Heading into winTier ..... the one we hoped it would be over before...

[dancemom]

New thread Tierers ...

Ooh thanks @dancemom here we go again

Thanks @dancemom!

At the risk of being positive and thereby jinxing everything, I’ve posted on railing but will add here. The UK has authorised the use of an anti viral drug to be given to vulnerable people when they are diagnosed with Covid. Sounds great!

That's really good news @WouldBeGood

• 2,823 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 43,649 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 7.2% of these were positive
• 33 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 63 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 896 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,321,770 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination and 3,911,823 have received their second dose
*Vaccination data for today is not yet available. We will update it as soon as possible.

Thanks @dancemom ☺️

Nice to see hospital numbers under 900. Which is depressing but true!

Apparently this new drug will come onstream around mid-November, and has been shown to halve hospitalisations for the vulnerable, so in time severe cases should hopefully go through the floor.

Great news on the new drug, though I read it needs to be administered in the first five days of symptoms to be effective. So someone will need to get a test, wait for the results and arrange to collect a prescription in that time frame?

I’m sure that could be done. I remember DS got antivirals for swine flu which they prescribed after diagnosing on symptoms and likelihood (it was rife) and didn’t test. It worked, he was a baby and much less ill than DD had been (the disease vector 🤣)

Time for a wee name change.
Thanks for the new thread @dancemom

Another thread for the new normal.

Oh, only just noticed the thread name! Love it @dancemom 🤣

Aaahh, I see what you've done with the title there! Well. Played dancemom, and thanks for the new (normal) thread.

Great news on the new treatment too! They said on the news yesterday that they thought it would cost in the region of £500 a patient. Though I'm not sure of the usual cost of these kind of things, I'd have thought if it prevents a couple of nights in hospital for a patient, that would already pay (the NHS) for itself several times over! Bonus.

Thanks you guys but genuinely, I think we have exhausted all tier puns 😆

Maybe this will be the last one and we will all be freed before 1,000 posts…

Oh definitely @ResilienceWanker it's a couple of thousand pounds per day in ICU in the UK which is a lot cheaper than the US!

I will be very happy once the drug is available (I think they said end of November). My dad has a high risk category and although he's had his 3rd jab so I know he has a good level of protection if he did need it it's great to think it's available. He still goes about his daily life just adapts it so no megs busy places which I'm grateful of as he was miserable completely isolating!

• 2,389 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 30,341 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 8.3% of these were positive
• 25 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 59 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 841 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,319,877 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination and 3,912,518 have received their second dose

Thanks @dancemom looking at the area breakdowns it looks like natural immunity is starting to show a difference with the cities typically low and rural areas now high!
Glasgow is one of the lowest per pop rate..... I don't think they have done anything different in the last 3 months other then loads of people already having it!

Maybe the dirty Glasgow folk have stopped jumping all over and licking each other as we were doing when our numbers were high before.

Haha that must be it @haudyourwheesht 😂

• 3,249 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 39,152 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 8.7% of these were positive
• 24 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 55 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 823 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,321,350 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,914,397 have received their second dose

It is weird... We seem to have settled at about 2.5k cases daily (7 day average, though a bit higher today, bit lower yesterday...) and have been at that for a month or so now. Licking aside, I wonder if that is just our baseline level, at a given level of immunity (vaccination and infection) topped up through boosters and so on. Hopefully the hospitalisations and deaths will continue to fall, as more people get the booster/3rd jag, and the new treatment for the vulnerable comes on line. But it may be that actual cases don't really "need" to decrease in order to get a steady and manageable level of the virus in the community.

Though I did also read something yesterday suggesting that the ONS data showed community infection was increasing slightly (in Scotland) but not being picked up by the PHS data, as people weren't testing as much. Can't work out if that's a good or bad thing! (Good 'cos we are just getting on with things now and the virus isn't all-pervading anymore - bad, cos it may lead to much more virus in the community that we don't know is there... but then, if it's not making people really sick, does that matter?!)

• 2,908 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 27,540 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 11.1% of these were positive
• 2 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends)
• 57 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 793 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,321,382 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,91

Thanks @dancemom
Over 100 fewer in hospital than last weekend

• 2,012 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 19,251 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 11.0% of these were positive
• 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are generally closed at the weekend)
• 54 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 803 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,323,549 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination and 3,917,210 have received their second dose