Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[navidson]

Come on Monday - take a good, long run up before you kick us square in the goolies

 

[navidson]

Encouraging figures today - Shame it's Monday

 

[Deleted member 48881]

9 Top N.Y. Health Officials Have Quit as Cuomo Scorns Expertise

“When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said of pandemic policies. “Because I don’t.”

www.nytimes.com

 

[peteblue]

U.K. vaccinations, Yesterday first jab 319K and 3K second. Total first jab 9,296K, total second jab 494K......

 

[LinekersLegs]

Anybody got any crumbs of positivity to get me through the day?

 

[LinekersLegs]

A preprint but will be helpful if further testing and peer review validates this

 

[tsubaki]

They've been delivering kits for anti-body tests and actual tests since October.

Star Recruitment were the contractors doing it, and ironically then placed people on furlough.

Yes, its daft to do it (albeit they don't have any other way of doing it, because they've not put the effort in to creating a body that can do that).

 

[tsubaki]

U.K. vaccinations, Yesterday first jab 319K and 3K second. Total first jab 9,296K, total second jab 494K......

At the risk of repeating myself, that second dose number needs to be higher, both for today and in total - by this time four weeks ago (the first point at which the AZ jab could be used for a second dose, though bear in mind the first AZ vaccination was on 4th January so the vast majority will be Pfizer) there were 1.37 million who'd had the first jab; by this time three weeks ago (the 21 day ideal time for the Pfizer second dose) 2.29 million had their first.

Second dose = properly vaccinated; we want many more properly vaccinated people.

 

[roydo]

Yes, its daft to do it (albeit they don't have any other way of doing it, because they've not put the effort in to creating a body that can do that).

Loads of stuff the NHS send out to patients for home tests/samples are delivered by the standard distribution network. In other words, me.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[tsubaki]

Loads of stuff the NHS send out to patients for home tests/samples are delivered by the standard distribution network. In other words, me.

That is true, but this needs to be (or at least should be) treated much more urgently - ie: you feel ill with what you think this is, you call the centre and whilst you are on the phone they send someone round your house to test you. Whilst the person is on the way they ask where you've been, who you've been speaking to and then send other people round to them to test. The tests are then taken away and done. If you or they need to isolate, the message goes out.

Just posting it through peoples doors unannounced (admittedly its been on the news) seems to mean that it isn't being taken that seriously, tbh.

 

[peteblue]

They did say that some people reported being a bit poorly the day after... nothing serious... just feeling like you’ve got a heavy cold

How you feeling now, all Ok ?.....

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Caught the back end of a BBC news report yesterday with regards to the way the death figures are calculated, think it's this " all deaths of anyone who have tested positive in the last 28 days" did anyone see it or did I get it wrong.

 

[strummer]

[/QUOTE]

Story in the Echo about people without appointments turning up at Aintree Racecourse where the vaccine is being rolled out "asking for spares".

lol

FFS.

I've considered doing that myself to be honest

 

[roydo]

Caught the back end of a BBC news report yesterday with regards to the way the death figures are calculated, think it's this " all deaths of anyone who have tested positive in the last 28 days" did anyone see it or did I get it wrong.

Thats they way they have done it for nearly a year.