Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

Was that easing for Christmas really worth it...

Covid: UK reports 1,820 deaths as Johnson warns tough weeks to come

A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.

www.bbc.co.uk

What easing. Visit one family for one day....yeah, that’s what did it...

 

[BlueToff]

The vaccination numbers have been pitiful the last few days as well.

Who would have thought that the target would be missed?

Lad, give your head a wobble.

The vaccination numbers really are the only thing we can praise anybody in charge for atm (and I don't mean say how brilliant they are, but we're not doing bad).

We're hitting 300-340k per-day. Think it was @Brennan who pointed out the logistics behind that alone. The vaccine centres are opening up across the country and the take up is at 85%. I imagine every single person knows at least as many people - if not more - that have now had their first dose (at least) as have definitely had COVID.

What do you mean 'who would have thought that target would have been missed'?

As of Jan 4th, the day the latest measures were announced, we had to vaccinate approx 13.5m people to hit the mid-Feb target. They even said it would take everything to go perfectly for that to happen. And we're not actually going to be far off if this rate continues.

 

[BlueToff]

What happened in the first week of January?

Just that the deaths now are a result of people who will have been infected in the first week of Jan.

I posted the graphs from the WHO site in here yesterday. They tell a pretty simple - albeit grim - story.

 

[navidson]

Just that the deaths now are a result of people who will have been infected in the first week of Jan.

I posted the graphs from the WHO site in here yesterday. They tell a pretty simple - albeit grim - story.

I know the lag - but why would the numbers be biggest at the start of Jan?

 

[BlueToff]

@navidson

Sorry, it was Jan 9th that the peak in cases (top right graph) was.

I imagine we're in for one more spike in deaths. It'll rise this week, drop at the weekend, and then spike again next Tuesday/Wednesday.

 

[Goat]

The vaccine rollout has been great for me, sure its not perfect, but we are hitting very good digits.

 

[Leylo]

What happened in the first week of January?

Everyone must have licked each other's faces.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Thats my thing as well.

I would love to know where folk are catching it. Like there are always tits who do the wrong thing, but in the main, most follow the rules. And it cant be down to Christmas, surely?

Bewildering.

Would have been a schools too, they were still open just before Christmas, factor in the asymptomatic super spreader, incubation to transmission, time to develop Covid and then become seriously ill. Still in that time frame from that period.

 

[maccavennie]

I know the lag - but why would the numbers be biggest at the start of Jan?

One big massive rave that everyone was invited to except a few if us on here mate......and i still caught the bloody thing!

 

[davek]

People asking for the source of the second wave surge...

....it's this 'kin clown, of course....

 

[BlueToff]

I know the lag - but why would the numbers be biggest at the start of Jan?

Well, if families mixed over Xmas. Some areas still in Tier 2. A lot of people who went home for Xmas travelling back across the country (i.e. people who live in London or Leeds or wherever travelling back to their parents' houses).

It was also the middle of winter. It is the middle of winter. People's immune systems are weaker, people are more likely to spend time indoors and if you're with someone that's asymptomatic - even if they're in your family - how would you know that they've got it? They won't get tested unless they have to for work - and why would they if they have nothing wrong with them?

There's loads of factors. Tons.

It's easy to blame the government, and largely there is a lot on them. But some of it is just down to this being a virus in the middle of winter. Some of it is people not listening. Some of it will be people being totally unaware that they've caught it while going to the shop, had no symptoms but passed it on to someone else in their household.

 

[BlueToff]

One big massive rave that everyone was invited to except a few if us on here mate......and i still caught the bloody thing!

Hope you're feeling well enough, Mac!

 

[BlueToff]

Just been told to self isolate. Annoying !

To be fair, was very easy to get a drive in test, booked one 5 miles away and have already been.

If you haven't already mate, you should get a text with your result by/in the morning. Was surprised at how quick I got mine back

 

[maccavennie]

Hope you're feeling well enough, Mac!

I'm on the slow road to recovery mate but I'm one of the lucky ones let me tell you. Happy to be around posting my continuous nonsense on various threads mate

 

[Toast]

Would have been a schools too, they were still open just before Christmas, factor in the asymptomatic super spreader, incubation to transmission, time to develop Covid and then become seriously ill. Still in that time frame from that period.

They are more than half full now still.
Have bloody waiting lists to get kids in.