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June 21st as 'the man who saved Christmas' promised?

Or July as the 'man who ruined summer' has leaked to the press as per usual?
 
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Just to demonstrate that you can get whatever news you want by choosing the rag, here's what the Grauniad reckons. Is that "swift"?

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fucthest8 said:
Just to demonstrate that you can get whatever news you want by choosing the rag, here's what the Grauniad reckons. Is that "swift"?

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These are two different stories, despite the commonality of personnel and subject matter. The latter is about the will we won’t we unlock on the 5th of July as floated (unrealistically) by fantasist Pollyanna Johnson - we won’t and that will be officially announced by Javid (just announced, it’s not his decision per se); the former is about Javid having explicitly said he wants to unlock as soon as possible because of damage to the economy etc etc - ie he’s an antilockdowner at heart.

This is bad news, as it means that in the event that we require another lockdown (not unlikely) more reluctant lockdowners in the cabinet mean it’s likely to be delayed for longer than it would otherwise (while they - what? hope for a miracle?), and we’ve already seen what damage even a few weeks delay can do in terms of exponential case number rises. Twice. Morons.
 
In some South London areas almost half the population have had no jab at all. These are densely populated urban areas. In Lewisham 42%, in Lambeth and Southwark 45%, have had no jab at all.

This is vastly out of kilter with the national figure of 19%.

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Children over 12 must be vaccinated ‘as soon as possible’ to combat rising Delta variant, experts say

Children over 12 in the UK must be vaccinated “as soon as possible” in order to reach the vital herd immunity threshold needed to suppress the exponentially rising Delta variant, scientists have warned.

The call came as it emerged that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) will not make any decision on vaccinating adolescents until later next month – even though Britain’s medicines regulator approved the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab for 12- to 15-year-olds three weeks ago.
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Badgers said:
In some South London areas almost half the population have had no jab at all. These are densely populated urban areas. In Lewisham 42%, in Lambeth and Southwark 45%, have had no jab at all.

This is vastly out of kilter with the national figure of 19%.

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Not looking good over this way either. :(

www.hackneygazette.co.uk

Hackney is one of the least vaccinated places in Britain

Hackney's director of public health has said low vaccine uptake in the borough is a result of its young population, high levels of deprivation and…
www.hackneygazette.co.uk www.hackneygazette.co.uk
 
LynnDoyleCooper said:
Yeah, I'm dreading the end of restrictions in July with the figures the way they are going. And then really dreading working in the NHS this winter.
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Have been following this chap for a while and he is almost always spot on with the numbers sad to say.

40k people at Wembley (plus staff etc) for the two Euro Semi's then 60k in for the final. Plus the horse racing and dropping of restrictions is a melting pot.
 
Our last PCN vaccine clinic tomorrow has been cancelled. Numbers booking in have been falling generally, and tomorrow they're so low as to make it not worth running the clinic.
 
LynnDoyleCooper said:
Our last PCN vaccine clinic tomorrow has been cancelled. Numbers booking in have been falling generally, and tomorrow they're so low as to make it not worth running the clinic.
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Really?

We have just increased PCR (for symptomatic people) opening hours in Luton. More because of rising cases than footfall, but the footfall is creeping up.
 
Not out of the woods vet. Talking to someone working on the winter flu jabs yesterday. They have no data to work with re which variants to go after. In normal times, with jab program flu kills 25-60k and hospitalises 2 million a year
 
gosub said:
Not out of the woods vet. Talking to someone working on the winter flu jabs yesterday. They have no data to work with re which variants to go after. In normal times, with jab program flu kills 25-60k and hospitalises 2 million a year
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That isn’t quite correct. This years strains were announced by WHO earlier this year and includes a new strain from cambodia (if i remember correctly). It might be a bit of an odd flu year due to social distancing but the strains have been chosen.
 
For northern hemisphere 2021-22 season, WHO/CDC/ECDC recommending multivalent vaccines for:
  • A/Victoria/2570/2019 (H1N1) pdm09
  • A/Wisconsin/588/2019 (H1N1) pdm09
  • A/Cambodia/e0826360/2020 (H3N2)
  • B/Washington/02/2019 (B/Victoria lineage)
  • B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B/Yamagata lineage)
 
Concerns about the next big flu outbreak probably include how large it could be given how well shielded from these sorts of infections people have been for prolonged periods in the pandemic. And the possibility of having lots of flu patients needing hospital care at the same time as covid patients. Or the possibility that the strains that bounce back wont be a great match for the vaccine strain choices made earlier this year. Or even the possibility that prior covid infection or vaccination might change some peoples immune response to influenza.
 
Did a day's training on 'Vaccine Reassurance' which is mostly about myth busting. Was fairly obvious stuff to me but useful. Have got to train up twelve people on this Monday and we will be going out into 'the field' on Tuesday :hmm:

Should be a laugh :D

Also I was supposed to be training people on putting up gazebo and managing outdoor 'event work' but the branded gazebos are stuck at customs due to Brexit delays :rolleyes:
 
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