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Severe acute cases in the US are not the same as long Covid here, which is what we were talking about. The US has handled the whole pandemic even worse than us so there's little point comparing.
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The point is that it disproves the contention that covid is relatively harmless to children. Even now serious illness in children is less than in adults, but the Delta wave is infecting more children and making them sicker than previous covid strains.
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From a few days ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02125-1Surprise dip in UK COVID cases baffles researchers
Daily recorded infections have more than halved since mid-July. Few researchers anticipated such a sharp decline, and they are now struggling to interpret it.
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England, Scotland and Wales now show drops in cases in the ONS survey.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... august2021
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That's for data up to 31 July. On 4 August in the COVID-19 thread I (tentatively) suggested the drop had slowed. I think the evidence is now stronger.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:14 pmEngland, Scotland and Wales now show drops in cases in the ONS survey.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... august2021
Here's my routine plot of cases by specimen date (the red line is 7 day moving average, the black line is a regression fit).
(Please let's avoid going down the plot details rabbit hole, this plot is really only intended for me. The data is at coronavirus.data.gov.uk if you prefer another analysis or presentation.) In the regression fit the latest 5 data are zero weighted as being "incomplete", they can be confidently expected to increase.
The regression fit is worsening as each day's data comes in.
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Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 9.982951 0.058133 171.727 < 2e-16 ***
poly(date, 2)1 0.405377 0.183947 2.204 0.034627 *
poly(date, 2)2 -2.299162 0.184872 -12.437 5.29e-14 ***
dayMon 0.338866 0.080546 4.207 0.000186 ***
dayTue 0.312758 0.080613 3.880 0.000473 ***
dayWed 0.328606 0.080716 4.071 0.000275 ***
dayThu 0.285785 0.080854 3.535 0.001233 **
dayFri 0.190567 0.081027 2.352 0.024798 *
daySat 0.006005 0.081243 0.074 0.941526
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 0.1395 on 33 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.8889
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I agree, it looks like cases have plateaued, possibly along with hospital admissions.
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I was sitting in a cafe earlier, and watched as a woman came in, sat down, took a mask from her bag, looped it over her ears, and carefully tucked it under her chin. She still had it like that when I left.OffTheRock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 4:10 pmIt doesn't explain the confusing group of people who voluntarily wear a mask on the bus, but under their chin. I kind of get the not covering the nose thing. That group of people have always existed. Up until now I'd always assumed the the 'under the chin' group of people were just breaking the rules because they didn't want to wear a mask. But now they don't have to wear a mask and their are still wearing it under their chin anyway.
Mask wearing has definitely reduced over the last couple of weeks.
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Thanks KAJ. A plateau at 30,000 would be a great result, particularly as it's so weighted to 18-30. We had feared a plateau at 100,000.
Could all go downhill fast in September.
Could all go downhill fast in September.
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That seems to me to be a confusing use of "plateau" in the sense that cases have just gone through a local minimum, not maximum.
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Plateau = "a period during which there are no large changes" or "a relatively stable level, period, or condition" or "to reach a particular level and then stay the same."
As in "I'd been losing about a pound a week on my diet, but recently I've plateaued and haven't lost an ounce" (e.g. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... sh/plateau)
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A plateau at 30,000 when that's the minimum is not a great result, it could still go downhill up to 100,000.
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Prof. Christina Pagel on Twitter has some graphs
Most regions are flat, but NE continuing to decline a lot from its large peak and some regions Yorks, E Midlands, SW) are going up slightly.
I don’t think anyone predicted just how much a pool of infection school kids were.Cases are now very concentrated in young adults. Cases in under 15s have dropped a lot since end of term - partly fewer cases and partly less testing.
Cases dropping older adults too but more slowly than in children.
