Coronavirus (2021) thread

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paulchapo said:
It happened to me a couple of weeks ago,they stopped boosters in Timperley so I had to go to the Etihad.
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Can only speak for myself (obviously) but I live in Oldham and for my first 2 jabs it was Etihad that was the nearest, so I went there.
Just booked my booster today and it's a pharmacy round the corner from me.
 
mackenzie said:
Can only speak for myself (obviously) but I live in Oldham and for my first 2 jabs it was Etihad that was the nearest, so I went there.
Just booked my booster today and it's a pharmacy round the corner from me.
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Its partly to do with the cold temperatures needed to store Pfizer. I had to travel miles to get to my booster last month - a one hour bus trip and 20 minute walk home after - for that reason. Whereas I had my AZ jab at the health centre a 5 minute walk away - that was expensively refitted during the pandemic but NOT to the point of having a cold enough freezer to do the jabs other than ones such as AZ that do not need a deep freeze.
 
Briefing to the South African Parliament’s Health Committee:


‘Dr Richard Lessells, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, is part of the delegation briefing the committee.

Lessells has told the committee epidemiological data suggest a sustained increase in Covid-19 incidence initially across Gauteng and now across most provinces.

“New variant detected in multiple samples from multiple locations, and PCR signal suggests already widespread across the country.

"Mutation profile and epidemiological picture suggest Omicron is able to get around some of our immune protection (to cause infection), but the protection against severe disease and death from vaccines should be less affected.

"Vaccination remains the critical tool to prevent severe disease and death, and public health and social measures remain critical to slow the spread,” he said in his presentation.

Lessells said while predictions about the properties of this variant can be made based on the genetic mutations, more work is needed to understand it fully.’
 
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Todays big rise in cases in England is focused on the south.

A few weeks ago these large regions were evenly scoring around 4000 cases a day. Or if anything the southern ones even lower.

Today North West has 3707, East 4441, South West 5284, London 5668 & South East 9478

A big shift in the focus of the pandemic.

And SE is triple the numbers in the NW.
 
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Healdplace said:
Todays big rise in cases in England is focused on the south.

A few weeks ago these large regions were evenly scoring around 4000 cases a day. Or if anything the southern ones even lower.

Today North West has 3707, East 4441, South West 5284, London 5668 & South East 9478

A big shift in the focus of the pandemic.

And SE is triple the numbers in the NW.
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Each earlier "wave" started there too, didn't it?
 
Healdplace said:
Todays big rise in cases in England is focused on the south.

A few weeks ago these large regions were evenly scoring around 4000 cases a day. Or if anything the southern ones even lower.

Today North West has 3707, East 4441, South West 5284, London 5668 & South East 9478

A big shift in the focus of the pandemic.

And SE is triple the numbers in the NW.
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The Omicron wave has to start somewhere. These numbers at the moment won’t be that relevant once it kicks in.
 
I wonder how many people don’t bother getting tested if feeling a bit ropey. 10 day isolation for some people in Dec would be crippling financially if no wages. Are the government still paying out for people in this position?
 
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