Coronavirus (2021) thread

[city2]

I think the government knows we can’t beat this virus and says fuck it let people do what they want.

 

[SWP's back]

So long as the majority are in the voluntarily unvaccinated then I’m not overly concerned.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital data

As feared this is heading only one way. And mixed news for the North West,


ADMISSIONS (two days old remember)


Big jump up to 390 today V 226 last week. More than 50%

The NW admitted 80 - up from 62 the week before,

BUT it was not the most for the first time in weeks Not even the second most!

NE & Yorkshire admitted 102 of those 390 - up from 48 seven days earlier.

Midlands also on 81 - up in week from 35.


PATIENTS UP 110 on day to 1998. Just missed going over 2k v 1445 last week - up 553

By far the biggest wk to wk rise in some time. Last week it was up just 144.



VENTILATORS UP 23 on day to 353. Up 94 on week, Previously weekly rise was just 30,

These numbers are not a surprise but starting to look more concerning

 

[twosips]

So long as the majority are in the voluntarily unvaccinated then I’m not overly concerned.

To be fair there's a good chance its a lot of people without their second jab yet, and that isn't their fault.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

So long as the majority are in the voluntarily unvaccinated then I’m not overly concerned.

Won't it have a knock on affect to people who require treatment for other health conditions though as the concerning part of it all?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

The lambda variant has reached Australia, and half a dozen cases in the UK. Considered more transmissible than delta (from NZ Herald - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/co...tter&utm_campaign=nzh_tw#Echobox=1625554672-1)

 

[crooky]

To be fair there's a good chance its a lot of people without their second jab yet, and that isn't their fault.

I think 45 and under probably haven't had their second jabs yet?

 

[SWP's back]

Won't it have a knock on affect to people who require treatment for other health conditions though as the concerning part of it all?

Depends on the amount of free hospital beds at any time won’t it and I’m sure that will be the key figure the Govt will be looking at for future (potential) covid measures. At present it’s causing roughly as much trouble for the NHS as a Flu season. But let me ask you, who knew 12-18,000 died each year from Flu before Feb 2020? I certainly didn’t. There comes a point where we have to stop destroying the economy, paying people not to work and decimating the service sector. Because it doesn’t matter what the U.K. does, Covid isn’t going away in the rest of the world. My Mrs checked when she would be due her first jab if she was in South Africa, it’s in just over ten years time.

So in the U.K. we vaccinate those that can be vaccinated, we give boosters, we update the vaccines as and when a variant arrived that hospitalised those that are vaccinated and we try and get on with our lives again. This isn’t the “Spanish Flu” killing 1 in 10, it’s not killing 1 in a thousand vaccinated folk, it’s not even killing 1 in 5,000. Life can only be put on hold for so long before we deal with the fact that it’s going to remain endemic.

 

[Healdplace]

ENGLAND HOSPITAL DATA CONTINUED

North West numbers:

Patients up 9 to 570 V 479 last week - rise of 91

Ventilators up 9 to 117 V 92 last week - rise of 25
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The ventilators are sadly suggesting many more deaths to come.


Other regions:-

East 98 patients (down 3) V 86 last wk AND 19 Ventilators (up 1) V 11 last wk

London 381 (up 17) V 301 last wk AND 74 ventilators (down 2) V 68 last wk

Midlands 334 (up 15) V 220 last wk AND 58 Ventilators (up 3) V 42 last wk

NE & Yorkshire 376 (up 54) V 215 last wk AND 55 Ventilators (up 6) V 30 last wk

South East 130 (up 9) V 68 last wk AND 16 Ventilators (up 5) V 9 last wk

South West 100 (down 8) V 76 last wk AND 14 Ventilators (up 1) V 7 last wk


As you can see easy to predict what is going to happen in Yorkshire and the NE in coming weeks, A rerun of the North West and Scotland.

Midlands and London may not be far behind.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

So long as the majority are in the voluntarily unvaccinated then I’m not overly concerned.

Have you seen any prediction of when this reaches a peak? Presumably at some point it will not find people to be infected.

I've not seen any scientist discussing that, hence the question.