Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[TheScarf]

9 minutes ago, Girth said:

Tbf, that's one of the few good things to come out of Covid. 

I fucking hate wfh.  I can't until until I'm back in work full time.  Being stuck in your house all day, 5 days a week, is fucking dreadful.

[superbigal]

Daily Cases Update:  Day 22 in a row of our 4th wave of infections, case rises up a large 8.35% to 520.1  Expect another rise of around 8% tomorrow.  Todays near 7000 cases (Will increase as confirmed next 48 hours) more or less guarantee us hitting about the 650-675 mark.  

Scotland now is the number 1 rising infection country in the world up 107.58% in last week. (Of any country having more than 1000 cases per week).

Scotland at 520.1 per 100K is number 5 in the world  (Any country over 1 million population).

Figures for Jags  1st Vaccines   3,401 to ???? ,  2nd vaccines  14,258 to ????    No vaccine Data today.

Total Cases Scotland 7 days 18th August to 24th August were  26,238 now 28,430 up 8.35%, Positivity was 11.3% now 11.7%.  Cases per 100K were 480.0 now 520.1

Home Nations Daily update  :  UK Average  344.5 to 349.6 up 1.48%, England 329.9 to 332.0 up 0.64%, Wales 348.5 to 357.5 up 2.58%, Northern Ireland  629.1 to 626.0 down 0.49%

In Europe for travellers  Ireland  259.7 (Weekly change +6%),  Greece 223.3 (Weekly change +5%), France 207.3 (Weekly change -14%),  Switzerland 204.1 (weekly change +5%),  Albania 162.0 (weekly change up 64%), Portugal 160.4 (Weekly change +1%),  These are still the only main countries over 160 cases per 100K     Spain falls down to 137.5

Scotland peaks in Wave 3 at 425.1 for 27th June to 3rd July, (UK was 229.9) . Cases that day were 23,222 and positivity 10.8%

Scotland previously peaked in wave 2 at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Council progress in last 24 Hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

West Dunbartonshire  866.0 to 919.2  Alexandria  1,745

East Dunbartonshire  794.5 to 846.9 Kirkintilloch West 1,741

North Lanarkshire  664.8 to 771.8  Up 40% in 2 days !!

East Renfrewshire 683.9 to 717.3  

Renfrewshire    646.1 to 710.7

South Lanarkshire  646.2 to 692.9

Glasgow City  622.8 to 661.7

Clackmannanshire  674.6 to 655.1

Argyll & Bute  659.0 to 652.0    

Inverclyde   554.1 to 648.8

Dumfries & Galloway 622.4 to 636.6  Dumfries Central 1,831

City Of Edinburgh  536.0 to 573.5

North Ayrshire  447.7 to 501.3 

West Lothian   437.4 to 491.8

Dundee City 418.0 to 481.8

Stirling  436.9 to 448.6

Falkirk   394.2 to 438.5

East Lothian  412.4 to 437.4

Midlothian  396.1 to 425.1

Scottish  Borders    388.8 to 413.1

South Ayrshire   396.8 to 412.0

Fife  371.3 to 410.6

East Ayrshire  339.6 to 371.7

Highlands  319.4 to 353.4

Angus  265.1 to 279.7

Aberdeen City 242.7 to 270.2

Perth & Kinross   244.1 to 258.0

Aberdeenshire   224.7 to 251.9

Western Isles    132.1 to 147.2

Moray   125.4 to 142.1

Shetland Islands   126.8 to 122.4

Orkney Islands   67.0 to 58.0

Edited August 27, 2021 by superbigal

[Nutz_the_Squirrel]

3 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

I fucking hate wfh.  I can't until until I'm back in work full time.  Being stuck in your house all day, 5 days a week, is fucking dreadful.

Only if you’re someone who likes people. I am not.

[TheScarf]

Just now, Nutz_the_Squirrel said:

Only if you’re someone who likes people. I am not.

I like getting out of the house.  

[SANTAN]

3 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

I like getting out of the house.  

You can still do that. How long is your usual commute? 

[Have some faith in Magic]

35 minutes ago, Left Back said:

In the early days you couldn’t get a test unless you ended up in hospital.

Or were called Prince Charles and had a 'medical need'

 

[welshbairn]

Supposed to be going to Newquay for a few days early September, currently around 2000/100,000. Eeek.

