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

[dancemom]

New thread Tierers ...

Thanks @dancemom

Yes, thanks! I notice you'll be able to have weekends off soon as the SG are going to stop publishing figures at weekends "as we're in a calmer stage of the pandemic" (or some such wording). Which would be lovely if it corresponded with things like children not having to wear masks in schools, or parents being allowed into the building, and them not eating lunch in their classrooms and being able to have assemblies and so on... And not still being advised to limit gatherings and to test before going out to the shops. But I appreciate that's unlikely to happen. Much though I'm glad the poor NHS data folks who maintain the page (and our own dancemom of course ) may manage to have a bit of time off, I'm wondering if our understanding of "calm" may be a bit skewed if it requires all these limits on what we're allowed to do!

• 7,275 new cases of COVID-19 reported.
• 24 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 19 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 904 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,424,596 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,139,618 have received their second dose, and 3,332,960 have received a third dose or booster

Weekends off, what a novelty 😆

• 7,341 new cases of COVID-19 reported.
• 11 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 21 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 902 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,425,282 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,140,451 have received their second dose, and 3,337,823 have received a third dose or booster

Have a lovely weekend off from your work on this thread @dancemom

Is it this weekend?? What will I do with myself at 2pm instead?? 😆

• 5,601 new cases of COVID-19 reported.
• 16 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 22 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 888 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,426,094 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,141,713 have received their second dose, and 3,344,551 have received a third dose or booster

😂 I thought you had the weekend off?

Aw no weekend off yet @dancemom !

Whoops, sorry - that was me! It's NEXT weekend they aren't reporting from... I just didn't read the page properly - They said this weekend was the last one they would report Anyway, we're back to beginning of Nov hospital levels, though much lower ICU, which is great!

• 5,301 new cases of COVID-19 reported.
• 0 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends)
• 20 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 885 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,427,052 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,142,683 have received their second dose, and 3,349,054 have received a third dose or booster

And that was my last weekend update

Practically semi retired now 😆

Looking good, that's lowest number in intensive care since July last last year.
That's the number that really matters

@dancemom

• 5,301 new cases of COVID-19 reported. • 0 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends) • 20 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 • 885 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 • 4,427,052 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,142,683 have received their second dose, and 3,349,054 have received a third dose or booster

I am the 1. Without me there would be 5300. DH is not included as the text and e-mail bombardment was so frenetic that he opted out for reporting his positive test. Neither of us affected by work as - tragically - we are supposed to be in Portugal all week.

• 5,118 new cases of COVID-19 reported.
• 0 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are generally closed at weekends)
• 18 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 884 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,428,021 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,143,511 have received their second dose, and 3,352,239 have received a third dose or booster

Ohhh.

This all explains why today's numbers aren't for the past 3 days! I wondered why today's weren't much higher until I read this thread. Mystery solved

This weekend and next weekend confusion maybe?
So last weekend was this weekend and the weekend of 19th will be this weekend. Weekend of 26th is next weekend .

27 more people in hospital than yesterday? That's a bit of an anomaly.

Yes indeed. Are these added retrospectively for some reason?

Definitely seems like some sort of catch up of backlogged data or something

• 5,805 new cases of COVID-19 reported.
• 16 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 13 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 911 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,428,684 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,144,534 have received their second dose, and 3,359,114 have received a third dose or booster

Just saw on the news that kids from 5-11 will be offered the vaccine

Oh. I'm not sure I agree with that. Didn't WHO say there was no health benefit for the 11-16 age group so why extend it? I'm glad mine are 18+ because i would not like to make that decision.

It seems to be the JCVI's recommendation