Coronavirus (2021) thread

[roubaixtuesday]

We will vaccinate as many as they are (per capita) so we will remain 3 months ahead

Except they're currently vaccinating more per capita than we are, and we're not three months ahead, as I went through the arithmetic above, it's about 5 weeks.

But no reason to let the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

[Marvin]

Image from BBC live feed

Good. Well done Bolton and the vaccine organisers. I'd have done this a little while ago but at least the UK had the genomics and the data to spot the link between numbers and variant. This is how the Kent variant was spotted too.. One wonders why it takes so long for people to realise the connections, and to act but act at last we are doing.

 

[Healdplace]

Scotland data:

2 deaths - was 1 last week

215 cases - was 236 last week.

NB There is a note added that another data problem means the case and testing are lower than they should be and this will be added onto tomorrow's data.

1.3% positivity - was 1.2% last week

64 patients - up 1 on yesterday - was 68 last week

3 ventilated icu - down 1 on yesterday - was 8 last week

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Just after getting my first jab.
Waiting to go home.

 

[shemnel]

Hospital data as taken from gov covid API. I've extracted Bolton NHS Trust plus 3 surrounding it (but not Salford and a couple of others). Data for Hospital Cases goes to ~11th May and new Admissions on the day to about ~9 May, so we're behind in a sense.

Bolton, moving about but i dont like that red line, a more solid pattern may emerge (may have already emerged in real life)

 

[Healdplace]

Northern Ireland data:

0 deaths - was 1 last week

96 cases - was 65 last week

4% positivity - was 3.1% last week

676 seven day rolling cases total - was 659 yesterday and 599 last week

4 care home outbreaks - down 2 on yesterday - was 5 last week.

39 patients - down 7 on yesterday and 23 on last week

3 ventilated - same as yesterday and last week


More good data here if slight uptick in cases like everywhere the reduction in care home outbreaks and the continuous fall in hospital numbers are excellent.

Last time there were this few in NI Hospital was 17 August. That is a month ahead of England btw. Which is at mid September levels - though the NW is actually a week or so AHEAD of the England average with first week in September numbers.

 

[splinter]

Image from BBC live feed

Good. Well done Bolton and the vaccine organisers. I'd have done this a little while ago but at least the UK had the genomics and the data to spot the link between numbers and variant. This is how the Kent variant was spotted too.. One wonders why it takes so long for people to realise the connections, and to act but act at last we are doing.

Is this a queue for vaccination or testing

 

[Marvin]

Except they're currently vaccinating more per capita than we are, and we're not three months ahead, as I went through the arithmetic above, it's about 5 weeks.

But no reason to let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I noticed that Germany is now ahead on daily rate per capita. These things though are all subject to matters a little beyond nations control. I do wonder though what governments and private capital were doing for 12 months in rgards to at risk production. They all said they were doing it. Some governments signed contracts others did nothing but beyond the contracts there's facilitating the vaccine manufacturing infrastructure and that seems to have been left to private industry and of course they only do so much because they have shareholders. Time is crucial. This thing is evolving over time.

 

[Marvin]

Is this a queue for vaccination or testing

Sorry mate. Missed the byline off BBC live feed...

People in Bolton have been queuing for the vaccination centre at the Essa Academy

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I mentioned the Telegraph earlier.

This lady is a Telegraph columnist, and one of the many strident voices against mainstream science on COVID.

Today, she displays her total ignorance of COVID specifically and genetics and immunology generally.

For a football analogy, this is the equivalent of claiming that as swapping me for KDB is just one player different, City would be just as likely to win the Champs league with me in the side.

(She's also wrong about it being only one mutation from the original "wild type" virus)