Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

We are close to beating this in this country now in my opinion. Been a very tough road!

Yep. Feels a lot safer now. Just hope we don’t mess up the holiday thing and it picks up again. I’ve changed mine to next year today. Going to explore our wonderful capital in summer with our daughter who has never been. Hotel bargains galore!

 

[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.


Oldham 46 / 81 Down 35 Testing positive 9.6%

Rochdale 43 / 77 / Down 34 Testing positive 9.5%

Bolton 38 / 78 / Down 41 Testing positive 9.0%

Manchester 34 / 79 / Down 45 Testing positive 9.5%

Wigan 27 / 62 / Down 35 Testing positive 8.8%

Salford 26 / 60 / Down 34 Testing positive 8.9%

Stockport 25 / 58 / Down 33 Testing positive 7.1%

Tameside 23 / 78 / Down 55 Testing positive 8.0%

Trafford 19 / 59 / Down 40 Testing positive 6.9%

Bury 17 / 53 / Down 36 Testing positive 9.0%





This series of low numbers continues and GM is in good shape though there will be a readjustment in a few days when the week to week with minus numbers occurs!

Bury has the lowest GM Pop score I ever recall.



Weekly cases:- Quite a scrap for lowest cases but best to wait until after the readjustment is corrected next Friday and the minus numbers no longer feature in the weekly totals as they currently distort things a little.

Even so with all bar three boroughs under 100 and two of those single figures away from being so these numbers are very very good compared to even a few weeks ago.

Bury 32 Trafford 43 Tameside 50 Salford 66 Stockport 74 Wigan 87 Rochdale 97 Bolton 107 Oldham 109 and Manchester 191

 

[KennyG]

Greater Manchester scoreboard

However with that huge drop for the North West you would hope for a sub 100 total for GM.

Sadly not. It has fallen by 80 to its lowest since August at 126. But that is under par just a little.

Nonetheless some really low numbers and most places down week to week.

Manchester top scores on 38 which is up slightly wk to wk

Rochdale second highest on 22 which is also lightly up on last week

Oldham on 16 is up more than anyone week to week.

But it gets better from here.

Trafford next on 11 - down week to week

Stockport on 10 likewise.

The rest remarkably all in single figures

Salford 9 - though up 1 week to week.

Tameside 7 - well down week to week

Wigan on just 6 - lowest in a long while and at 17 biggest week to week drop

Bury has 5 - which is another good week to week fall

But NOT the lowest today.

Thar, very unexpectedly is Bolton, which had the lowest score in many months with just 2 - also a hefty week to week fall.

The day is approaching I think when a GM borough records a zero,

Primark is open tomorrow. Shooting straight back up.

 

[BlueAnorak]

More on Chinese vaccine efficaciousness

Top Beijing official admits efficacy of China’s Covid vaccines is low

Head of country’s disease control centre says vaccines ‘don’t have very high protection rates’

www.theguardian.com

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Over 40s to be invited for the vaccine in the coming days. If you think where we were in January for hospital admissions and deaths to where we are now, what a turnaround. Get the other adult age ranges done and get some normality back for the country.

 

[M18CTID]

Over 40s to be invited for the vaccine in the coming days. If you think where we were in January for hospital admissions and deaths to where we are now, what a turnaround. Get the other adult age ranges done and get some normality back for the country.

More good news. I thought with the expected supply issues that the rest of this month would be all about getting as many 2nd doses done as possible, along with remaining first doses for the over 50s, and that the next age group would have to wait until the start of May

 

[shemnel]

so here we go on the next step of opening up. I have been really happy with the way that cases/deaths have continued to drop after schools on 8th March and outdoor sports and garden socialising (and therefore some indoor probably) from March 29th.

this is the next big one, pubs, hairdressers, shops etc coupled with a lot of schools going back in after holidays. we shall see!!

the core issue is the amount of completely unvaccinated people remaining, which creates a huge pool for it to spread through again in the autumn. Time on our side in that respect, but something to be mindful of.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

We are close to beating this in this country now in my opinion. Been a very tough road!

I know this won't go down well, because I *really* do hope that you're right. My concern remains that b1351 or Another will make things really difficult in the autumn/winter time. Sorry man, I wish I could join the full on optimism train but I can't get there yet.

 

[M18CTID]

so here we go on the next step of opening up. I have been really happy with the way that cases/deaths have continued to drop after schools on 8th March and outdoor sports and garden socialising (and therefore some indoor probably) from March 29th.

this is the next big one, pubs, hairdressers, shops etc coupled with a lot of schools going back in after holidays. we shall see!!

the core issue is the amount of completely unvaccinated people remaining, which creates a huge pool for it to spread through again in the autumn. Time on our side in that respect, but something to be mindful of.

I don't think today's lifting of restrictions will have that big an impact. There may be a small spike in cases as there was when schools reopened, but outdoor hospitality should be ok in the main as it doesn't spread anywhere near as badly outdoors. Non-essential shops ought not to be much worse than supermarkets either, aside from the rugby scrum in Primark of course! With us now reporting daily death figures as low as 7, and with the next big lifting of restrictions not for another 5 weeks when millions more will have received their first or second jabs, I think we're in a really good position now.

 

[shemnel]

I don't think today's lifting of restrictions will have that big an impact. There may be a small spike in cases as there was when schools reopened, but outdoor hospitality should be ok in the main as it doesn't spread anywhere near as badly outdoors. Non-essential shops ought not to be much worse than supermarkets either, aside from the rugby scrum in Primark of course! With us now reporting daily death figures as low as 7, and with the next big lifting of restrictions not for another 5 weeks when millions more will have received their first or second jabs, I think we're in a really good position now.

i see it similarly. I imagined a rise after sports and gardens returned, as obviously socialising was not going to be limited to outside, but it hasnt really transpired which is great (i also think readiness to get tested by the general public might be hugely down, who wants to be isolating as the freedoms return). So yeah i am less concerned about this step. May 17th (if it remains that) is the big one, plus the general behaviours between now and then.