I’m not going to carry on doing my daily COVID data summary every single day.
Just a couple of times a week.
But I will be checking them as I forsee, 8 weeks into lockdown deaths and hospitalisations will keep dropping at least for 4 weeks (baked in)
But will be watching cases
We are at the stage where cases and hospitalisations are falling due to lockdown and vaccination.
In the next 2-3 months we will be able to see vaccination effect distinct from vaccination ..but it will be cases we need to watch carefully for the next 2-3 months.
I shall still be doing the summaries, but maybe three times a week for a month or so as I did over the summer.
Vaccination effect *distinct from lockdown*
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It was only a matter of time before this pharmacist got Covid.
“A lot of minicab and Uber drivers came to see me. They showed classic symptoms of the virus, but they kept saying things like: ‘Just give me something for the sore throat, cough syrup or something,’” he says.
“I told them time and again to get a Covid test, but they just did not want to get a test or go to the doctor because they knew they could not afford to isolate.”
He says his Primary Care contract meant he could not refuse to serve anyone, not even those refusing to wear a mask
Tax & spending experts say Sunak's budget doesn't add up
Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, said the “spending plans in particular don’t look deliverable, at least not without considerable pain” predicting that the government would have to spend more theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
“Are we really going to spend £16bn less on public services than we were planning pre-pandemic? Is the NHS really going to revert to its pre-Covid spending plans after April 2022?
Nothing budgeted for annual vaccination, Test & Trace or backlog catch up.
Preposterous
“In reality, there will be pressures from all sorts of directions. The NHS is perhaps the most obvious. The chancellor’s medium-term spending plans simply look implausibly low.”
Eight bidders gain freeport approval in move to boost English regions | Financial Times
There had been 30 bidders and it seems Tyneside was one that has lost out. ft.com/content/0d42cb…
The problem is that rather than generate a load of new jobs and trade they tend to move the pieces around the chessboard.
...and create a have for stolen goods and money laundering.
There may be some advantage for renewables that I have yet to grasp.
GE is thought to be interested in setting up a Dogger Bank 3.6 Gigawatt wind turbine farm 130km off the Yorkshire Coast. That would be one of the world’s largest wind farms providing clean energy for 4.5 million homes
A research team at Brigham & Women's Hospital in the USA assessed how the blood groups A, B and O reacted to the protein and found blood type A to be the most reactive to a particular protein in the virus called RBD
I have not seen the study itself so cannot comment on the quality, but this is now 1 of 4 that at least notes a correlation between Blood Group A and more severe Covid.