Talk has been hotting up over the past week on the introduction of vaccine passports and the vaccination of children, but the figures show that the virus continues to wane, with reported ‘cases’ having fallen by 21% over the past week and the number of deaths after 28 days of a positive test only seeing a slight increase of 30. MailOnline has more.
Department of Health bosses posted 29,547 new cases today, down 21% on the 37,578 recorded last Saturday.
But the number of people dying within 28 days of a positive test is continuing to increase, with 156 people falling victim to the virus. The figure was up 30% on the 120 recorded last week.
Fatalities tend to reflect changes in infection levels at least a week after due to the time it takes for people to become seriously ill.
Britain’s vaccine drive is continuing to roll forward with 89,832 second doses dished out today. It takes the total amount of adults fully protected against the virus to just under 43.9 million (80.8%).
Some 25,019 first doses were also dished out, taking the total number of people to receive at least one jab up to 48.4 million (89%).
The figures come amid reports the AstraZeneca jab could be largely withdrawn from U.K.’s vaccine programme as millions of Britons who were given two doses are likely to be offered a Pfizer booster shot.
The booster programme is expected to rely mainly on the Pfizer vaccine under a ‘mix and match’ strategy to top-up immunity.
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Oh lol. “Worth reading in full” when it contains these pearls:
Sir Andrew added: ‘Here in the UK the levels of immunity have fallen, but that’s not the same as the levels of protection.’ He said that ‘in the vast majority of the population, we still are enjoying very high levels of protection despite that declining immunity’
What the actual?
You’re ‘aving a bubble.
Most of the deaths are in the 70 plus age group. I think it is reasonable to suggest that they did not acquire their infection in the community, and thus were not admitted with it.
Secondly, given the daily admission rate (currently about 1000) and the Covid bed occupancy figures (around 8000), it would seem reasonable, again, to suggest that people are spending around a week in hospital, so the likelihood of hospitals becoming full with Covid patients is remote.
Thirdly, the admission and case figures in England are pretty flat whereas in Scotland, where restrictions and mask wearing are much tighter, they are soaring. Of course Boris is powerless to influence the Scottish figures anyway but it does make an interesting comparison and is a pointer to the effectiveness of Nicola’s rulings
And wasn’t it just last summer that Nicola was saying Scotland was almost free from covid as she tried to pull off zero covid?
I wonder if cases in Scotland and the same for Israel could be because they have gone all out for suppression of the virus whereas in England suppression has been less possible. If this could be the case perhaps England might not be in the same situation as Israel but only winter will be able to show how effective these vaccines are. I think it is likely to be another long winter folks.
According to Worldometer, there is a 14% higher Covid IFR in the UK in the last week than in Romania, which has a low “vaccination rate – it was recently reported as being about 30% officially, but in reality, probably a lot lower than that.
So I remain to be convinced that these “vaccines” are making a big difference. And of course even if there was a reduction in Covid deaths because of them, you would presumably have to subtract deaths from “vaccines” (among other things) to get a net benefit – if any. And how much is the current 1,600 odd “vaccine” deaths reported under the yellow card system an underestimate? To say nothing of an unknown number of potential deaths from long term effects – reports of irreversible heart damage caused by them are concerning, especially if people will keep having to take “boosters”, as with the annual ‘flu vaccine.
The vaccines are very effective, just look at the spike in deaths everywhere they are introduced. The Great Depopulator Bill Gates must be so pleased. Now let us roll up our sleeves, the boosters are on the way.
Next story
Anti-vaxxers boycott Morrisons over rules for unvaccinated staff (yahoo.com)
Another study
Scientists: Boys Aged 12-15 Are Hospitalized Up To 23x More Due To COVID Vaccines Than Due To COVID (notrickszone.com)
“There are people who are unable to get ‘vaxxed’ for legitimate reasons”.
Surely under international laws and conventions (such as the Nuremberg protocols), anyone has an absolute right to refuse any medication for any reason. By implying that to do so may not be “legitimate”, are Unite now setting themselves against such laws and conventions? This is hugely concerning.
