Coronavirus Super Thread ( merged )

[redjambo]

One swallow does not a summer make (although it does make a satisfactory date), but the Covid case figures mentioned by NS today are a reduction from those a week ago, and the positivity rate is down from then too. More details when the data is officially released at 2pm.

[The Real Maroonblood]

5 minutes ago, redjambo said:

One swallow does not a summer make (although it does make a satisfactory date), but the Covid case figures mentioned by NS today are a reduction from those a week ago, and the positivity rate is down from then too. More details when the data is officially released at 2pm.

👍

[westbow]

Whatever happened to the so called "Nepal variant" - all quiet on that one.

[redjambo]

4 minutes ago, westbow said:

Whatever happened to the so called "Nepal variant" - all quiet on that one.

 

https://theconversation.com/nepal-variant-what-weve-learned-so-far-162227

[redjambo]

Scottish numbers: 18 June 2021

Summary

• 950 new cases of COVID-19 reported [-367; down from 1104 a week ago]
• 29,254 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results [-1,736]
  • 3.5% of these were positive [-1.1%]
• 2 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive [-2]
• 12 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [=]
• 128 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [-12]
• 3,591,638 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,535,803 have received their second dose [+19,912; +19,737]

[westbow]

3 minutes ago, redjambo said:

 

https://theconversation.com/nepal-variant-what-weve-learned-so-far-162227

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57356109

Either they lifted it from the bbc article or there has been no further infections since 4th June. The latter would be nice.

[westbow]

7 minutes ago, redjambo said:

Scottish numbers: 18 June 2021

Summary

• 950 new cases of COVID-19 reported [-367; down from 1104 a week ago]
• 29,254 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results [-1,736]
  • 3.5% of these were positive [-1.1%]
• 2 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive [-2]
• 12 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [=]
• 128 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [-12]
• 3,591,638 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,535,803 have received their second dose [+19,912; +19,737]

Plateauing hopefully.

[redjambo]

Today's trend stats:

 

			7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	Tier	WHO	Today	Yesterday			16 Jun	15 Jun	14 Jun	13 Jun	12 Jun	...	1 May
Scotland			132	135	-3		124	122	117	114	110	...	22
Dundee City	2	4	326	329	-3		314	308	297	301	273	...	13
South Ayrshire	2	4	247	260	-13		253	251	242	231	212	...	25
Edinburgh City	2	4	220	218	+2		210	202	198	190	190	...	27
East Ayrshire	2	4	194	184	+10		157	160	139	133	127	...	45
Clackmannanshire	2	4	182	206	-24		184	192	175	180	192	...	14
East Dunbartonshire	2	4	172	176	-4		156	145	133	133	127	...	51
East Lothian	1	4	169	173	-4		167	158	148	132	122	...	5
East Renfrewshire	2	4	169	191	-22		179	167	153	150	136	...	24
Perth & Kinross	1	4	161	167	-6		149	167	158	153	143	...	22
Glasgow City	2	4	160	168	-8		153	160	156	155	155	...	33
North Ayrshire	2	4	159	144	+15		136	136	131	125	112	...	17
Midlothian	2	4	156	173	-17		177	180	182	187	184	...	10
North Lanarkshire	2	3	149	147	+2		129	119	115	110	104	...	40
Renfrewshire	2	3	145	150	-5		132	138	135	130	127	...	20
West Dunbartonshire	1	3	123	146	-23		144	137	135	141	137	...	28
South Lanarkshire	2	3	118	119	-1		104	104	101	99	95	...	18
West Lothian	1	3	116	127	-11		125	126	115	116	119	...	26
Argyll & Bute	1 / 0	3	115	106	+9		76	50	47	40	37	...	7
Aberdeen City	1	3	110	115	-5		97	84	73	69	57	...	13
Angus	1	3	100	114	-14		120	138	142	151	151	...	7
Scottish Borders	1	3	87	88	-1		75	68	67	67	51	...	6
Stirling	2	3	77	81	-4		86	74	63	63	61	...	11
Falkirk	1	3	75	71	+4		58	50	39	35	32	...	23
Fife	1	3	72	78	-6		69	64	63	64	57	...	32
Inverclyde	1	3	60	60	0		53	46	46	41	41	...	15
Aberdeenshire	1	2	38	32	+6		26	24	26	27	25	...	8
Dumfries & Galloway	1	2	35	39	-4		38	40	38	44	46	...	19
Highland	1 / 0	2	20	16	+4		14	12	12	12	11	...	9
Moray	1	1	10	8	+2		7	10	9	9	10	...	65
Na h-Eileanan Siar	0	1	7	2	+5		2	7	7	4	4	...	0
Orkney Islands	0	1	4	0	+4		0	0	0	0	0	...	0
Shetland Islands	0	1	4	0	+4		0	0	0	0	0	...	0
7-day averages			Today	Yesterday			16 Jun	15 Jun	14 Jun	13 Jun	12 Jun	...	1 May
Tests			25990	25891	+99		25518	25602	24761	24820	24508	...	18484
Cases			1028	1050	-22		967	950	910	893	856	...	171
Positivity rate %			4.3	4.4	-0.1		4.1	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.7	...	1.1
Deaths			1.6	1.3	+0.3		0.9	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	...	1.3
All Vaccinations			41876	43056	-1180		44139	45082	46703	47120	47384	...	45346
1st Dose			18939	18644	+295		18473	18228	18764	18787	18791	...	6677
2nd Dose			22937	24412	-1475		25666	26854	27939	28333	28593	...	38669
Daily data
All in hospital			128	140	-12		133	137	128	130	129	...	65
Non-ICU			116	128	-12		118	120	111	114	115	...	54
ICU			12	12	0		15	17	17	16	14	...	11