[Detournement]

1 hour ago, Ross. said:

I seen stuff on this subject pop up on Twitter a few days ago and wondered how it started. This thread answers a lot of the questions I had.

It doesn't mention that's it's being used in Latin America and also India (who by some miracle got their Delta outbreak under control....)

[MuckleMoo]

It doesn't mention that's it's being used in Latin America and also India (who by some miracle got their Delta outbreak under control....)

What happened in India? Remember the virus running rampant through the population around April/May time then plummeting like a stone in as many months

[Girth]

54 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

I fucking hate wfh.  I can't until until I'm back in work full time.  Being stuck in your house all day, 5 days a week, is fucking dreadful.

I like a mix. Being with work colleagues all week is insufferable. 

[superbigal]

14 minutes ago, MuckleMoo said:

21 minutes ago, Detournement said:

It doesn't mention that's it's being used in Latin America and also India (who by some miracle got their Delta outbreak under control....)

What happened in India? Remember the virus running rampant through the population around April/May time then plummeting like a stone in as many months

A recent blood test study in India actually concluded that they had reached herd immunity 70% (and not via vaccinations).  Cases and deaths were massively under reported previously.  That is believed to be a factor in the 80% fall in cases.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

A mix is good. I hate being stuck in the office all day. That’s way worse than being stuck at home.

At home I can knock one out whenever I want. It’s way harder at work.

[Elixir]

3 hours ago, superbigal said:

Problem with this analysis is that Your Dunbartonshires, Lanarkshires & Renfrewshires that were previously always at the top of the Scottish charts should now be down at the bottom.

It's a wee bit more complicated than that...

Meanwhile, cases continue to drop in England:

 

[Rizzo]

Wondering if anyone has any experience of having a relative/loved one in hospital with suspected covid and what the deal is with visiting? Know someone who was admitted on Wednesday this week with chest infection that had been going on for a few weeks but was consistently returning negative LF tests and one PCR test. Said person had another underlying bowel condition so was admitted to forth valley for supportive treatment on Wednesday. He also had a PCR test when he was admitted and that has come back negative too.

His partner had been able to visit in the clinical assessment ward and today he was moved to general medicine but when she phoned to check if she could visit was told that he was a suspected covid case due to changes noted in a chest x-ray and she should avoid visiting. She has to test regularly with LF tests as she works in a school.

Is there any scope for her being able to visit does anyone know? She's also been consistently testing negative and has shown no symptoms despite them being in the same household.

[PedroMoutinho]

7 minutes ago, Elixir said:

It's a wee bit more complicated than that...

Meanwhile, cases continue to drop in England:

 

Taking a ‘cautious approach’ to ‘keep people safe’ clearly working well for us then.

[ParsJake]

2 hours ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

Or were called Prince Charles and had a 'medical need'

 

That reminds me, is Wee Willie still on the go? I remember him going nuclear about this.

[Elixir]

There is now convincing evidence that immunity from natural infection is indeed actually superior to that provided by vaccination. Fantastic news, but also quite hilarious how many 'experts' were acting like this was some new alien super bug that would remain this deadly forever and that immunity would wane after three months.

 

[Billy Jean King]

It's a wee bit more complicated than that...
Meanwhile, cases continue to drop in England:
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You dont think England will explode like we have in 2-3 weeks when the schools go back ? If they don't serious questions need to be asked why we are seeing the massive growth in infections over the last 10-14 days. We appear to be a world wide outlier now and if schools returning elsewhere dont lead to rises like ours then we need to know what is fuelling the huge increases.

[peasy23]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/petershill-v-east-kilbride-thistle-24854989

Glad I was on the supporter's bus to Kirriemuir last week as it seems like the team bus was a mobile Covid infection unit.

[PedroMoutinho]

20 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

You dont think England will explode like we have in 2-3 weeks when the schools go back ? If they don't serious questions need to be asked why we are seeing the massive growth in infections over the last 10-14 days. We appear to be a world wide outlier now and if schools returning elsewhere dont lead to rises like ours then we need to know what is fuelling the huge increases.

Imo the huge increase is because we’ve opened schools and everything else at the same time.

Even opening on July 19th would’ve given 3 more weeks for nightclubs etc to bed in.

Remember we were still actually in level 0.5 until 2 weeks ago with pubs having to close early and social distancing.