Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

Scotland data:

1 death - was 0 last week

270 cases - was 283 last week

1.2% positivity - was 0.9% last week

63 in hospital - down 2 on yesterday - was 68 last week

4 ventilated icu -down 2 on yesterday - was 11 last week


Cases still a little high but hospital data much better.

The right way round we want these things.

 

[Healdplace]

Wales data:

1 death - was 1 last week

59 cases - was 34 last week

0.4% positivity - was 0.4% last week

 

[unicorn]

Anyway to cheer folk up

England hospital deaths 9 with 2 from NW.

That is encouraging.

I'll be equally encouraged to see the hospitalisation figures still coming down, however slowly.

I'd also be interested to see some more up-to-date hospital data for Bolton; the most recent numbers on gov.uk shows ZERO daily admissions to Bolton's NHS Trust, and a 7 day average of ONE admission (and zero deaths).

Daily summary | Central Bolton (data.gov.uk)

 

[dnrock]

That's unfortunate mate. Hopefully it will sink in before it's too late.

worst of all is that we don't have vaccines, our president didn't want to buy

 

[ayrshire_blue]

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Scotland data:

1 death - was 0 last week

270 cases - was 283 last week

1.2% positivity - was 0.9% last week

63 in hospital - down 2 on yesterday - was 68 last week

4 ventilated icu -down 2 on yesterday - was 11 last week


Cases still a little high but hospital data much better.

The right way round we want these things.

Great to see the hospital figures going the right way, long may it continue. Just a little caveat to the daily infection IIRC last Thursday's number included catch up figures from missing cases from the artificially low 85 the previous day...so today's 270 might still represent a week on week rise in actual terms. Hard to tell by how much though.

 

[SWP's back]

Yes. I think that would be better than re-imposing restrictions or delaying their lifting.

Of course, that's just a personal opinion.

What we would be trying to avoid is a further wave; second doses do little to prevent general transmission, but first doses make a massive difference.

From 60% reduction in transmission to 94% reduction is hardly “little”

 

[Healdplace]

Northern Ireland data:

1 death - was 0 last week

99 cases - was 102 last week

3.9% positivity - was 4.9% last week

6 care home outbreaks - was 6 yesterday and 5 last week

7 day rolling cases total 658 - was 644 yesterday & 626 last week

46 patients - down 4 on yesterday - was 67 last week

3 ventilated - down 1 on yesterday - was 5 last week.

Yet more good hospital numbers.

If these keep going the right way at these very low numbers in all four nations the cases are not really a big concern.

As for the ages of those 658 cases:

32.2% aged 0 - 19

37.8% aged 20 - 39

24.4% aged 40 - 59

4.4 % aged 60 - 79

1.2% aged 80 PLUS


Which shows that only 5.6% of over 60s are catching it and 70% of under 40s are.

This is the post vaccination pattern pretty much everywhere and is why cases are not translating into a change in the fall of hospital numbers or deaths.

 

[Healdplace]

Hospital numbers ARE still falling in all home nations as my nightly report shows. It seems a little slower as some are going in to be assessed. But the icu numbers and death numbers are still falling.

As for Bolton - even in the NW as per the data I posted last night the region has fallen every single day in the past week of the Bolton outbreak in terms of patient numbers and is the only England region to do so. Tiny falls most days but no rises even of 1 so far.

Ventilators have fallen over that week as well and are now at just 158 patients and 14 on ventilators.
A week ago that NW number was 178 patients and 24 ventilators

You would expect a lag from infection to hospital but as yet Bolton does not seem to be showing up in the data outside case numbers. There has not been a day in the past couple of weeks now in which admissions in England with Covid have been above 100.

 

[splinter]

Bolton on lockdown yet