If people are only making essential trips how come we get a five mile queue on motorways each morning? At the start of the lockdown we could cycle onto the A58 from a side road at Littleborough and not a vehicle within 100 or 400 metres either way. You could cycle straight onto the road, without looking if you were that way inclined, and it was completely safe - neither sight nor sound of traffic. Not now. People, I think, have decided that their trip is essential.
Thanks all.
no better this morning but I’ve pulled myself out of bed so I get brome kind of routine (good advice @tolmie's hairdoo )
I have one position where the coughs stop (lying on my left) if I switch then the coughing frenzy erupts. Sat upright/forward if possible helps.
I’m so cold I can’t face a bloody shower...I’m looking like Ian Beale Vagabond era.
These weird waves of skin chills too...almost like the nerves have been frozen.
stay safe everyone.
It’s a strange one I know people who have underlying health problems who have had it and felt fine, yet fit healthy individuals have been really sick with it
Reading trends in Israel is going to be made more difficult by dint of the fact that it’s never closed its skies, it doesn’t require arrivals to show negative tests, and it doesn’t demand quarantining of visitors.Russia new cases have been falling for a week. Last couple of days Israel has shown sharp falls. Too early to say whether this is some kind of weekend reporting effect or a sustained fall. If Israel's new cases fall again tomorrow then that should mean we should now start to see some downward pressure on our new cases too.
Israel and Russia started vaccination campaigns around the same time as we did. Russia vaccinated younger age groups whilst Israel has vaccinated a lot more people.
They did say early in the Pandemic that Metformin which is a Type 2 Diabetes drug was possibly helpful. It's a very old medication and really cheap to produce, I'm sure we'll find out which drugs will help. It's like Aids, there's no actual cureMaybe something they are taking for their underlying conditions is helping?
Israel did stop visitors coming to the country at some stage and they have also quarantined people by taking them straight from the airport to hotels regardless, no exceptions. Three meals a day, confined to a hotel room, armed guards etcReading trends in Israel is going to be made more difficult by dint of the fact that it’s never closed its skies, it doesn’t require arrivals to show negative tests, and it doesn’t demand quarantining of visitors.
https://www.jpost.com/health-scienc...ek-of-jan-due-to-hospital-overcrowding-655826
I’ve often thought it would have made sense to use Iceland as a guinea pig and have every country donate enough doses, 500,000 would cover both Pfizer doses, to see how quickly it worked there. Probably naive and missing something key.
Russia new cases have been falling for a week. Last couple of days Israel has shown sharp falls. Too early to say whether this is some kind of weekend reporting effect or a sustained fall. If Israel's new cases fall again tomorrow then that should mean we should now start to see some downward pressure on our new cases too.
Israel and Russia started vaccination campaigns around the same time as we did. Russia vaccinated younger age groups whilst Israel has vaccinated a lot more people.
On a related issue there is some further analysis here from front line workers that were vaccinated at a hospital in Porto with Pfizer. The took antibody level tests at 3 stages leading up to the 15 day mark and seem to be declaring immunity accomplished. Strangely and annoyingly we seem to be the only country that are sticking to the 3 weeks second dose regime.I don't think you can extrapolate anything from country totals in Israel or Russia to the the UK.
Russia has hardly vaccinated anyone, <1% of the population according to ourworldindata; even if you believe the unpublished efficacy of their vaccine, it's far too soon to see any impact on cases or deaths from the vaccine, will be months away at least.
Israel has gone into a hard lockdown for the last ten days (it's currently one of the few countries in the world to have a worse caseload than us) so any reduction from vaccination is impossible to disentangle from that, except perhaps by age breakdown.