Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[mmmmsnouts]

Unfortunately agree, increasing vaccine supply to those Michigan areas (assuming uptake) would make a difference in the long term but absent it being used in combination with NPIs like stopping indoor dining and increased mask use you’d still see quite a lot of the case rise - exponential growth is darn powerful.

Will admit I’m not clear on what is happening with Texas, overall state numbers seem OK but a very localized outbreak in the northern area - any idea @BlueTX ?

I think that Texas data looks worse in ratios than in raw numbers.

The only proper city in the Panhandle is Amarillo. There may not even be 10,000 residents in most of those counties. If the positivity rate is 100 per 100,000 people, that works out to... 10 cases. If the rate was 100 per 100,000 people in Dallas County, that would be more than 2,500 cases.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

UK cancer patients more likely to die following COVID-19 than European patients | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Cancer patients from the UK were 1.5 times more likely to die following a diagnosis with COVID-19 than cancer patients from European countries.

www.imperial.ac.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

With Fauci saying this week that it's quite probable that they won't ever end up using the AZ vaccine, here's hoping they send some south of the border to places like Brazil.

 

[Billy Dean]

 

[grandjoeblue]

I think that Texas data looks worse in ratios than in raw numbers.

The only proper city in the Panhandle is Amarillo. There may not even be 10,000 residents in most of those counties. If the positivity rate is 100 per 100,000 people, that works out to... 10 cases. If the rate was 100 per 100,000 people in Dallas County, that would be more than 2,500 cases.

Looking at the numbers Texas seems to be dropping still? Or are they testing a lot less? The numbers i have seen look good considering they've reopened a lot in a short period of time.

 

[davek]

With Fauci saying this week that it's quite probable that they won't ever end up using the AZ vaccine, here's hoping they send some south of the border to places like Brazil.

Whoa whoa whoa...that's not true. @COYBL25 has family in Los Angeles who've had AZ. He said so.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Whoa whoa whoa...that's not true. @COYBL25 has family in Los Angeles who've had AZ. He said so.

Maybe he meant Alzheimer's?

 

[peteblue]

Maybe he meant Alzheimer's?

Harsh but brilliant.....

 

[davek]

From the BBC:

Attila Kulcsar, a media communications manager, said the atmosphere was "like a return to the 'real' Soho of the 1990s" - or alternatively "like how I imagine VE Day", referring to the scenes of jubilation at the end of World War Two.
"There is a wonderfully raucous hysteria everywhere. It's very celebratory. There is very little social distancing. A distinct sense that people feel the Covid restrictions have ended," he said.

 

[Charro]

From the BBC:

Attila Kulcsar, a media communications manager, said the atmosphere was "like a return to the 'real' Soho of the 1990s" - or alternatively "like how I imagine VE Day", referring to the scenes of jubilation at the end of World War Two.
"There is a wonderfully raucous hysteria everywhere. It's very celebratory. There is very little social distancing. A distinct sense that people feel the Covid restrictions have ended," he said.

No hyperbole there. None at all.

Let’s see in two weeks the impact yesterday had. I suspect very little, like anytime we’ve opened up and people like yourself have screamed from the rooftops another lockdown will come.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

From the BBC:

Attila Kulcsar, a media communications manager, said the atmosphere was "like a return to the 'real' Soho of the 1990s" - or alternatively "like how I imagine VE Day", referring to the scenes of jubilation at the end of World War Two.
"There is a wonderfully raucous hysteria everywhere. It's very celebratory. There is very little social distancing. A distinct sense that people feel the Covid restrictions have ended," he said.

I couldn't help but think of this when I saw some of the clips

 

[BlueToff]

Whatever happened to just quietly sitting and having a pint?

The north knows.

 

[Mrk]

Find it hard to be overly critical of people who maybe do push it a little too far. Walked around town yesterday afternoon and it was packed with people clearly seeing friends and family for the first time in ages - that novelty will soon wear off and things will calm down.

Was nice to see the city full of people again and local businesses actually being able to serve people.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Had a chat with the neighbour this morning. I know he's a regular at the local pub so said he must be happy now. He said it's worse now as all through lockdown the publican has been having regulars in for "lock ins" where no rules were really enforced, whereas now they have to do things properly

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I shouldn't laugh really