Decentralized response. The U.S. government’s structure meant that much of the pandemic response was left up to state and local leaders. In the absence of a strong national strategy, states implemented a patchwork of largely uncoordinated policies that did not effectively suppress the spread of the virus. This caused sudden, massive spikes of infections in many local outbreaks, placing enormous strain on health care systems and leaving no region untouched by the disease. “Every district, every county, every state could make decisions and keep them to themselves,” Gandhi says. “And we just have uneven applications of public health recommendations in a way that I can’t imagine any other country does. The Trump administration has been widely criticized for how the pandemic played out here. But Gandhi adds that the U.S. government’s decentralized nature would likely have been an obstacle under any president.

from
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -of-covid/

Compared to other countries
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... -pandemic/

Door-to-door teams armed with Covid jabs will be sent to the homes of unvaccinated Britons in plans being considered by Ministers to reach the estimated five million people yet to be inoculated.

Discussions between the Department of Health, NHS England and No 10 over the past week have looked at a nationwide drive to send vaccine teams to areas with low uptake rates as a crucial way to avoid lockdown and other restrictions.

It is also seen as a way to get jabs to rural areas or households where people cannot easily get to a vaccination centre.

One Cabinet Minister last night backed the plan, saying: 'I think anything that encourages the vaccine-hesitant is sensible,' before warning: 'The mood in the country is hardening against people who refuse to be vaccinated.

Many informative graphs in this article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... itons.html

So Wales and Scotland banning NYE festivities basically while England is a FFA, I imagine there will be a lot of people heading to England to spend new years there then take all their collected germs back to their home countries. Ah well hope they have a good time unironically.

nemo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:13 pm Door-to-door teams armed with Covid jabs will be sent to the homes of unvaccinated Britons in plans being considered by Ministers to reach the estimated five million people yet to be inoculated.

Discussions between the Department of Health, NHS England and No 10 over the past week have looked at a nationwide drive to send vaccine teams to areas with low uptake rates as a crucial way to avoid lockdown and other restrictions.

It is also seen as a way to get jabs to rural areas or households where people cannot easily get to a vaccination centre.

One Cabinet Minister last night backed the plan, saying: 'I think anything that encourages the vaccine-hesitant is sensible,' before warning: 'The mood in the country is hardening against people who refuse to be vaccinated.

Many informative graphs in this article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... itons.html

I have no idea where these rural areas are. They will all be serviced by GP's practices and these areas will have far more of a sense of community than anything in the cities. If Mrs Miggins can't get to the vaccine centre on her own then friends, family or neighbours will help. Failing that, the GP practice nurse can pay a visit, this has been going on already.

The real areas of low take up are the so-called 'communities' in the cities who are just stubborn and bloody minded. The Mayor of London admitted recently that 9/10 covid patients in London hospitals are unvaccinated.

It's this group that should be targeted, and no more "persuasion" or "education" or "encouragement". It should be gloves-off time.

Retired Sailor wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 2:00 am So Wales and Scotland banning NYE festivities basically while England is a FFA, I imagine there will be a lot of people heading to England to spend new years there then take all their collected germs back to their home countries. Ah well hope they have a good time unironically.

I suspect the good people of Scotland and Wales will just get on with their private celebrations and ignore their political masters diktats this time. Especially if the hospitals are not seeing high numbers of admissions.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:28 am

nemo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:13 pm Door-to-door teams armed with Covid jabs will be sent to the homes of unvaccinated Britons in plans being considered by Ministers to reach the estimated five million people yet to be inoculated.

Discussions between the Department of Health, NHS England and No 10 over the past week have looked at a nationwide drive to send vaccine teams to areas with low uptake rates as a crucial way to avoid lockdown and other restrictions.

It is also seen as a way to get jabs to rural areas or households where people cannot easily get to a vaccination centre.

One Cabinet Minister last night backed the plan, saying: 'I think anything that encourages the vaccine-hesitant is sensible,' before warning: 'The mood in the country is hardening against people who refuse to be vaccinated.

Many informative graphs in this article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... itons.html

I have no idea where these rural areas are. They will all be serviced by GP's practices and these areas will have far more of a sense of community than anything in the cities. If Mrs Miggins can't get to the vaccine centre on her own then friends, family or neighbours will help. Failing that, the GP practice nurse can pay a visit, this has been going on already.

The real areas of low take up are the so-called 'communities' in the cities who are just stubborn and bloody minded. The Mayor of London admitted recently that 9/10 covid patients in London hospitals are unvaccinated.

It's this group that should be targeted, and no more "persuasion" or "education" or "encouragement". It should be gloves-off time.

Ha, yes. The government has to waste money sending jabbing teams into rural areas because they are scared of being called racist for targetting ethnic areas. Meanwhile some data from the Mail article already linked:

People from Pakistani, Caribbean and African backgrounds have the lowest rates for receiving a booster or third dose of Covid-19 vaccine, new data suggests.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggest that the lowest third dose and booster take-up among people aged 50 and over in England was in the Pakistani (42.2 per cent), black Caribbean (44.4 per cent) and black African (45.4 per cent) groups.

More than a quarter of people of black Caribbean ethnicity are estimated to not have received a first Covid vaccine dose up to December 12 - the highest proportion of all ethnic groups.

A senior medic said that the figures, which were published on Friday, were 'deeply worrying'.

Dr Chaand Nagpaul, council chair at the British Medical Association, told BBC Radio 4's World at One: 'This is deeply worrying because in many ways I fear a repetition of what happened in the first wave, where... we saw this rather alarming and disturbing disparity in illness and deaths amongst ethnic minorities from Covid.

'What we know now of course is that the patients, people who are becoming seriously ill, who are being hospitalised, are those who have not been vaccinated and those who have not had their boosters.

'Eighty per cent of patients in some ICUs are those who have not been vaccinated.'

Muslims were the least likely religious group to have received a booster or third dose (46.3 per cent), the ONS said.

The ONS also said that take-up was lower among people living in more deprived areas, those who have never worked or are long-term unemployed, those without qualifications and those who do not own their own home, compared to more-advantaged groups.

Take-up was higher among non-disabled people, compared to those who said their day-to-day activities are limited 'a little' or 'a lot'.

“More-advantaged groups”
That sounds like BBC speak.

people living in more deprived areas,

Deprived of what? These areas get: free education, free healthcare, social security up to their eyeballs leading to free rent, free council tax and free money to live on courtesy of taxpayers.

These areas are a public-sector money pit. What exactly are they being "deprived" of?

BBC radio is now reporting a 75% increase in hospitalizations in the past week.
They also mention that dtat for this previous week will be flawed due to poor reporting during the holidays.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:44 am

people living in more deprived areas,

Deprived of what? These areas get: free education, free healthcare, social security up to their eyeballs leading to free rent, free council tax and free money to live on courtesy of taxpayers.

These areas are a public-sector money pit. What exactly are they being "deprived" of?

Politically correct nonsense.
Lazy feckless spongers is what they are. You’ve got generations of them.