its more than that tho gembo, the inference that it prevents transmission is everywhere right now
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West Lothian rate high, other rates lower, not seen any data on where vax uptake results sitting.
Mask and two metres still prevalent in my comms.
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How a coronavirus variant tore through a tiny English island and onto the world stage
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-uk-variant/
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@gembo: ...not seen any data on where vax uptake results sitting
The PHS Daily Dashboard web site has had a Vaccinations tab for a while now. That says that Scotland has 51.9% first-dose coverage, which is significantly better than the 43.9% for the UK as a whole.
Within Scotland, the Lothian, Grampian and Greater Glasgow and Strathclyde health boards are the only ones below 50% first-dose coverage, with Lothian the worst performing at 44.4% (still a bit better than the UK as a whole, though). At the local authority level, Edinburgh council area has the worst first-dose coverage in Scotland at 40.1%.
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Thanks @ejstubbs, boffins not really explaining t o me the west Lothian spike. Likely it is responsible for the entire nation now having highest numbers of positives, and maybe we have more tests going on there too?
Cannot be poverty as whilst ther areas of extreme and terrible poverty such as east Ayrshire etc have numbers falling - west Lothian has declined to budge. Would like to know what that is about.
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@ejstubbs I believe your numbers are incorrect - England is at 56% first vaccines for over 18s, Scotland marginally behind Wales too (who are also doing well on second vaccines). Can only think your 43.9% UK number is for population as a whole rather than 16/18+.
Relevant chart is about half way down the page:
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Apologies, I got that number from the Guardian's coronavirus in the UK page, which doesn't specify any age range.
The BBC seems to be using different data to PHS as well: the table you reference is dated 24th March whereas the PHS data was updated on 27th March. Also the age range is different: BBC is 18+, PHS is 16+. It's not even entirely clear whether both are using the same source data. Hey ho...
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see there's eight new vaccines in the tombola this autumn
one's a single shot triple variant remix EP
that's the boy for me, opted out meantime
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seems like church is THE place for communal action these days
used to love the caribbean evangelicals in the E14 eighties
we should get that going up north, a loose-fit wee-wee-free
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Prof Mark Woolhouse of Edinburgh university says
we haven’t vaccinated everyone, so there’s still potential for the virus to spread
sigh..
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Anyone know how it’s done in Scotland?
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Have heard of doses given to non-high risk <50yos at Craigmillar, not sure of the background
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'Prof Mark Woolhouse of Edinburgh university says
... there’s still potential for the virus to spread'
Certainly is when people who should know better disobey stay-at-home orders? I know it was last year but I am sick of these hypocrites.
"A Scottish Government coronavirus adviser ignored Nicola Sturgeon’s advice and stayed at his island holiday home hours before lockdown restrictions were put in place.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, 60, has angered residents on Lismore by temporarily moving to the tiny Hebridean island with his family from Edinburgh."
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Interestingly recently on twitter through a few searches and filters I have running for some specific keywords (I am a glutton for punishment) I've been seeing more and more cries for help from the anti-lockdown people.
Classic message type is one I saw tonight "I need more people around me who are awake. I'm the only person I know who isn't going to get vaccinated" etc. Suggests that though loud the most obnoxious are not perhaps living in the bubbles in the real world that you sometimes assume.Posted 4 years ago # -
Fergus Walsh on the BBC was referring to immunization twice last night on ten o’clock news. As has been pointed out on here the vaccine is a tool in the fight against coronavirus it is not going to be eradicated by the vaccine. - masks and two metres still necessary.
The vaccine is going to stop hospitalization
The new normal should not be the same as the old normal? I shall continue with my mask/buff.if on a bus. I used to move if someone sitting next to me started coughing. Indeed I used to open the windows. I was not popular.
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Professor Mark Woolhouse, 60, has angered residents on Lismore by temporarily moving to the tiny Hebridean island with his family from Edinburgh
@murun he's still there, apparently.. a 70 year old local standing on his own doorstep asked the prof's wife why they were still there, and ended up in oban sheriff court for his trouble
but you probably knew that
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@aunty Bax, what about the other Prof,of Epidemiology from Edinburgh who was email8ng Ivan as he was trying to do some citizen investigation into some group who he thought might be spinnning stuff in Syria against Assad but it turned out Ivan was In fact made up and it was really the group the prof thought he was investigating.
Characters those Profs of Epidemiology.
The profs of Psychology in late 80s were also good value. Lot of bickering and drinking and some dodgy data. Not Colwyn Though he was a saint and constAntly refereeing.
My fave was the stats guru Prof Bob Morris whom the Koestler people hired to research ghosties.he just liked to show that stuff like mind reading was statistically similar to guessing. Or chance.
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bickering and drinking and some dodgy data
sounds like my kinda party
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@bax, yes, often started well but would deteriorate markedly
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Is "dodgy data" a euphemism for illicit recreational drugs?
As in "Yeah man, hit me up with a microdot of that Dodgy Data".
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Could be now as cocaine everywhere (assume low purity)
Then it was bevvy and fags.
Did find an interesting article trying to estimate how many scientists fabricate their data.
Nature now only accepts an article if all data is made freely available.
The tallest and drunkest dodgy data man I knew vaguely flew the coop to Texas.
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I was administered drugs in a syringe today, but luckily it was just Astra Zeneca vaccine shot.
Waiting for the side effects to kick in...
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that's you rumbling about in the mystery tombola now, crowriver..
you'll need the second jab though, before you get on the guest list
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@bax, government decree is 12 weeks until "booster" shot. Allegedly immunity bestowed by first dose of vaccine will not materialise for 21 days yet.
I am part of the state sanctioned flu vaccine programme every autumn, so my body is already a mobile germ warfare lab. My vaccinator was quite chatty, and opined that it's likely we'll all get a Covid shot once a year from now on, possibly alongside the flu shot. For similar reasons - ever evolving new strains of the virus, so countermeasures required.
Oh on the active travel front, I decided to walk in the end. TBH I could have cycled no bother, as the roads in town were pretty quiet mid-morning. Four mile walk slightly better for the constitution though.
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The Germans do not like the British jab it would seem.
@crow any headache or muscle ache?.
My symptoms did not stop me cycling
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@gembo, aye headache, aching limbs, bit fragile. It's like a mild dose of flu or an absolute beast of a hangover, but without the drinking and carousing that led to that.
Can't see it stopping me going about my day unless it gets significantly worse. Couple of paracetamols, job's a good 'un.
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That was my response too @crowriver. Paracetamol and upwards and onwards
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