Coronavirus (2021) thread

[ayrshire_blue]

Every single eligible care home in the Lanarkshire region of Scotland has now received their first dose of the vaccine.

 

[kaz7]

Health Secretary Matt Hancock to give news conference at 5pm

Mr Hancock will be joined by Susan Hopkins, senior medical adviser at Public Health England, and Stephen Powis, the national medical director for NHS England

 

[Healdplace]

England 532 hospital deaths: More details

Regions:

115 London, 107 South East, 106 Midlands, 94 East, 46 NE & Yorkshire. 45 NW. 19 South West

Most deaths locally:- 30 - Norfolk & Norwich. 26 KIng's College London, 20 East Suffolk, 20 Derby. 18 Barts London. 17 Barking, 15 East Kent, 13 Medway

In the North West - 11 Mid Cheshire, 10 Liverpool.


By age:

20 - 39 (3) 0.6%

40 - 59 (30) 5.6%

60 - 79 (212) 39.9%

80 + (287) 53.9%


A little up on the 60 - 79 and down on the 80 + but one day and not a normal data day so do not read too much into that split

But if it continues AND numbers of total deaths fall then it may be good news.

 

[Healdplace]

N Ireland data:

19 deaths - it was 16 last Monday.

640 cases - it was 759 last Monday

Positivity 30.8% - up from 28.1% last Monday and last few days - suggesting again low tests maybe. It was Sunday.

Care home outbreaks 139 - unchanged since Friday

The 7 day rolling cases average is 6647. This steady fall seems to show that the day to day falls are real. That number was over 11,000 a couple of weeks ago.

Patients 823 (down from 840 last Friday)

Ventilated 51 (up 4 since Friday)

 

[TINY]

Been for a test this morning. Cough since yesterday, aches all over and everything tastes funky; even water tastes like metallic. Not what we need right now so hoping it’s not positive but everything points that way currently.

Old man and Mrs tested too, old man has a slight cough, and smell is slightly off but he’s not sure if that’s just in his head. Mrs has a cough but fine otherwise.

 

[grunge]

Has anyone on here experiences Covid Toes and what to expect if you have it?

 

[ayrshire_blue]

 

[Healdplace]

N Ireland offer another way to guide us on the success of the vaccinations as they give daily break downs of the ages of those testing positive.

That ought to change faster impacted by the roll out than the death figures will as these have cases from weeks before those who sadly eventually die so death will always be the last measure to change as anything that altered today would not alter deaths already set by catching it before today.

Here are the rolling 7 day numbers of ages for those testing positive in past week in NI:

Age // number // %

0 - 19 // 736 // 11.2%

20 - 39 // 2332 // 34.2%

40 - 59 // 2129 // 32.7%

60 - 79 // 1003 // 15.2%

80+ // 438 // 6.7%

 

[Healdplace]

England vaccinations 155, 848 yesterday.

That is well down on previous days - presumably as it was Sunday?

3, 520, 056 with first dose in England. So that will put UK over 4 million.

427, 386 have also had a second dose in England. 1284 of them yesterday.

433, 057 doses were carried out on Saturday and Sunday combined.

If my sums are right.

 

[worsleyweb]

Things do seem to be slowly moving in the right direction. Daughter who has had covid and is a student nurse vaccinated in last hour and is going on a ward working from 3rd of February.