Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Gabriel]

Matt Hancock hosting Downing Street news conference from 5pm

Thanks for the warning.

 

[Gabriel]

Piece on Moderna starting work on a booster to help combat the challenges of the new South African variant.
https://www.ft.com/content/c0c8f72c-e58e-4319-80c4-0db153ad85db

 

[worsleyweb]

592 all settings deaths and 22, 195 cases!


Has to be very low testing as that is welcome but unexpected.

As suspected 394, 479. it is low.

Even so 5.6% positivity is tremendous news. Matching the falling positivity numbers in the other home nations.


It was 465, 231 yesterday (Saturday data) for 30, 004 cases = 6.4 % positive

And 608, 829 (Friday data) for 33, 552 cases = 5,5% positive


These are just pillar 1 & 2 tests. It would be even lower with other tests added, which I never include.

No wonder we have a press conference at 5 pm!

Though it is Sunday data and deaths are always low as a result.

Even so it is down 7 from 599 all settings last Monday.

We may be close to or even at the plateau of this wave.

Potentially less tests as less people having symptons or thinking they may have had it?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

COVID-19: New data reveals jobs with highest rates of death from coronavirus

Men working as security guards, chefs or in processing plants had some of the highest COVID-19 death rates, new figures show.

news.sky.com

Not who you would thinks , obvs they might not have caught it at work

These are the type of occupations I would expect workers to have high incidences of Covid. They are in contact with lots of people and probably don’t have the best PPE / Covid safe workplaces. Plus they might share transport to and from work.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Potentially less tests as less people having symptons or thinking they may have had it?

Also all the snow across the south yesterday will have had a big impact on test numbers.

 

[cleavers]

Potentially less tests as less people having symptons or thinking they may have had it?

The biggest effect on yesterday's tests and cases will have been the weather, a huge area of England and Wales had it's biggest snowfall of the winter, so less will have been going out to get tests, and probably less staff to conduct tests as well.

 

[worsleyweb]

The biggest effect on yesterday's tests and cases will have been the weather, a huge area of England and Wales had it's biggest snowfall of the winter, so less will have been going out to get tests, and probably less staff to conduct tests as well.

yes valid point - still all seems to be moving in a better direction?

 

[cleavers]

Also all the snow across the south yesterday will have had a big impact on test numbers.

Beat me to it :-(

It wasn't just the south, much of the Midlands had snow all day yesterday.

 

[Del_Bosque]

Seeningly kicking off with the EU and Az after their first quarter doses was cut from 81m to 30m

Complaining that UK is not getting their doses cut and that supplies could be moved from here to the EU

 

[cleavers]

yes valid point - still all seems to be moving in a better direction?

It's a single days numbers, so I'm cautious about trusting a single day's cases.

It's obviously going in the right direction, but to put it into context today's case number is on par with what we were getting from the middle of October, when there was no lockdown, but it forced one for November.