Coronavirus

[Trips]

Tier 3...fuck you Telford & Wrekin

We should have gone into Tier 3 when the tiers were first announced. Got put in with Shropshire and stayed out for that reason alone

 

[Parkins left foot]

Tier 3 down here as well now - number of cases per 100,000 still well below the average overall, but have increased by 170% in the last week.

Interesting that the data I have looked at shows that the biggest increase of positives is in the younger element of society. The 60+ numbers have increased, but nowhere near the increase in those below. Probably because most are in their houses unless they really need to go out.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Just had an email from Dorset CC - apparantely Bournemouth/Poole area has gone to tier 4 with no travel wanted between tiers.

Given that Poole is where the main testing centre is & a major hospital which covers a lot of the more rural areas outside that's going to prove to be an issue

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Testing is essential travel

 

[Parkins left foot]

Testing is essential travel

Agreed & so is medical treatment, but some of the older part of the population will be reluctant to do that if they consider that it puts them at a much higher risk.

 

[sycophantia]

We should have gone into Tier 3 when the tiers were first announced. Got put in with Shropshire and stayed out for that reason alone

Tbf in T & W the numbers have been lower than the average for most of the pandemic...not as low as Shropshire though.
Here in Newport North our rate is 83/100,000 currently so I'm blaming the rest of TF postcodes....

 

[lemonjelly]

50,023 cases. 981 deaths.

Jesus Christ

there is inconsistency in the reporting over last/this week, what with bank holidays etc. It's inevitable we're going to have some odd daily figures being reported until we get to the end of next week.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

The EMA haven't approved it because AZ haven't applied for approval. Now there's a story - looks like Miguel whatshisface isn't the only crap journalist at the Irish Independent.

Any idea why they havent applied for approval?

 

[Kenny]

The EMA - "They have not even filed an application with us yet. Not even enough to warrant a conditional marketing licence. We need additional data about the quality of the vaccine."

Each Nation in the EU could actually make the decision on their own but they have all agreed to go with a joint effort. The EU have also ordered a shit load more of the Pfizer vaccination. Bringing their order on that one to 300m give or take a few

 

[AndyWolves]

The EMA - "They have not even filed an application with us yet. Not even enough to warrant a conditional marketing licence. We need additional data about the quality of the vaccine."

Each Nation in the EU could actually make the decision on their own but they have all agreed to go with a joint effort. The EU have also ordered a shit load more of the Pfizer vaccination. Bringing their order on that one to 300m give or take a few

Is there a chance this is political? Some Brexit bullshit?

 

[Johnny75]

That looks a cynical political decision on the face of it.

UK vaccine will not be accepted so don't bother as the German vaccine will be used as a priority.

 

[Kenny]

Is there a chance this is political? Some Brexit bullshit?

I doubt it. Somethings are above political games and a vaccine to sort out the shitfest is one of them. I would say the Brexit games on the virus ended with the French and the border stuff over the, now called, UK strain.

 

[Kenny]

That looks a cynical political decision on the face of it.

UK vaccine will not be accepted so don't bother as the German vaccine will be used as a priority.

The EMA were late on the Pfizer one as well as they required more data, so its just the way they work I guess. Germany and co were getting very annoyed at that just over a week ago

 

[Johnny75]

I doubt it. Somethings are above political games and a vaccine to sort out the shitfest is one of them. I would say the Brexit games on the virus ended with the French and the border stuff over the, now called, UK strain.

That is annoying of them to call it the UK strain. The Italy strain (the one we have in Europe) wasn't called that, so for the French to do it was pathetic.

Both sides have embarrassed themselves with that level of childishness. No different to Trump calling it the China disease.

 

[Kenny]

That is annoying of them to call it the UK strain. The Italy strain (the one we have in Europe) want called that so for the French to do it was pathetic.

Both sides have embarrassed themselves with that level of childishness. No different to Trump calling it the China disease.

Its the media that have called it that really, a few countries describe it as the strain discovered in the UK but we made a big thing about it so it's ours now. BBC have a report today talking about the UK and South African strains and one last week talking about a possible Welsh strain (not sure if that is just an English strain trying to change its Nationality though...)

 

[AndyWolves]

That is annoying of them to call it the UK strain. The Italy strain (the one we have in Europe) wasn't called that, so for the French to do it was pathetic.

Both sides have embarrassed themselves with that level of childishness. No different to Trump calling it the China disease.

The Spanish flu didn't come from Spain either, french fries aren't french

 

[Johnny75]

The Spanish flu didn't come from Spain either, french fries aren't french

Err, what?

 

[AndyWolves]

Err, what?

Just highlighting how some things acquire geographical elements to their name which don't relate to where they originate from.

Carry on....

 

[Doctor Doog]

Any idea why they havent applied for approval?

Each licensing authority will require different data in different forms, so presumably they don’t yet have the specific information required. I imagine they have prioritised their main customer, as any business would.

 

[The Bear]