Mon, 27. December 2021
Covid - Since Lock-down
For the 11 to 15 age bracket it seems be stalling at 81.6% (first dose) and 78.3% second dose. So 18% of children seem to have been denied protection by their parents.
We are now told that the vaccine loses it's efficacy to the new strains and we need a booster injection after just five months. These began this month.
NSW ended its lock-down for vaccinated people on 11th October. The unvaccinated started holding "freedom" rallies (helping to spread the virus) and their lock-down ended on 15th December (permitting them to spread the virus even more).
New South Wales covid figures since Jan 2020
|
January 2020 |
to 11th Oct 2021 |
to 27th Dec 2021 |
Total covid infections | 0 | 5,434 | 136,822 |
% pop. infected | 0.00% | 0.067% | 1.69% |
Infection rate | 0 | 1 per 1,501 | 1 per 60 |
Total covid fatalities | 0 | 56 | 654 |
Case fatality rate | ~ | 1.03% | 0.48% |
Death rate | ~ | 1 per 144,643 | 1 per 12,385 |
The vast majority of infections (over 131,000) and deaths (almost 600) have occurred in the last five months!
The delta variant appeared on 16th June and wreaked havoc during the vaccination stage, causing a three month lock-down in Sydney. By the time the lock down ended, 70% of adults were double vaccinated and we were told that there would never be another lock-down. A few weeks later the omicron variant appeared, the unvaccinated were released from extended lock-down and case numbers took off again, currently over 6,300 new infections per day.
However, the following table shows that while infections have been driven upwards by new variants and poor behaviour, the situation has actually been improved dramatically by vaccines:
New South Wales: How covid figures changed since lock-down ended on 11th October 2021
|
11th October |
27th Dec |
Difference After 11 weeks |
Daily infections 7 day average |
561 | 5,282 | +941% |
Hospital patients on that day |
769 | 520 | -32.4% |
ICU patients on that day |
153 | 55 | -64.1% |
Daily deaths 7 day average |
8.7 | 1.3 | -85.0% |
Since 11th October new infections have risen almost ten fold but the number in hospital has dropped by one-third.
The number in ICU has dropped by two-thirds and the number of deaths has dropped more than six fold.
That sounds good but despite adults being over 90% vaccinated, the people left at most serious risk of hospitalisation and death are: (i) the unvaccinated; and (ii) vulnerable people with underlying health issues.