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

[dancemom]

New thread Tierers ...

Thanks @dancemom .

3 fewer in hospital.

Oh no. My mistake, another small increase in the hospital numbers.

Scottish numbers: 14 March 2022
Summary
• 27 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 1,805 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
Note: Due to a technical issue, Public Health Scotland (PHS) have been unable to provide the latest data on cases, deaths and vaccinations. PHS are working hard to resolve this and hope to return to normal reporting tomorrow (15 March).

• 38,770 new cases of COVID-19 reported*
• 25 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 33 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 1,996 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,441,175 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,171,128 have received their second dose, and 3,468,504 have received a third dose or booster*

• The technical issue affecting yesterday’s reporting has been resolved. The backlog of data has been processed. Please note that today’s newly reported figures covers data since Saturday 12 March – however, trend data is available by specimen date on the PHS Daily Dashboardd_.

I reckon (hope) we're at or near a peak.

I hope this is what NS also thinks and continues with the plan to take the last of the covid restrictions out of law and into guidance.

Nicola just announced face masks to remain due to surge in cases

So hospital numbers up from 1600s to almost 2000 since Friday? That's a steep rise.

My child is in Forth Valley hospital and as of today they have gone back to no visitors on the wards. His high school is going back to home learning for certain year groups.

I'm really surprised by the hospital numbers... seems like only a few weeks ago I was taking bets as to when they would dip below 1000, and now we're back up to double that. In the past there has been a lag, with hospital numbers increasing a couple of weeks after case numbers increased...but this time they seem to be going in tandem. I'm assuming that's largely because they are "incidental", just reflecting high numbers in the community, rather than "because of" Covid admissions. Though of course it is still problematic in terms of management/ separation from negative patients etc. A bit of a different story, maybe though.

And don't get me started on the mask thing... I've been railing enough on the railing thread about that Don't want to bring my foul language over here...!

Intensive care numbers have almost doubled since beginning of the month.
Did anyone listen to the announcement today? I don't anymore. I prefer @dancemom who just gives the figures without a load of doom mongering as well

Did SG give any context to the figures and why we are now going in the wrong direction? Are the boosters wearing off now?

She thinks it's the BA.2 sub variant of omicron which is more transmissible @patritus .

I'm sorry your child is in hospital @Belindabelle

Basically due to a surge in case as hospital numbers are almost back at the peak from January last year and it will be reviewed again in 2 weeks

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60750364

Thanks guys.
I expect if this variant is so infectious people may be going into hospital with something else and catching covid in there

Y ou
• 10,710 new cases of COVID-19 reported*
• 31 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 32 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 1,999 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,441,175 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,171,128 have received their second dose, and 3,468,504 have received a third dose or booster

• Please note that case figures reported today (16/03/2022) cover less than a 24 hour period. This is due to a reoccurrence of the technical issue from earlier in the week, meaning data has not been received since 8pm yesterday (15 March 2022). ** Due to technical issues, Public Health Scotland has not been able to provide vaccination data today (16 March 2022). Figures remain unchanged from those reported yesterday (15 March 2022

• 9,721 new cases of COVID-19 reported*
• 28 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 31 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 2,038 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,441,461* people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,171,998 have received their second dose, and 3,470,435* have received a third dose or booster

• Please note that case figures reported today (17 March 2022) cover less than a 24 hour period. This is due to a reoccurrence of the technical issue from earlier in the week, meaning data has not been received since 2pm yesterday (16 March 2022). ** Due to technical issues, Public Health Scotland has not been able to provide vaccination data today (17 March 2022). Figures remain unchanged from those reported yesterday (16 March 2022).

• 18,124 new cases of COVID-19 reported*
• 23 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 31 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 2,050 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,441,944* people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,173,678 have received their second dose, and 3,473,650* have received a third dose or booster

• Please note that figures reported today (18 March 2022) include more than a 24 hour period (from 2pm 16 March 2022 and 17 March 2022) due to the technical issues experienced earlier in the week

Thank you dancemom. Have a nice weekend in the ☀️

The increase in hospitalisations seems to have slowed a bit at least (assuming there aren't data backlogs with this too...)

• 9,533 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)
• 31 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 2,128 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,449,246 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,175,197 have received their second dose, and 3,476,291 have received a third dose or booster

• 11,912 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 37 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 29 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 2,221 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,450,515 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,175,888 have received their second dose, and have 3,477,790 received a third dose or booster

Ladies and gentlemen, my retirement fast approaches ...

Future of COVID-19 Data Reporting
Following the publication of Scotland’s Strategic Framework updatee in February 2022 we are now planning to move to a single main source of headline COVID-19 data. From mid-April 2022, all headline COVID-19 data can be sourced from Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) COVID-19 Daily Dashboardd. We will no longer provide updates to the figures on this webpage but will instead clearly signpost to the range of COVID-19 data published - including headline data on COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations published on the PHS dashboard as well as to other sources of data reported elsewhere

I thought that was going to read

"We are now going to move to a single main source of headline
covid -19 data which will be Dancemom"

Thanks, dancemom! Hope they give you the credit you deserve!

I'm hoping the figures today are just a blip, catching up with the weekend, and various technical cockups last week.

Just to say - my MIL is one of the 29 people in intensive care with recently confirmed Covid-19. She caught it in ICU, she didn't have it before she went in ...............

Crikey @Itsbackagain that's not good
Hope she's doing ok

I've long said on here that there's probably a sizeable percentage of people catching it on hospital wards, but I hadn't thought of catching it in icu