Well if it's good enough for Nicola....

Very very high Scottish cases today.

Catching up on reporting problems yesterday.These problems seem to be getting more common recently.

I'm seeing quite an offensive of no-vaxxers here in West London. Some of the underpasses beneath the A4 have been plastered with no-vaxx stickers, there have been graffiti daubed on a number of gazebos and various installations along the Thames, adverts have been defaced with more no-vaxx nonsense and yesterday on Goldhawk road there was a woman (white lady in her 50s) going around with a large placard with some idiocy about people dying because of the vaccines. I have to say she was either ignored or at best sneered at.

The mask situation on London's public transport is depressing. There is a mask mandate but, as it seems, the chances of it being enforced are next to none:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...n-b963644.html

Well it seems to have worked looking at the pathetic amount of people that have had their second doses in some boroughs.

I don't know. I must admit I haven't spent too much time thinking about this topic, but from what I understand (and I welcome corrections) the demographics that are lagging behind in terms of vaccinations in London are minority groups. For instance, over here in W3/W4, the Somali community is lagging behind from what I hear from I might be stepping too far here, but somehow I don't see the Somali ladies in my neighbourhood falling for the anti-vaxx propaganda of our local "activists" (who, BTW, are the same who campaign against cycling infrastructure, were manning the gazebos for Brexit and are vocally anti-LTNs).

Maybe there's the fact that there was very little information in languages other than English or targeted towards minorities (the only thing I saw was some billboards aimed at the West African diaspora, who here in Ealing is non-existent) and, obviously, the fact that you can't get an appointment to a GP for love or money.

Just my 2p's worth.

Yes, one of the main problem is disparity by ethnic groups, and it seems the program did not include going to those persons.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDQbscNW...ng&name=medium

Daily data:

Cases 37,269 (39,842 last Thursday)
Deaths 214 (165)
Patients admitted 1,005 (968 on the 24th)
Patients in hospital 9,311 (8,968 on the 27th)
Patients in ventilation beds 1,019 (945 on the 27th)
People vaccinated up to and including 3 November 2021:
First dose: 50,112,925
Second dose: 45,770,452
Booster: 9,012,676

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 6.9% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 12.3%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 170.0 today.

Not sure how you can conflate Brexit supporters (who are popularly believed to be mainly white) with people who are anti vax (who, by their inaction on getting vaccinated, are mainly not white). I’m sure there are many reasons people have for not being vaccinated but a distaste for Brussels isn’t one of them.

The first survey out on this topic (and you have to treat these surveys with kid gloves) suggests that there’s a correlation between Labour supporters and anti vaxxers, which is precisely the opposite to what is believed to be the case in the USA.

There is distinct and observed link between being pro-Brexit and anti-vax:
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/co...atterns-886803

Cod science. Brexit voters tended to be poorer and have lower educational outcomes compared to Remain voters. Poverty and those who left school at 14 or 16 tend to have poor health outcomes, across the board, and tend to die younger too. This isn't a uniform picture, so Sunderland (Brexit voting) has slightly better vaccine stats than Newcastle (Remain). You could therefore make the same argument that cat owners are more likely to have had the vaccine compared to goldfish owners.

I can't see what the relevance is of one to the other?

I am not sure this really helps explain levels of vaccine hesitancy seen in certain pockets of society as shown in post 7717, or really provides any insight as to how we may address concerns they have about having vaccine.

We have and continue to spend more effort of reaching minority ethnic groups than the majority population. It's just much harder work. So we went to the masjid teachers and leaders, for example, to gain their support, we didn't go to Anglican or Catholic priests. We've set up vaccine centres in masjids, and gone door to door in Benwell - we've not done that in Jesmond. It's interesting the above stats didn't include Persian/Iranian vax stats, where our figure is way over 100%, we vaccinated more Iranians than are listed as living in Newcastle. Iran itself will get a high vaccine rate in due course. I suspect our Kerala Indian residents are also all fully vaccinated. So quite understandably, people from minority ethnic backgrounds do sometimes retain aspects of their heritage, which makes our job both harder but more important.

Post 7717 does not show vaccine hesitancy in pockets of society, it shows vaccine penetration. Lower vaccine intakes is not only due to hesitancy but also to vaccination opportunity (difficult to get there when you work 12 hours a day and your boss forbids you to take time off for vaccination, no public transport, low mobility, etc…) and with medical following (some people do not know they can get the vaccine). Vaccine uptake is linked to income, high education and jobs. This is observed in multiple European countries, you need to go to those people because they will not come to you.