[Fxxx the SPFL]

9 minutes ago, redjambo said:

Today's trend stats:

 

			7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	Tier	WHO	Today	Yesterday			16 Jun	15 Jun	14 Jun	13 Jun	12 Jun	...	1 May
Scotland			132	135	-3		124	122	117	114	110	...	22
Dundee City	2	4	326	329	-3		314	308	297	301	273	...	13
South Ayrshire	2	4	247	260	-13		253	251	242	231	212	...	25
Edinburgh City	2	4	220	218	+2		210	202	198	190	190	...	27
East Ayrshire	2	4	194	184	+10		157	160	139	133	127	...	45
Clackmannanshire	2	4	182	206	-24		184	192	175	180	192	...	14
East Dunbartonshire	2	4	172	176	-4		156	145	133	133	127	...	51
East Lothian	1	4	169	173	-4		167	158	148	132	122	...	5
East Renfrewshire	2	4	169	191	-22		179	167	153	150	136	...	24
Perth & Kinross	1	4	161	167	-6		149	167	158	153	143	...	22
Glasgow City	2	4	160	168	-8		153	160	156	155	155	...	33
North Ayrshire	2	4	159	144	+15		136	136	131	125	112	...	17
Midlothian	2	4	156	173	-17		177	180	182	187	184	...	10
North Lanarkshire	2	3	149	147	+2		129	119	115	110	104	...	40
Renfrewshire	2	3	145	150	-5		132	138	135	130	127	...	20
West Dunbartonshire	1	3	123	146	-23		144	137	135	141	137	...	28
South Lanarkshire	2	3	118	119	-1		104	104	101	99	95	...	18
West Lothian	1	3	116	127	-11		125	126	115	116	119	...	26
Argyll & Bute	1 / 0	3	115	106	+9		76	50	47	40	37	...	7
Aberdeen City	1	3	110	115	-5		97	84	73	69	57	...	13
Angus	1	3	100	114	-14		120	138	142	151	151	...	7
Scottish Borders	1	3	87	88	-1		75	68	67	67	51	...	6
Stirling	2	3	77	81	-4		86	74	63	63	61	...	11
Falkirk	1	3	75	71	+4		58	50	39	35	32	...	23
Fife	1	3	72	78	-6		69	64	63	64	57	...	32
Inverclyde	1	3	60	60	0		53	46	46	41	41	...	15
Aberdeenshire	1	2	38	32	+6		26	24	26	27	25	...	8
Dumfries & Galloway	1	2	35	39	-4		38	40	38	44	46	...	19
Highland	1 / 0	2	20	16	+4		14	12	12	12	11	...	9
Moray	1	1	10	8	+2		7	10	9	9	10	...	65
Na h-Eileanan Siar	0	1	7	2	+5		2	7	7	4	4	...	0
Orkney Islands	0	1	4	0	+4		0	0	0	0	0	...	0
Shetland Islands	0	1	4	0	+4		0	0	0	0	0	...	0
7-day averages			Today	Yesterday			16 Jun	15 Jun	14 Jun	13 Jun	12 Jun	...	1 May
Tests			25990	25891	+99		25518	25602	24761	24820	24508	...	18484
Cases			1028	1050	-22		967	950	910	893	856	...	171
Positivity rate %			4.3	4.4	-0.1		4.1	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.7	...	1.1
Deaths			1.6	1.3	+0.3		0.9	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	...	1.3
All Vaccinations			41876	43056	-1180		44139	45082	46703	47120	47384	...	45346
1st Dose			18939	18644	+295		18473	18228	18764	18787	18791	...	6677
2nd Dose			22937	24412	-1475		25666	26854	27939	28333	28593	...	38669
Daily data
All in hospital			128	140	-12		133	137	128	130	129	...	65
Non-ICU			116	128	-12		118	120	111	114	115	...	54
ICU			12	12	0		15	17	17	16	14	...	11

