Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Invisible Man's Bandage said:
One thing about the Oxford vaccine that is puzzling me is why the government didn't place an order with Astra Zeneca to produce say 20 million doses before final approval. It probably was apparent quite a while ago that the vaccine was effective and more or less certain to be approved. At a cost of less than £3 a shot it would have been small change in the overall scheme of things even in the unlikely event that it didn't gain approval.
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They pre-bought 4,530,000 and can manufacture 4,400,000 a week in the UK at the 4 manufacturing facilities.
Any problems will be with batch testing.
 
Mayor West said:
Not necessarily! Up until last this monday just gone I neither knew anyone who's had it or knew of anyone that knows someone that's had it! I'm 100% not defending these selfish pricks but I can see why, if they haven't been exposed to it, they might be less inclined to believe in it.
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I know of 10 people, 5 in their 50s, who’ve had it and all been a little poorly for a few days, but nothing more. And some of them now think it’s all a fuss about nothing. I can well imagine there are lots of people who’s experience of it is either zero or similar to mine. Whole student houses have tested positive but they’ve not been ill. If you don’t watch the news or current affairs, it’s possible to think it’s not too bad.
 
The latest Regional Weekly Pop Score table shows what I expected has occurred. Yorkshire IS now the best region in the UK.

A month ago the NW look set to take that from the South West but the new variant taking off here and not in Yorkshire stopped that it seems.
 
REGIONAL POP SCORE CHANGES TODAY v LAST WK WITH % INCREASE

LOWEST POP SCORE IS BEST

Weekly Pop is cases over past 7 days per 100,000 people. Giving a way to compare different size regions as they go up or down week to week. As you see EVERYONE is going up, NW by second most, and it has slipped behind the North East as well as Yorkshire in last week.




YORKSHIRE 198 v 172 UP 15%

SOUTH WEST 199 v 146 UP 36%

NORTH EAST 239 v 200 UP 20%

NORTH WEST 246 v 191 UP 29%

EAST MIDLANDS 264 v 245 UP 8%

WEST MIDLANDS 291 v 248 UP 18%

SOUTH EAST 517 v 438 UP 18%

EAST 596 v 501 UP 19%

LONDON 859 v 713 UP 20%
 
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artfuldodger said:
I know of 10 people, 5 in their 50s, who’ve had it and all been a little poorly for a few days, but nothing more. And some of them now think it’s all a fuss about nothing. I can well imagine there are lots of people who’s experience of it is either zero or similar to mine. Whole student houses have tested positive but they’ve not been ill. If you don’t watch the news or current affairs, it’s possible to think it’s not too bad.
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I don't know a single person hospitalised never mind seriously ill with it. Everyone I know who has had it has been wiped out for a few days but that's all. Personally, I also lost taste and smell for 8 weeks or so afterwards. All back to normal now thankfully.

Your point about watching the news is probably extremely accurate as well as what the demographic of an individual's friend / family circle is...which leads an individual's assessment of the risk to vary so wildly.
 
I've been following our (LA) daily numbers since we went into tier 4. (zero yesterday)

The rise seems to have at least levelled off, the data on 19th, 20th, and 21st looks a bit weird like there was missing data added on on the 21st, the sudden drop is Christmas day, so I doubt many were tested that day.


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