They're incredibly vague on what constitutes a pre-existing condition.
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They're incredibly vague on what constitutes a pre-existing condition.
Given vast majority are asymptomatic, you'd have to imagine 1 in 50 or so in Knowsley/Liverpool?
Shame herd immunity is impossible as we'd be close to it haha
Kenshin
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More than you think tbh. Although a friend of mine is asymptomatic at the moment.
Kenshin
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.te...-july-august-primarily-caused-conditions/amp/
I think that is the article I read not too long ago.
They listed dementia , serious heart conditions , serious diabetes , serious respiratory conditions as the majority of underlying health issues. Dementia was at 25%
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...vid-victims-england-wales-have-dementia-study
That's the dementia one. 25% of all cases and 75% apparantly worldwide of care home deaths.
The coronavirus vaccine being developed at Oxford University is working well and has been shown to produce a ‘strong immune response’ in volunteers, studies show. Instead of using a weakened strain, or small parts of it, like traditional vaccines, the Oxford jab directs the body to produce part of the virus itself. Researchers led by the University of Bristol found it effectively delivers genetic instructions telling the body how to make the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Once the protein is replicated, the immune system then reacts to it – training the body recognise the disease and be able to fight it off without the person falling ill.
Dr David Matthews, from Bristol’s School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM), led the research. He said: ‘This is an important study as we are able to confirm that the genetic instructions underpinning this vaccine, which is being developed as fast as safely possible, are correctly followed when they get into a human cell. ‘Until now, the technology hasn’t been able to provide answers with such clarity, but we now know the vaccine is doing everything we expected and that is only good news in our fight against the illness.’
Sarah Gilbert, who leads the Oxford University vaccine trial, added: ‘The study confirms that large amounts of the coronavirus spike protein are produced with great accuracy, and this goes a long way to explaining the success of the vaccine in inducing a strong immune response.’ The positive development comes after the government’s chief scientific adviser warned that a widespread roll-out of a coronavirus vaccine is unlikely before Christmas. Sir Patrick Vallance told a Downing Street press briefing this week that ‘things are progressing well’ with vaccines ‘that produce an immune response’ in phase three clinical trials. But he added: ‘I remain of the view that the possibility of wider-spread use of vaccines isn’t going to be until spring or so next year, by the time we get enough doses and enough understanding of the outputs to use them.’
Sir Patrick said ‘the aim that we would all wish for’ would be a vaccine which would allow the ‘release’ of lockdown measures such as social distancing and the compulsory wearing of masks. He later told a meeting of the Lords’ National Security Strategy Committee he believes it is ‘unlikely’ we will end up with a vaccine ‘that completely stops infection’, with the more likely scenario being ‘that the disease will circulate and be endemic’. Sir Patrick went on: ‘Clearly, as management becomes better, as you get vaccination which will decrease the chance of infection and the severity of disease, or whatever the profile of the vaccines are, this then starts to look more like annual flu than anything else. ‘That may be the direction we end up going in.’
Dr David Matthews, from Bristol’s School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM), led the research. He said: ‘This is an important study as we are able to confirm that the genetic instructions underpinning this vaccine, which is being developed as fast as safely possible, are correctly followed when they get into a human cell. ‘Until now, the technology hasn’t been able to provide answers with such clarity, but we now know the vaccine is doing everything we expected and that is only good news in our fight against the illness.’
Sarah Gilbert, who leads the Oxford University vaccine trial, added: ‘The study confirms that large amounts of the coronavirus spike protein are produced with great accuracy, and this goes a long way to explaining the success of the vaccine in inducing a strong immune response.’ The positive development comes after the government’s chief scientific adviser warned that a widespread roll-out of a coronavirus vaccine is unlikely before Christmas. Sir Patrick Vallance told a Downing Street press briefing this week that ‘things are progressing well’ with vaccines ‘that produce an immune response’ in phase three clinical trials. But he added: ‘I remain of the view that the possibility of wider-spread use of vaccines isn’t going to be until spring or so next year, by the time we get enough doses and enough understanding of the outputs to use them.’
