Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[sheothebudworths]

Ah, they've just added a message - 'investigating missing data' - to be updated.

ETA - Someone was writing in a hurry - 'Issue with Healthcare data - we are investigating missing data from England for healthcare metrics (admissions, pateitnts in hospital and patients on mechanical ventillation beds). Updated figures will be added shortly.'

 

[ska invita]

Id love to know how many people have stopped commuting and are now wfh because of plan b. Annecdotaly everyone I've asked (3 people!) Have been told to keep coming in

 

[StoneRoad]

Well, I'm back to WFH.

Never really stopped, tbh.

 

[elbows]

Id love to know how many people have stopped commuting and are now wfh because of plan b. Annecdotaly everyone I've asked (3 people!) Have been told to keep coming in

Thres been some rail passenger numbers in the news today, some of the stations with largest drops were down about 25% if I recall properly.

 

[ska invita]

Well, I'm back to WFH.

Never really stopped, tbh.

Yeah that's what I mean, people who stopped wfh and are now back to wfh

 

[StoneRoad]

Yeah that's what I mean, people who stopped wfh and are now back to wfh

circumstances were about to require me to go in to work more often than the three times a fortnight I was doing ...
but concern for my health trumps that.

 

[killer b]

Id love to know how many people have stopped commuting and are now wfh because of plan b. Annecdotaly everyone I've asked (3 people!) Have been told to keep coming in

Driving home from Manchester this morning at 7.30am was half an hour faster than the same journey on a usual weekday morning, so I reckon there's a good chunk doing it.

 

[editor]

I'm hearing of loads of friends testing positive in the last week or so. The most I've ever known in my social circle. I fear things are going to get a lot worse.

 

[elbows]

I'm hearing of loads of friends testing positive n the last week or so. The most I've ever known in my social circle. I fear things are going to get a lot worse.

Yeah I dont know if you saw some of the graphs I posted last night for positive London cases by age, some of the age groups have seen incredible spikes in numbers day on day. #43,856

I've tried to tone down the number of graphs I've done in recent months. I dont know how often to update the London by age ones, or how many different age groups to include. Cherrypicking only the most alarming ones sometimes seems wrong to me, but maybe thats what I should do routinely at the moment given the situation right now.

 

[killer b]

I'm hearing of loads of friends testing positive n the last week or so. The most I've ever known in my social circle. I fear things are going to get a lot worse.

Javid in Parliament just now says Omicron accounts for 44% of London cases already fwiw (double the rest of the country) - from a standing start a couple of weeks ago that's quite something.

He also said they've found booster jabs provide 'strong protection' against it - dunno what that's based on though.

 

[belboid]

In very recent experience, of a few different people and both walk-in and home tests, they're taking longer atm.

I did one yesterday at 13.30, got an email with the result 14 hours later. I was surprised at the speed, but had paid £60 for it, so that may have helped.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I did one yesterday at 13.30, got an email with the result 14 hours later. I was surprised at the speed, but had paid £60 for it, so that may have helped.

I expect it would! I was assuming tests done through the usual channels.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Id love to know how many people have stopped commuting and are now wfh because of plan b. Annecdotaly everyone I've asked (3 people!) Have been told to keep coming in

London tube and UK railway use falls as work-from-home advice updated

London Underground passengers down 20% on Monday morning as number travelling by bus falls by 6%

www.theguardian.com

 

[elbows]

Javid in Parliament just now says Omicron accounts for 44% of London cases already fwiw (double the rest of the country) - from a standing start a couple of weeks ago that's quite something.

He also said they've found booster jabs provide 'strong protection' against it - dunno what that's based on though.

There are various early studies out there, but it really is early days and the ultimate proof will be in what happens in the coming months.

In terms of UK official estimates at this stage, this is the sort of thing said in certain public statements at the moment:

She says the UK Health Security Agency believes that two doses of a vaccine is not enough to stop us catching the Omicron variant but three doses prevents 75% of infections.

