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Interesting thread. Suggests, as we probably know, huge underreporting across the world in terms of deaths.
 
hgblue said:
Shielding is already in place for those identified as being in the vulnerable groups, I presume this shielding could be extended whilst the virus spreads. I believe this is the policy in Sweden?
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That's about right, although it has had limited success. A lot of care homes recording cases even though they went in to lock-down early on. Possibly due to asyptomatic carriers (my expert opinion).

An interesting aside, they tested 59 residents of a care home where the virus had been idetified. None of them had symptoms but 20 of them tested positive for the virus, so even a part of the elderly population are asymptomatic.
 
west didsblue said:
Why is stating facts scaremongering?
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One doctor has posted something terrible happening to someone's heart and it makes it way to here. That's 1 out of 3 million known cases. We need some perspective here, read back about 5 pages and it was the end of the human race. Sepsis is doing this to people every day and no one gives a shit. Even the 'harmless' common cold can cause strokes and heart attacks.

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of this by the way as it is a desperate situation we are currently in, but we are far from looking at the end of the world which you would think reading this thread at times.
 
Fame Monster said:
Do we know how close to maximum capacity 29,000 tests are?
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Can't remember the exact figure but in the briefings they say capacity far out weighs demand so they have opened the tests up to loads of other key workers,the trouble is the few number of testing stations and people having to go a long way to get to them,it is not for want of people wanting them,the care workers still say they can't get them
There is a bigger roll out with the website and home testing kits coming online

I find the whole issue of testing murky,the gov have themselves a target of 100,000 tests a day but have made it difficult to actually get one,i think what they tell us and the reality is somewhat different
 
karen7 said:
Can't remember the exact figure but in the briefings they say capacity far out weighs demand so they have opened the tests up to loads of other key workers,the trouble is the few number of testing stations and people having to go a long way to get to them,it is not for want of people wanting them,the care workers still say they can't get them
There is a bigger roll out with the website and home testing kits coming online

I find the whole issue of testing murky,the gov have themselves a target of 100,000 tests a day but have made it difficult to actually get one,i think what they tell us and the reality is somewhat different
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Aren't they rolling out 100 mobiles this week manned by armed forces each capable of over 300 a day going into care homes and workplaces.
 
blueparrot said:
Not really a drop 100 mobiles doing 300 a day gives us another 30,000 a day on top of the fixed stations, if the fixed get us to 50,000 these mobiles will get us up to 80,000 a day not far off the target.
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I have never been the fan of the target, i always get the impression they are more bothered about reaching a number than going about it in a methodical way,i accept that might be a harsh view,from early testing the backed off then had to catch up,anyway every test is good so people know where they stand
 
blueish swede said:
That's about right, although it has had limited success. A lot of care homes recording cases even though they went in to lock-down early on. Possibly due to asyptomatic carriers (my expert opinion).

An interesting aside, they tested 59 residents of a care home where the virus had been idetified. None of them had symptoms but 20 of them tested positive for the virus, so even a part of the elderly population are asymptomatic.
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I’ve said from early on in this, weeks ago, that for the explosion of the way this has ripped through care homes that there must be an enormous number of asymptomatic carriers of this virus, and that a relatively high percentage of people have had the virus. Don’t have to be an expert to work some stuff out.
 
True_Blue69 said:
One doctor has posted something terrible happening to someone's heart and it makes it way to here. That's 1 out of 3 million known cases. We need some perspective here, read back about 5 pages and it was the end of the human race. Sepsis is doing this to people every day and no one gives a shit. Even the 'harmless' common cold can cause strokes and heart attacks.

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of this by the way as it is a desperate situation we are currently in, but we are far from looking at the end of the world which you would think reading this thread at times.
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Are you sure it’s only one?

The more that is found out about this virus, the more ways it seems there are that it can kill you. From what I’ve read around 2/3 of Covid deaths are as a result of pneumonia which leaves a big number killed by other things caused by the virus.

However, to keep it in perspective, based on NY state figures which are probably the most comprehensive available due to the high level of testing, the mortality rate is around 0.75% which, although 7 times worse than flu, is less than the 1-5% originally feared. This would suggest that 30 to 50 million people have been infected worldwide with many asymptotic and hence untested and the majority of the rest recovering well.
 
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