Next weeks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55612270
Prof Chris Whitty, CMO
Next weeks, most dangerous time
This is everybody’s problem.
Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person
UK, 1 in 50
London, 1 in 30
Exercise should be minimised with other people
English hospitals
Over 30,000
Peak last April, 18,000
Anybody who is not shocked by the number of people in hospital
has not understood this at all
This is an appalling situation
Essex, Southend Hospital
Oxygen supply, reached a critical situation
Titrating to 88 – 92%
Surrey
Hospital mortuaries have reached capacity
Emergency site, almost 200 bodies
Government
Reliable data on existing measures in 10 days
Mr Hancock
Two million people in the UK had been vaccinated
England, 200,000 daily
Follow the spirit as well as the letter of the rules
Every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal
Staying at home, most important thing we can do collectively as a society
Vaccination target
UK, 15 million, by mid-February
Over-70s
Healthcare workers
Shielding
Some 600,000 invitations were due to be sent out over the weekend
Why not use bigger vials?
Nadhim Zahawi
Different age groups in this second wave
Infections highest in recent months
Teenagers
Students
Young adults, 20s and 30s
Therefore more getting sick and hospitalised
Overall pattern of seriously illness or death, not changed significantly
Risk of death, doubles about every eight years
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