Sir Patrick said ‘the aim that we would all wish for’ would be a vaccine which would allow the ‘release’ of lockdown measures such as social distancing and the compulsory wearing of masks. He later told a meeting of the Lords’ National Security Strategy Committee he believes it is ‘unlikely’ we will end up with a vaccine ‘that completely stops infection’, with the more likely scenario being ‘that the disease will circulate and be endemic’. Sir Patrick went on: ‘Clearly, as management becomes better, as you get vaccination which will decrease the chance of infection and the severity of disease, or whatever the profile of the vaccines are, this then starts to look more like annual flu than anything else. ‘That may be the direction we end up going in.’
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YoboCopter
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Obesity is one i know that much
Catfish Blues
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More than 1 in 60 in the North-West.
We've been data crunching the numbers for a few clients ( 2 in the North-West ) since lockdown ended to feed into their decision making process on who's allowed to go into their offices, and it's now at the point that only totally necessary visits to their offices are allowed, with very limited numbers per day.
That's partly for health reasons, but it's also about business continuity, because if three or four key members in a relatively small team are off work sick, then the risk of them not being able to deliver emergency support to their main customer increases to a dangerous level.
The number of people moaning about not being able to go in is amazing though. Some of them have been daft enough to go in without authorisation and have been bollocked after we ran the weekly checks on who'd used their passes, thick ( though highly educated ) bastards they are !
Maltese_Falcon
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Who would have thought that Nigerians are immune to Covid-19 !
We are talking two weeks and its not as if you cannot say go in before the lockdown and buy clothes for that sort of situation.
I do charity work myself quite a bit. San Diego has a massive homelessness problem and many are veterans. I am part of a group that helps them out. So I definitely get the point that there is a need sometimes.
Like you said its not always you do that. How often would you say twice a week maybe?
The grand scheme of things the absolute majority of those clothes shopping don't need to be. They are not in a mad rush all of a sudden to fill a wardrobe.
Honestly it does not matter what anyone comes up with there will always be detractors.
Its impossible to make everyone happy.
bigjonny
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That was Storyhouse doing drive-in cinema, they’ve hired some portaloos and are putting them on the English side of the car park
CEO Andrew Bentley explains “We’re doing a Halloween drive-in at Deva Stadium. It turns out the border goes through the middle of the car park but the screen is mostly in Wales. We are already having to refund our customers who live in Wales as cinema is part of their circuit breaker. However, customers who live in England are also to be banned from straying into the wrong bit of the car park to watch the film, and Flintshire police say they will enforce at the event. You’d need scale a decent sized fence to get further into Wales, and you don’t leave England to get to the Stadium”
“We could try to squeeze the screen into the smaller English side of the car park, but the loos are still in Wales so our customers are going to be caught short, or just caught at the border”
“There obviously was a common-sense accommodation that could have been applied however we can find the humour in these dark days and don’t want to make anyone’s life harder than it already is. We’ll probably need to cancel the event due to restrictions in Wales, which is a shame because of course drive-in is a super safe way to find enjoyment at the moment.”
Catfish Blues
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For those living in Merseyside, as far as cases go, barring a resurgence, you've almost certainly peaked this time round ( there'll almost certainly be more peaks in the future )
The graph for the Wirral is pretty much identical in shape.
I don't think similar data for hospital admissions is in the public domain, but that'll lag and will almost certainly peak in a week or two. Hopefully the tier three restrictions will accelerate the trend and, in three or four weeks time, the situation in Merseyside's hospitals should have started to improve.
Warrington and other Wool areas are, on the whole a week or two behind Merseyside's peak.
The graph for the Wirral is pretty much identical in shape.
I don't think similar data for hospital admissions is in the public domain, but that'll lag and will almost certainly peak in a week or two. Hopefully the tier three restrictions will accelerate the trend and, in three or four weeks time, the situation in Merseyside's hospitals should have started to improve.
Warrington and other Wool areas are, on the whole a week or two behind Merseyside's peak.
Deckard2049
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All gone a bit mad really hasn’t it.
Apparently it’s due to the fact that all “ non essential “ shops have had to shut and it’s only “ fair “ that supermarkets aren’t allowed to sell clothes, electrical goods etc - anything that could be chased as non essential.
The world has gone mad.
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