[Zizu]

The arrival of this Brazilian variant has come just at the wrong time for all us working in education ...

They are trying to convince us that our schools and colleges will be Covid free due to all the kids having home testing kits .. these are the very same LFD tests used in Liverpool which are apparently as low as 48% accurate when done by a trained adult so I don’t see how the home testing option is going to give BETTER accuracy rates than that .


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On this morning’s BBC Breakfast, interviewer Naga Munchetty put it to Mr Gibb that the tests “detected just 48.9 per cent of Covid-19 infections in asymptomatic people”. The schools minister replied: “No, about a third have false negatives”. He added that pupils would get two tests each, three days apart.

There was a similar exchange in the House of Commons earlier in the week, when SNP MP Philippa Whitford confronted Mr Hancock with the results of a study that “revealed a sensitivity of just 48 per cent, meaning that over half of those with the virus would be falsely reassured they were negative”.



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[arista]

Push on with the vaccine


Van Tam says

[Zizu]

Right..

The government know that this missing person was on the Swissair flight lx 318 from Switzerland to the Uk on the 10th Feb so I don’t really understand why they are asking people to come forward .

Why hasn’t EVERY person on the flight been contacted already ??

Presumably many will be in family groups which makes things easier.


How on earth do we ever catch unknown murderers and terrorists if we can’t even locate someone we have every known detail about . ???


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[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Right..

The government know that this missing person was on the Swissair flight lx 318 from Switzerland to the Uk on the 10th Feb so I don’t really understand why they are asking people to come forward .

Why hasn’t EVERY person on the flight been contacted already ??

Presumably many will be in family groups which makes things easier.


How on earth do we ever catch unknown murderers and terrorists if we can’t even locate someone we have every known detail about . ???


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I wonder if it is a data protection thing? hard to say really

whoever picked the form up didn't look at it properly to check it was complete

[Cherie]

Surge testing for the Brazilian variant in South Gloucs, is that you MTVN?

[Zizu]

Just watching the briefing now and it’s not even clear that the missing person was even on the flight ... maybe just a routine , random home testing test result ?


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[Vanessa]

Wow, I've never seen the numbers this low.
Vaccines are doing their job.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Wow, I've never seen the numbers this low.
Vaccines are doing their job.

On a Monday they are.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

On a Monday they are.

Last Monday they were almost double that?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Surge testing for the Brazilian variant in South Gloucs, is that you MTVN?

It's near, the testing is being concentrated on a couple of commuter towns just outside Bristol

Thankfully I am just over the border in uninfected Gloucestershire

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

It's near, the testing is being concentrated on a couple of commuter towns just outside Bristol

Thankfully I am just over the border in uninfected Gloucestershire

Phew

[arista]

Monday 1/3/21


Today 104 have died

5,445 have caught Covid-19 today

Patients in hospital
Latest available
14,808

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
1,971

122,953 Total UK Deaths

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

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Last Monday they were almost double that?

So they should be
We are in a LONG lockdown



Cherie

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

So they should be
We are in a LONG lockdown



Cherie

true but according to JVT the death rate is falling at a much much faster than in the first peak so..

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Cherie

true but according to JVT the death rate is falling at a much much faster than in the first peak so..

The vaccine works.
If we do it every year we could have pretty much a normal life back.

[arista]

NewsnightHD BBC2
has a shocking report on Food factorys
Salad Factory up north(Supplying M&S, Tesco & others)
with folks on Low wages, who have to go to work
even if they have Covid-19.

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[COVID-19: Brazilian P1 variant may spread more
easily and could evade immune system,
scientists find
Experts from Brazil and the UK estimate the variant
is more transmissible than previous versions
of coronavirus found in Manaus.]

https://news.sky.com/story/brazilian...-find-12233402

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by arista

Monday 1/3/21


Today 104 have died

5,445 have caught Covid-19 today

Patients in hospital
Latest available
14,808

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
1,971

122,953 Total UK Deaths

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

We're doing so well. Once all adults are vaccinated we should be able to have some normality back.
Can't wait!

[DouglasS]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

We're doing so well. Once all adults are vaccinated we should be able to have some normality back.
Can't wait!

Each week it seems to be dropping by around 33%, it’s brilliant news

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by DouglasS

Each week it seems to be dropping by around 33%, it’s brilliant news

I'm really looking forward to summer now.
Can't wait to go to Southend

[arista]

Tuesday 2/3/21

Today 343 have Died.

6,391 have caught Covid-19.

Patients in hospital
Latest available
12,748

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
1,806


123,396 Total UK deaths.


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

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Zizu

I must say all this news of the Brazilian variant being ‘somewhere’ in the uk very unsettling ... it apparently spreads like wildfire and there’s thousands of people in Brazil who got the Brazilian one AFTER they’d already suffered with the original Covid months previously .

That basically suggests that everyone can potentially get the Brazilian one now ( apart from MAYBE the folk who’ve had a vaccine-as they’re HOPING the vaccines will give some protection)




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So Matt Hancock says they’re closing in on the missing person !

They’ve narrowed it down to 379 households in the south east ..


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