That’s a pity because I quite like Morrisons. Never mind. They can poke it.
Actually, the unvaccinated should perhaps exercise caution about shopping there with all those double/triple jabbed people in the store, maybe giving off spike proteins, nobody seems to know for certain about that possibility.
Most of the higher numbers were due to the extra (bad) testing a week or two before as schools in Scotland and perhaps Northern Ireland finished their summer holidays; at the same time, England’s infection rate was (and still is) dropping. The amount of testing has ramped up from about 700k per day during the school holidays to about 1.1M per day now, so there was bound to be more ‘cases’.
I am still VERY suspicious of the hospitalisation and death rates for COVID, as the governments/PHE/NHS etc have not even acknowledged that they could be maskeing (IMHO deliberately) so many of these by people who are just already in or get admitted but then either catch COVID in hospital or have it but it doesn’t have any impact, but they may die anyway within the 28-day window and thus are automatically classed as COVID victims.
Same for deaths at home, whether it seems almost nobody has had the flu for nearly 2 years now. No conspiracy there then.
Half is with Covid, half caught in the hospital.
Those who are dying are overwhelmingly very old, very fat and very sick already.
As always.
Just ‘suspicious’????
The booster programme is expected to rely mainly on the Pfizer vaccine under a ‘mix and match’ strategy to top-up immunity.
The very definition of pseudo-science.
Good bum drops, lets have a butchers at the trial evidence – y’now the one when you tested two different jabs on a bunch of willing volunteers against the same number of chaps with a dose of saline……Oh , not available yet? Ok, let me know when it is….
“As someone who has just got through Covid-19, I wondered how rare I am to have contracted it as a double vaxxed person. According to new data from the government’s Vaccine Surveillance Report, in the age group 40 to 79, the overwhelming majority of those infected have been double vaxxed” – Robert Peston @Peston
Are these psuedo-journalists finally waking up?
He was immediately lept on, so he’ll probably go back to running the narrative, but we can only hope. Good little thread.
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1436678252916092934?s=20
if you scroll down on that twitter link it was nice to see the French crowds finally going after the police.
Always seems like a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Police firing tear gas and rubber bullets, cracking skulls, basically being as aggressive as they can be without killing their own citizens. Citizens rioting, throwing bricks and bottles, pushing and retreating in waves etc. Neither one wants to kill the other (for the most part I’m sure), but I’m always surprised they don’t, at some point a stray bullet or an isolated copper is going to be kicked one too many times.
Week 9 now, respect to the French!
18 months!!!
Anyone who cared to look at the trial parameters knows that there was no measure of or requirement to stop transmission and that they only tested healthy, non-medicated, middle ages adults for symptom reduction.
These people are fucking idiots.
“Double jabbed” is fast becoming more rage inducing than “safe” and towards the end “Brexit”.
Why do we refer to the double jabbed as “fully protected” when they are about to get a booster shot because can still catch and spread the lurgy ?
In what way are the double-jabbed “fully protected against the virus” when even the Stooge Scientists admit that the jabs don’t stop you getting or transmitting it?
More lies from the Daily Mail.
Propaganda is always based on the analysis that a large majority of people don’t think, or are incapable of thought.
Oh well – let’s look on the bright side : at least the term ‘cases’ is in quotation marks.
But – again – we have an ATL article reinforcing misleading definitions simply by naively reporting in Narrative terms.
As there are so many lies and obfuscations I would only say this….because a certain number of vaccine doses have been ‘sent out’…it doesn’t mean they’ve been used.
Our World In Data, up to the 11th September shows 71% fully vaccinated for the UK.
Dodgy Data and lies are the mainstay of this so called Government, for instance, a nurse friend told me that when they count the number of people in ventilator beds, it means exactly that….it doesn’t mean the ventilators are being used, just that the bed is occupied….remember that the next time they mention the supposed scary number of people in critical care in ventilator beds.
Article guilty of “cherry picking” one number.
DS guilty of repeating it.