Covid the *** and the final stage.

[Mungri]

Got the call yesterday from the docs for my wife to get the *** next Wednesday. She's 55 but had a stroke a few years back and has aphasia (@Manxnorton knows what that's all about).
Two minutes after that they called back and booked myself in for the same day. I'm 58 with no health issues, so not sure why I've been called this early.

 

[crowcrow]

Got the call yesterday from the docs for my wife to get the *** next Wednesday. She's 55 but had a stroke a few years back and has aphasia (@Manxnorton knows what that's all about).
Two minutes after that they called back and booked myself in for the same day. I'm 58 with no health issues, so not sure why I've been called this early.

I'm some areas it seems they are getting nicely ahead of schedule - which is great. I know two ladies in their mid 40s with pretty normal asthma who have both been offered their jabs in London, in different boroughs.

Really hope this allows life to get a little more normal again, man I miss people! And cannot wait to head to a pub!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

BBC report

It may be legal for companies to insist on new staff being vaccinated as a condition of their employment, the justice secretary has said.

 

[soupdragon]

Our area must be even further ahead of the plan than I thought. Daughter, late 30's is having her 1st *** today. Her asthma does take stronger drugs to keep it in check than mine though.

Cheers. Tom

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Breaking news.


There has been a "strong decline" in levels of coronavirus infections in England since January, say scientists tracking the epidemic.

Imperial College London's React study found infections have dropped by two-thirds across England since lockdown began, with an 80% fall in London.

But virus levels are still high, with one in 200 testing positive between 4 and 13 February.

This is similar to levels seen in late September 2020.

Although these are interim findings, based on more than 85,000 swab tests from randomly selected people, they suggest social distancing and restrictions are having an impact.

Prof Paul Elliott, director of the programme at Imperial, said the drop in infection rates was "really encouraging".

Full article - Strong decline in coronavirus across England since January, React study shows

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I have been critical of the way the government have handled this crisis but from what I have seen including my own experience they have got the vaccination plan right.

Well I think you need to distinguish between the politicians and the machinery of government when you say things like that. The actions of politicians have been largely restricted to throwing money around and hoping it will work. Often it didn't - the ventilator challenge and test and trace (£4bn to October, another £16.2bn due to be spent by the end of next month). They've been bailed out by a lot of brilliant science and a lot of luck on the vaccine - things would be looking rather more grim if the vaccine reduced hospitalisation in >65's by the 27% that one study found for flu vaccines.

Someone made an interesting point the other day, that the Covid response has depended totally on the quality of the databases available. Things like furlough and vaccination have worked relatively well, because they could plug into existing databases for PAYE and medical records. The self-employed support worked less well in part because there's no neat database for them. And the real screwups like testing have happened when the politicians threw money at people whose idea of a database was an old version of Excel.

When you're looking to act quickly, you have to work with what you have - and it didn't help that Cummings had come into government with a deep distrust of the existing structures and was looking to destroy them, so positively tried to go outside them. That was an ideological position that cost us severely in the early days.

Here's the original of the 28,000 BMI tweet, there's a few more examples of database screwups in the replies. Databases are really important!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Coronavirus infections are continuing to decrease around the UK, Office for National Statistics data shows.
The figures, for the seven days up to 12 February, reveal fewer people are testing positive for the virus in the community than in recent weeks.
Experts warn that infection levels remain high however, with about 553,000 people found to have the virus.
And another 533 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.
It brings the UK total to 119,920.
Daily figures show there were a further 12,027 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the UK on Friday.

Full article - UK sees further drop in coronavirus numbers

Wednesday

Today -

 

[hughjamton]

Had me *** this morning. brewing Sunday, trying to think of a recipe for a "binjabbed" beer.

 

[Cwrw666]

Got my appointment for next thursday for the Oxford ***.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Got my appointment for next thursday for the Oxford ***.

That's good news, what age group are you in?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Cumbria County Council
@CumbriaCC

The first phase of Lateral Flow Community Testing sites are now open.
No appointment needed and results within 30 minutes.
There are 5 sites open across #Cumbria with more to follow.

http://yourcumbria.org/News/2018/councilannouncefirstphasecovidlateralflowsites.aspx

 

[Cwrw666]

That's good news, what age group are you in?

I'm 65. Which I find somewhat hard to believe.

 

[Clint]

My mam and dad have had theirs.. although dad nipped down the road to the British Legion for his whereas mam had to go into town to the college..a bit daft really but I suppose it is what it is.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I'm 65. Which I find somewhat hard to believe.

I am in the 55 - 60 group so am hoping it won't be long before I can get mine.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I am sat in a car park in town waiting for SWMBO to return with my beers etc and I cannot believe the amount of people on their own walking round with face coverings on do they think they can catch Covid when they are nowhere near anyone else.

 

[Clint]

It's the ones driving on their own that puzzle me...

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Going for my *** shortly

 

[dad_of_jon]

I am in the 55 - 60 group so am hoping it won't be long before I can get mine.

Same here, welsh govt say all over 50's by end of April so as I'm in same age bracket as you chippy should be 2nd/3rd week in April.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Going for my *** shortly

You'll be fine.