👍

[The Real Maroonblood]

15 minutes ago, redjambo said:

Today's trend stats:

 

			7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	Tier	WHO	Today	Yesterday			16 Jun	15 Jun	14 Jun	13 Jun	12 Jun	...	1 May
Scotland			132	135	-3		124	122	117	114	110	...	22
Dundee City	2	4	326	329	-3		314	308	297	301	273	...	13
South Ayrshire	2	4	247	260	-13		253	251	242	231	212	...	25
Edinburgh City	2	4	220	218	+2		210	202	198	190	190	...	27
East Ayrshire	2	4	194	184	+10		157	160	139	133	127	...	45
Clackmannanshire	2	4	182	206	-24		184	192	175	180	192	...	14
East Dunbartonshire	2	4	172	176	-4		156	145	133	133	127	...	51
East Lothian	1	4	169	173	-4		167	158	148	132	122	...	5
East Renfrewshire	2	4	169	191	-22		179	167	153	150	136	...	24
Perth & Kinross	1	4	161	167	-6		149	167	158	153	143	...	22
Glasgow City	2	4	160	168	-8		153	160	156	155	155	...	33
North Ayrshire	2	4	159	144	+15		136	136	131	125	112	...	17
Midlothian	2	4	156	173	-17		177	180	182	187	184	...	10
North Lanarkshire	2	3	149	147	+2		129	119	115	110	104	...	40
Renfrewshire	2	3	145	150	-5		132	138	135	130	127	...	20
West Dunbartonshire	1	3	123	146	-23		144	137	135	141	137	...	28
South Lanarkshire	2	3	118	119	-1		104	104	101	99	95	...	18
West Lothian	1	3	116	127	-11		125	126	115	116	119	...	26
Argyll & Bute	1 / 0	3	115	106	+9		76	50	47	40	37	...	7
Aberdeen City	1	3	110	115	-5		97	84	73	69	57	...	13
Angus	1	3	100	114	-14		120	138	142	151	151	...	7
Scottish Borders	1	3	87	88	-1		75	68	67	67	51	...	6
Stirling	2	3	77	81	-4		86	74	63	63	61	...	11
Falkirk	1	3	75	71	+4		58	50	39	35	32	...	23
Fife	1	3	72	78	-6		69	64	63	64	57	...	32
Inverclyde	1	3	60	60	0		53	46	46	41	41	...	15
Aberdeenshire	1	2	38	32	+6		26	24	26	27	25	...	8
Dumfries & Galloway	1	2	35	39	-4		38	40	38	44	46	...	19
Highland	1 / 0	2	20	16	+4		14	12	12	12	11	...	9
Moray	1	1	10	8	+2		7	10	9	9	10	...	65
Na h-Eileanan Siar	0	1	7	2	+5		2	7	7	4	4	...	0
Orkney Islands	0	1	4	0	+4		0	0	0	0	0	...	0
Shetland Islands	0	1	4	0	+4		0	0	0	0	0	...	0
7-day averages			Today	Yesterday			16 Jun	15 Jun	14 Jun	13 Jun	12 Jun	...	1 May
Tests			25990	25891	+99		25518	25602	24761	24820	24508	...	18484
Cases			1028	1050	-22		967	950	910	893	856	...	171
Positivity rate %			4.3	4.4	-0.1		4.1	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.7	...	1.1
Deaths			1.6	1.3	+0.3		0.9	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	...	1.3
All Vaccinations			41876	43056	-1180		44139	45082	46703	47120	47384	...	45346
1st Dose			18939	18644	+295		18473	18228	18764	18787	18791	...	6677
2nd Dose			22937	24412	-1475		25666	26854	27939	28333	28593	...	38669
Daily data
All in hospital			128	140	-12		133	137	128	130	129	...	65
Non-ICU			116	128	-12		118	120	111	114	115	...	54
ICU			12	12	0		15	17	17	16	14	...	11

👍😭

[JudyJudyJudy]

25 minutes ago, westbow said:

Plateauing hopefully.

