COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Three countries ignoring the virus.
Belarus, too cold on ice hockey rings
Nicaragua, God will sort it.
And there was one other.
Amazing the types of people get to run a country.
 
I've just been looking at an interesting per capita death rate chart on the Guardian live blog. The UK is 6th in the table with half or less per head of population compared to Spain, Italy & Belgium. France is quite a bit ahead and the Netherlands just ahead.

China has an infinitesimal death rate if you believe their stats....I certainly don't.
 
Ardwick Green Blue said:
I've just been looking at an interesting per capita death rate chart on the Guardian live blog. The UK is 6th in the table with half or less per head of population compared to Spain, Italy & Belgium. France is quite a bit ahead and the Netherlands just ahead.

China has an infinitesimal death rate if you believe their stats....I certainly don't.
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If the French are ahead (and if I'm not mistaken), I think that's because they're the only country who calculate their non-hospital deaths.
 
robbieh said:
To be honest everyone should have the test you had and supplement accordingly. It would save the NHS a fortune, not only reducing the numbers with respiratory problems,but also various cancers and not least osteoporosis.
Whether anything so cheap would be implemented is if course another story.
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Could not agree more, I bore all my friends advertising its importance.

About 18 months ago I needed radiotherapy to defeat a dose of prostate cancer which did the job but knocked 7 bells out of my immune system (white cell analysis was in disarray for about a year until it recovered).
During this time it was stressed how very important it was for me to take vitd so I did ,(at the time as a prescription).

As an older person I thought the deficiency was only attacking older people but MRI said in my case it was probably not so as they found low values across all creeds and ages.
 
dave_blue12 said:
A quick google search will show that this is not true.
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Perhaps you should try more than a quick google?

Deaths outside hospital have been included since 30th March (and all before then have been retrospectively added)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...als-to-be-included-in-uk-tally-for-first-time

The Office for National Statistics will start publishing data about the rest of the deaths from 9.30am on Tuesday giving a fuller picture of the impact of Covid-19. They will tally all of the deaths from late December until 20 March which they believe occurred outside hospitals.

Unlike the NHS figures, which are limited to people who tested positive for the disease, they will also include cases where it is mentioned as a suspected cause on death certificates.

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karen7 said:
Stil not accurate as people aren't tested like those in the care homes
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It’s not accurate anyway , as you don’t know who died of and who died with Covid. My pals dad died with Covid. He was 90 in a care home dementia, and anything else you care to think of. He is in the Covid stats as a death. The stats are all over the show globally depending on how the deaths are classified

What next a parachutist forgot to pack his parachute and died was found to have tested positive for Covid , so died of Covid?

I am not making light of the deaths but we can argue they are under recorded because they miss people out but you could argue they are over recorded as this disease Is often sadly the final straw that finishes off people who are old and /or serious heath conditions.

I don’t believe there is consistency in the way countries record the deaths despite what the WHO say eg , uk , China , Russia?
 
blueparrot said:
Truth is no countries death stats are fully reliable, nor fully comparable because every country counts differently and add different sources at different times. Even the devolved parts of the UK count and add differently. So Scotland , N.Ireland , Wales will add differently to England.
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I don't think anyone would argue they're fully comparable. But I'd hope no-one would argue that they're not comparable whatsoever. They're pretty good at showing general trends and hopefully will provide good information to decision-makers on which countries are getting it right and which countries are getting it wrong.
 
Fame Monster said:
I don't think anyone would argue they're fully comparable. But I'd hope no-one would argue that they're not comparable whatsoever. They're pretty good at showing general trends and hopefully will provide good information to decision-makers on which countries are getting it right and which countries are getting it wrong.
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Depends whether it’s raw data being used to make a headline. Or analysed data being used to make decisions on how to proceed. The judgements on who did what right and who did what wrong is for when we have better complete data.
 
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