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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The biggest drops were in 15-29 year olds so that includes students as well as school kids plus younger adults who, hopefully, are now getting vaccinated. Although much less in London than the rest of the country. I've always thought kids were germ bags.shpalman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:08 pmProf. Christina Pagel on Twitter has some graphs
Most regions are flat, but NE continuing to decline a lot from its large peak and some regions Yorks, E Midlands, SW) are going up slightly.I don’t think anyone predicted just how much a pool of infection school kids were.Cases are now very concentrated in young adults. Cases in under 15s have dropped a lot since end of term - partly fewer cases and partly less testing.
Cases dropping older adults too but more slowly than in children.
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First dose uptake in the 18-24 age range in England has increased from 48.5% on the 1st of July to 61.4% on the 1st of August (and second dose uptake has gone from 15 to 20%)...
... so I don't see how this is changing fast enough to make a difference to the case rate. You can't really spin the latter as a big relative increase [(.2-.15)/.15] because you have to look at how much susceptible population is left.
England has slowed to fewer than 30,000 first doses per day.
I too flagged up how "children don't tend to suffer badly from covid ≠ children don't catch and spread covid".
... so I don't see how this is changing fast enough to make a difference to the case rate. You can't really spin the latter as a big relative increase [(.2-.15)/.15] because you have to look at how much susceptible population is left.
England has slowed to fewer than 30,000 first doses per day.
I too flagged up how "children don't tend to suffer badly from covid ≠ children don't catch and spread covid".
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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What concerns me is that we've still got a fair chunk of people in their 50s & 40s unvaccinated according to this PHE graphic - (which I prefer to the heat map because all the white space really emphasises how far we have to go.) There's no change in those age groups, presumably because those who haven't come forward by now aren't going to.
Yes, I don't see how we can really squash transmission without extending vaccination down into at least secondary age kids. 16-17yrs olds is a start, but from this graph there's a lot of transmission in the younger secondary cohorts too.
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Are you guys not vaccinating teenagers yet?
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Only 16-18.
According to the experts the benefits to 12-16 year olds are extremely low and the extremely low risks could be higher. It's unethical of countries to vaccine children to benefit adults.
According to the experts the benefits to 12-16 year olds are extremely low and the extremely low risks could be higher. It's unethical of countries to vaccine children to benefit adults.
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And we're only giving them one dose if they are not CEV. We might give them a second dose, but haven't decided when yet. Maybe within 12 weeks of the first.
Not that the maybe part has been well communicated to the 16 year olds getting the jab who seem to be being told they aren't getting a second.
Not that the maybe part has been well communicated to the 16 year olds getting the jab who seem to be being told they aren't getting a second.
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Possibly. I'd assumed we gave children that vaccine primarily to protect pregnant women and their unborn children. [eta - this is mentioned in the green book chapter I linked to.]
Although the risks of rubella include "thrombocytopaenia (the rate may be as high as one in 3000 infections) and post-infectious encephalitis (one in 6000 cases)" while the risks of MMR vaccine include "febrile convulsion (risk 1 in 3,000 doses)" which is mainly from the measles part and "the risk of thrombocytopenia following MMR vaccination is 1 in 30 000 to 1 in 40 000 vaccinated children" which is undetermined but probably from either the measles or rubella component. If the risks from the vaccine are due to the measles component and/or lower than the risk from rubella infection then maybe the rubella vaccine would be worth giving to children to protect them even if the risks to pregnant women and the fetus weren't considered.
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https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/init ... _sheet.pdf
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Ignore me…wrong post.
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HPV vaccination for adolescent boys. Main benefit is preventing cervical cancer.
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Hah! That’s what I posted…the thought “wait, that’s surely not helping adults”bob sterman wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:08 pmHPV vaccination for adolescent boys. Main benefit is preventing cervical cancer.
Vaccinating them for when they become adults I guess!
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Vaccinating the boys - to protect the the girls (when they all become adults).headshot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:17 pmHah! That’s what I posted…the thought “wait, that’s surely not helping adults”bob sterman wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:08 pmHPV vaccination for adolescent boys. Main benefit is preventing cervical cancer.
Vaccinating them for when they become adults I guess!
Main thing is - the direct benefits to the boys are not as substantial (prevention of some HPV related cancers that are much less common than cervical cancer).