Covid-19 pandemic

[Balderdasha]

Illinois state has now recorded more than a million cases, the fifth state in the USA to do so.

[Balderdasha]

New York state alone has reported more than 40,000 deaths. 26 States have reported more then 5,000 deaths each.

[Balderdasha]

The USA reported 4,491 deaths in 24 hours on Tuesday, a new high.

[Balderdasha]

Europe is the first continent to reach over 600,000 deaths from Covid-19.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampp...says-barrister

Covid-19 Lockdown Rules have changed 64 times since March. Incompetent does not even cover it.

[Patrick Thistle]

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampp...says-barrister

Covid-19 Lockdown Rules have changed 64 times since March. Incompetent does not even cover it.

The constant changes are a major contributor to non-compliance imo. "What are the rules this week?"

[Balderdasha]

Bahrain appears to have massively increased its testing and is currently reporting that it has conducted more than 14 tests per member of population.

This seems to have been an error, and the number was out by a factor of ten. Today, Bahrain is back down to 1.4 tests per member of population.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/Rrrrnessa/status/1349666289237815297?s=20

[DCI Harry Batt]

Has anyone seen anything recently about recovered virus victims and their subsequent immunity/antibody levels?

Pretty sure I saw something today. Hang on.

Here we go: Recovering from Covid gives similar level of protection to vaccine

(They mean "as" rather than "to", but then the guardian has clearly sacked all its subs over the last couple of years and headlines are created by a linguistically challenged clickbait bot)

[Lang Spoon]

Who needs subs when you are taking over the world?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Pretty sure I saw something today. Hang on.

Here we go: Recovering from Covid gives similar level of protection to vaccine

(They mean "as" rather than "to", but then the guardian has clearly sacked all its subs over the last couple of years and headlines are created by a linguistically challenged clickbait bot)

Cheers. Yes, I just saw the BBC report on the research. Seems to be fairly encouraging, or at least better than initial expectations.

[ursus arctos]

New York state alone has reported more than 40,000 deaths. 26 States have reported more then 5,000 deaths each.

My home town has reported 25,741 deaths as of last night

[Incandenza]

https://twitter.com/CShalby/status/1349480284874395648

Gov. Newsom loudly declared that all Californians 65 years and older are now eligible to receive the vaccine. What was left unsaid was that it's up to each county to decide whether they will start offering it to 65+ currently. Most are not because they are nowhere near finished with vaccinating their first tiers. And some counties don't have enough supplies to expand to a wider group now. Santa Clara County requested 100,000 more doses, but were told that they will receive 6,000.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/michaeljswalker/status/1349750414045040641?s=20

[pebblethefish]

I thought the BBC were meant to be evil though?

[Patrick Thistle]

More people have died in wave 2 than died in wave 1. (Source: BBC Radio 5)

[Antepli Ejderha]

No data available yet for today in the UK.

And this just published in the Guardian about the regulator refusing to approve mass testing in schools in England because of the unreliability of the test results.

Schools won't be opening until Easter I think.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...droidApp_Other

[Diable Rouge]

After a glacially slow start to vaccinations in Ireland, we're now seventh per capita:

https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1349795019952160774

[Logan Mountstuart]

Why no UK daily figures yet?

[Nefertiti2]

This toad was a hairs breadth away from regulating universities

https://twitter.com/neildotobrien/status/1349701112232878081?s=21

[Antepli Ejderha]

Why no UK daily figures yet?

No idea, I've asked Google and found nothing. Perhaps the spreadsheet is broken again.

[Balderdasha]

North Macedonia has more reported more cases than China, and nearly 2,700 deaths.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

No idea, I've asked Google and found nothing. Perhaps the spreadsheet is broken again.

There was something earlier about it being to do with compiling the death figure.

[Balderdasha]

1,248 deaths in the UK today, taking the official Covid-19 death toll over 86,000.

[Balderdasha]

The reason there is the discrepancy between the Guardian figure of over 100,000. The 86,000+ is deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test. The 100,000+ is deaths where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate (but may not be the only cause).