Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[TaffyToffee85]

Suck on this Boris, you lockdown loving Toff freak.

Source: BBC News

Vaccinations are "successful" at reducing hospital admissions, the head of the NHS in England says.

Sir Simon Stevens has been speaking as a new study shows a 75% reduced risk of emergency hospital admission among people who have received the Pfizer vaccine.

The study by the NHS and the University of Manchester has found older people who have received the jab are less likely to be admitted to hospital, and less likely to have a positive test, compared with those who have not been vaccinated.

Researchers examined data on more than 170,000 people aged 80 to 83 who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine between 15 and 20 December last year.

They compared this information with "matched controls" aged 76 to 79 who had not yet received the jab.

Sir Simon says: "Vaccines are successfully reducing hospitalisations and deaths amongst the cohorts that have had the vaccine.

"Data that we have analysed shows a 75% reduction in emergency Covid hospitalisations for the vaccination cohorts and, as more and more people are vaccinated, that effect will widen."

 

[BlueToff]

They are, but caution, to me, is still the watch word. I quite enjoyed seeing folk have responsible SD drinks and stuff this week, and the shops must be breathing a sigh of relief. But I live in a village, near a modest sized town, and compliance has been 100% afaik.

If this kopite virus has taught us anything, its that it is unpredictable.

100% caution, but by and large people are being

There's been people moaning in here and on social media etc and in the news that the last lockdown wasn't strict enough (for 2 months they were whinging) - that too much was open, that too many kids were going to school, that why were people going into places of work?

Yet the lockdown worked (and is still working but we're probably starting to see the vaccines now take some more of a share of being responsible for the cases dropping too).

I can't speak for cities, obviously. I live in a small city and just stick to my local area for now to go for anything. The rigmarole that places are having to go through to open - they're trying hard and the ones round me seem to have used the time to get set up for it.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Wirral now has 35th lowest Covid weekly infection rate in England

Wirral has one of the lowest weekly coronavirus infection rates in the country, latest figures show.

www.wirralglobe.co.uk

Considering the volume of testing we're probably at a lower point than last summer already. Incredibly low numbers in some areas.

 

[BlueToff]

Suck on this Boris, you lockdown loving Toff freak.

Source: BBC News

Vaccinations are "successful" at reducing hospital admissions, the head of the NHS in England says.

Sir Simon Stevens has been speaking as a new study shows a 75% reduced risk of emergency hospital admission among people who have received the Pfizer vaccine.

The study by the NHS and the University of Manchester has found older people who have received the jab are less likely to be admitted to hospital, and less likely to have a positive test, compared with those who have not been vaccinated.

Researchers examined data on more than 170,000 people aged 80 to 83 who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine between 15 and 20 December last year.

They compared this information with "matched controls" aged 76 to 79 who had not yet received the jab.

Sir Simon says: "Vaccines are successfully reducing hospitalisations and deaths amongst the cohorts that have had the vaccine.

"Data that we have analysed shows a 75% reduction in emergency Covid hospitalisations for the vaccination cohorts and, as more and more people are vaccinated, that effect will widen."

He's covering his own back - same with all of them.

But, it's kind of right. Got to reaffirm the message, as crap as it is mate.

 

[peteblue]

Had a really nice evening at a different pub tonight, very quiet compared to Monday. The sun was shining, the beer was good, if expensive, nice to get out though. We’ve put loads of effort into getting our place ready for Friday opening. Everything outside is regulation compliant and looks wonderful, the cellar is at a perfect temperature and the cask beer has been quietly conditioning. By Friday the beer will be perfect, the finest pizzas of every kind will be served from a visiting company, hopefully the weather will be fine, but even if it isn’t we’ll have a great time...just got to work out which pub to visit tomorrow .....Covid eh....

 

[Cool_Blue]

‘A tsunami of cases’: desperation as Covid second wave batters India

Doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before

www.theguardian.com

Nightmare scenes of a country struggling to cope have begun to emerge as doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before, affecting young people and even children this time around and pushing India’s healthcare system to the brink of collapse. States such as Maharashtra have imposed a weekend lockdown in an attempt to curb infections, while Delhi has introduced a night curfew, with a total lockdown still not ruled out.

Over the weekend bodies piled up outside the government hospital in Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, because the hospital had “not expected so many people to die at once” from coronavirus and could not cremate them fast enough. In Surat, in the state of Gujarat, crematoriums became so overwhelmed with coronavirus victims that families began burning their dead on open ground.

They let the crowds in to ensure they had home support for the Test series v England. Much more important than thousands dying of covid, obviously.

 

[COYBL25]

‘A tsunami of cases’: desperation as Covid second wave batters India

Doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before

www.theguardian.com

Nightmare scenes of a country struggling to cope have begun to emerge as doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before, affecting young people and even children this time around and pushing India’s healthcare system to the brink of collapse. States such as Maharashtra have imposed a weekend lockdown in an attempt to curb infections, while Delhi has introduced a night curfew, with a total lockdown still not ruled out.

Over the weekend bodies piled up outside the government hospital in Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, because the hospital had “not expected so many people to die at once” from coronavirus and could not cremate them fast enough. In Surat, in the state of Gujarat, crematoriums became so overwhelmed with coronavirus victims that families began burning their dead on open ground.

Popadom Republic.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Thread on the info being presented at ACIP JNJ mtg

 

[Barnfred 55]

Depends if your under 30. They do exist out side forums. There are better safer vaccines. Just they cost more.

Not sure the under 30s in Africa and Asia will give a flying one

 

[BlueToff]

Not sure the under 30s in Africa and Asia will give a flying one

Or Wakefield

 

[peteblue]

Not sure the under 30s in Huyton and Kirkby will give a flying one

fixed....

 

[Barnfred 55]

I can see the May 17th date being pushed back, tbh.

Did you not say something similar about April 12th

 

[peteblue]

I don't disagree but I think people's patience is starting to wear very thin now.
If they do push it back to July then I think we will just have to accept that a lot of people will
simply ignore the restrictions. We will be in mid summer so BBQ's, parties the lot will happen.
I've stuck with it pretty strictly so far but I've had enough of it now. Not saying thats right
but I think a lot of people feel the same. The idea of the vaccines was 'to save the NHS'. That
for all intents and purposes has been done. Either vaccines are the route out of this or they are not?
If they are not - then what do we do next?

We’ll need a distraction....I hear that Putin is about to invade Ukraine.....

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 29 deaths were announced today, down 6 on yesterday and down 16 on last Wednesday. 26 deaths were in English hospitals, down 7 on yesterday and down 16 on last week. The 7 day rolling average falls to 31.57

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 38 deaths were announced today, up 15 on yesterday and down 7 on last Wednesday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 33.43

For the 60 day cut off, 117 deaths were announced today, up 42 on yesterday and down 29 on last Wednesday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 75.43

 

[LinekersLegs]