Indian variant - why the panic?

[Doireallyneedaname]

Multiple news stories over the last 24 hours stating that the vaccines are effective against it; as well as lab studies last week showing the same, yet the panic continues. Why?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57134181

Correction - cases slightly up

Still nothing to be worried about though

Sewage analysis indicates that surge vaccination and testing are now needed in Bedford Burnley Hounslow, Kirklees Leicester and North Tyneside as well as Glasgow and Moray according to Sam Coates from Sky News.

@AlecTrevelyan006

Correction - cases slightly up

Still nothing to be worried about though

hospital admissions do not happen straightaway

we cannot say that there is nothing to be worried about yet

@AlecTrevelyan006

Cases and deaths lower than last Wednesday

Still no sign of the Indian variant having much impact

Well they’re not, last Wednesday was 2248 and today is 2412. It’s a small enough increase to count as stable though. No doubt some of the surge testing measures and awareness will have contributed to that stability.

Hospital admissions data lag by a few days but the seven day rolling average continues to fall.

The Indian variant has been in the U.K. for a month and if it is bad we would have expected to have seen some form of spike by now.

At the moment- very little evidence to suggest it’s a major problem

But we have yet to see what effect the opening up of many things on 17 May will have. We just don't know yet and this will take a week or two to show in the data.

@Leonardsgirl

Preston linked to Runshaw college

Sewage analysis indicates that surge vaccination and testing are now needed in Bedford Burnley Hounslow, Kirklees Leicester and North Tyneside as well as Glasgow and Moray according to Sam Coates from Sky News.

Thank you for this info. We are NT and bubbles are starting to close in local schools. It's helpful to know they're getting a good handle on it.

@WarriorN Which schools if you do not mind me asking?

Anon666 thank you.

I never said it was logical, so why are people not having the vaccine. Minuscule alcohol, no animal products. So why

My school would be outing and I honestly can't remember the name of the two that colleagues mentioned last week.

It was a "a class in my daughter's first school" and "bubble in my son's school" conversation and I can't remember where their children go.

Looking at the colour graphs positives have been here and there throughout most ages and a cluster in the 20-24's (Allards?!)

I'm v glad poo is being looked at in the name of virus fighting! Certainly the last cases lateral flow testing picked up at work, the member of staff thought it just was just a cold.

@WarriorN Thank you.

@Ddot

I never said it was logical, so why are people not having the vaccine. Minuscule alcohol, no animal products. So why

Maybe because they have read the same crap you have online and believe it. Most people are getting vaccinated though.

@WarriorN

Sewage analysis indicates that surge vaccination and testing are now needed in Bedford Burnley Hounslow, Kirklees Leicester and North Tyneside as well as Glasgow and Moray according to Sam Coates from Sky News.

Thank you for this info. We are NT and bubbles are starting to close in local schools. It's helpful to know they're getting a good handle on it.

I think they should close all schools in areas with the Indian variant for a couple of weeks at least. If this is more infectious and one child has it, it will spread to hundreds in no time and is perhaps what is happening.

Yes I’m sure there’ll be widespread support for more school closures 🤦‍♀️

@TheKeatingFive

Yes I’m sure there’ll be widespread support for more school closures 🤦‍♀️

Schools will be closing anyway if this spread though as well as everything else.

Most would prefer to take their chances, thanks

Belladonna12
What crap is that then?
Minuscule alcohol, fact!
No animal products, fact!
Which bit is untrue

@Ddot

Belladonna12 What crap is that then? Minuscule alcohol, fact! No animal products, fact! Which bit is untrue

You said that it contains a small amount of alcohol .You didn't actually say "minuscule alcohol" or that it contains less than you would get in bread or a banana. There is a difference.

There's alcohol in bread and bananas?!! Every day's a school day here.

@TheKeatingFive

Most would prefer to take their chances, thanks

What you mean? You can't choose to "take your chances ". If a bubble in your school shuts and your child is told to stay at home there is not much you can do it about it .Bubbles are already closing in a lot of places. It would be better to shut all schools in those areas a week before half term while they are getting on top of this as it will stop more bubbles having to close next half term. What is better? One extra week of being shut or three months as happened last time.

What you mean?

We’d take the possibility of a school closure due to bubble bursting over the certainty of schools closing due to policy. I can never understand why that’s not obvious to people.

One extra week of being shut or three months as happened last time.

No one believes they’d only be shut for a week. Trust was blown a long time ago.

We’ve only been shut due to policy not bubbles closing us.

It’s been said first a year you wait it’ll happen etc

So long that yr11 are nearly done.

No to school closure (can’t believe people are going back to this again)

No to school closure (can’t believe people are going back to this again)

I know, right? Unbelievable

Anyway, the issue was never spread within schools, it was spread within schools leading to community spread among the vulnerable and resulting in serious illness. The vaccines have mitigated that.