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I find it hard to accept that the increase is due to more false positives from testing. Especially when as we know from before crimbo the more infectious strain was rapidly blooming. Implausible that testing coincidently became even more unreliable.

24 Nov 2020 — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised that every care home resident will be able to receive two visitors a week by the end of the year. Care home deaths involving Covid highest since May A bit more detail now from the statistics about coronavirus-related deaths, released...

I concur - this new spate kicked off a few days ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-55857072

Not quite - there was the jack the lad who popped across the Irish Sea on a jetski to go night clubbing in Douglas....

Valneva SE Headquarters: France Subsidiaries: Valneva Scotland Ltd. :p;)

It's welcome news to the chief executive of leading care home group MHA, Sam Monaghan, who tells Radio 4's Today programme that 88% of his residents had had their first dose of the jab as of Friday. However, he says the government's decision to delay giving people their second dose - in favour...

You'll need more this kind of setup to stop the rear wheel flying off....

Does that include the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine made on Belgium? Remember at Crimbo it was caught up at the channel ports. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-11-27/covid-how-10-million-doses-of-the-pfizer-vaccine-will-be-delivered-from-belgium-to-a-syringe-near-you

:D Seems a to be merry but confused band of followers... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55849192

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2265696-covid-19-outbreak-in-manaus-suggests-herd-immunity-may-not-be-possible/ Hospitals in the Brazilian Amazon are once again collapsing under the strain of treating covid-19 patients. In Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, people are queuing to buy oxygen...

The 33% figure that the Guardian reported is from an early Israeli study > https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-media-reports-of-study-results-from-israel-and-comments-made-by-prof-nachman-ash-israels-coronavirus-tsar-about-the-efficacy-of-a-single-dose-of-the-pfizer-vaccine/

It could be just early days in the data crunching and just doing the sequencing to know which strain is doing what - The Hospital reference seems to be due to the healthcare interventions possibly keeping fatalities even (and where more likely samples are IDd for strain) however deaths outside...

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4833 The Swedish government changed its approach to the pandemic last month when it introduced tougher restrictions on social interactions after cases started to rise.1 The soft approach the government had adopted, based on recommendations and voluntary...

Something like this. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-Electric-Bike-Panasonic-motor-/264906515871 A lot depends on how the bike's been used / battery stored. A large fraction of the cost of an electric bike is from the battery. Contact a UK Peugeot bike shop and check on availability spares...

Re, Sweden - not so https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-social-democrats-stefan-lofven-coronavirus-critics/

For now, it’s unclear how protected vaccinated people are after a single shot and for how long. Trial participants who received Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine had low levels of neutralizing antibodies 21 days after the first dose, researchers reported in the Dec. 17 New England Journal of Medicine...

Beautiful end to the Lindell MyPillow saga in the land of the free. I wonder if VFR has anymore to add before the orange Kraken monster dives back to the depths from whence it came.

Just seen that 30% of folk say that as soon as they get vaccinated they're going to get back to normal - that would be a spanner in the works for stats. Also this won't help > Monday morning on the tube. Plus OG is (was?) ahead of Flecc towards herd immunity!

"Pressed on whether he was confident that there had been no private sector profiteering from the £22billion Test and Trace budget, Mr Williams said: 'Yes, as confident as I can be based on the information that I've seen and based on the regular reporting that comes up through the Test and Trace...

If you think that's bad wait till she gets the bill ...