test, test, test11 Nov 2021 14:20
I was just doing some covid research at lunch. If you type in ‘Covid Cases UK’ into google you get some good Google graphs that look at cases / deaths in any country or, the worldwide picture.
I wanted to compare yesterday with the same day last year and the figures do not suggest the vaccine rollout has been anywhere near as successful as we are all told. (A quick disclaimer here, I might now come across as an anti vaccine person which I am definitely not, I just like looking at numbers and this is what they say)
10th Nov 2020 – worldwide cases 558,996
“ “ – Deaths 10,515
10th Nov 2021 – Cases 572,992
Deaths 8,112
So after all of those billions of vaccines over the past year, more people have covid today than this time last year.
The number of people that died of covid yesterday is only 23% less than the amount that died on the same day last year.
This is no freak day. The numbers will say a similar story whatever day you pick several weeks either side of this date. So a vaccine that 90+% effective, that many more people now have, than don’t have so…. why are cases and deaths not at least, 50% better?
Looking at the numbers the logical guess can only be because the protection they give is clearly fading. They haven’t managed to vaccinate everyone the first time round yet so worldwide booster programs will never be able to keep up. National / global wide (antibody) testing is needed to priorities only those that need it and regular (LFT) self tests and isolation if you catch is still the only way to curb the spread.