(from 15:23 entry of BBC live updates page as this was the first example of that figure that I bumped into since your post https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59632655 )

 

[BristolEcho]

In very recent experience, of a few different people and both walk-in and home tests, they're taking longer atm.

Thanks. It was very busy there. I hate anything like this where I don't know if it's been done properly, or even received.

 

[Cloo]

Yeah, my PCR at weekend to exactly 36 hours from when I had it, which is one of my longer waits.

Was going into the office on Weds, but that's shut now - we will still have our lunch and I'll chance that as it's just 5 of us in a restaurant that is generally pretty quiet. Let's put it this way, it's less risky than my kids being in school all day. My last visit to office was late October and honestly other this week I wasn't imagining I'd be back there before next spring even before Omicron.

 

[felixthecat]

Did my PCR 1120 on Saturday, result texted to me at 0730 Sunday. They're still pretty quick

 

[planetgeli]

Two of my partner's sisters, one in Barcelona the other in Hackney, have just tested positive within an hour of each other. Separately obviously.

 

[Sue]

Two of my partner's sisters, one in Barcelona the other in Hackney, have just tested positive within an hour of each other. Separately obviously.

Rates in Hackney are really shooting up .

 

[elbows]

I dont remember if this was covered earlier.

 

[elbows]

Starmers recorded Covid message to the nation looked to be dual-purpose: the expected politics, but also a likely indicator that the establishment are nervous about people not listening to Johnson about the Omicron wave.

Perhaps this is what we get in a tv age instead of governments of national unity.

 

[Wilf]

Presumably we'll ultimately be back with schools, colleges and universities closed in the new year. Particularly the schools will be resisted to the end by ministers but will happen. Yet again the lack of planning and denial will both lead to a shambles and also allow omicron to go further than it would with organised closures.

Fwiw, I don't think school closures is a 'good' outcome, but the speed of spread means it till happen and government knows it will.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Did my PCR 1120 on Saturday, result texted to me at 0730 Sunday. They're still pretty quick

That's good to know and I don't mean to suggest it's not largely working that quickly, but it hasn't been my own experience here, so it's worth pointing out for anyone waiting.
We had - close contact, with symptoms, walk in - over 36 hours. Three close contacts, another separate with symtoms, all home tests, all closer to 40 hours from postal collection.
I guess it will differ on area and collections, along with testing facilities and times.

 

[purenarcotic]

Id love to know how many people have stopped commuting and are now wfh because of plan b. Annecdotaly everyone I've asked (3 people!) Have been told to keep coming in

Anecdotal too obviously but traffic was exactly the same as usual this morning. Didn’t feel to me like there was any reduction.

 

[blameless77]

Well, that was predictable.
Wasn't the plan to start charging for them some time around now, anyway?

Think it’s lack of delivery capacity, not tests

 

[kenny g]

I wonder how many days it will be till we get an official announcement of Plan C. Some sections of the press have already started going on about it.

I swam 3 km on sat and 2 km on Sunday. If they close my swimming pool as part of plan C due to covid I am going to scream to fuck.

 

[elbows]

 

[sheothebudworths]

Ah, they've just added a message - 'investigating missing data' - to be updated.

ETA - Someone was writing in a hurry - 'Issue with Healthcare data - we are investigating missing data from England for healthcare metrics (admissions, pateitnts in hospital and patients on mechanical ventillation beds). Updated figures will be added shortly.'

Jftr - this message has disappeared and the numbers are still the same.

 

[elbows]

I only looked at admissions data which was since fixed, so I cant comment on whether the other figures looked wrong before the correction.

 

[Cloo]

I'm wondering, assuming Xmas meeting is allowed at all, whether there'll be a run on PCRs as lots of people have the 'bright idea' to get a PCR and self-isolate 3 or 4 days before Christmas in the hopes of assuring a safe meeting.