The 9am figures not disclosed yet?

Good vaccination figures for a few days now Bear and the infection rate falling quickly so some good news there. I never believed the 2nd wave would get this bad though. It is tragic for 1,000's of families.
It's interesting isn't it. Hard to compare to other different diseases but in the Spanish flu pandemic the second wave was so much bigger than the first. I just sort of assumed that with modern medicine and hospital equipment we wouldn't face similar. How sadly wrong I was.

Does anyone else look nervously at the case data? Yes it's falling but I always fear it'll go back up. Lockdown is working but I'm terrified in case it stops working because we've got nowhere else to go.
 
It's interesting isn't it. Hard to compare to other different diseases but in the Spanish flu pandemic the second wave was so much bigger than the first. I just sort of assumed that with modern medicine and hospital equipment we wouldn't face similar. How sadly wrong I was.

Does anyone else look nervously at the case data? Yes it's falling but I always fear it'll go back up. Lockdown is working but I'm terrified in case it stops working because we've got nowhere else to go.
Vaccines is the only other exit route at the moment.

Hopefully a suppression of the cases with lockdown added to the most vunerable groups being vaccinated will start to see some sort of easing of restrictions.

Seems to be a lot more noise about drugs that could help treat Covid as well.
 
Cheers for that Randy, bit up and down though, and to be fair I don't blame you etirely for that. Where did you get the graph from Randy?
 
Most tests ever carried out yesterday too, 771k, almost 80k over the previous record on 14th of Jan (when things were far worse), and that is going to bump up the test average.
A lot more processed by the lab too 416k on the 27th, compared to 196k on the 25th.

So, hopefully that's not really a "case spike" it's mostly to do with just more tests being taken and processed, trend is still massively down for the cases, deaths will follow.
 
Today's headline analysis:

• 28,680 new cases reported in 24-hour period, up from yesterday's 25,308
• 7-day average for new cases decreases by 4.4% to 28,584 per day, following 6.1% decrease yesterday (and 18th consecutive daily decrease)
• 7-day average for new cases is 29.4% lower than one week ago (from 28.9% lower yesterday) and 46.0% lower than two weeks ago (from 44.2% lower yesterday and 29.3% lower 7 days ago)
• 1,239 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported in 24-hour period, down from 1,725 yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test decreases by 0.6% to 1,228 per day, following 1.1% decrease yesterday (and 4th decrease in the past 5 days)
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test is 0.2% lower than one week ago (from 0.9% higher yesterday) and 13.8% higher than two weeks ago (from 15.8% higher yesterday and 73.0% higher 7 days ago)

The past few days' data would seem to suggest that deaths may have peaked.
 

There are estimated to be 14.6 million people in the top four priority groups for vaccination. The UK began vaccinating those individuals in week commencing 7 December 2020.

Since then, the government has met or exceeded the required rate of vaccination on just three days. If it is to meet its target of vaccinating everyone within the top four groups by 15 February, they will need to vaccinate on average 376,000 people per day.
 
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There are estimated to be 14.6 million people in the top four priority groups for vaccination. The UK began vaccinating those individuals in week commencing 7 December 2020.

Since then, the government has met or exceeded the required rate of vaccination on just three days. If it is to meet its target of vaccinating everyone within the top four groups by 15 February, they will need to vaccinate on average 376,000 people per day.
To be fair the Government set an ambitious target and in general they have done a decent job getting propel vaccinated. I thought Chris Whitty spoke well about the science taken to give more people dose number 1
 
There are estimated to be 14.6 million people in the top four priority groups for vaccination. The UK began vaccinating those individuals in week commencing 7 December 2020.

Since then, the government has met or exceeded the required rate of vaccination on just three days. If it is to meet its target of vaccinating everyone within the top four groups by 15 February, they will need to vaccinate on average 376,000 people per day.
Their commitment was to invite the 4 groups by mid February, so this may be a commitment they exceed.
 
I hope they don't use that spin Bear. It didn't work for them with the 'your test is in the post' debacle.
To be fair the government can only do so much when it comes to vaccinating the population. A small example would be they need to rely on people actually going to appointments
 
Their commitment was to invite the 4 groups by mid February, so this may be a commitment they exceed.

Yes, you are right. They did commit to offering the vaccination to those groups by mid-Feb.

That said, I find it difficult to believe that 50K+ people per day are refusing the vaccine.
 
To be fair the Government set an ambitious target and in general they have done a decent job getting propel vaccinated. I thought Chris Whitty spoke well about the science taken to give more people dose number 1

I do agree that the vaccine roll out has broadly been successful, whether they meet that target or not.

However, they’ve now started layering other commitments on top of that target, such as reopening schools from 8 March. That date was picked because it’s three weeks after the last of those four priority groups should have been vaccinated, meaning they should all have some level of protection.

I’m presuming that you need all (or nearly all) of those most vulnerable people to have actually received the vaccine to give them this protection, not simply offered it to them.
 
To be fair the government can only do so much when it comes to vaccinating the population. A small example would be they need to rely on people actually going to appointments
Short notice reserve lists will help with this Randy.
 
I have an opinion on opening schools and it isn't very attractive. Firstly the government shouldn't be setting out dates for opening schools at the moment. They should wait and see where we are mid february ,then assess at the end of february and consult with LEA's and the teachers union. Johnson is repeating his mistakes with aspirational targets that he has no idea whether he can meet or not.

I think he is doing this so he can point his fat stupid finger at Starmer and accuse him of wanting to keep schools shut and bowing to his paymaster unions. He is trying to deflect from the mass killer he has become.

Johnson doesn't care about the folks dying, he doesn't care that teachers may be put at risk.

On BoroFur's point short notice reserve lists are a great idea, failling that go to the supermarket next door and offer it there. My sister in-law posted something on facebook, I think yesterday. Train Amazon drivers to adminsiter the vaccine, we will all be done by Tuesday, Saturday if you've got prime.
 
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