COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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ayrshire_blue said:
Germany 8k cases today
UK 53k cases

Wtf has happened.
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We have the variant, they don't?
Healdplace said:
They have been vaccinating 3 weeks in Salford Royal and Stepping Hill.

But my friend who is very vulnerable was told from the off she would get hers next week with the Oxford vaccine as that can be administered far more easily at places like the Etihad campus where she is expecting to go.

They have focused on inpatients and outpatients as the vaccine we have now is fairly limited in numbers and in ability to move around.

Oxford - IF it happens next week - will change everything.

The near future of the UK largely rests on it tbh.
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I am disappointed today as I allowed myself to believe that Telegraph report that the MHRA would approve the Oxford vaccine today.
 
Thanks for the Wiltshire figures. Id forgotten I'd asked for them so apologies for the late thanks. Without ploughing through pages, can you just explain the Pop score? Thanks again
 
mackenzie said:
So why were they built if the NHS is now in danger of being "overwhelmed?"
Plus, as some other posters have said, the Covid infection of those admitted to hospital with other things is very real??
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The staff we have can barely cope now.
Where will staff for Nightingales come from?
 
Healdplace said:
They have been vaccinating 3 weeks in Salford Royal and Stepping Hill.

But my friend who is very vulnerable was told from the off she would get hers next week with the Oxford vaccine as that can be administered far more easily at places like the Etihad campus where she is expecting to go.

They have focused on inpatients and outpatients as the vaccine we have now is fairly limited in numbers and in ability to move around.

Oxford - IF it happens next week - will change everything.

The near future of the UK largely rests on it tbh.
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Thanks I was confused as my auntie took a friend to the Wythenshawe facility to be vaccinated. My parents live much closer and are 89 and 82., I would have thought given their ages and in the area giving the vaccinations they would have been contacted by now but they haven't heard a peep.
 
GREATER MANCHESTER

Everywhere up a lot as you might expect. Stockport still in big trouble. Only Manchester higher.

But pretty well everywhere worst numbers in many weeks and only Tameside under 100. And only just.

Total cases up from 855 yesterday to 1404.

Highest daily number for nearly two months.
 
Suggestion:

don’t get ill/break anything for the next 3 months. As you might have a hospital bed, you may get an icu, but you probably won’t have many professionals looking after you.
 
Dr Susan Hopkins, senior medical adviser at the authority, spoke out after more than 53,000 new daily cases were announced on Tuesday (see below).

The UK's hospitals are at their "most vulnerable", she said.

Dr Hopkins commented: "We are continuing to see unprecedented levels of COVID-19 infection across the UK, which is of extreme concern particularly as our hospitals are at their most vulnerable.

"Whilst the number of cases reported today includes some from over the festive period, these figures are largely a reflection of a real increase.

"It is essential, now more than ever, that we continue to work together to stop the spread of the virus, bring the rate of infection down, and protect the most vulnerable and the NHS.

"A critical part of this is each and every one of us abiding by the restrictions in place, however hard it may seem at this time of the year.

"It is critical that we reduce our contacts - especially mixing between households.

"We must observe the basic measures - wash your hands, wear a mask and keep your distance from others."
 
mackenzie said:
That's what I said before. So why build them?
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They were built for the surge earlier.
Since then staff levels have been reduced due to death/covid illness, stress, burnout etc.

some people have complained that other illnesses have been marginalised and covid is not an issue.
it is an issue, and is now a fucking big issue - if you want to be fixed for anything at all
 
Don't see the point in just January, the new variant is easy to spread so I don't really see the merit. The minute it's eased it'll be rampant again. The only point is to protect everyone whose vulnerable and expected to get a vaccine, and in that case they should just be shielded. You're not now going to be able to stop the spread of this extra contagious variant through the general population so people who have no prospect of a vaccine but the imminent pain of economic doom are just having their illness kicked down the road. You open up in Feb, you'll be whinging for a March lockdown and so on.
 
JASR said:
They were built for the surge earlier.
Since then staff levels have been reduced due to death/covid illness, stress, burnout etc.

some people have complained that other illnesses have been marginalised and covid is not an issue.
it is an issue, and is now a fucking big issue - if you want to be fixed for anything at all
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How many beds were used in the first surge?
 
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