Local lockdowns in the UK
#7336
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Kent, UK
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Daily data:
Cases 30597 (38,975 last Wednesday)
Deaths 201 (191)
Patients admitted 836 (933 on the 2nd)
Patients in hospital 8,340 (7,907 on the 7th)
Patients in ventilation beds 1,060 (1,047 on the 7th)
People vaccinated up to and including 14 September 2021:
First dose: 48,480,178
Second dose: 44,170,373
The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 18.4% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 4.4%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 139.0 today.
Cases 30597 (38,975 last Wednesday)
Deaths 201 (191)
Patients admitted 836 (933 on the 2nd)
Patients in hospital 8,340 (7,907 on the 7th)
Patients in ventilation beds 1,060 (1,047 on the 7th)
People vaccinated up to and including 14 September 2021:
First dose: 48,480,178
Second dose: 44,170,373
The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 18.4% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 4.4%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 139.0 today.
#7337
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I think it is important to distinguish between different types or categories of people who aren’t willing to be vaccinated. This distinction is important not just to avoid tarring all with the same brush, but also in terms of tackling hesitancy - different approaches are needed, from a public health perspective, depending on why someone might be unwilling.
For example, people who are uncertain may just need to discuss it with someone - they may have concerns about (eg) the speed of development of the vaccine, and a bit of simple reassurance and openly answering questions and explaining things can go a long way. It’s worth remembering that most people don’t have domain expertise in this, or in health/infectious diseases more generally. I know corporate-wage-slave has posted quite a few times about the importance of these kind of non-judgemental conversations.
Then there are some groups who have a (quite possibly well-founded) mistrust of authority or government - perhaps stemming from previous experiences, at either an individual or a societal level. Again, the right kind of conversation - perhaps mediated by trusted community leader - can have a major impact on uptake.
Then there are full-on conspiracists such as those 13901 describes. I don’t have any solutions for those kind of situations - a confrontational “I told you so” if they get ill can backfire (no-one likes being proved wrong). Unfortunately social media has helped these kind of messages spread far further and wider than in the past, and influence people in the first two groups to a far greater extent. Even if the uncertain/untrusting don’t actually believe the conspiracists, the message spreads enough fear/uncertainty/doubt that the damage is done.
Thirty years ago, the conspiracy theorists lurked in the nether regions of Usenet newsgroups and most folk tended not to stumble across them - now, their nonsense is algorithmically prioritised into their news feeds about their local neighbourhood or their kid’s football club.
For example, people who are uncertain may just need to discuss it with someone - they may have concerns about (eg) the speed of development of the vaccine, and a bit of simple reassurance and openly answering questions and explaining things can go a long way. It’s worth remembering that most people don’t have domain expertise in this, or in health/infectious diseases more generally. I know corporate-wage-slave has posted quite a few times about the importance of these kind of non-judgemental conversations.
Then there are some groups who have a (quite possibly well-founded) mistrust of authority or government - perhaps stemming from previous experiences, at either an individual or a societal level. Again, the right kind of conversation - perhaps mediated by trusted community leader - can have a major impact on uptake.
Then there are full-on conspiracists such as those 13901 describes. I don’t have any solutions for those kind of situations - a confrontational “I told you so” if they get ill can backfire (no-one likes being proved wrong). Unfortunately social media has helped these kind of messages spread far further and wider than in the past, and influence people in the first two groups to a far greater extent. Even if the uncertain/untrusting don’t actually believe the conspiracists, the message spreads enough fear/uncertainty/doubt that the damage is done.
Thirty years ago, the conspiracy theorists lurked in the nether regions of Usenet newsgroups and most folk tended not to stumble across them - now, their nonsense is algorithmically prioritised into their news feeds about their local neighbourhood or their kid’s football club.
#7338
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There's definitely a need to outreach. I have, myself, two non-vaccinated friends who are so because of health worries (allergies and a blood-thinning disease). Their GPs have both been absolutely AWFUL in allaying their fears; in one case the GP said it's not for him to discuss, the other said they must take the vaccine no matter what. Another friend hooked them up with an acquaintance who is an immunologist for a chat, and hopefully that'll work.
Those who are on blood thinning medication would normally have an underlying condition which makes it quite important to get vaccinated (e.g. heart condition or stroke) since multiple health conditions and COVID is the sort of mix that has very serious and negative implications.
The biggest problem I've seen in this area relates to those who are pregnant. Midwives vary, some are very much encouraging their patients to get vaccinated, having COVID and late pregnancy can put relatively young women into Intensive Care. But other mid wives are perhaps a bit too even handed with their informed consent piece and end up with the unhelpful final clause "but it's entirely up to you".
