Coronavirus outbreak

[albal]

This is a wartime situation. Vaccines should be rolled out 24/7. Urgent is an understatement.

 

[cookiemonster]

Schools here are to remain shut until after Chinese New Year in mid-Feb. Although many senior teachers are saying that it may be Easter before we see the kids in the flesh even for half days, which was the situation before early December.

 

[cookiemonster]

This is a wartime situation. Vaccines should be rolled out 24/7. Urgent is an understatement.

Vaccinations start here in HK in Feb and we can choose what vaccine we can have.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

It appeared on the Guardian's live coronavirus feed earlier. EDIT: at 10:02. It linked to here:
View: https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1338422079096500226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1338422079096500226%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2Flive%2F2021%2Fjan%2F05%2Fcovid-uk-coronavirus-live-news-updates-lockdown-boris-johnson

Many thanks.

 

[mjr]

View attachment 567371
It looks like I'm 15,000,000th in the queue.

It would be interesting to have one of those that also included QALY (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) reductions saved but I suspect we don't have good estimates of the effects of so-called long covid yet. After all, don't we care about saving people from living in years of agony too?

(edited to add "reductions" in case that was the source of the confusion below)

 

[BoldonLad]

That's dry January out the window for me.

Every cloud....

 

[BoldonLad]

This is a wartime situation. Vaccines should be rolled out 24/7. Urgent is an understatement.

Exactly.

I find it laughable (if it were not so serious), that after almost 10 months, still, data on infections, deaths, hospital admissions are "disrupted" by such unforeseeable events as weekends and public holidays.

Additionally, why aren't the statistics for numbers vaccinated per day and in total, being published daily, along with the daily infections, deaths, hospital admission figures?

 

[vickster]

This is a wartime situation. Vaccines should be rolled out 24/7. Urgent is an understatement.

The manufacturers do need time to produce, QC and distribute first though

 

[classic33]

It would be interesting to have one of those that also included QALYs (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) saved but I suspect we don't have good estimates of the effects of so-called long covid yet. After all, don't we care about saving people from living in years of agony too?

That's an insult to every patient facing member of the NHS.
This situation isn't new in the respect of quality of life due to a condition, and they do care about quality of life, with any condition.

 

[mjr]

That's an insult to every patient facing member of the NHS.

How on Earth do you misinterpret it to arrive at that conclusion?

This situation isn't new in the respect of quality of life due to a condition, and they do care about quality of life, with any condition.

How can long covid not be new?

 

[BoldonLad]

The manufacturers do need time to produce, QC and distribute first though

After assistance from my Senior Nurse Practitioner daughter, did eventually find some vaccination figures on PHE website Just under 1million done, first dose, according to that.

 

[mjr]

After assistance from my Senior Nurse Practitioner daughter, did eventually find some vaccination figures on PHE website

"Data are reported weekly on Thursdays, with data up to and including the previous Sunday."

So not at all a priority. You will only see how many were vaccinated yesterday in 9 days' time.

 

[PK99]

"Data are reported weekly on Thursdays, with data up to and including the previous Sunday."

So not at all a priority. You will only see how many were vaccinated yesterday in 9 days' time.

So what?

Infection/hospitalization/death rates are correctly a priority as they communicate to the public the reality of the spread of infection.

Why any daily urgency on reporting vaccination numbers?

 

[BoldonLad]

"Data are reported weekly on Thursdays, with data up to and including the previous Sunday."

So not at all a priority. You will only see how many were vaccinated yesterday in 9 days' time.

Agreed, I didn't say it was timely, or even accurate, certainly they were not easy to find!

IMHO, the figures should be included each day on BBC News etc, along with the daily doom and gloom infection, and deaths numbers, beloved of Laura Coronaberg, and, Robert Pestilence. Perhaps it would be be good for people's mental health, particularly those isolated and living alone (of whom, I know several).

 

[the snail]

This is a wartime situation. Vaccines should be rolled out 24/7. Urgent is an understatement.

I suspect vaccine supply will be the limiting factor rather than appointment slots. I can't see many people wanting to turn up at their surgery at 3am either.