Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Spadge Vernacular]

I am pretty sure I read (could be wrong on this) that the aerosols get diluted by fresh air, which is why outdoors is low risk and opening a window now and then reduces risk as fresh air blows in and dilutes aerosols

Increased viral load is a risk in enclosed spaces

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 453 deaths were announced today, down 46 on yesterday and up 257 on last Saturday. 383 deaths were in English hospitals, down 37 on yesterday and up 222 on last week. The 7 day rolling average rises to 456.43

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 445 deaths were announced today, down 168 on yesterday and up 215 on last Saturday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 584.43

For the 60 day cut off, 490 deaths were announced today, down 208 on yesterday and up 243 on last Saturday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 656.57

 

[peteblue]

 

[davek]

I am not sure they are looking at the EU or US at this point, mate. As of a couple of days back, AZ (Oxford) had not even filed an application with the European Medicines Authority.

The challenges of the other vaccines will make scale an issue, and that is in a developed nation.

For developing nations, places where the virus can rest and mutate further, it'll be almost impossible to use a vaccine that requires a specialised cold chain - even with the best will of the COVAX Facility.

The US and the EU simply wont allow AZ to be used until their own evaluation on its claimed efficacy for older people is carried out.

The UK regulator, however, is determined to wave this through.

There's something not right about all this, and AZ's rushed introduction looks like a decision based on an infection rate that's out of control.

 

[Jebus_lives]

The US and the EU simply wont allow AZ to be used until their own evaluation on its claimed efficacy for older people is carried out.

The UK regulator, however, is determined to wave this through.

There's something not right about all this, and AZ's rushed introduction looks like a decision based on an infection rate that's out of control.

I think that's largely because the Government have ballsed things up to the extent that the only option is to frantically jab our way out of the crisis.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Oxford Covid-19 vaccine Q&A: How effective is it, and how is it different to the Pfizer vaccine?

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved in the UK - here is everything we know so far

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[davek]

Oxford Covid-19 vaccine Q&A: How effective is it, and how is it different to the Pfizer vaccine?

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved in the UK - here is everything we know so far

www.telegraph.co.uk

A puff peice by the Torygraph, and even that isn't very reassuring.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

almost all of them non- Lambeth residents as well

a shame there are no lions at Vauxhall City Farm who could have escaped and mauled those fools

To be fair, those llamas are vicious. Teeth like this and a mean streak a mile wide.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

1 in 5 tested. Not sure of the number tested locally. Anyone that wants one can go to the hospital’s drive through testing center and it always has cars lined up.

The "conversion ratio" in Czech at the moment is over 50%. They had record numbers on the 31st, and that's despite them suggesting that the UK strain isn't there yet. Bodes well

 

[Tubey]

Politics.

If we locked down, properly, schools and all, for a month as of now, I'm convinced we'd break the back of it and get vaccinations rolling.

But we won't.

Still this.

Every day that goes by is a wasted opportunity to mitigate this disaster, but once again the government is moving too slowly, too late.

 

[Tubey]

The "conversion ratio" in Czech at the moment is over 50%. They had record numbers on the 31st, and that's despite them suggesting that the UK strain isn't there yet. Bodes well

I'm convinced the 'new strain' is a bogeyman that isn't an actual issue. I think COVID itself is an issue and this growth would have happened regardless - the 'new' transmissability can largely be explained away by the fact these types of viruses usually are more virulent in winter months regardless.

 

[tsubaki]

I'm convinced the 'new strain' is a bogeyman that isn't an actual issue. I think COVID itself is an issue and this growth would have happened regardless - the 'new' transmissability can largely be explained away by the fact these types of viruses usually are more virulent in winter months regardless.

well done Tubey, by posting this you’ve proved you know more about disease than the head of track and trace does

NHS test and trace: Dido Harding says scheme failed to predict demand

Pressure on testing capacity after start of autumn term took service by surprise, MPs told

www.theguardian.com

 

[Tubey]

well done Tubey, by posting this you’ve proved you know more about disease than the head of track and trace does

NHS test and trace: Dido Harding says scheme failed to predict demand

Pressure on testing capacity after start of autumn term took service by surprise, MPs told

www.theguardian.com

It's amazing how hopeless she is.

 

[Tipp blue]

Complete mess up in Ireland, a backlog of reporting confirmed cases due in part to IT issues and the possibility of some being counted twice along wit other reasons means that there are over 9000 positives to be reported, so over the next few days they won't be reporting New confirmed cases but drip feeding us historical numbers until the backlog is eliminated.
A lot of the cases that they will report in the coming days will have completed their 10 day isolation. It's impossible to get a true reading of the current trajectory of the disease the way it's been done.
Work through the backlog and report it side by side with current numbers.

 

[davek]

Increased viral load is a risk in enclosed spaces

But hold on, restaurants for one aren't a problem. Safe as houses I was told.