Worrying Stats

[Canary42]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/indian-variant-covid-cases-triple-091747762.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

Indian Variant: 12 of 42 deaths in UK had received both vaccination doses.

[AuntPollyGrey]

It does'nt worry me because they don't state the underlying health issues (if any) that the deceased had, nor if they died 'Of' Covid or 'With' Covid.

[andy-hughes]

I believe that - as I started saying on here before Christmas - the nation is coming round to the fact that Covid is going to be like flu.

We will inoculate against it, it will kill some people, the vast number of people who do catch it will have a time in bed, and then recover, and everyone will simply accept and live with it.

[Zacs-Master]

Delta is just one type of the Indian variant.

[Canary42]

Surely the standard flu jab has a higher success rate than 75%.

[andy-hughes]

Canary - // Surely the standard flu jab has a higher success rate than 75%. //

It probably does, and when the Covid jabs have been around as long as flu jabs, and been refined and tweaked and adjusted as often, they will too.

[AuntPollyGrey]

It seems no

"21 CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the current influenza vaccine has been 45% effective overall against 2019-2020 seasonal influenza A and B viruses. Specifically, the flu vaccine has been 50% effective against influenza B/Victoria viruses and 37% effective against influenza A(H1N1)pdm09.26 Feb 2020"

[dannyk13]

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm

[AuntPollyGrey]

and around 20,000 people a year die as a direct result of contracting Influenza.

[Sqad]

Well there you go, no need for clever academic statistics, the number of Covid new variant has trebled(tripled?) in the last week.
No surprise there.
A very brave man who will unlock in the near future.
Who would want the job of PM atthis time?

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - // Who would want the job of PM atthis time? //

I wouldn't want the job at any time!!

[Sqad]

A-H.....very true and I would want at least £450,000 per annum.