Maybe - but my experience is that it is more likely someone infectious will bump into me. I take care to try to avoid any bumping into people - as the bumper or bumpee. But others are not so careful.
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But as in Nev's area, our largest London Borough infection rate has been falling, BUT, so have our deaths which of course are unaffected by test availability.
Last week zero deaths, down from 2 in the week before.
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UK wide, covid deaths are still growing.
57% increase in the last 7 days [447 deaths, 163 more than the week before].
No sign of peaking.
That's probably a reliable measure of success/failure of our government action.
What I expected short term, but I think it will decline as the year progresses.
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A fairly fast offence-to-apology time.
Just a poor choice of word(s). Seems to be enedemic in the tories.
I see suggestions that football (and other sport) will be included in the "must be vaccinated" rules.
In the context of Wembley, if they can't even manage to stop people without tickets entering, what chance checking the vaccination status of every person trying to gain entry (with or without a ticket)?
In the context of Wembley, if they can't even manage to stop people without tickets entering, what chance checking the vaccination status of every person trying to gain entry (with or without a ticket)?
Assuming said minister can and will read, when his boss obviously doesn't!
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•Vietnam has a population of 97 million & during the entire 2 yr pandemic it lost a total of 370 people to Coronavirus
•UK has a population of 68 million & since Freedom Day on Monday it has lost 418 people to Coronavirus Sajid Javid’s handiwork has exceeded Vietnam in a week
If I had a Funeral Parlour this could be the first Brexit Bonus I could boast about
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•Vietnam has a population of 97 million & during the entire 2 yr pandemic it lost a total of 370 people to Coronavirus
•UK has a population of 68 million & since Freedom Day on Monday it has lost 418 people to Coronavirus Sajid Javid’s handiwork has exceeded Vietnam in a week
If I had a Funeral Parlour this could be the first Brexit Bonus I could boast about
But can we trust their figures? At the 31 May 2021 they stated they only had 47 deaths since their first infection cases in January 2020, so from the above they seem to have had a surge of 323 deaths in just 7 weeks since!
Copied from Vietnam Info site. Updated 31 May 2021:
Current snapshot of COVID-19 situation in Vietnam
| Confirmed infections | 7236 |
| Recovered cases | 2950 |
| Deaths | 47 |
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No direct sign of deaths peaking. However, death stats typically lag cases stats by around 3 weeks, so we may well see a peak in a couple of weeks, followed by decline (otherwise it wouldn't have ben a peak).
Vaccination has almost certainly reduced cases, but that is difficult to verify from the stats. The stats show that it has certainly reduced case fatality rate; it seems (?) that the case/death lag has remained fairly consistent.
Similarly the cause (eg football cup or removed lockdown) to recorded case lag is probably a couple of weeks. If the cases continue the current downward slope for the next couple of weeks that will be an indication that the recent government relaxations have not been as bad as many of us feared.
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hospitalisation figures have a lot less lag, the probability that someone ends in hospital varies with temperature and humidity, lower in the summer, higher in the autumn and winter.
Latest data provided on 20 July 2021
Daily
917
Last 7 days
5,490
up 1,157 (26.7%) in the last 7 days.
And what is happening to the death figures? Claimed technical issues but it seems rather odd.
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That was rather the inference I expected you to draw.
Infection figures down again today, daily number down six days in a row, from 47k a week ago to 25k now.
So much for Professor Neil Ferguson's forecast just over a week ago of the 52k steeply rising to 100k a day.
Already other gloom mongers are changing their tune from disaster by Christmas to infection rate low by the end of August.
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Neil Ferguson did not say when 100k a day will be reached. It could be late September or October when the cold weather returns.
I was guessing at a ceiling of 60,000 a day in the middle of the summer.
I was guessing at a ceiling of 60,000 a day in the middle of the summer.
Yes this is good news, does anyone know why this is happening? With the ending more or less of restrictions in England one would expect rates to have increased I wonder why they have not.
Could it be that with so many people vaccinated, so many people having caught the virus and also that a certain percentage of people (not sure what this percentage is) seem to be immune to the virus that we might be getting close to herd immunity.
I imagine the real test will come when schools start back again in September and by then people vaccinated last December or January may well need a booster injection.