COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Really! I’ve taken my eye off China for the last few weeks. Is that info supposition or are people from over their leaking out information on this.Depressing if people have been welded in their apartments to die!
There were plenty of videos showing it being done, obviously difficult to verify them but they all looked suitably realistic. Fits with their forcible measures of ensuring lockdown.
 
So does anyone understand the detail of our testing strategy? Can you describe it and the rationale behind it. We seem to be making no attempt to test contacts of sufferers like the Chinese did. wHO say testing is the absolute key to virus control so why are we doing different?

Testing strategy could depend on your lab capacity.

Germany can test 160,000 per week. President of Berlin's Robert-Koch-Institute, advising the gov,
said we have to use test capacity strategically and in a consequent way to take test results for statistic use
in order to assess where we are right now on the curve.

I have no specific details though.
 
The number of new cases are what matters when assessing how the infection is progressing because it's an instant current snapshot whereas deaths relate to past history. Ultimately that will be what counts but day to day it's the trend in new cases that matters. Not sure one day's figures are enough to judge though. We need a sustained downturn. Italy is probably the best country to watch as they started the emergency action first so they should see its results first.

yes, but they pretty much stopped the rise in last 3-4 days. it's 3-3.5k cases, one day up, one day down. That's good.
 
So, after non-stop work meetings today kept me away from the various daily pressers, tracking other happenings, and refereeing poster entanglements in real-time...

What’ve I missed?

£330bn for the economy in various different ways. Kept pledging if that’s not enough then they will be more.

People still going to the pub.

Laura Ashley closing.


They were the main points I’ve taken away so far today, not necessarily in that order..
 
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