to get everyone vaccinated. Team tRump has pushed the process to the individual states when we need a Federal response. We are screwed as far as Covid goes until Jan 20th. tRump is doing NOTHING but golfing and inciting violence. I HATE him. He fucked this up more than Boris.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)

5. trump is despicable....

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 8, 2021, 05:57 PM

Jan 2021

the fact he wouldn't wear a mask as an example to his idiot followers is criminal. An added benefit if he wore a mask we would be spared from seeing his ugly face.

muriel_volestrangler

(102,710 posts)

6. Roughly 60%

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 8, 2021, 06:38 PM

Jan 2021

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/8january2021#the-percentage-of-those-testing-positive-who-are-compatible-for-the-new-uk-variant

They don't give a single figure for the whole of the UK, but the England graph is the closest to that, being over 80% of the UK population. In London, one of the earliest regions to suffer from the new strain, it's about 80%.

Those figures are approximate, and come with caveats. The Office for National Statistics is doing random sampling of people each week so their results include asymptomatic people too, but are statistical rather than the precise count of cases, hospitalizations or deaths.

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