Any consequences of, for example, France not getting on with vaccination will probably not be felt until later in the year, probably summer into winter. I don’t see how they can avoid some form of spike if they relax restrictions.
I don’t know how good their data is but they are a bigger country with less population density. To be honest I am only really bothered about us at the moment.They're imposing some restrictions, tighter in a couple of large regions, but schools remain open everywhere and small shops too I think. Deaths, admissions and new cases are growing slowly, nothing like the conflagration we experienced in January. 60% British Variant there.
To be honest I am only really bothered about us at the moment.
A drop in cases despite 1.5 million tests I believe.5766 cases today, 231 deaths, 528 admissions (6th)
Corruption-the new strain. It’s world beating.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tes-in-england-say-mps?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
There is no evidence to show that the government’s £22bn test-and-trace programme to combat Covid-19 in England contributed to a reduction in coronavirus infection levels, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.
In a report which examined the rush to invest in the scheme, the cross-party public accounts committee has challenged ministers to justify the “staggering investment of taxpayers’ money” and criticised the use of private consultants who are paid up to £6,624 a day.
The programme, which has a budget that exceeds that of the Department for Transport, is run by Dido Harding, who was appointed by the health secretary, Matt Hancock, last year. At the time, the prime minister, Boris Johnson, said the country would have as “world-beating” system.
Don’t go there. It’s an Aladdin’s cave of contagious diseases. I remember the scares over Marburg / Green Monkey when I was a school boy. There were still fears that smallpox would escape confinement. I should have born that in mind when I slapped a Vervet on the bum several years later in East Africa. Fortunately it only turned round and gave me a filthy look.
I guess the difference with Marburg & Ebola for example is that they are not transmitted via the air, its really only direct contact with the infected fluids so its somewhat easy to limit exposure. I guess that's why a lot of the Ebola outbreaks tended to infect a LOT of people very quickly early on, especially in areas with little to no modern medical support.Don’t go there. It’s an Aladdin’s cave of contagious diseases. I remember the scares over Marburg / Green Monkey when I was a school boy. There were still fears that smallpox would escape confinement. I should have born that in mind when I slapped a Vervet on the bum several years later in East Africa. Fortunately it only turned round and gave me a filthy look.
“Investment”?Corruption-the new strain. It’s world beating.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tes-in-england-say-mps?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
There is no evidence to show that the government’s £22bn test-and-trace programme to combat Covid-19 in England contributed to a reduction in coronavirus infection levels, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.
In a report which examined the rush to invest in the scheme, the cross-party public accounts committee has challenged ministers to justify the “staggering investment of taxpayers’ money” and criticised the use of private consultants who are paid up to £6,624 a day.
The programme, which has a budget that exceeds that of the Department for Transport, is run by Dido Harding, who was appointed by the health secretary, Matt Hancock, last year. At the time, the prime minister, Boris Johnson, said the country would have as “world-beating” system.
What happens once every adult in the UK has been offered the vaccine, we open up and cases start to increase within those who, for whatever reason, refuse to take the vaccine, putting increased pressure on the NHS. There is no way the public will accept any form of lockdown in this scenario IMHO.
Whitty added cases could also increase among those for whom the vaccine has not worked.What happens once every adult in the UK has been offered the vaccine, we open up and cases start to increase within those who, for whatever reason, refuse to take the vaccine, putting increased pressure on the NHS. There is no way the public will accept any form of lockdown in this scenario IMHO.
What happens once every adult in the UK has been offered the vaccine, we open up and cases start to increase within those who, for whatever reason, refuse to take the vaccine, putting increased pressure on the NHS. There is no way the public will accept any form of lockdown in this scenario IMHO.
A lot will depend on what the virus does. That section of the public will be a petri dish for new mutations etc which may well jump the vaccine given time. It isn’t just here, e.g. Brazil is in a hell of a state (it has a dreadful anti-science right-wing government) so there is little prospect of controlling things globally for a while. From a personal perspective I don’t care if people stupid enough to refuse the vaccine die, that’s just Darwinism in action, but we do need to keep a very close eye on the virus and what it does as time goes on. As soon as it mutates to the point we no longer have protection all options are back on the table, i.e. more lockdown. Ironically it is the far-right anti-vaccine anti-lockdown dickheads who are placing us at the most risk of more lockdown as they are willing petri dishes for mutation.
I think we need to be careful of this kind of thinking, it's already starting to feed into racist abuse.
I think we need to be careful of this kind of thinking, it's already starting to feed into racist abuse.