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Well we think David has got it but he’s tested negative a couple of times but he’s certainly a bad cold, just desperate to keep Mrs away from it as she has really bad health issues including bad asthma
 
The proportion of people aged 20 to 29 testing positive for Covid in England has hit record levels, officials say.
Public Health England's figures show, in the last week, 1,155 people in their 20s tested positive for every 100,000 in the population.
Experts say this is the highest rate of cases in any age group since mass-testing began and urge everyone in this group to get both jabs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57933108
 
The Independent saying Gov taskforce looking at restrictions having to return following the figures of infections as posted by MF above:

.....infection rate in young people has reached the highest for any age group since the pandemic began as the government drafts contingency plans to bring back restrictions within weeks.

.......taskforce have been drawing up proposals that could see baseline measures, such as mask-wearing, social distancing and guidance on working from home, reintroduced in England by next month.

could be according to the report restrictions on a local, regional or national basis.

Follow the latest on the pandemic in our liveblog.
 
UK scientists back Covid boosters as study finds post-jab falls in antibodies
Exclusive: Waning antibody levels are possible warning sign of lower protection in months after vaccination

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...s-as-study-finds-post-jab-falls-in-antibodies


The UCL Virus Watch study found that antibodies generated by two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines started to wane as early as six weeks after the second shot, in some cases falling more than 50% over 10 weeks.
 
Keir Starmer forced to release statement confirming that he’s self-isolating, after 24 hours pass without anyone noticing.
 
Keir Starmer forced to release statement confirming that he’s self-isolating, after 24 hours pass without anyone noticing.

Brilliant, glad someone in politics is finally following the rules and setting the standards of good behaviour.
 
The data out of Israel so far is 40% protective against being infected, 89% in preventing severe illness and 91% against hospitalization.

Link below isn’t the one I initially read. One thing I learned is the definition of severe illness varies. Especially what me and you might consider severe illness to be vs. what a doctor is saying.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...is-only-40-effective-at-halting-transmission/
 
The Independent saying Gov taskforce looking at restrictions having to return following the figures of infections as posted by MF above:

.....infection rate in young people has reached the highest for any age group since the pandemic began as the government drafts contingency plans to bring back restrictions within weeks.

.......taskforce have been drawing up proposals that could see baseline measures, such as mask-wearing, social distancing and guidance on working from home, reintroduced in England by next month.

could be according to the report restrictions on a local, regional or national basis.

Follow the latest on the pandemic in our liveblog.

If the plan to get as many people as possible vaccinated and then get back to normal doesn't work, where do we go from there?