Re:Delta Variant
by ginko on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:45AM
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Still, the UK is quite a bit into the delta wave and the number of deaths have barely budged: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
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Barely budged? It's gone up by a factor of 5x since the beginning of April!
Re:Delta Variant
by 1123581321 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:02PM
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Are you looking at cases instead of deaths?
No, I'm not. At the end of May, there were about 6 deaths daily. Now it's about 34, and rising exponentially. In two weeks it'll be 100 daily deaths.
Re:Delta Variant
by 1123581321 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:02AM
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I see. Let’s hope for the sake of the UK that there is some noise in that data. We expect greatly improved care with such small numbers compared to the prior waves.
That is not surprising. UK targeted very high vaccination rates for those most likely to die from the disease.
> As of 4th July, 2,118,096 (93.8%) of the clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) population have been vaccinated with at least one dose. This includes all CEV individuals, even if they were vaccinated as part of a higher priority cohort. Of those, more than 9 in 10 (2,046,244, 96.6%) have received a 2nd dose (90.7% of all CEV individuals).
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sit...
It is a bigger issue in countries like the US where vulnerable populations are refusing the vaccine.