Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

"This month alone we'll see 1 million people worldwide who'll die of Covid19" - Prof Andrew Pollard Oxford University vaccine group:

"It's over" - GOT Independent SAGE group.

 

[BlueToff]

"This month alone we'll see 1 million people worldwide who'll die of Covid19" - Prof Andrew Pollard Oxford University vaccine group:

"It's over" - GOT Independent SAGE group.

So in one month, we're going to have nearly a third of the total deaths from the last 18 months?

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Now they aint offering the AZ to under 40's no chance they keep to their target of all over 18's vaccinated by end of July imo.

 

[BlueStevie35]

"This month alone we'll see 1 million people worldwide who'll die of Covid19" - Prof Andrew Pollard Oxford University vaccine group:

"It's over" - GOT Independent SAGE group.

How’s he working that one out?

 

[Tramps_mate]

"This month alone we'll see 1 million people worldwide who'll die of Covid19" - Prof Andrew Pollard Oxford University vaccine group:

''buy our vaccine moar''

 

[davek]

So in one month, we're going to have nearly a third of the total deaths from the last 18 months?

The pandemic is raging. 30,000 deaths today alone forecast.

 

[davek]

So in one month, we're going to have nearly a third of the total deaths from the last 18 months?

How’s he working that one out?

27.15 here:

BBC One - The Andrew Marr Show, 09/05/2021

Andrew Marr's guests include Nicola Sturgeon, Michael Gove, Anas Sarwar and John McDonnell

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[BlueStevie35]

Just in the last two weeks, the worldwide total is 183,633 (89,817 this week, 93,816 last week)

 

[roydo]

Just in the last two weeks, the worldwide total is 183,633 (89,817 this week, 93,816 last week)

I saw the interview, well, most of it, and while we can talk to and fro about the accuracy of the Prof's numbers, the point he was centrally making was that there needs to be way more vax's, worldwide.

Sometimes using a large number can make the point better.

@davek That was your take on it as well?

 

[davek]

I saw the interview, well, most of it, and while we can talk to and fro about the accuracy of the Prof's numbers, the point he was centrally making was that there needs to be way more vax's, worldwide.

Sometimes using a large number can make the point better.

@davek That was your take on it as well?

No, not really. He was certainly making the case for redistribution of vaccines to the global south, but he was quoting numbers from US health sources that we'd see just short of 1 million deaths worldwide this month alone, and I dont think he was using it as a way of persuading people here to let go of a third vaccine.

 

[JLW]

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[BlueToff]

The pandemic is raging. 30,000 deaths today alone forecast.

Not in the UK it's not.

So keep doing what we're doing because it's working.

 

[BlueToff]

Just in the last two weeks, the worldwide total is 183,633 (89,817 this week, 93,816 last week)

But apparently that's going to be x10 in the space of a month.

Disaster doctor ey.

 

[BlueToff]

Now they aint offering the AZ to under 40's no chance they keep to their target of all over 18's vaccinated by end of July imo.

Moderna mate, depends on the stock

Based on that rough estimate calculator, I'm still due sometime in early July, but I'd imagine that may well stretch into August

 

[roydo]

But apparently that's going to be x10 in the space of a month.

Disaster doctor ey.

The merican docs would have modelled a range of outcomes based on various actions. Looks like this prof picked up on a Worse Case Scenario to underline his valid points re global sharing of vax's.