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Sadly, four more Covid-19 patients have died in hospitals in the region, the NHS confirmed.
The NHS England daily update has confirmed that two patients died on Wednesday 9 December and two on Tuesday 8 December after testing positive for coronavirus.
This brings the total number of deaths at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust hospitals to 286.
The death toll in December is already 35 just nine days into the month, which is significantly higher than the 22 deaths that were confirmed ten days after November, which is currently the deadliest month for North Lincolnshire.
If the month continues in the same way, it will exceed 106 November deaths, bringing an incredibly dark end to 2020 for many families in the region.
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Along with the tragic deaths at the trust hospitals, staff have yet to treat a significant number of Covid-19 patients.
As of Thursday morning, there were 126 coronavirus patients being treated at the NHS Trust: 48 in Grimsby, 72 in Scunthorpe and six in Goole. Of these, four were in ICU, two in Grimsby and two in Scunthorpe.
This news comes when experts confirm that the Covid-19 vaccine has not arrived in time for people to be protected during Christmas.
Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cell microbiology at the University of Reading, said: “The gift of the launch of the Pfizer vaccine has not arrived in time for Christmas.
“It takes four weeks from the first injection of the Pfizer vaccine for someone to develop immunity against Covid-19.
“If someone gets the vaccine today, they will have to wait three weeks for the second shot and then another week for immunity to develop.”
Dr Julian Tang, a clinical virologist at the University of Leicester, said: “Typically, responses to vaccines may peak after two to four weeks, and vaccines may take longer in the elderly due to ‘immunosenescence.’ , where the immune system of older people responds more slowly and less aggressively to foreign antigens.
“Since people just started getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 8 and the second dose expires 21 days after the first dose, no one will have received the second dose by Christmas.
“Data published recently by Pfizer suggests that the efficacy could be only 50 to 60 percent after the first dose, which is quite low.
“The data from the trial show that the maximum protection of (more) than 90 percent is only achieved after the second dose.
“Therefore, people should be careful despite having received one dose of the vaccine, as maybe only half of them could be protected, until the second dose has been administered.”
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