Meanwhile in England...
https://twitter.com/sbattrawden/status/1476257299203342340
What else those numbers don't tell us is the number people with covid who haven't been counted because they can't get a PCR test!
lol.
Are you laughing at the incredulity of the situation or can you simply not think of something intelligent to say?
The reality is that London have decided to keep things open despite the situation worsening (deja vu)
As predicted, NHS England have announced a large spike in deaths with 365 being announced as being reported between 4.00pm on 24th December and the same time on 29th December.
Clearly the figures are artificially high because of the fact there's recently been four holidays which has caused a backlog, which has meant that the figures were artificially low over the last few days and what you are seeing now is the catch up effect.
The overall UK Dashboard is now stating however, that they cannot update todays figures until 7.30pm tonight because the NHS England deaths figures, openly published on the NHS England over 4 hours ago, have been delayed, so probably they'll conveniently miss the main news bulletins.
New Omicron cases are down today to 19,544, but it's unclear how much of that is down to the fact less people have it, and how much is caused by a lack of people being tested due to the holidays and test shortages.
Don't have the reference at hand but from what I read it is mostly the latter, with people only finding out they have Covid after going to hospital for something else..
No, I’m laughing at you.
maybe they should close all London pubs and restaurants at 8pm because that is clearly the answer.
That is certainly what I am hearing from people in London.
Is there a big shortage of test kits (as per my NHS screengrab) or not?
What makes it safe for England to remain relatively open whilst Wales and Scotland are relatively closed?
Your obvious bias towards England is quite clear and obviously one you cannot defend (only deflect)!
The number of positive cases is now largely irrelevant. Which is probably why you aren’t all over the testing threads crying about the lack of testing capability in Ireland, which lets be honest, was pretty pathetic before the omicron wave kicked in and pretty much failed two weeks ago. The only investment in testing from the Irish government has made is buying the air corp a new plane so it can fly more swabs to Germany for testing
Im laughing at you because you are so obviously trying to make out that England is failing to act, when it is in a far better place than Ireland is.
Ah so in a thread titled "The UK response" I'm to ignore the UK response but to consider the Irish response? Ok, gotcha!
Well you seem to be completely ignoring the Scottish and Welsh response.
and the NI response as well, but you probably did that intentionally as it the part of the UK bordering a country that has completely lost control of the pandemic and ran out of ideas twelve months ago, so the rate of infection there is hardly surprising.
Funny how this thread gets busier when Ireland needs to deflect attention from the appalling booster roll out, the highest recorded per capita infection rate in the world and the failure of the testing system.
How many here in Ireland can't get a PCR test ???
Appalling booster rollout? Why would you class it as appalling?
Highest recorded cases per capita in a single day, and there's still plenty of other days were other countries have that title.
Testing system is maxed out, people struggling to get appointments, don't pretend the UK isn't struggling either.
Appalling booster rollout? Over 30's started 2 days ago and most people I know in that age bracket have already received it. I got mine this morning in a walk in clinic in Dublin, was only in there for 25 mins.
Aegir's standard defence of the UK is to point to other countries and try to deride them instead. Even when it is in a thread focused on the UK.
For what it is worth, the NHS have done a great job in regards to the vaccination program, however if you look at a comparison between booster jabs in the UK and Ireland, to say Ireland's is appalling is ridiculous really. Ireland are behind the UK but ahead of most other countries in the world.
Pretty sure Ireland's booster roll out is in the top two in the EU....it was reported only a week or so ago.
I’m not sure that is anything to be proud of. Vaccine rollout in the eu hasn’t exactly been Stella.
rhe rollout here worked despite the government, not thanks to it. I’m still waiting for my invite which I have been assured is coming.
thankfully I took matters in to my own hands, like most people and rang around pharmacies until I got an appointment. I would have waited, but it was seven months after my Jansen jab, so I had to come to my own conclusions as to my level of protection.
the whole thing was a mess
Defending what?
I made a very valid and relevant about the number of people in hospital with covid rather than for covid.
that was quickly turned in to some **** from one of the usual suspects about not being able to get a test
The UK booster rollout is definitely faster, but it should also be pointed out that a considerable number of British people have yet to receive even two vaccines or even one, meaning it's not all a glowing success story.
I would be far more critical of the Irish testing system than anything connected to the booster rollout.
That is more to do with take up than roll out.
So in your opinion the Irish booster rollout was appalling based on you not getting an appointment. So even if we boosted everyone else overnight but missed you, it would be appalling?
The fact that we are surpassing the UK figures on daily boosters on a per capita basis is also appalling I'm sure.
I posted something from the NHS and why was England staying open compared to Wales or Scotland. You turned it into a UK vs Ireland thing simply to deflect
I don't disagree with your points about England's hospital cases. There is a huge amount of incidental cases only being found after hospital admission.
To say Ireland's booster program is appalling is incorrect though.
You made some wisecrack about people not being able to get testing kits, so I laughed at you.
I made the point using an NHS graphic that showed that most testing sites had no test kits available. What was the wisecrack?
Military medics drafted into London hospitals as NHS grapples with staff shortages
Hi Bonnie.
Hope you are keeping well.
7 day incident rate for UK nations
Wales, 2,470/100,000
Scotland 1,949/100,000
NI 2,663/100,000
England 1,709/100,000
Obviously Boris is doing something right, Labour have lost control in Wales and the SNP aren't doing enough.
As I said earlier, NI is obviously affected by it's neighbour that appears to have lost control of the situation completely.
.... and the current 7 day death rates are
Wales, 1.3/100,000
Scotland 0.8/100,000
NI 1.2/100,000
England 1.4/100,000
Using a different statistical snapshot at this point in time, tells a completely different story.
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