Yes let’s hope so . Remember we have opened up a lot of things from May 17th and there is little to insignificant jumps in data in all areas really . So it’s looking good ps come on Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Get into them ! 

[redjambo]

14 minutes ago, weehammy said:

Nobody could remember the Greek number after Delta.

 

 

[The Real Maroonblood]

28 minutes ago, weehammy said:

She loves a podium.

[Nucky Thompson]

38 minutes ago, weehammy said:

Nobody could remember the Greek number after Delta.

What happened to April 02 variant. I take it that it never caught on 

[Enzo Chiefo]

5 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

What happened to April 02 variant. I take it that it never caught on 

Apparently there was talk of a Moscow variant earlier in the week. Now, that one will be a best seller!

[Enzo Chiefo]

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

[Norm]

9 minutes ago, Enzo Chiefo said:

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

The fact that case numbers are as high as February but the deaths are very low double digits compared to the high triple digits in February backs this up. 

 

Vaccine is working I'd say.

[ri Alban]

31 minutes ago, Enzo Chiefo said:

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

👍

[DETTY29]

33 minutes ago, Enzo Chiefo said:

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

👍

[redjambo]

37 minutes ago, Enzo Chiefo said:

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

 

Excellent news, Enzo.

[Gizmo]

53 minutes ago, Enzo Chiefo said:

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

At that rate, if we are beginning to plateau (I know its just a hint in the data today) with still flat rates of hospitalisation and deaths, then the vaccines may well be starting to strangle this ******* virus. Bloody hope so, anyway.

Got a link to the research/article?

[HartleyLegend3]

 

[JudyJudyJudy]

2 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

What happened to April 02 variant. I take it that it never caught on 

Lol never scared enough people so they renamed lol 

1 hour ago, Enzo Chiefo said:

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

Great news . They think it’s All over it is now 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Victorian]

Double yakked today.  In and out of the Younger Building in about 3 minutes.  

[Victorian]

1 minute ago, Lord BJ said:

Good news another old ***** fully jab up. Seriously 👍

 

[Sharpie]

OI had my second Pfizer 14 days ago, heard a guy on the radio say he was due his same day, but he was much younger than I, so I made enquiries with the health Department, found I was registered but an error had been made, the girl resubmitted my registration, asked me when I could attend for second vaccine and I said anytime and had an appointment an hour later.

[JudyJudyJudy]

5 minutes ago, Sharpie said:

OI had my second Pfizer 14 days ago, heard a guy on the radio say he was due his same day, but he was much younger than I, so I made enquiries with the health Department, found I was registered but an error had been made, the girl resubmitted my registration, asked me when I could attend for second vaccine and I said anytime and had an appointment an hour later.

👍👍

[Unknown user]

22 minutes ago, Victorian said:

Double yakked today.  In and out of the Younger Building in about 3 minutes.  

 

It's a disgrace, us youngsters are left to fend for ourselves, only monoyakked

[Victorian]

Just now, Smithee said:

 

It's a disgrace, us youngsters are left to fend for ourselves, only monoyakked

 

I'm not even old.  52.  I'm amazed they've belted through this in the time taken.  Surely most over 18s will be done by end of summer at this rate.

[JudyJudyJudy]

1 hour ago, Enzo Chiefo said:

New research suggesting one dose of the Oxford AZ or Pfizer vaccine will reduce by 75% your risk of catching Covid and ending up in hospital. 2 doses will make the risk virtually nil.

Watch out tomorrow when Debbie downer aka NS will talk about the “ tartan “ variant due to the lads in London having a great time . Seen a few of the young teams snap chats and they are really having the time of their lives. Brilliant to see . Some forgot the price young people have paid in the last year or so from either the threats that they “ might kill their granny “ to losing out on life changing transitions such as starting university or the ones who got their exams all decked up too . 

[JudyJudyJudy]

[Governor Tarkin]

51 minutes ago, Victorian said:

Double yakked today.  In and out of the Younger Building in about 3 minutes.  

 

Hope your arm falls off.

[Governor Tarkin]

30 minutes ago, Smithee said:

Only monoyakked

 

Can we call you cyclops?

