Quick summary today due to the limitation of Sunday/Monday reporting lag. Usual ⚠️ and catch up Tues/ Wed/Thurs,
🦠🦠21,088 new cases
⚰️⚰️587 (28 day cut off deaths)
🏥 ADMISSIONS just over 3k
🛌 IN patients now under 35k so downward direction continues albeit still very high.
I remember being horrified at 3k admissions in a day in Wave 1.
VENTILATOR 🛌, 3832, with the most marked decrease in England with 3486
VACCINATIONS 💉
Stupendous effort with 9,468,382 doses administered to
8,977,329 people, 491,053 of them having received two doses.
That is 609,010 doses in a single day
Chapeau all involved.
Now we need data on efficacy on the early one and two dose people.
🦠 Just a little ⚠️ over cases.
Yes. The trend seems to be generally downward BUT, we are still at high levels when looking at positives by specimen data and remembering processing lag.
Just short of 30k last Monday is a lot less than the 44.8k the previous Monday.
Despite the likelihood of processing delays meaning days still being back filled, every weekday last week still markedly over 20k cases. (Weekends tend to dip due to low home test and processing. Mondays tend to be high as weekend home kits are swabbed and picked up).
Instead of engaging with the reality of Covid-19 and the societies which it is ravaging “they have simply used a familiar critique of the politicisation of health and the growth of a culture of fear as a script for explaining the reception of a new virus in new times. “
Neither medical science nor social analysis is sacred
But taking the measure of bureaucratic impositions like lockdowns requires something more too: it requires a moral compass. Government ministers abdicate responsibility for their policies by claiming they ‘follow’ the science
See those orange dots?
That’s the Kent B1.1.7 variant taking over
Seeing the timetable of events (esp late Nov alarm growing at the prevalence of the spike drop out samples tested and that, on 13th Dec we had 21,991 cases ) promoted another look.
Worth bearing in mind now that At the end of the Nov lockdown on 3rd Dec, moving into tiers we had 15,654 cases (by specimen date).
A couple of days at 12/13k & up it went to 21k
33k by 15th December but Johnson doesn’t want to cancel Christmas.
Quick summary with usual death data & case processing reporting lag ⚠️ for Sundays & Mondays
General trend downwards.
🦠18,607 new cases (close to 15/12/20)
⚰️ 406 (28 day deaths) BUT
⚰️💔⚰️123,400 Total COVID deaths (ONS to 15/1/21 + 28 day deaths since both by date of death
🏥 Welcome continuing trend downs wards particularly noticeable in England
⤵️ Admissions
⤵️ IN HOSPITAL
⤵️ VENTILATOR beds
Still horribly high numbers but moving in the right direction and faster now.
How much is lockdown & how much vaccination effect?
VACCINATION 💉
9,790,576 shots administered to 9,296,367 people of whom 494,206 have had a second shot.
Excellent effort but - 🙏🙏🙏- efficacy data on the December one shot - two shot cohorts ASAP. Pfizer vaccine group.
In graphics: the UK vaccine supply chain | Financial Times
Handy whistle stop tour of the U.K. VACCINE 💉 portfolio and where they are to be manufactured once approved (&, in some instances, the site built) ft.com/content/8b48a8…
According to the NAO £11.7bn has been set aside for the development, manufacturing and purchasing of the vaccines.
4 types of vaccines in the portfolio.
Of those 5 vaccines seem to have performed well in clinical trials.
Of those alone we have reserved 247 million doses.
There should be a lot of “home manufacturing” taking place save for the Pfizer (and maybe the Moderna) vaccines.
That should help secure part of the supply chain.
It should also facilitate manufacture of the vaccine for export purposes.
🦠🦠🦠23,275 new cases. Comparing Mondays by swab date, a decided reduction 👍. Still too high.
⚰️⚰️⚰️1200 (28 day deaths)
⚰️💔⚰️💔⚰️💔 122,118 COVID deaths 😱😱😱
(107,907 ONS/Stats Covid certified deaths to 15/1/21
+
14,211 (28 day deaths)
Both by date of death.
⚰️ In this wave we’ve had 17 consec days with over 1k deaths, 6 over 1.2k deaths & 1 over 1.3k deaths (19/01).
Deaths are still being added to most of these days.
In April there were 23 consecutive days with over 1k death
Peak being 8/4/21 = 1457 deaths
Deaths by date of death
🦠. TESTS. 23,275. See screenshot on the right to compare Mondays (by swab date).
Most of 25/1/21 should have been processed by now so it does look like a real downward trend .
Positivity in England only down to 11.9%. Still v high