Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Marshmallo]

1 hour ago, Wee Bully said:

Because a number of people on here were claiming we weren’t doing enough.

 

59 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said:

ah ok that makes sense....will make the "Main Players" feel as if they have a purpose in life and their constant moaning has not been in vain.

Seek help

[GiGi]

It's a wonder Inverclyde is still so low given we're surrounded on all sides by the plague dens of Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire.

Still, as long as hospitalisations are dropping and vaccines skimming along nicely I'm less convinced we should really give a shit.

[davidkennedyshand]

Daily Cases Update:   All UK nations now seem to have joined Scotland at stalling and cases now start to rise nationwide. Never a good thing but at least it is not just a Scottish issue.    

Scotland now has 8 LA's above 100 cases per 100K out of the total of 33 in the UK

Scotland peaked 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%  

Total Cases 7 days from 9th March to 15th March were  3,995 to 4,107 up 2.80%. Positivity was  3.3% and still 3.3%.   Cases per 100k were  73.1 now 75.2

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average 59.1 to 59.5 up 0.68%, England 58.6 to 58.7 up 0.17% .  Wales 41.1 to 43.6 up 6.08%  , Northern Ireland 68.8 to 70.4 up 2.33%   

NHS Progress  Greater Glasgow  108.8 to 114.2  , Lanarkshire  101.2 to 103.6 , North Ayrshire & Arran  102.1 to 101.5,  Forth Valley 96.5 to 88.1 ,  the rest all under Scottish average.

European (Above 2 Million Population) Shockers: Czech 720, Hungary 517, Serbia 442, Poland 291, Sweden 267, Slovakia 259, Italy 258, France 250 showing how much worse it is in Europe.  The UK only has below it Portugal (Who were top recently !!!) and Russia.   This does seem to support the patterns where new variants hit earlier than in other places.

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
The Bad boys club Over 100 Cartel
Glasgow City  133.6 to 139.2 The capital continues to excel up 4.19%
East Renfrewshire 124.6 to 137.1   A shocker up over 10%
South Ayrshire  121.7 to 123.4  
North Lanarkshire  123.3 to 123.3
West Lothian 104.3 to 113.6  Bad day again up 8.91%  
Renfrewshire  112.8 to 113.3
North Ayrshire  107.6 to 109.8    
Stirling  132.7 to 109.3  On the downwards march 17.63%. Just got to tell Fallin
Under 100 Club
Midlothian  81.1 to 90.9 
Falkirk  88.3 to 85.8
South Lanarkshire  77.7 to 82.1
Fife 70.4 to 77.6 
Under Scottish Average club 75.2
East Ayrshire  77.0 to 71.3
Perth & Kinross 50.7 to 63.8   2nd daily large rise
Dundee City   62.3 to 58.9
Clackmannanshire  56.3 to 56.3 
East Dunbartonshire 54.3 to 56.1  
East Lothian 52.3 to 53.2
West Dunbartonshire  43.9 to 51.7
SUB 50 Good Guys
City Of Edinburgh 42.5 to 43.4
Highlands  41.1 to 41.6 
Aberdeen City  42.9 to 39.8
Inverclyde  24.4 to 33.4      
Aberdeenshire  33.3 to 30.2
Havana & Malt Whisky club Sub 30.0
Shetland Islands 4.4 to 26.2  Another outbreak 6 cases thus far.
Moray  24.0 to 20.9 
Angus 18.9 to 20.7  
Dumfries & Galloway 17.5 to 15.5 
Scottish  Borders 14.7 to 14.7       
Argyll & Bute 10.5  to 10.5
Western Isles  7.5 to 3.7 
Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0 

Amazing that here in Sunny South Ayrshire we were at 19.3 until Rangers won the League and the schools went back.

[Guest]

27 minutes ago, madwullie said:

Cheers. 

I suppose that makes sense and is good for my dad. 

My parents got a call from the surgery this morning, with their second jab date being brought forward by 2 weeks, so obviously must be ahead of schedule in NA.

[Wee Bully]

Seek help

Chill.

The suns shining outside. I don’t even have to make my own today!

[Honest_Man#1]

10 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:

Chill.

Oh, the irony.