 

 

Edited June 18, 2021 by Governor Tarkin

[Unknown user]

2 minutes ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

Can we call you cyclops?

 

 

Cyclops jr

[Governor Tarkin]

1 minute ago, Smithee said:

Cyclops jr

 

Gotcha 👍

[Ainsley Harriott]

Tartan  Army Variant detected around central london next week

[ri Alban]

1 hour ago, Lord BJ said:

Good news another old ***** fully jab up. Seriously 👍

 

[ri Alban]

22 minutes ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

Hope your arm falls off.

🤣

[Governor Tarkin]

14 minutes ago, Lord BJ said:

 

“We’re the famous tartan army and we’re off to spread diseases’

 

Should be the TA chant this year 😃 

 

It used to be standard to come back up the road with a dose.

 

[Enzo Chiefo]

1 hour ago, Gizmo said:

At that rate, if we are beginning to plateau (I know its just a hint in the data today) with still flat rates of hospitalisation and deaths, then the vaccines may well be starting to strangle this ******* virus. Bloody hope so, anyway.

Got a link to the research/article?

Yes, let's hope so Gizmo.

 

It was on the live BBC website feed earlier. Prof Finn I think had referred to it. Will try to find the link.

 

[JudyJudyJudy]

1 minute ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

It used to be standard to come back up the road with a dose.

 

 

[The Real Maroonblood]

1 hour ago, JamesM48 said:

👍😆

[Enzo Chiefo]

12 hours ago, redjambo said:

 

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/what-time-nicola-sturgeons-update-today-when-first-minister-will-speak-about-phase-two-scotlands-lockdown-and-how-watch-2887906

Red, this is the link to the Times article that I referred to the other day. It's behind a pay wall but hopefully the first paragraph details the pertinent info👍

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-in-scotland-hospitals-behind-30-of-worst-infections-bk3hhs293

[theshed]

Watching the news this morning and can’t believe Nicola sturgeon stood with a straight face and banned people travelling to Manchester. 
 

What a total waste of time trying to ban people going anywhere in the uk.

Has she not seen London in last 48 hours? 
 

 

[Konrad von Carstein]

28 minutes ago, jonesy said:

Ha! Didn't hear that.

 

She's like a teacher who, upon losing control of her class, decides the best way is to try and shout louder than them and add more rules.

To be fair, if this place is an indicator, there are are a fair few man babies about so perhaps the exasperation is becoming harder to hide.

[Konrad von Carstein]

Just now, jonesy said:

The only man-babies on here, Konnie my dear, are the ones await Ms Sturgeon's instructions on when to sit, stand, or leave their own homes.

 

If she's getting exasperated about the fact that people are living their, now post-pandemic, lives in a reasonable and, gosh, normal way, then it really ought to give her supporters pause for thought about what it is she and her merry band of eunuchs exactly want from their position of authority. However, the aforementioned man-babies aren't exactly renowned for the ability to do much beyond nod and shake their heads on the woman's command, like the good little 走狗 they are.

Oh my, that's some amount of misplaced smugness there sweetheart.

[Konrad von Carstein]

2 minutes ago, jonesy said:

I believe you've quoted the wrong post, Konnie. No smugness here, just a round of truth bullets fired straight into the heart of the rotting authoritarian beast.

 👀

[XB52]

Said it before but some posters are going to have to go and get a life ina few months when this pandemic is hopefully over. Their post counts are going through the roof as they can see the end coming. I suppose they can resurrect the SNP bad thread to vent their spleen. 

[Konrad von Carstein]

6 minutes ago, XB52 said:

Said it before but some posters are going to have to go and get a life ina few months when this pandemic is hopefully over. Their post counts are going through the roof as they can see the end coming. I suppose they can resurrect the SNP bad thread to vent their spleen. 

Truth bullets aw ower the shop 👊👍🤣

Edited June 19, 2021 by Konrad von Carstein

[Enzo Chiefo]

4 minutes ago, XB52 said:

Said it before but some posters are going to have to go and get a life ina few months when this pandemic is hopefully over. Their post counts are going through the roof as they can see the end coming. I suppose they can resurrect the SNP bad thread to vent their spleen. 

Those who are posting are the people who want to "get a life"; to get their own lives back and to start living, to enjoy the basic human rights to go where we want within the country and to travel abroad.  

 

Banning people from leaving their own country was one of many unedifying features of communist eastern Europe up until 30 years ago. 

Like today, some of the population became accustomed to sitting waiting for their next set of instructions from an authoritarian leader.