Covid - news and views

I suspect they might find a link with clotting in younger women who take the Pill. It’s always been a higher than normal risk for some women. 

The "pill" and blood clots ,in women has been known for years,wit a much higher proportion than is now being looked at with the AZ vacine which is the mostly widely used vacine? and was it women when  first reported some weeks ago?

Checked our local figures today, and the case rate has plummeted, so thankfully things do seem to be a lot better than I thought. I wonder if it might have been a delay in updating figures, as they didn’t move for days on end.

Case rates have also dropped dramatically in the past week round here. Could it be linked to the children not being at school over Easter?

peedee

I think someone said the other day getting in your car to drive it was a far,far higher risk than getting a blood clot from a vaccination. The problem is that there has been a drip, drip feed of negative publicity, more so about the AZ vaccine so people start to miss read the risk and start thinking it is common. There is some evidence emerging that in younger people the vaccine over activates the immune system which causes problems with the platelets which then goes on to cause blood clots in some people but I am sure it's too early to tell. Perhaps they will have to issue everyone with a months supply of aspirin to take after the vaccination?

David

That crossed my mind when it was 1st mentioned. Glad they're investigating it however small the risk - it isn't small if it's you!

Our cases have remained 0-2 for the last few weeks, son's area jumps about a bit but been less than 10. However friends in Scotland East Ayrshire, has been high for a long time currently 96 😱

OH had his 2nd jab this morning, 10 days before 12 weeks is up. All well organised again but carpark much fuller - the gate volunteer's keeping an eye on spaces and allocating you one on entry. I sat in the car and only once did they have to hold new vehicles and that was just 2. That in itself saved much chaos, it was interesting watching some getting into their parking space 🤫. Bitterly cold wind may have stopped some folk walking - too far for OH to walk especially in the cold, a stop for cuppa/lunch on a warmer day might have made an outing 🤣. How we like the simple things again 😉

No date for my AZ one yet but another 4 weeks to 12 week gap.

The Brazil situation is awful and the number of variants being decteted extremely worrying, the sooner the vaccine is in arms the better so research can concentrate on tackling variants. A good case for keeping the borders secure for a little bit longer.

I've read that it's very rare to get the combination of blood clots and reduced platelets etc and that it could even be linked to those who've already had covid and have very strong antibodies. Who knows at present? The fact that Covid can also cause blood clots just adds to the present confusion. The sooner we get more info, even if it's negative, it will help everyone.

Not sure what the numbers of cases you mention refer to B2, is it 0-2 and 10 per day or what?    

I see in the news that today Scotland had a total of 289 new cases.   Otherwise, the main info we get in the news here is given as a rate per 100,000 people over a week.

East Ayrshire is quite high in the list, but the rate per 100,000 there, for the last week, was 65.6, that is a weekly not a daily number.  Here in East Dunbartonshire we had 35 cases per 100,000 over the week.  For it to make much sense, you need to know how many people live in an area.

East Ayrshire.....approx 122.000

East Dunbartonshire....approx 108,000

It does seem to change a lot from week to week

I use this interactive map when checking local areas, you can zoom right in for details. There are still places were numbers aren't so good.

Gov.uk interactive covid map LINK

KjNelln I use the same interactive map as brue I have it as an app.

Our area - Hornsea on the East Yorkshire coast is showed as 'suppressed' (i.e. less than 3 cases) which I find amazing given the number of tourists that have been visiting here for weeks (regardless of the fact that they shouldn't have been).