Last edited by corporate-wage-slave; Sep 15, 2021 at 2:04 pm
#7339
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,280
To anyone else in this position, your best advice would be to go to a vaccination site, particularly the larger ones. You will never be forced to having a vaccine but there will be a senior clinician on site - perhaps at Clinical Director level (highly respected GP who oversees a group of GPs looking after about 40,000 patients). They will have had conversations like this before and can discuss in details both their specific medical records and the impact on vaccinations, side effects and so on. They are paid (by taxpayers) to give this advice, it's not anything to be shy about but you may need to wait 10 minutes or so if the clinical lead is busy. For allergies there are very few concerns, the main one being where a severe allergy - anaphylaxis territory - hasn't been fully diagnosed. So they are badly allergic to something but they don't know what. For someone on blood thinning drugs (which, incidentally, don't actually thin blood) - so anticoagulents - most are fine, the one that we do need to know about is Heparin. But Apixaban, aspirin, warfarin are not an issue per se, but as with all injections we need to know so that we press down immediately on the arm, after the vaccine, to arrest any blood flow and to aid clotting. Turning up freezing cold helps, the blood vessels and fat layer tend to sludge up nicely.
Those who are on blood thinning medication would normally have an underlying condition which makes it quite important to get vaccinated (e.g. heart condition or stroke) since multiple health conditions and COVID is the sort of mix that has very serious and negative implications.
The biggest problem I've seen in this area relates to those who are pregnant. Midwives vary, some are very much encouraging their patients to get vaccinated, having COVID and late pregnancy can put relatively young women into Intensive Care. But other mid wives are perhaps a bit too even handed with their informed consent piece and end up with the unhelpful final clause "but it's entirely up to you".
Those who are on blood thinning medication would normally have an underlying condition which makes it quite important to get vaccinated (e.g. heart condition or stroke) since multiple health conditions and COVID is the sort of mix that has very serious and negative implications.
The biggest problem I've seen in this area relates to those who are pregnant. Midwives vary, some are very much encouraging their patients to get vaccinated, having COVID and late pregnancy can put relatively young women into Intensive Care. But other mid wives are perhaps a bit too even handed with their informed consent piece and end up with the unhelpful final clause "but it's entirely up to you".
#7340
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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Even with cases dropping,we are very much so still an outlier in terms of having far more cases than anywhere else in Europe, and I don't get why places like Germany never saw a delta peak.
#7341
Maybe Germany did not have a peak yet ? Or the regulations since June (essentially a vaccine passport) were efficient enough. I am more curious about Poland or Sweden. Either they are manipulating the numbers or the rules they have plus the fact that those are not tourist destination avoided the introduction of Delta on their territory. This could be important, specially Poland, and demonstrate potentially a tighter border control would have avoided all of this.
#7342
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,859
Its hardly a surprise that the country with the largest number of cases to begin with and that removed pretty much all mitigating measures months ago still has the highest number of cases!?
#7343
Join Date: Oct 2012
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Maybe Germany did not have a peak yet ? Or the regulations since June (essentially a vaccine passport) were efficient enough. I am more curious about Poland or Sweden. Either they are manipulating the numbers or the rules they have plus the fact that those are not tourist destination avoided the introduction of Delta on their territory. This could be important, specially Poland, and demonstrate potentially a tighter border control would have avoided all of this.
#7344
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Daily data:
Cases 30597 (38,975 last Wednesday)
Deaths 201 (191)
Patients admitted 836 (933 on the 2nd)
Patients in hospital 8,340 (7,907 on the 7th)
Patients in ventilation beds 1,060 (1,047 on the 7th)
People vaccinated up to and including 14 September 2021:
First dose: 48,480,178
Second dose: 44,170,373
The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 18.4% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 4.4%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 139.0 today.
Cases 30597 (38,975 last Wednesday)
Deaths 201 (191)
Patients admitted 836 (933 on the 2nd)
Patients in hospital 8,340 (7,907 on the 7th)
Patients in ventilation beds 1,060 (1,047 on the 7th)
People vaccinated up to and including 14 September 2021:
First dose: 48,480,178
Second dose: 44,170,373
The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 18.4% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 4.4%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 139.0 today.
#7345
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Kent, UK
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I would say it is premature to say cases are going down based on a few days data, but let's hope. I have always been sceptical about the role of schools (at least at infant/primary level) in the spread of COVID. Cases did rise in Scotland after schools re-opened, but I am not sure there is a proven link there. As for immunity (herd or otherwise), that has been speculated over each time cases fall. It remains hard to predict where we are going.
Last edited by DaveS; Sep 16, 2021 at 4:33 am
#7346
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I believe cases are coming down because the festival and teenagers-on-Cornwall's-beaches season has ended.
#7347
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University term is not really fully underway yet - there are exceptions but generally there is a ramp up of activities in September but the lecture rooms won't be in full flow until the end of the month.
#7348
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The 7-day average number of daily covid cases in Germany per million people is about a quarter of that in the UK (120 vs 459). It's of "the same order of magnitude" from a mathematical point of view, but in the real world it represents a very significant difference in outcomes.
#7349
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The 7-day average number of daily covid cases in Germany per million people is about a quarter of that in the UK (120 vs 459). It's of "the same order of magnitude" from a mathematical point of view, but in the real world it represents a very significant difference in outcomes.
#7350
Join Date: Oct 2015
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I agree: there are numerous difficulties and traps in comparing different countries' figures, and it is quite likely that the UK's figures look so bad partly because our testing regime is better.