Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Those 8489 cases are from 653, 436 pillar 1 & 2 tests.

Versus yesterday's 567, 541 finding 2151 more cases than today.

That is just 1.3% positivity today. Lowest ever.

These numbers are rather meaningless given what now counts as a pillar 1 and 2 test and I suspect it is now around 3 times this at least. But it is very probably well below 5% in real terms now. The number WHO declare for having a pandemic under control.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I like these hit by a bus references. They are normally made by boxers and their followers on social media.
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Sadly I know from family first hand that you can be a Covid death even when it is 90% sure Covid did not actually kill you.

But yes it is exaggeration to make a point. Hopefully not literally true.
 
UK cases week to week in 2021

60, 916 v 45, 533 v 33, 355 v 20. 089 v 16, 840 v 12, 364 v 10, 625 v 8489 Today
 
Just for completion Northern Ireland data

5 deaths - was 9 last week

225 cases - was 341 last week

12.2% positivity - was 18.5 last week

Seven day rolling cases total 1929 - first time below 2000 this year - was 2070 last week.

46 care home outbreaks - up 2 on yesterday - was 78 last week

376 patients - down 10 on yesterday - was 474 last week

39 ventilated - down 2 on yesterday - was 45 last week
 
Regional Scoreboard:


Good news and Bad News

Every region except one is below 1000 cases today for the first time in about 4 or 5 months.

No prizes for guessing the one region that is not.

You got it - North West.

However, the good news is that it fell by the biggest amount of anyone today.

A whopping 710 - all the way to 1216.

That is the lowest North West number in 70 days - mid December.
 
Healdplace said:
Sadly I know from family first hand that you can be a Covid death even when it is 90% sure Covid did not actually kill you.

But yes it is exaggeration to make a point. Hopefully not literally true.
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So far as I am aware, individuals who end up in hospital with obvious Covid and complications are not tested its just acknowledged that they have Covid. If and when they die its the complication that killed them and so is not recorded as a covid stat. If this is the case it probably significantly outnumbers those run over by a bus. Perhaps a health industry worker could let us know if my belief is correct?
 
So after April 15 then when they do the rest of the population will thet be done by age or just a free for all?
 
Blue Lama in practice it is NOT that simple. But too raw to go through the story again. It is explained earlier on in this thread.

Just to say you can test positive, beat Covid but be kept in hospital for weeks and die from something else whilst waiting to go home or actually do go home and because you had covid when you came into hospital you become a covid death even if it did not actually kill you.

No idea how often that happens. But it happens.
 
Just had an email from ZOE study saying they’re revising their daily cases and reckon they’ve been overestimating cases for just over a week.
 
Okay Greater Manchester update:

Good news day in GM - unless you live in Stockport - though only relatively speaking as even here had a significant case drop of 41 on yesterday (114 to 73) but was the only borough to have more cases in this lowest of low days than it had on this day last week.

Everyone else way down again. Manchester at 109 the only one over 100 today with a big week to week fall.

Six boroughs were under 50 today. Bury , Oldham, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.

Trafford had just 29 and is now 44 points clear of Stockport as best overall Pop Score in GM and owns all the other titles - lowest scores, lowest weekly cases, lowest weekly Pop Score etc.

The overall GM total because of these falls was just 550 - the lowest since pre Christmas.

A drop of 414 - out of the 710 NW fall. So enough to take the county % back by 4.9% in one day to 45.2%.

So it was good news in GM happily.
 
artfuldodger said:
Just had an email from ZOE study saying they’re revising their daily cases and reckon they’ve been overestimating cases for just over a week.
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As I posted earlier today they did already and downgraded estimates to around what we actually got several hours before we got it.

So they seem to have figured out why they were over estimating.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
So after April 15 then when they do the rest of the population will thet be done by age or just a free for all?
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I don't think they have published any guidance on that but if everyone's risk is broadly similar there isn't the same imperative to vaccinate one group before another. Perhaps it will depend on supply. I can also see them vaccinating teachers, emergency workers etc and certain sectors after the over 50s get done.
 
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