[Steven W]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-people-with-headache-for-more-than-four-days-after-oxford-astrazeneca-jab-should-seek-medical-attention-says-uk-regulator-12249755

Doesn't sound good

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Steven W said:

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-people-with-headache-for-more-than-four-days-after-oxford-astrazeneca-jab-should-seek-medical-attention-says-uk-regulator-12249755

Doesn't sound good

A typical "nothing to see here" story once you actually read it.

[G51]

You have to wonder how much longer the position of "We have to protect pharma companies IP rights and prevent other factories from making vaccines" is sustainable.

Vaccine manufacturing is a low-efficiency, high-volume thing. Some factories are about 40 - 50% efficient. Why the f**k aren't we building factories as fast as humanly possible right now?

[scottsdad]

1 minute ago, G51 said:

You have to wonder how much longer the position of "We have to protect pharma companies IP rights and prevent other factories from making vaccines" is sustainable.

Vaccine manufacturing is a low-efficiency, high-volume thing. Some factories are about 40 - 50% efficient. Why the f**k aren't we building factories as fast as humanly possible right now?

If it was a case that the vaccines were a drug, like ibuprofen, we would be. But as they're biological agents rather than chemicals, there are fewer people capable of making them, the testing and quality control is through the roof, and the supplies of raw materials limited. 

[realmadrid]

On 10/03/2021 at 21:11, Elixir said:

 

This tweet aged well.

In less than 9 days we are going from under 30's getting their first jag in May to possibly by the end of July.

Supply was always going to be an issue at some point, that was the point I was trying to make last week.

[G51]

1 minute ago, scottsdad said:

If it was a case that the vaccines were a drug, like ibuprofen, we would be. But as they're biological agents rather than chemicals, there are fewer people capable of making them, the testing and quality control is through the roof, and the supplies of raw materials limited. 

So the question becomes why didn't we see this coming?

AFAIK, Sanofi has one of the largest manufacturing bases for vaccines in Europe. Their one didn't work. They've since offered one of their manufacturing bases in Frankfurt to make the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. What are the other Sanofi sites doing at the moment?

 

[LongTimeLurker]

1 hour ago, Caledonian1 said:

The spat with the EU seems to be getting far more prominance over what appears to be the main reason for under-supply for a month long period - production of the AZ vaccine in India

...India's large role in Oxford-AZ production has been ignored by the UK media for months now. Probably because it undermined the jingoistic narrative preferred by Boris and co.

[realmadrid]

After Tuesday I thought this thread may run out of news, this will certainly bring things back to life for a few weeks.

[Jacksgranda]

19 hours ago, ICTChris said:

I had never heard of Fallin until it was mentioned in this thread so I googled it and found this article.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12314314.the-polmaise-malaise/
 

Dregs, scum, bigots, racists, homophobes, almost without exception. Sounds it.

I take it that's sarcasm?

[superbigal]

1 minute ago, Jacksgranda said:

I take it that's sarcasm?

He did not elaborate whether Scum was a singular person or perhaps the plural and a few more 

[s_dog]

2 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Has testing in schools been ramped up now that more pupils are going back?

The testing done in schools is with the 30min lateral flow tests and these are not included in the daily figures. Although, if someone tests positive from one of these, they will then have to get a PCR test to confirm. Not sure we'll get any figures from the amount of these twice-weekly tests they're doing though.

Edited March 18, 2021 by s_dog

[Jacksgranda]

49 minutes ago, Steven W said:

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-people-with-headache-for-more-than-four-days-after-oxford-astrazeneca-jab-should-seek-medical-attention-says-uk-regulator-12249755

Doesn't sound good

Anybody having a headache for 4 days, with or without having had an injection, should seek medical advice, imo.

46 minutes ago, WATTOO said:

A typical "nothing to see here" story once you actually read it.

Correct

[craigkillie]

The testing done in schools is with the 30min lateral flow tests and these are not included in the daily figures. Although, if someone tests positive from one of these, they will then have to get a PCR test to confirm. Not sure we'll get any figures from the amount of these twice-weekly tests they're doing though.

The false positive rates of the lateral flow tests and the frequency with which school staff and students are taking them means that there probably are a lot of extra follow-up PCR tests being done.

[Burnieman]

New routes, that's not supposed to happen according to Glasgow Airport gadgie.

Edinburgh Airport

@EDI_Airport

@easyJet  has announced a new route to Bournemouth beginning 27 May. Flights to the popular seaside town will operate up to twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays during the summer!