Coronavirus (2021) thread

[M18CTID]

Above 861,000 whacked today. On a school day too.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations#card-people_who_have_received_booster_or_3rd_dose_vaccinations_by_report_date

Tremendous figures. A million a day within reach

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Tremendous figures. A million a day within reach

You're not wrong. First and second jabs on the same day, already push that figure over 900k !

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Above 861,000 whacked today. On a school day too.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations#card-people_who_have_received_booster_or_3rd_dose_vaccinations_by_report_date

Yesterday. My mistake.

I thought we'd struggle to get anywhere near a million a day but to get to this level so quickly is amazing. I reckon by mid January everyone who is eligible and wants one will have been jabbed.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Absolutely my experience too and I’m a sample of 5 people I know infected.

The Government has become fixated on case numbers (scary as they are) instead of the infection fatality and hospitalisation rates. It is clear that the vast majority of people suffer relatively minor illness (that was also the case with Alpha and Delta variants). But the isolation rules being brought in will increase the existing staff crisis in the NHS.
Of course the Government is right to be cautious but they have not provided any supporting evidence for their current policy. If they have data which backs up their strategy then why have they not shared it. They have dismissed the South African data without properly explaining why. I know the demographics are different in South Africa but it is surely more complex than that.

 

[splinter]

I take it once we've boosted all over 18s who take up the jab the restrictions will be lifted? Is that the plan..

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I take it once we've boosted all over 18s who take up the jab the restrictions will be lifted? Is that the plan..

By the time Johnson has decided which restrictions he wants to introduce, Omicron will have passed through.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

I thought we'd struggle to get anywhere near a million a day but to get to this level so quickly is amazing. I reckon by mid January everyone who is eligible and wants one will have been jabbed.

Stick with me, mate. Everything I post is beer reviewed.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

By the time Johnson has decided which restrictions he wants to introduce, Omicron will have passed through.

This is a good point. The rate of transmission is so high at present that it will be through the whole country in a few weeks at which point the population who are not seriously affected will have huge immunity from jabs and getting Covid. They must have modelling which shows the precise impact on hospital beds. Why are they not sharing this?

 

[RobMCFC]

The Government has become fixated on case numbers (scary as they are) instead of the infection fatality and hospitalisation rates.

It’s because the case numbers are the best indication of the number of hospitalisation we will be facing in 2-3 weeks.

Everybody on both sides of the argument - most cases are mild vs we could be looking at 1000s of deaths - are guessing at the moment.
The truth is people don’t seem to know how thousands of new cases will play out in the middle of a European winter.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

By the time Johnson has decided which restrictions he wants to introduce, Omicron will have passed through.

…and he’ll no longer be Prime Minister anyway, give him a few months tops.