Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Liverpoolphil said:
Yesterday, over 363,000 people were reported to have received the first dose of the vaccine in the UK.

This is the highest daily figure since Covid vaccinations began.


Currently they are doing 200 a minute and it’s expected to ramp up

Still on course for the middle of Feb for the groups 1-4 to be completed

Cases is many areas dropping
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It does seem to be going at a good pace. I am a bit worried about dips in supply though. That is the rate limiting step and for the more youthful oldies, we need things to keep moving. Still haven't heard back if they want me to help yet. I guess they think not, or perhaps not yet.
 
Ethan said:
It does seem to be going at a good pace. I am a bit worried about dips in supply though.
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Agree with this, at present the vaccination roll out seems to be going exactly to plan however the big unknown is the supply and when we have the inevitable slow down in supply how long that actually lasts for and so what impact that has on the schedule.
 
road2ruin said:
Agree with this, at present the vaccination roll out seems to be going exactly to plan however the big unknown is the supply and when we have the inevitable slow down in supply how long that actually lasts for and so what impact that has on the schedule.
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Right now, we are dependent on Pfizer to start, then AZ. Moderna doesn't come through until April. If Johnson & Johnson get approval for their one shot regimen, expected in the US in Feb, that could fill a hole and on a one and done basis, clear a few people off the books.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Tough day again. Still full and still having to juggle staff and patients and still forced to send the less sick to other trusts now as capacity reached.
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Very worrying situation...my wife spoke yesterday evening with the Team lead who she does bank work for. Sounds like hospital is at breaking point. Full of Covid patients - with so many nurses sick or isolating, nurse managers now scouring all non-critical nursing/clinical teams for nurses they can pull onto wards...and wife's old team is one such team. The nurses in that team haven't done any critical care or ward work for many years - and quite frankly are frightened. They should not be getting pulled onto covid wards - they just don't have the training.

That it appears the hospital didn't, or wasn't able to, recruit new staff following the first wave, or train existing non-ward staff up for some of the basics they'd need to do if required on wards for a second wave, rather beggars belief. No doubt the finger will be pointed at the hospital management.

My wife is very worried for her old team lead and her friends on that team.
 
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PNWokingham said:
just heard that police had to raid a wedding party at a school in North London with 400 people attending!!
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I, Mr Superspreader, take you, Ms Superspreader, to be my lawfully wedded patient in a double bedded room, to cough and to suffocate, for better or for worse oxygen saturation, for long Covid or for other inflammatory complications, in ICU and in the Nightingale Hospital, until death do us part, which might be quite soon.
 
And, I imagine, there "will be no evidence" that the Police officer who died contracted the virus during the course of his duties trying to sort out Covid rule breakers!
Front line officers and ambulance crew, paramedics etc , who are likely to come into contact with these people through work should get the vaccine double quick.
 
Beezerk said:
A lot of them fled when the police arrived so will have avoided the fine.
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5 fined as well as the organisers Looks like a rather low return. Do the cops not have body cameras around that part of London?. At least, they should identify attendees and require them to self-isolate for 10 days under penalty of a proper fine.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Tough day again. Still full and still having to juggle staff and patients and still forced to send the less sick to other trusts now as capacity reached.
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Very worrying situation...my wife spoke yesterday evening with the Team lead who she does bank work for. Sounds like hospital is at breaking point. Full of Covid patients - with so many nurses sick or isolating, nurse managers now scouring all non-critical nursing/clinical teams for nurses they can pull onto wards...and wife's old team is one such team. The nurses in that team haven't done any critical care or ward work for many years - and quite frankly are frightened. They should not be getting pulled onto covid wards - they just don't have the training.

That it appears the hospital didn't, or wasn't able to, recruit new staff following the first wave, or train existing non-ward staff up for some of the basics they'd need to do if required on wards for a second wave, rather beggars belief. No doubt the finger will be pointed at the hospital management.

My wife is very worried for her old team lead and her friends on that team.
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My daughter reports very similar at Bradford....... oh, dear I fear for the Snowdrops on here losing more petals. :eek:
 
Sports and media "personalities" getting caught breaking Covid protocols and issuing press releases saying how sorry they are.
What they really meant was "Damn we got caught. These rules don't apply to us do they? We'll have to be more careful next time."

Just to show it's not a UK thing, four of the top hockey players from the Washington Capitals got caught ignoring the rules earlier this week.
 
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