Coronavirus - UK
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - UK:
Hahahaha!!! Made my day this. In such pride of place.
This was on the BBC Wales News 6.30 pm edition last night
My cousin Nick Servini was the news reader and the video clips of this have traveled far and wide.
He's taken some quality stick today.
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
He's taken some quality stick today.
Not the only one by the look on Yvette's face....
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
He's taken some quality stick today.
Not the only one by the look on Yvette's face....
Well played
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Some potentially good news.
"Update 13 Jan: Covid hospital admissions fall in London and the south east for first time since Xmas"
NHS deaths by date seems to be indicating that English mortality second wave peak will be 8 January, give or take a day.
Latest numbers suggest London and South East on way down (slightly) but other regions of England about to hit top.
Today's still suggesting London may have peaked last Friday. South East spike on Tuesday? Rest of Engand plateauing.
Now looks like this week will be peak for country as a whole.
Latest figures still show London peaking last weekend, with Tuesday peak for England as a whole.
Update. London uptick mid last week to around previous peak. I suspect there is a weekend effect which is behind that, as families 'exercise'. East on way down. North of Watford Gap and Dumnonia appear to be reaching peak.
One would hope to see vaccines staring to impact soon.
East continuing to fall. London & South East probably just past peak. Dumnonia still rising!
No real change today.
It's looking as though we're just coming off peaks of English daily deaths. High point of second wave currently 817 on 19 January.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
analyses illness and risk factors in 204 countries and territories around the world
Yeah, still not quite the answer I was looking for, I'm just being a lazy fluffybunny and hoping someone else will find out for me.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Victor-Meldrew A wise man once said "The earlybird catches the worm." Clearly this didn't resonate with the walaahs at the EU
Kate Bingham deserves a Damehood or whatever it is they give women.
PS: In Peston tweeted and quoted a pro-Remain AZ director as saying he now fully understood the rationale for Brexit..
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The EU now demanding that the UK sends it's vaccine stocks to the EU.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
The EU now demanding that the UK sends it's vaccine stocks to the EU.
Two words. First four letters, second three.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
analyses illness and risk factors in 204 countries and territories around the world
Yeah, still not quite the answer I was looking for, I'm just being a lazy fluffybunny and hoping someone else will find out for me.
Perhaps spell out what it is you ARE looking to answer?
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
analyses illness and risk factors in 204 countries and territories around the world
Yeah, still not quite the answer I was looking for, I'm just being a lazy fluffybunny and hoping someone else will find out for me.
Perhaps spell out what it is you ARE looking to answer?
I did! How are the actual statistics garnered?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
The EU now demanding that the UK sends it's vaccine stocks to the EU.
The Cypriot, EU Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides really has messed up. She didn't order the vaccine in time, hasn't maintain good realtions with AstraZeneca, an Anglo-Swedish company with a French CEO. It's selling its vaccine (verified by The Lancet) to poorer countries, including some inside the EU, at cost.
Now she's demanding the UK vaccine stock. Lots of Brit-Bashing and anonymous quotes attacking the AZ-Oxford vaccine have appeared in the German press. Johnson is not taking the bait. This is a contractual dispute between AZ and the EU.
Countries who joined the EU joint vaccine procurement programme must be kicking themselves.
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Waaaait a miiiinute....Gove on BBC breakfast this morning and the BBC are having a go about the prime minister going places in person and not doing video conferences. You have got to be fucking kidding.
I'm surprised they didn't send a roving reporter around to Gove's house to ask the questions.
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - UK:
Johnson is not taking the bait.
Behaving with statesman-like dignity.
The EU fucked up and should be asking themselves why their Pharma industry is so shit and why they have to rely on an ex-member to dig it out of a hole. The more sensible EU countries like Sweden & Portugal etc must be looking on in disbelief.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Pharma industry is so shit
That's an unfair and completely inaccurate comment. After all, most of the Pfizer vaccine is being made by Lonza, and the Dutch-German biotech company Qiagen is the dominant supplier worldwide for test kits and reagents.
The Pfizer vaccine was developed in Germany, and a network of EU suppliers and manufacturers is delivering it.
Astra-Zeneca are a decidedly low performance and mediocre company, and so are GSK (I did a project with them). I suspect that the reason that their European Oxford vaccine is behind so significantly is because the EU delayed investment and purchase contracts by at least 3 months. An experienced European contract manufacturer like Lonza would probably have been perfectly able to scale virus production, if given the time and money.
This is about EU bureaucracy, not about the many excellent manufacturing, biotech reagent, instrument and equipment producers, and biopharma innovators in Europe.
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That's an unfair and completely inaccurate comment.
Fair point, I was more referring to the production than anything else. Bureaucracy is one thing, but an inability to be nimble in production is playing a key role in the problems I suspect. Saw this a fair bit when I was dealing with EU-based organisations and companies.
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@Victor-Meldrew I'd be shocked if it was anything other than EU commission incompetence. The UK and EU biotech sectors are completely interlinked, and Lonza is the biggest bio-manufacturer in the UK. In theory they should have held all the cards but fucked themself.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
That's an unfair and completely inaccurate comment.
Fair point, I was more referring to the production than anything else. Bureaucracy is one thing, but an inability to be nimble in production is playing a key role in the problems I suspect.
@tim is the pharma fundi, but it is well known that transfers of scale industrial production to new sites often have a learning curve before typical efficiencies/yields are achieved.
Would seem that AZ were overly optimistic about how fast things in Belgium plant could be ramped up. That said, could be that EU just told them what that wanted delivered and expected that would be set in stone.
This will run a bit...
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Crisis being played down somewhat in the media today - AZ & EU working together.
Interesting observation. Call with my dutch colleagues this morning ... jokingly said something about them coming to raid us for our vaccines. And there were murmurings from all of them about how much trouble the UK are going to be in now with regards to vaccines.
Not entirely sure what to read into that.