Morning Drama

The air ambulance landed in the sports field behind the houses opposite me around 8 am. I hope all is well. They do such a fabulous job, particularly as from here it can take an hour and a half to get to the nearest hospital in an ambulance as it has to go partly in to Norwich, around and back out again. 

This morning I walked with H in Sheringham Park, it was a lovely sunny morning, not at all cold. There was a weird optical illusion looking out to sea as there was a heavy blanket of cloud low down with a flat top which looked just like the sea but higher up - almost as if a huge tsunami was heading our way!

Day 610 / Day 121 of Step 4 of Roadmap Easing (for my record only)
Pfizer is to allow other manufacturers to make its Covid-19 pill by signing a deal with a UN-backed group called Medicines Patent Pool, which will potentially make it available to half the world's population. It will forego royalties in low-income countries and will waive them in countries covered by the agreement whilst Covid remains a public health emergency - well done Pfizer (NB only 1% of its Covid jabs have gone to poorer countries). Nicola Sturgeon says that 'the mitigations put in place for COP were effective' with only 291 people testing positive. AstraZeneca says it has released 2bn doses of its vaccine for supply to more than 170 countries across 7 continents - amazing. The Coronavirus Job Retential Scheme (furlough) supported the wages of over 11.7m at a cost of over £70bn, with the ONS reporting early evidence suggesting that numbers made redundant were 'small'. A study is proposing the use in Covid-19 wards of portable air filtration and ultra-violet sterilisation devices as effective in preventing patient to healthcare worker transmission.