A few milestones passed.

[Workingman]

It is now official that we are 70-40.

70% of adults -18+ - have had their first jab. 40% of adults have had both.

We will be starting on the twentysomethings next week.

There is a slim chance that if the numbers continue as they have been for this week that all over 18s will have at least had an offer by June 21st - lockdown end date.

[TheOstrich]

It's very, very encouraging - but at the same time we mustn't get complacent .....

[cruiser2]

What will be done if the numbers sart going back up.

Imagine the outcry if they have to shut pubs and other similar estabilshments including football

[Suff]

There is an article out on Yahoo news showing the real numbers from Feb 1st to April 18th.

When you read it, you begin to realise why the government's not being complacent.

Covid-19 variants accounted for more than 2,000 hospital inpatient admissions in England between February and mid-May, new data shows.

The Kent strain was responsible for the majority of hospital stays and cases recorded from February 1 to May 18 this year, according to figures published by Public Health England

Some 132,082 cases of the B117 mutation were detected over that period, of which 5,238 (4%) resulted in a visit to a hospital emergency department, while 2,011 (1.5%) required an overnight inpatient admission.

At least 1,569 patients died with the strain – which first emerged in Kent in late 2020 – over the same period.

The Indian variant was responsible for the second-highest number of cases over the same period, with 2,889 detected, according to the data.

Of those, 104 (3.6%) resulted in a visit to a hospital emergency department, while patients in 31 cases (1.1%) were admitted to hospital as an inpatient and six died.

In total, variants accounted for 2,059 hospital inpatient admissions and 1,596 deaths.

Meanwhile, the South African variant accounted for 665 cases, with patients in 31 cases (4.7%) taken to a hospital emergency department and 11 admitted as inpatients.

Have a read. It is a clear indication of the difference between a population well on the way to vaccination and a population without a vaccine.

[cromwell]

I think the numbers that matter are hospital admissions and deaths; both are massively down.
The rate of infection I'm not too bothered about. Number one the test itself is notoriously inaccurate and number two if you aren't ill enough to go to hospital then you should be OK.

One day perhaps the doom laden media and the mystic Megs of SAGE might start to consider the damage that has been done by lockdown, both to the economy and to the poor sods with non-Covid related illnesses who have suffered from the NHS being turned into the National Covid Service.

[saundra]

Well said crommers
The media and the government have destroyed
a generation s mental health and security