COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
My kids primary School going back in Sept was the best event to happen in the last 9 months for me. Her mental health improved 10 fold within days of being back. She got through 12 weeks with no isolation problems and has once again thrived when In the previous 6 months she was floundering.
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Couldn’t agree more. Exactly the same here.
 
shemnel said:
My anti covid friend has sent me a stat that just before Christmas, 3300 of 4400 ICU beds in England were occupied, or the lowest percentage in some time. He's arguing they've been cleared readied for people coming in.

Now, does anyone know where ICU bed stats even are?! I've never found them in months
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Found it!

So basically adult critical care beds stand at 4434 on 21 Dec with 3336 occupied (75%) and then 4589 open on 27 Dec with 3430 occupied (75%).

This occupancy rate IS a lot lower than usual for this time of year, I'll have to concede that point to him, with a fair old fistful of caveats. There appear to be more people in ICU than normal, but over 1000 more available beds, lowering the %. There are also people who've been cleared out of hospital where they can be, creating pressure in the coming year. Also covid wards are not normal and can't be treated as just open wards creating pressure at sightly lower occpancy rates. Also the geographical pressures aren't uniform. Finally there's a lot of incoming patients.

All just FYI.

Statistics » Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports 2020-21

Health and high quality care for all, <br />now and for future generations
www.england.nhs.uk www.england.nhs.uk
 
Gabriel said:
Appears the USA will have vaccinated around 3 million people by tonight when the target was 20 million. Even if that target was unrealistic, given that 14 million doses have been distributed, it is not progressing exactly smoothly. Hard to imagine that countries found wanting horribly in managing the pandemic are suddenly going to become better in 2021.
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Logistical issues by the sound of it. What a mess.

Edit: It’s like Hermes turning up with your parcel a week late.

 
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