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Apparently a minister has said we are not yet limiting travel from Brazil because of the economic burden. They insist they are not moving slowly but monitoring the situation.They will never learn. They will have one hell of an economic burden if they allow another more virulent strain to take hold. They have probably already delayed too long as it is.
This doesn't look good. London ICUs are becoming so stretched, they are having to transfer patients to Northampton, Birmingham, Sheffield and as far north as Newcastle.Hospital admissions still seem to be rising.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/14/struggling-london-hospitals-sending-covid-patients-to-newcastleThis also caught my notice."International research has shown that before the pandemic, the UK had one of the smallest numbers of ICU beds per 100,000 people among developed nations. Germany had 29 such beds per 100,000 population and the US had 25, while Britain had just 6.6.
Quote from: River Don on January 14, 2021, 08:12:25 pmThis doesn't look good. London ICUs are becoming so stretched, they are having to transfer patients to Northampton, Birmingham, Sheffield and as far north as Newcastle.Hospital admissions still seem to be rising.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/14/struggling-london-hospitals-sending-covid-patients-to-newcastleThis also caught my notice."International research has shown that before the pandemic, the UK had one of the smallest numbers of ICU beds per 100,000 people among developed nations. Germany had 29 such beds per 100,000 population and the US had 25, while Britain had just 6.6.So what on earth was the point of that Nightingale hospital at the ExEl centre?
This doesn't look good. London ICUs are becoming so stretched, they are having to transfer patients to Northampton, Birmingham, Sheffield and as far north as Newcastle.Hospital admissions still seem to be rising.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/14/struggling-london-hospitals-sending-covid-patients-to-newcastleThis also caught my notice."International research has shown that before the pandemic, the UK had one of the smallest numbers of ICU beds per 100,000 people among developed nations. Germany had 29 such beds per 100,000 population and the US had 25, while Britain had just 6.6.
No figures published today either
New deaths figure is very misleading. That's the data based on the day the deaths were reported and it's always much higher than the true value in midweek, because it's catching up with deaths that occurred over the weekend but have only just been reported.Looking at deaths by the day they occurred, we are probably at about 800-850 or so a day at the moment. Still bad enough but not as bad as that headline number.
Looking like good news on the vaccination front. We were up to 320,000 in a single day yesterday. If we managed that, just five days a week from now to Easter, we'd pretty much have all the top 9 most vulnerable categories covered with a first dose.And I'd expect the daily rate to continue going up and there to be some vaccinations over the weekend.