unlock a population of 2 million than it is a population of 55 million especially when the majority have been vaccinated at least once.

 

[RobMCFC]

Based on data wales are accelerating their unlocking, more pressure going to be placed on boris I expect

Given that there's plenty of stuff opening up on Monday, I'm not sure what people want brought forward.