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

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New thread Tierers ...

@ecceromani

Thanks *@BlameItOnTheBlackStar* It's good that individual health boards are able to give these figures It's definitely in the public interest to know this.

"The data should shine light on the spread of Covid-19 in hospitals as well as giving an indication to the public of how dangerous the new variant really is."
Absolutely!

Or not as the case may be in terms of how dangerous Omicron is. Hardly a good overall representation of Scotland data. But either way 40% of hospital admissions are feck all to do with Covid and in fact probably higher....... I'd love to know why the narrative between England and Scotland is so very different. Am I to believe that 100 miles away in Berwick Upon Tweed I'd be much safer. What utter tosh

Can anyone help offhand with the rules for unvaccinated adults who are a close contact and symptoms?

@WouldBeGood

www.nhsinform.scot/self-help-guides/self-help-guide-when-and-how-long-to-self-isolate-due-to-coronavirus

Look like pcr, and if positive can end isolation on day 7 if 2 neg LFTs irrespective of vax status
But if negative PCR will still need to isolate for 10 days if unvaccinated if they are an adult .

I think they're in the slammer for 10 days, just in case @WouldBeGood . IIRC 10 days isolation even with a negative PCR, unless she who should be obeyed changed it on Wednesday.

X posted sorry

Thanks so much guys. I’m so confused and appreciate it.

It’s not for me, obviously, as although I hate everything I’m duly triple jagged 😃

It’s interesting cause different papers have interpreted the data differently. My interpretation would be that out of the 126 admitted who tested positive, 60% were admitted due to covid and 40% were admitted for another reason not related to covid. What it doesn’t say is how many patients in total were admitted, and what percentage of admissions are covid positives. I took it to be pretty positive data.

@tiredoftiers the actual public health Scotland full report.

They have included probable as well within the 60%
It's interesting as Grampian is actually 6 days of data which is quite considerable and is still very low in the scheme of the number of positive cases there have been foe the health board in the weeks previous (assuming the 2 week hospital lag)

Thanks @Scottishskifun, one paper was reporting it as 60% of hospital admissions due to covid. If greater Glasgow with a population of £1.2million only had 69 admission to hospital in a 24 hour period it would be a pretty quiet day. It would be interesting to see a total admission number, to get a context.

@tiredoftiers yes SG in the summary page did this which is where they got it from. Probably is more then likely to be just without a confirmed test I suppose!

I’m lost, fair enough 60% of hospital admissions with covid are due to covid, but to then say 60% of all hospital admissions are due to covid seems to be far from what the data says. There will be covid negative people admitted to hospital. It would be interesting to see what percentage of total hospital admissions were due to covid.

@tiredoftiers yeah the summaries have very specific wording which is easy to misconstrue -it's for acute hospital admissions which is not the same as hospital admissions.
The report actually gives far better breakdown and information the summaries whilst factually correct are missing the crucial information like out of all hospital admissions......but that's the skeptic in me thinking they are choosing to represent and summarise a certain way!

I’d assumed it was people in hospital with Covid, broken down into whether that’s why they were admitted??

How you feeling @BlameItOnTheBlackStar?

You're lovely to ask

Not so bad. Have had a lovely lazy day so far and am going to my mum's later for steak pie. Could be worse!

Have a great weekend everyone

• 12,602 new cases of COVID-19 reported*
• 57,907 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
◦ 25.1% of these were positive
• 26 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 48 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 1,362 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,390,076 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,041,550 have received their second dose, and 3,082,231 have received a third dose or booster.

• There continues to be large volumes of tests being processed by labs; this and the holiday weekend have impacted turnaround times resulting in delays between specimens being taken and results being received and reported. Public Health Scotland are continuing to monitor the situation.

Can anyone who've tested positive recently let me know how long t&t take to contact you.
I've got one DC who tested positive on 5th after a positive lft, with no symptoms. Everyoneelse negative but we're still following the old rules which seems utterly ridiculous but have had no contact from t&t to confirm.
We've always stuck by the rules but this one makes no sense at all for the rest of us with daily neg lft's

My son got an email almost immediately after registering positive lfd result... link to online form to input contacts/ places he'd been etc...

They got the acknowledgment back and same for the Pcr saying to isolate but no link to put in contact details and nobody from t&t have been in touch as yet

@ArthursSeat

They got the acknowledgment back and same for the Pcr saying to isolate but no link to put in contact details and nobody from t&t have been in touch as yet

They are unlikely to call you at the moment. There are so many cases they are only really calling high risk ones - people who work in care homes etc!

There is zero difference between testing positive on the 5th and at the stroke of midnight on the 6th!
Just free yourselves the isolation for Whole family if not positive was guidance never in law anyway!

• 7,561 new cases of COVID-19 reported*
• 38,423 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
◦ 23.2% of these were positive
• 3 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends).
• 55 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 1,382 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,391,558 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,045,667 have received their second dose, and 3,101,096 have received a third dose or booster.

• There continues to be large volumes of tests being processed by labs; this has impacted turnaround times resulting in delays between specimen’s beings taken and results being received and reported. PHS are continuing to monitor the situation.

That is a huge drop.

Is that because there are fewer tests now PCR is only for those with symptoms?

Will they publish positive lateral flows then, separately? My experience at work this week (school) certainly hasn't been a lowering!

I think a move away from positive test counting is a good thing.

We shall see

• 11,827 new cases of COVID-19 reported*
• 47,019 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
◦ 29.5% of these were positive
• 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that register offices are now generally closed at weekends).
• 54 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 1,432 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,392,694 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,048,656 have received their second dose, and 3,115,065 have received a third dose or booster.

• There continues to be large volumes of tests being processed by labs; this has impacted turnaround times resulting in delays between specimen’s beings taken and results being received and reported. PHS are continuing to monitor the situation