04-06-2021, 06:10 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by Omah
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It was less than peanuts this time last year - 1,700 per day ..... 
Even if deaths are minimal and symptoms milder, 5,000 cases a day is 35,000 a week, 150,000 a month, 2,000,000 a year (extrapolated) .....
That will incur a lot of sick leave, quarantine and isolation.
BJ and Soapy need to do something soon .....
A further 6,238 confirmed cases in the UK were announced by the government on Friday.
04-06-2021, 06:19 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by JBR
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How do those figures compare with the figures for influenza?
04-06-2021, 06:37 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by Omah
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No idea ..... AFAIK, they're entirely different beasts ..... for example, we don't get flu outbreaks of 5,000 per day in the summer in the UK.
However, I think what needs to be considered is what effect does contracting Covid have on us collectively.
I believe that deaths and serious illnesses from Covid are far fewer now.
The question is, can we live with these outbreaks of Covid if they have little effect on the majority of people?
04-06-2021, 07:17 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by JBR
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True.However, I think what needs to be considered is what effect does contracting Covid have on us collectively.
I believe that deaths and serious illnesses from Covid are far fewer now.
The question is, can we live with these outbreaks of Covid if they have little effect on the majority of people?
The elephant in the room is foreign travel - even now, under "controlled" entry restrictions, variants have penetrated the UK - what happens when the floodgates open (average 150,000,000 per year (visitors and returning residents)) .....
No-one knows ..... yet .....
04-06-2021, 07:39 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by Omah
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This next "wave" will be the telling - with most UK citizens vaccinated, outbreaks may well be localised but will that mean local lockdowns, or will travel, and hence transmission, be permitted? The elephant in the room is foreign travel - even now, under "controlled" entry restrictions, variants have penetrated the UK - what happens when the floodgates open (average 150,000,000 per year (visitors and returning residents)) .....
No-one knows ..... yet .....
05-06-2021, 01:12 AM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by JBR
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Well we all know who's responsible for bringing the virus here uninvited, and there's no sign of any limitations on them.
I would like to see more detail by age on the hospital admissions etc. But the following tells me all I need to know :
31 may last year it was 528 admissions, 31 may this year it was 123.
3rd june 21 134 in ventilator beds, 3rd June 2020 602 in ventilator beds.
Now this is before the virus was a widespread as now. Before variants etc.
Deaths 3rd June 2020 : 155. 3rd Jun 21 : 4
05-06-2021, 07:05 AM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by AnnieS
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The virus is here already!I would like to see more detail by age on the hospital admissions etc. But the following tells me all I need to know :
31 may last year it was 528 admissions, 31 may this year it was 123.
3rd june 21 134 in ventilator beds, 3rd June 2020 602 in ventilator beds.
Now this is before the virus was a widespread as now. Before variants etc.
Deaths 3rd June 2020 : 155. 3rd Jun 21 : 4
05-06-2021, 10:27 AM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by AnnieS
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The virus is here already!I would like to see more detail by age on the hospital admissions etc. But the following tells me all I need to know :
31 may last year it was 528 admissions, 31 may this year it was 123.
3rd june 21 134 in ventilator beds, 3rd June 2020 602 in ventilator beds.
Now this is before the virus was a widespread as now. Before variants etc.
Deaths 3rd June 2020 : 155. 3rd Jun 21 : 4
05-06-2021, 10:55 AM
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Re: Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson
Originally Posted by Vlad
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Last years figures?
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