[bots]

Realistically we will be able to judge the numbers in another couple of weeks as it takes time for things to filter through. With a bit of luck the vaccination roll out continues to prove itself

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Realistically we will be able to judge the numbers in another couple of weeks as it takes time for things to filter through. With a bit of luck the vaccination roll out continues to prove itself

So far it's really helping.
So hopefully it will continue.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

that will quickly change if the youngsters start dropping like has happened in india. Young people are dying there from it, and that can't be explained by social circumstances because young people have largely been unaffected by covid all around the world until the indian variant hit

I genuinely think it’s far too early to be adopting scare stories like that; we spent most of last year having similar scare stories with new discoveries/new variants and in the end, the vast majority have (symptom and demographics wise) turned out on the statistical longer-term to all be more or less exactly the same. I genuinely think the stories coming out of India are simply because their population is gargantuan and testing levels likely extremely low... it’s probably far more widespread and endemic in the country than the official figures. Thus, rare situations (such as younger people being severely ill) will seem less-rare but it’s actually because of the sheer numbers who have caught it.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Cherie

The infection increase from last week is not that dramatic given they are surge testing

Yes, the affected areas are mass testing.
But they're also vaccinatting as much as they can.

[arista]

COVID-19: Vietnam detects 'more transmissible'
coronavirus variant thought to be hybrid of UK and Indian strains

[It comes as the country grapples with a spike in infections
after largely controlling the virus over the past year.
The announcement about the variant was made
by health minister Nguyen Thanh Long,
who described it as "dangerous".]


https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...rains-12320126

[arista]

Bloody China Wet markets
Destroying our World.

[Nicky91]

Netherlands will send supplies to Suriname, what health minister Hugo de Jonge has said

oxygen supplies, and also till end of June 750.000 doses of AstraZenica


Suriname are in ''Code Black'' critical levels, uncontrollable situation of covid, fully in lockdown now, all hospitals there are full, oxygen shortages

[Zizu]

Highly acclaimed Professor Timothy Gowers on Sky News now..

He’s feeling very anxious as the numbers are increasing exponentially day on day

He hopes that we don’t delay the next lockdown too long ....


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[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Hospitalisations and deaths have remained low for a while now.

The Indian variant is only really just kicking in though ?!?


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[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Cherie

The infection increase from last week is not that dramatic given they are surge testing

Yes Saturday to Saturday maybe

Wasn’t the increase far higher yesterday
( Friday to Friday ) ?


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[Zizu]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Realistically we will be able to judge the numbers in another couple of weeks as it takes time for things to filter through. With a bit of luck the vaccination roll out continues to prove itself

Agreed

It could look so different in two weeks time ... hopefully things are still looking good as regards hospitalisations and deaths


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[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

Bloody China Wet markets
Destroying our World.

Isn’t the latest data out just today - pointing to it being a man-made virus ??


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[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

Bloody China Wet markets
Destroying our World.

It was a lab escape and when this is fully established(its pretty much provable now) China and its communism will have to pay

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

It was a lab escape and when this is fully established(its pretty much provable now) China and its communism will have to pay

Chinese economy is reliant on global trade and global trade is reliant on China. So what can be done?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Chinese economy is reliant on global trade and global trade is reliant on China. So what can be done?

all i can think is sanctions of some kind but they must be punished even if its for the cover-up, reluctance to provide information, warning.

and WHO with their pathetic investigation must also be held to the metal

[bots]

As TS pointed out from the beginning, that lab at the origin was always highly suspicious, and the chinese cannot be trusted at all, so what i don't understand is why the WHO let them off the hook so early on. The only thing it can realistically be is corruption. If the WHO had come straight out and said, this looks really bad ... the world would have shut its borders much more effectively. It probably was already too late, but still. I dont think much can be done about China, but we sure can fix the WHO

[Zizu]

https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1...437893120?s=21


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[arista]

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[arista]

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

all i can think is sanctions of some kind but they must be punished even if its for the cover-up, reluctance to provide information, warning.

and WHO with their pathetic investigation must also be held to the metal

Have to say, some of the stuff with the WHO was extremely sus from the off... mainly just that statements were coming out supposedly from the high-ups at the WHO that sounded like CCP propaganda. It was bizarre. They didn’t just absolve China of wrong-doing, they were like “Actually China is a shining example to the world of the best handling of anything, ever”.

There’s a strong argument that they were appeasing them for access, but I don’t think it’s impossible for there to have been some aspect of actual control or coercion.

[Nicky91]

South Korea have been doing amazing ever since start of pandemic


China's approach also good i guess


the only asian countries who seem to be struggling now Japan, and more recently India



although India's daily case numbers are decreasing i've seen yesterday and day before


Japan just needs one strong lockdown now to push through this wave of theirs they face currently



overall the asian approach compared to europe or even the US is much better, since privacy in terms of app is also no problem there compared to over here, so the corona warn app works more efficiently there

[arista]

[bots]

The head of NHS Providers has said "very, very few" Covid patients in hospital in England have received two coronavirus jabs - showing the vaccines provide "very high" levels of protection.

Chris Hopson said patients tended now to be younger - meaning there was a lower need for critical care.

But he said it was "incredibly striking" how busy hospitals were, as they deal with non-Covid backlogs.

Trusts were going "full pelt", he said.

more at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57294438