Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Yeah, I’d not worry too much.
Testing younger ones is an experience.
Hope you feel better soon

Literally the only person at the testing centre at 9.30 this morning.

Said to call if I didn't get the result back in 48 hours.

fingers crossed mate. hope comes back neg but if pos you get it mild and short lived.

For anyone in Haringey there are various pop-up vaccination centres for over-50s or those with underlying health conditions. Looks like they're trying to capture those who may have been missed or areas where uptake may be low:

A series of pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be taking place across Haringey over the upcoming weeks as part of ongoing efforts to increase take-up of the vaccine.

The following clinics are confirmed to take place:

Sunday 21 March, 10am – 1pm: Masjid Ayesha, Clyde Road, N15 4JZ

Thursday 25th March, 1am – 4pm: St Michael’s church hall, Bounds Green Road, N22

Monday 29 March, 10am- 1pm: Turkish Cypriot Community Association, 628- 630 Green Lanes N8 0SD

Thursday 1st April, 1pm- 4pm: Community Cook Up at Eric Allin Community Centre, Kenneth Robbins House, Northumberland Park, N17 0QA

The clinics, set up by the local NHS in partnership with community organisations, is open to people aged 50 and over and those with an underlying health condition such as diabetes, who have not had their first vaccine.

It is a walk-in service, so people can drop in on the day without pre-booking. You will need to bring a form of identification so that you can be logged on the system and be invited for your second vaccination at a later date.

Everyone is entitled to primary care regardless of their immigration status in the country. Residents over 50 years of age who are not registered with a GP or have previously declined the vaccine are also welcome to attend the clinics.

You will need to wear a mask and adhere to social distancing rules. Please do not attend if you are feeling unwell.

Flyer for first clinic:
http://tiny.cc/VaxClinicSun21Mar

More info:
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/COVID-vaccine

Thanks buddy.

Zero symptoms still so hopefully something else. Let's see :)

I agree it's not the way to go to wedge a vaccine supply problem into that narrative.

If India is short if vaccines for local use we are back to the world wide issue around sharing...

Though perhaps their older age / vulnerable groups are not mostly vaccinated yet? Then I'd say it's really a reason of health needs.

Good luck!

If you do have Rona hopefully it won't get you too bad.

Negative result 🙌🏻

App has also updated to confirm I don’t need to isolate unless I get new symptoms.

Back of the net

I’m going to call it. I reckon the number of daily cases has bottomed out and it’s going back up from here. The curve looked like it changed immediately after the schools went back. I reckon that’s been the driver.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if cases have bottomed out, but a couple of things need to be taken into consideration;

1. What is the test positivity rate? Has that started to creep up?
   
2. As a large proportion of the at risk population has now been vaccinated, cases although not an irrelevance are not as important as other measures such as hospital admissions
   
3. Rightly or wrongly we have taken an approach which seems to be to reduce levels to an acceptable but non-zero level, so could see there being a constant low level of cases for quite a while, I guess the issue here is keeping on top of any vaccine resistant variants
   

sweet

Do you have to tell the family? Ten days of me time sounds like bliss 😂

Ha. I pondered keeping quiet but if that was every discovered, I’d be under the patio by tea time.

Was having similar thoughts yesterday. The guardian has graphs for England by age (0-19, 20-59, 60+) which are handy

Just hoping this has all been modelled in

The long sleep. Depending on your family it could be bliss.

Glad you are ok.

Congrats.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/544042-texas-restaurant-owner-creates-50-surcharge-for-customers-asked

I’m going to call it. I reckon the number of daily cases has bottomed out and it’s going back up from here. The curve looked like it changed immediately after the schools went back. I reckon that’s been the driver.

That kind of effect wasn't unexpected. The question amongst the statisticians on Twitter (Spiegelhalter et al) is whether the plateau is due to the lateral flow testing at secondary schools or the knock on effects of schools going back (e.g. some parents now able to go into work), or a combination of both.

(In other words, without the increased lateral flow testing would the rate would have continued to fall even if schools had gone back in?)

With most secondary pupils going back to school and being tested 2-3 times a week there hasn't been a dramatic rise in positive results, the figures are still 7.5% down week on week (https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/) and they've been back in for 2 weeks.

Without a dramatic rise, and a natural break for 2 and a half weeks coming up (Easter holidays) it looks like it was the right choice to make.

Any further effect of schools will be swamped by the next effects of the upcoming increase in mixing:-

• March 29th - people can mix in private gardens and meet up in public, outdoor sports
  
• April 12th - outdoor drinking/eating at pubs/restaurants and self catering accommodation opening up
  
  

The biggest driver for virus suppression is the fact we've vaccinated (1st dose) half the adult population. That seems to be the differentiator between us and other European countries.

As others have said, the biggest numbers to watch now are the hospital admissions and the mechanical ventilation numbers.

That’s what I’ve been wondering. Without wishing to sound like Trump (we have more cases because we’re doing more testing!), the testing figures pretty much doubled in the week that schools went back.

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I would take the tests done in schools with a pinch of salt. There’s not really any way of knowing if they were administered correctly.

A pinch of salt would ruin them for sure. The good thing about testing a bunch of people in contact at the same time is that even with false positives and negatives and badly done tests, getting a few positives in a group makes it more likely it's right.

We need someone to explain that false positive thing again.
We are testing more. We're about to look at the schools testing.
We need to look at the positivity of these compared to the postivity of the PCR tests.

My eldest was up in the night with a temperature and a headache. Test booked for lunchtime today which was a challenge as she has both anxiety and sensitivity issues that the stress and uncomfortable nature of the test compounded. After 45 minutes we got it done, so now we're waiting hoping that it's negative and she (and her younger sister) can go back to school before Easter.

No-one else has had any symptoms yet, which is good (although I've had my first vaccine dose).