Monday 3/1/21

42 have Died
157,758 have caught Covid-19


Hospital Numbers still not updated.


148,893 Total UK Deaths of Covid-19

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Lincolnshire
has 4 Hospitals scaling back treatments
due to Staff shortages


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Some in the media and a few in here , generally speaking


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unless you can give an actual example then I think you are mistaken

Correct plus merging classes basically means that nobody learns anything and that’s with experienced teachers who know many of the students .. put a supply teacher in charge of a mixed ability group is disastrous


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You don’t think the anti vaxers and conspiracy theorists don’t have or use their own stats to make their points ??


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Looks like cases going down now

In London ??

They’re going through the roof in Gtr Manchester


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it's kind of difficult to go by the number of cases due to the holiday and the lack of test kits

Cases will go up until they reach the peak. Then they will go down.

You’d expect our numbers in Gtr Manchester to be plummeting given the shortage of tests/ test kits not increasing by 100% +


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Not in the broadcast news media or on here, no

via social media yes

I've not had a problem getting test kits. The number of people testing has increased due to more mixing over the christmas period. I expect the cases to keep rising for a while yet, people want extra time off work so will test now to see if they've caught it so they will have to isolate over the next week or so.

I know loads of people who have tested positive in the last week or so.....no one is particularly poorly but are isolating

id imagine, what, 80-90% of those isolating are absolutely fine and dandy?

They’ve been reporting shortages of PCI and Lateral Flow tests in the uk for a few days ...


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Maybe this is why the infection rate has supposedly gone down in the past few days in London ...
It ain’t science of the ticket tbh

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Covid: Three-quarters of London pharmacies out of lateral flow tests as PM urged to ‘get a grip’ on shortages

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The media also reported a lack of fuel which there never was. I have been able to collect tests for my house and my dads with no problems over the christmas week. People have panicked and stick piled as they did with fuel. It will sort itself out again like the fuel did

i got a new test kit and stored it away with my toilet roll collection

To be fair yes that's true of LF tests, but some areas (mainly around London) did have a shortage of PCR tests at testing centres as well, and that can't be down to panic stockpiling. It can only be down to either genuinely more cases needing tested, or I guess some "panic testing" - people being more inclined to go for a PCR to "make sure" when they have very minimal symptoms and negative LF tests (and probably just have a sniffle). The ratio of positive/negative tests should show that if it's the case, though.

That is correct about the test centres in London ( and surrounding areas) running out / being desperately low yet the media and even a few in here are happy to state as facts that there are NO shortages and if there are they are simply down to the public stockpiling


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We had day 2 tests from amazon but we couldn’t register yesterday as registration was suspended for the holidays I guess, we booked Mr C in to a test centre as he wants to get back to work there were loads of appointments and he got his PCR test back this evening... so no shortage of private PCR tests ..i had a box of lateral flows coming every other day for a week before Christmas ...you could get them on line as long as you checked regularly

Can I ask have you personally been unable to get tests?

You were specifically talking about Gtr Manchester.....as I live here also I was telling you that this week I have had codes from my hone in South Manchester and my Dads in North Manchester and have been able to order and collect the same day. I know people who ordered boxes online...everyday and therefore have stock piled. I have never mentioned PCR tests as I have.never taken one. However, 2 friends today have booked and taken PCR appointment in Salford so no delay there either. So no, here in Manchester there isn't a shortage I have experienced in my personal experience...there are no tests to be ordered by post but the code you get has allowed me to pick up tests whenever I have needed them. I am not claiming anything, just going off personal recent experience and not buying scaremongering.

No ... that was not my point though tbf


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