Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Today's #Covid19Cymru headlines:
Zero deaths, for the first time since early October. Cases and positivity second lowest. Rolling average drops under 200/day. But Monday tends to report lower figures, so whilst good news, it's not as amazing as it sounds.

Cases: 164
That's second lowest only to yesterday's 152 post-peak. But Monday is often lower, and therefore the average doesn't fall very much. But, psychologically important maybe, the average drops under 200.
7-day average: 198 - DOWN 4

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🤔💭 interesting... 🧐 Hmm

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Micro Nova has put together an open-source, whole-house audio amplifier called AmpliPi based on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+. It is capable of streaming

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/15/amplipi-raspberry-pi-based-whole-house-audio-amplifier/

Amazon reject another Welsh language book review after saying the issue was ‘resolved’. https://nation.cymru/news/amazon-reject-another-welsh-language-book-review-after-saying-the-issue-was-resolved/

Yikes!

Hackers say they gained access to live feeds of 150,000 security cameras inside hospitals, prisons, schools and companies, including a Tesla factory https://bloom.bg/3vkqoIW

Today's #Covid19Cymru headlines:
Cases down again, though there are signs that the rate of fall is slowing again. Deaths fall, with average deaths per day going under 10 for the first time since late October.

There were 195 cases recorded today. That seems like a very small week-on-week drop, with last Saturday having recorded 198. However, we're used to seeing figures from samples taken the beginning of the week coming through on Friday or Saturday.
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That tends to yield more cases. So taken together, these two days show fair progress, with yesterday having been well down on the previous Friday.
7-day average: 216 - UNCHANGED

R is where the concern lies today.
R (estimate 1 - publication date data): 0.91 - UP 0.07
R (estimate 2 - sample date data): 0.87 - UNCHANGED

Whilst I think estimate 1 is probably a blip, estimate 2 came up to 0.87 yesterday and seems to be confirmed there. If it stays there, we're OK,
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but it leaves the government less room for wiggle next Friday. We can speculate why this is (schools return? weather? lockdown fatigue? people taking more chances as they see numbers fall? people who've just been vaccinated thinking they're immune immediately?) but ultimately the figures can't really show the reason.

Positivity is 4.1%, which is the equal lowest post-peak; equal to last Saturday.

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And the same explanation for positivity not falling applies regarding Friday/Saturday as did for cases (viz yesterday 4.4%, Friday last week 5.5%).

There were 7 deaths. This at last is showing real progress, having been plateaued for an uncomfortably long time. We're now back to October death figures.
7-day average: 9.86 - DOWN 1.29
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Ceredigion has 2 cases. There are:
1: Aberaeron & Llanrhystud (their first case for a long time)
1: Beulah, Troed-yr-Aur & Llandysul

See https://portalcovidcymru.co.uk/map.html for more local detail.

For the first time I can recall for a very long time, 2 counties report zero cases: Powys and Torfaen. This is exceptional news for both these counties, whose cases have not normally been amongst the lowest. With Ceredigion, Blaenau Gwent and Penfro also report 2 cases.
[Data screenshot credit PHW web site]
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Never forget how Oxford wanted to open source their vaccine but the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation stepped in and AstraZeneca got exclusive rights. https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/

I shared this in a reply recently but thought the information and maps might be neat on my main timeline...

Here is one of my favorite maps showing water ways (attached), the coloring is significant.

Each unique color represents a watershed, that is each color all drains out in the same direction and to the same point, ultimately draining to a single outlet into an ocean. You can always get from any point in the same color to any other point.

WRT a waterway which connects from ocean to ocean that would occur anytime there is a point that sits between two colors, almost always a lake, that drains off into each color in different directions. These lakes are special in the sense that they are the relatively rare waterways that belong to two or more watersheds.

#Nature #Rivers #water #watersheds #science @Science

Today's #Covid19Cymru headlines:
Cases still falling. R up a little. Positivity low. Deaths falling slowly. Steady progress.

There were 230 cases reported today. This is excellent for a Friday; in recent weeks (last week excepted), either Friday or Saturday have had the week's highest figure.
7-day average: 216 - DOWN 11
This is the lowest average since 19th September.

Positivity is at its second lowest post-peak, at 4.4 (lowest was last Saturday, 4.1).
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R (estimate 1 - publication date data): 0.84 - UP 0.02
R (estimate 2 - sample date data): 0.87 - UP 0.02

This is still lower than what we were seeing up to a week ago, so is not of great concern yet. But it's certainly something we need to watch.

There were 12 deaths.
7-day average: 11.14 - DOWN 0.57
This is the lowest average since 24th October.

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Ceredigion has one case reported. That case was in Llambed & Llanfihangel Ystrad.
See https://portalcovidcymru.co.uk/map.html - mid Wales looking generally healthier on that map today.

7-day average: 2.14 - DOWN 0.43
Notable others:
2: Torfaen, Mynwy, Blaenau Gwent
3: Penfro

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Rachel Clarke
@doctor_oxford
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My piece on the absolute hypocrisy of this government’s 1% pay ‘rise’ for NHS staff. Nearly 1000 health and care staff have lost their lives to Covid. Anger doesn’t come close. 😔

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/05/boris-johnson-clap-patients-pay-offer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true