COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

The situation with the  latest mutation of the virus here is not good ,it has gone from 117 positives last Monday to 305 yesterday and other areas round here are even worse

So it is more vital than ever for every one  to ignore the those who still are still  in denial, and take every precaution  to protect yourselves 

 I have noticed when out with Rosa that some have ignored> the Tier 4 restrictions in this area, unless they were saving electric as several houses had all the windows closed and no lights on at 2000hrs last night.,and one at least was not there as their special occasions use Bentley was not on their drive

And as said on the new this morning more areas are on the brink of moving up to tiers 3and 4

Stay Safe you all

 

It would be good if the OAZ vaccine was approved soon.  It would also be helpful if the Gov/NHS could find a way of increasing the numbers of inoculations being given each day.  Sadly that is very difficult as there is a finite number of staff.  

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Hopefully the Oxford vaccine won't be long, don't want to be pessimistic about vaccines but, in four weeks time they will be giving the second vaccine to some while trying to give the first vaccine to others, so it will all double up, where are all these people who are giving the vaccine going to come from, will we have enough of them, or a bottle neck. On the subject of tier 4 people having gone away, well there are plenty of second home owners already here in Devon.

On Monday, the prime minister said he wanted to open schools in January "if we possibly can".

Interesting statement as up to now his line has always been to keep schools open no matter what. A change of emphasis.

I think that was before the latest mutation gathered pace,and as they now have found last week in Basildon,  it is young teenagers who seem to be the main carriers/spreaders with now the Christmas break, it has become more of a problem to get the testing of them implemented 

Thank you for the clarification

Read yesterday that the Oxford vaccine is expected to be approved between Christmas and New Year, which would be the best Christmas present ever. The report also said that the Army would be involved in helping to set up more vaccination centres around the country.

I think we need to understand why this new mutation appears to be more virulent. Is it a more infectious form of the virus or is it because of the time of the year that more people are closer together indoors? Or perhaps a bit of both? Could it be that the new form stays active on surfaces for longer. Do we need to review space even with a face covering.  Will we need to vaccinate a larger proportion of the population to achieve the required level of herd immunity which could be an issue re vaccine production? So many questions.

David

I read somewhere that it was thought it resided in greater numbers in the mouth and nose of infected people. Therefore the risk of transmitting a large number of them was higher than with the old version. So even more important to mask up.