Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

Wales data :- 3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v Today:


Deaths/Cases/Patients/Ventilated / weekly pop score


17d / 2069c / 1964p / 140v (??? Weekly Pop only published in last 2 weeks)

16d / 1332c / 2009p / 150v/ 404 pop

8d / 1106c / 1840 p / 147v / 295 pop

8d / 570 c / 1823 p * / 136v * / 219 pop (* hospital data 2 days old) TODAY


Wales have turned things round very well since Christmas

 

[N1985]

Just more recent affirmation today of what has been posted by others yesterday on the Israel/Pfizer data feedback - Me likey!

No serious Covid cases among those receiving both Pfizer jabs in Israel, minister says​

Israel, which has already given a full set of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccinations to over 6% of its citizens, has not registered a single serious Covid case among them, even as infections surge in the wider population, the government has said, Reuters reports.

Amazing work.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Wales data :- 3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v Today:


Deaths/Cases/Weekly Pop/Patients/Ventilated


17d / 2069c / 1964p / 140v (??? Weekly Pop only published in last 2 weeks)

16d / 1332c / 2009p / 150v/ 404 pop

8d / 1106c / 1840 p / 147v / 295 pop

8d / 570 c / 1823 p * / 136v * / 219 pop (* hospital data 2 days old) TODAY

A really positive trend. Although never becoming complacent, it'll be of comfort to those who have to go to work or visit a supermarket that the risk isn't near the same levels in terms of spread within the community than what it was only recently. Hopefully with the vaccine process ongoing and lockdown continuing for a bit then that risk level won't ever get out of hand to such levels again.

 

[artfuldodger]

I saw the interview and as irritating as it was I don't think she technically broke any law by flying there when she did? Morally is another story. I think Schofield said the rules on what's essential travel have been tightened since although what's deemed essential is subjective I guess

These so called online celebrity bloggers I don't get but a lot seem to make a decent living out of doing it and with the job situation as it is I can't blame them. She's certainly not as reprehensible as that Scottish mp who travelled on a train in spite of knowing she had covid and kept her well paid job.

I would imagine loads of rich people and some not so rich but with holiday apartments abroad got away in December before foreign travel was banned. I have friends in their seventies in Tenerife at the moment who are going to stay there until the weather and hopefully restrictions here improve. I can't say I blame them as even though there is a curfew there and restrictions they can still get some sun and have a beer while watching some live entertainment, something we can't do here.

I agree with you though it is stretching it to say doing exercise classes and posting pictures online from Dubai is essential business.

She was in the Times on Sunday. Irritating she may be, but I agree. I don’t think she’s broken any rules. She flew before the travel ban.

 

[Healdplace]

She was in the Times on Sunday. Irritating she may be, but I agree. I don’t think she’s broken any rules. She flew before the travel ban.

Its not the rules as such but the promoting of the message it sends out.

I know This Morning well first hand and how it has changed since then. Richard and Judy would never have done a story like this in the same way. They were journalists not entertainers. And the way it has morphed from the Albert Dock days to now is very reflective of how UK society has changed in those 35 years or so. And why we have so many problems with people who think they can act above and beyond what is right as fame trumps everything in the age of tweet posting twits.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Krouts trying to lay off the blame for the piss poor vaccination delivery in the EU I see.

In that case, they won't want the preposterously alleged 8 per cent efficacy, so the EU should just send the millions of AZ doses on to us!

Everyone's a winner!

 

[paulchapo]

She was in the Times on Sunday. Irritating she may be, but I agree. I don’t think she’s broken any rules. She flew before the travel ban.

If the media hadn't started reporting on it I would have been none the wiser. I didn't have a clue who she was. There are probably loads of so called businesses people using the guise of essential business travel to grab a sly break as an added bonus. I'm not sure if I heard right but I think she owns her own apartment out there? With seemingly no restrictions in Dubai and better weather and her able to do her job anywhere in the world she'd be mad to stay in the UK. I think her circumstances are slightly different as she intends to stay out there for a good while and not be flying in and out of the UK.

The media picked your steriotypical posing working class blonde out to report on as they knew it would cause more outrage than some grey businessman in a suit exploiting the loophole.

 

[kaz7]

A total of 7,245 deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 15 January mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released today.

This is up from 6,057 deaths in the week to 8 January and is the highest weekly figure since the week ending 24 April.

More than a third (40.2%) of all deaths registered in England and Wales in the week to 15 January mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate - the highest proportion recorded since the pandemic began

Effects of the holidays ?

 

[kaz7]

According to the Office for National Statistics the UK's COVID-19 death toll has now surpassed 100,000, economics and data editor Ed Conway reports.

The ONS number, which is based on the number of people whose death certificates mentioned COVID-19, was at 107,907 as of 15 January.

It's important to note that the ONS measure is slightly different to the official government count, published each day on its dashboard – which classifies a COVID death as one where someone had tested positive for the virus within 28 days of their death.

The ONS measure, however, is widely viewed as being a more comprehensive, if less timely, measure of the direct toll of the disease

 

[Healdplace]

If the media hadn't started reporting on it I would have been none the wiser. I didn't have a clue who she was. There are probably loads of so called businesses people using the guise of essential business travel to grab a sly break as an added bonus. I'm not sure if I heard right but I think she owns her own apartment out there? With seemingly no restrictions in Dubai and better weather and her able to do her job anywhere in the world she'd be mad to stay in the UK. I think her circumstances are slightly different as she intends to stay out there for a good while and not be flying in and out of the UK.

The media picked your steriotypical posing working class blonde out to report on as they knew it would cause more outrage than some grey businessman in a suit exploiting the loophole.

All true, but the point is if you turn a publicity seeker into a story by giving them publicity that inspires others to think it okay to manipulate the rules then as a responsible media source you are guilty of creating the story not just reporting it.

These things should be either exposed as something we need less of and wrong or ignored. Not given air time to become an aspiration to chancers everywhere.

Even journalists should take seriously the role they have in persuading society why rules matter in a deadly pandemic.

From Major Tom as the inspiration in lockdown 1 to this says a lot about how we have drifted away from stoic togetherness toward shallow story telling.

Clap for carers would never get off the ground now as it did in April.