Coronavirus

There was a really promising study released from Scotland this morning showing the reduction in hospitalisations among people who had the vaccine at least 3-4 weeks ago.

 

LIKE, but it's such a short test period.

The full picture won't be known for years, even decades.

 

I mean, I definitely make a distinction between sitting outside the pub and sitting inside or going to a crowded club or music venue.

Easy enough to socialise mainly outdoors during the summer anyway.

 

At a basic level, the really bad strain was so deadly that it was outcompeted by less lethal versions which could spread more easily and died out.

 

So glad the tiers are dead at least.

I honestly cannot wait to be inside a packed pub or club again... and gigs! Fingers crossed 12 June is a go.

 

That looks good - 'staycations' allowed from April probably.

it really irritates me they call them 'staycations'. That word is supposed to be for staying at home, not holidaying in the UK.

 

This was by far the most exciting thing for me... and I'm 38 What the fuck? I'm DESPERATE to go to a sweaty, packed night club oddly.

But the first few weeks is very slow progress, then it ramps up considerably quite quickly... i think those changes will feel quite fast - but I also think the figures will drop extremely fast around May time as well (which is what they must be projecting). They dropped fast last year and stayed low all summer, and that was even without a vaccine.

 

A lovely threshold reached today - West Devon became the first British region in months to fall below the >10 positive rate. They have a rate of 7 and have turned a lovely shade of silver on the BBC’s map

After going from red to orange last week, Liverpool regions have already gone yellow. The last 2 weeks have seen a heck of a change

it’s still curious though that 10k people per day are testing positive. The rate of decline is slowing.

 

Same age and would love nothing more! But I am one of those who refuses to grow up.

 

Yes but 3000 of those are asymptomatic completely; a further 6500 or so of them are not hospitalised, experience mild flu-like symptoms. 500 new hospitalisations is too many still, but the majority of the people who would have been hospitalised before have now been partially vaccinated at least, so that number should theoretically be a lot lower going forward too.

The rate of decline is slowing because we've not changed anything in the last 6 weeks - there's nothing to slow it down further unless they just locked everyone in their homes for a few weeks.

 

Congrats British girls. I don't know when France will come out of its semi-coma. I guess in summer because God forbid French people are not allowed to go on holiday.

 

Miss Macron said we’ll all be vaccinated by the end of August. I can’t see that happening with the current rollout rate. The whole EU vaccination strategy has been quite the fiasco so far.

 

Babes, at the current rate the whole population will be vaccinated in 2024. I know this country makes an art of taking its sweet ass time, but really... no... next. As soon as I can jump on the next train back to the UK, I'm going to be very Silicone, saline, AstroZeneca... inject me

 

Just how is Europe fucking up vaccinations so badly?

 

And that's surely going to be our biggest hurdle to a holiday in Europe later this year

 

Serbia is doing very well if you fancy a trip to LOVELY BELGRADE.

 

@ZenGiraffe are we likely to just announce the same as England did yesterday??

 

Maybe I'm being pessimistic but the rate of UK vaccinations seems to have declined across the last few days, and it's not being offset by a dramatic increase in second doses. Sunday had the lowest number of vaccinations since their dashboards started on 11 January; I hope this is just a blip rather than an indication of any supply problems.

 

Could it be that there’s a higher rate of people refusing a vaccine in certain age groups?

 

If some crusty old gammons don't want it, my buss is open and ready.

 

I keep seeing regional news reports about low uptakes on the vaccine in some areas, but I don’t know if they’re just interviewing select surgeries and blowing it out of proportion.

 

Supply issues according to Matt Hancock, this is bullocks according to the manufacturers.

 

Scotland to aim for reopening most of the economy (and return to a levels system) by the end of April.