Coronavirus (2021) thread

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GM Weekly Pop Data after today:~

Borough / Pop Today / 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 going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop 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.



Bolton 286 / 136 / UP 150 Testing positive 9.6%

Manchester 47 / 38 / UP 9 Testing positive 9.7%

Rochdale 45 / 45 / LEVEL Testing positive 9.7%

Bury 36 / 21 / UP 15 Testing positive 9.1%

Tameside 34 / 25 UP 9 Testing positive 8.2

Stockport 34 / 28 / UP 6 Testing positive 7.2%

Wigan 34 / 27 / UP 7 Testing positive 8.9%

Trafford 32 / 34 / DOWN 2 Testing positive 7.1 %

Salford 26 / 32 / DOWN 6 Testing positive 9.1%

Oldham 20 / 30 DOWN 10 Testing positive 9.8%




Bolton still climbing above the rest by 239 ahead of second but smallest rise in the past 10 days or so. Weekly Pop rise is also down for the first time though 150 is huge, of course, it has decreased a bit today.

Stockport like Zoe suggested is doing much better too and had its best day in a couple of weeks.

Wigan is good to see in single numbers again also.

Bury is - however - becoming the one to watch as close to Bolton geographically and its numbers are up quite a bit this week. Has cost it top spot on weekly cases.

But for Oldham they are currently best in GM well clear of the rest.

Remember going down in this table is good not bad!
 
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True_Blue69 said:
Its behind a paywall but not surprising at all. Remember some leaked SAGE notes early on saying they needed to ramp up the fear factor. Taken hook, line and sinker by most of the country.
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Many posters advocate use of fear.

Furthermore - people just need to be getting the vaccine, end of.
 
davealvers said:
www.telegraph.co.uk

Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists

Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods
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I popped back to see my parents today and sort out some medical appointments.

They're in their mid-80s, fully vaccinated, previously active but they've hardly left their garden, let alone their Cambridgeshire village since last March. That's typical behaviour for the area.

My mum and sister had just seen the Prime Minister give his dire warning about the latest variant possibly scuppering our progress and had decided not to to go to the village shop any more. "There's an outbreak in Cambridge" my sister tells mum, "TEN people admitted to Addenbrookes". Yes, ten admissions in seven days to a major 1,000 bed hospital, down from nearly 200 in January.

There's necessary fear and there's panic spreading.
 
A friend works in a primary school, they were saying that 5/6 year groups have had to isolate because of infection, and had a message from one of their teachers that she is poorly and awaiting tests,
 
On Andrew Marr this morning Matt Hancock said (if I heard him right) that one person with the Indian variant who had been fully vaccinated had died in Bolton. But was (he said) already very frail. As in other conditions I assume.

He claimed that out of - I think he said 18 - hospitalised with it 11 had been able to have the vaccine but had chosen not to do so.

The numbers might be wrong - I was only half listening. But it was something like this.
 
Healdplace said:
On Andrew Marr this morning Matt Hancock said (if I heard him right) that one person with the Indian variant who had been fully vaccinated had died in Bolton. But was (he said) already very frail. As in other conditions I assume.

He claimed that out of - I think he said 18 - hospitalised with it 11 had been able to have the vaccine but had chosen not to do so.

The numbers might be wrong - I was only half listening. But it was something like this.
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I think he said one person double jabbed had been hospitalised, but that they were very frail. No known deaths as of yet.
 
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