[Zizu]

Have I missed today’s stats / figures somehow ?


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[arista]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Have I missed today’s stats / figures somehow ?

I will do them now

[arista]

Bank Holiday Monday 31/5/21

1 Died
3,383 Caught Covid-19

Patients in hospital
Latest available
870

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
120


127,782 Total Deaths UK


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

[arista]

Ch4HDnews
says Nepal has a massive increase
more than 8,000 new cases.

The India supply of Vaccine
has now run out


A few weeks ago
the border to India was fully open.

They have run out of body bags

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[bots]

Covid variants will now be given greek letters to identify them to stop stigmatising countries

So

UK alpha
SA beta
Brazil gamma
India delta

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Covid variants will now be given greek letters to identify them to stop stigmatising countries

So

UK alpha
SA beta
Brazil gamma
India delta

Its to late
the Damage is Done.


Indian Variant found to be worse in 9-15 year old kids
(Ref: Sir Dave King, yesterday)

[Nicky91]

Peru worst affected country by coronacrisis

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...to-over-180000

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by arista

Bank Holiday Monday 31/5/21

1 Died
3,383 Caught Covid-19

Patients in hospital
Latest available
870

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
120


127,782 Total Deaths UK


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

Wow, that's really good. Only one death

[Vanessa]

I was at the seaside yesterday and as you can imagine it was packed.
But we won't get may days of sunshine this year, so we have to make the most of it.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

Peru worst affected country by coronacrisis

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...to-over-180000

Sadly, I think this will be the case with many developing countries, the official numbers won't reflect the true situation. e.g. I suspect the true death toll in India is likely far higher than the reported number. Probably Brazil, too.

[bots]

the vaccines are effective against the delta variant, so the worst case is that we have to vaccinate to younger age groups. We have the vaccines, we have the distribution and vaccination processes so its within our power to sort out

[Nicky91]

i definitely have decided now i don't want the toxic vaccine rubbish

[Ammi]

……vaccinologists all over the world looking at their job fulfilment levels this morning…having spent night and day and night and day and….

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

i definitely have decided now i don't want the toxic vaccine rubbish

Toxic Covid-19
is far worse,
Nicky

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I was at the seaside yesterday and as you can imagine it was packed.
But we won't get may days of sunshine this year, so we have to make the most of it.

Good you managed to make it
to the Seaside.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

the vaccines are effective against the delta variant, so the worst case is that we have to vaccinate to younger age groups. We have the vaccines, we have the distribution and vaccination processes so its within our power to sort out

In theory the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) can be reprogrammed extremely quickly to target any new strain that arises and technically don't "need" extensive testing as they're essentially the same vaccine in terms of "wots going into your body" - although there might be regulatory changes in some places needed for that sort of fast-tracking.

So looking at the longer term, with that being the case, if ongoing "new strains" are an issue then life going back to normal relies mainly on massively increasing vaccine production & roll-out infrastructure in a more permanent form (most likely large, permanent vaccination facilities).

Will most countries actually pull their finger out in terms of organising something like that? Well... who knows. But in theory that's what might be needed.

The mRNA tech is truly fascinating and an absolutely gargantuan medical breakthrough in general... that aspect of it has sort of gone under the radar because it's all "linked to Covid". If this tech had been completed and rolled out in "normal times" for a pre-existing virus, it would have been huge news on its own.

[user104658]

Can you tell I wish I had been given a sparkly mRNA vaccine instead of smelly viral vector AZ .

I'm hoping that any future "tweaked" vaccines will give the option and I'm not stuck with AZ forever because I got it early .

[arista]

You could have a Top Up
of the One Shot Johnson
later this year

TS.

[bots]

i remain very positive because we have all the pieces in place to sort out things as new challenges arise from variants etc. A year ago were were like ... "oh dear" ...