Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Healdplace said:
The problem with those kind of graphs on vaccinations is they show numbers given and it is not exacty really evidence of the UK being poor at reaching people that countries with populations many times the same size are doing more vaccinations.

They kind of have to do 4 or 5 times as many as us just to reach the same population percentage. And they have 4 or 5 times the resources to do it.

The fairer comparison shows that we have done very well on these measures and Wales is literally in the top two or three nations on the planet not way down as that graph might infer.

The bigger problem we have is not targetting the right populations. The disparity between Manchester and Stockport - literally next to one another with a border - is far too large and regardless of reasons needs to be rebalanced because it is showing up in the cases now happening.

These are the real issues with our vaccination programme that we are seeking to address with pop up centres not some graph that is not wrong in what it says just a bit misleading in what it infers.
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Dutch are taking mobile units into the neighbourhoods where take up is lagging and having them staffed appropriately.
 
Gabriel said:
Dutch are taking mobile units into the neighbourhoods where take up is lagging and having them staffed appropriately.
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Which makes sense. Seems we have taken the decision not to single out areas. Which given now how it has spread everywhere is probably no longer possible as that window when it was mostly the North West and we might have curbed further spread has passed.
 
Healdplace said:
The problem with those kind of graphs on vaccinations is they show numbers given and it is not exacty really evidence of the UK being poor at reaching people that countries with populations many times the same size are doing more vaccinations.

They kind of have to do 4 or 5 times as many as us just to reach the same population percentage. And they have 4 or 5 times the resources to do it.

The fairer comparison shows that we have done very well on these measures and Wales is literally in the top two or three nations on the planet not way down as that graph might infer.

The bigger problem we have is not targetting the right populations. The disparity between Manchester and Stockport - literally next to one another with a border - is far too large and regardless of reasons needs to be rebalanced because it is showing up in the cases now happening.

These are the real issues with our vaccination programme that we are seeking to address with pop up centres not some graph that is not wrong in what it says just a bit misleading in what it infers.
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OK. That's a good point. This is by per capita. China goes from 1st to 2nd. UK was world leading but is now behind most of Europe in terms of current vaccination rates.

In terms of total doses administered per capita it has done very well.

Really though my wow point was the 700m doses administered in recent weeks by China. Real or not, that is an amazing figure. And it also means that when they are done there is going to be huge resources for the rest of the world.

Two big question marks:

1) Is their vaccine effective
2) Are they about to be hit again. They are having problems now.

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I should point out that those countries are the defaults. For example I could have put Turkey in and it should top the lot.
 
Healdplace said:
Which makes sense. Seems we have taken the decision not to single out areas. Which given now how it has spread everywhere is probably no longer possible as that window when it was mostly the North West and we might have curbed further spread has passed.
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In countries where health insurance is obligatory, it is much easier to identify those individuals who have been reluctant, to date, to be vaccinated. You can then plonk a vaccination station outside their very door and use nudges to encourage uptake.
 
1209 cases in Scotland today

21 aged 65+
177 aged 45-64

407 aged 25-44
599 aged 0-24 (Inclusive of 243 aged 0-14)

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2 deaths both aged 75-84

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19k first doses
19k second doses

No idea what's going on here whether supply or otherwise but feels like a concerning slow down which is reflected in UK wide figures too.
 
ayrshire_blue said:
1209 cases in Scotland today

21 aged 65+
177 aged 45-64

407 aged 25-44
599 aged 0-24 (Inclusive of 243 aged 0-14)

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2 deaths both aged 75-84

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19k first doses
19k second doses

No idea what's going on here whether supply or otherwise but feels like a concerning slow down which is reflected in UK wide figures too.
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Can only assume it’s because we won’t use AZ on the younger age groups.
 
Yes, but it was another good day for Greater Manchester.

Cases in North West down 216 to 2538.

Greater Manchester fell by 155 of that 216 to 1151 - well over the 50% GM share expected.


Week to Week North West is up 347 from 2191.

Greater Manchester up just 53 from 1098. Again well under the 50% expected share of the rise.

So as has been true all week GM is no longer the primary reason the region is going up. Its contribution is falling almost daily,
 
Bolton - by the way - down under 100 today - on exactly the same score as Stockport - the only GM borough to actually be up today - though by just 8 - exactly the same as Stockport had last Saturday - both the above scoring 94 today.

Manchester still over 300 - though down 8 on the day - so up 57 wk to wk. Biggest riser.

Wigan second highest for third day running though down to 152.Up 29 wk to wk.

Salford was the only other borough over 100 today on 114 - which is down week to week.

Trafford had the best score today on 70 - though that is up 2 on last week.

Bolton's 94 is its second sub 100 total in the last 5 days - before then it was 2 weeks since it had the previous one and that was the last one in over a month.
 
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Rammy Blue said:
Similar number of cases to yesterday though.
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The jumps to 9000+ cases on Wednesday and then to 11000+ on Thursday were worrying after a whole 7 days of 7000-8000 daily cases but the last 2 days case numbers suggest that 11000+ might just be the worst of it, especially as this variant is pretty much everywhere in the UK now. Remember last week that we were told we could hit 20000 daily cases and 40 daily deaths this week. We’re way below that.
 
BobKowalski said:
Bit of an odd one. The judgement orders AZ to deliver 50m doses by Sept otherwise it faces fines. The fines are less than the EU asked for so maybe that’s the ‘win’.

Or I’m missing something obvious...
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Looks rather like the EU lost this one.

“The Court of First Instance in Brussels has ruled that AZ must deliver 80.2 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by 27 September 2021.In its legal action against AZ, the EC had requested 120 million vaccine doses cumulatively by the end of June 2021, and a total of 300 million doses by the end of September – substantially more than the Court has ordered.”
 
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