Ayrshire is coping it quite bad in relation to us down in Dumfries & Galloway it seems and i can remember the last time we had more than 5 poor souls in ICU with our cases in and around the low 200 each day but with only 50/60 hospitalisations.
We do self isolate all year round though!
It could be increases in testing is causing the infection rate to look flat. Testing is peaking at about 1600 per day just now. It was roughly half that a month ago.Must admit I'm getting a bit deflated with the recent daily reports/stats from North of the border. Sure its a far better position than we were in a few weeks ago but the infection rate seems to be lingering round about the 300 mark per day and has done for a while. I'd have hoped they would be gradually dropping but consistently so which isn't the case, seems to have stagnated.
Could the infections being somewhat more contained in the community but rife within care homes be causing it?
Are hospitalisations not going down in Ayrshire ? Only really watch Borders where I am and Lothian where my daughters hospital is, but though new positives have stayed level, hospitalisations have fallen .Ayrshire seems typical of most regions I'd say, improved from where it was a few weeks ago but stagnated a bit in terms of infections recently. The real good news is the drop in ICU numbers, but that's a couple of days worth of increased hospitalizations so in time I'd expect these increases to reflect the same in ICU.
Are hospitalisations not going down in Ayrshire ? Only really watch Borders where I am and Lothian where my daughters hospital is, but though new positives have stayed level, hospitalisations have fallen .
France and Italy in recession. Worst figures since world war 2
Think that shows more of the positives are out of the hospitals, whereas a couple of weeks ago all the positives were those being admitted to hospital and those with it not needing hospital weren’t being tested.A mix I suppose 2 or 3 days in a row they've gone up, but they had gone down for 3 or 4 days before that. They're definitely way down from where they were a few weeks ago thankfully.
It could be increases in testing is causing the infection rate to look flat. Testing is peaking at about 1600 per day just now. It was roughly half that a month ago.
ICU beds down from a peak of over 200. It is a decent indicator although also very sad as these beds are being freed because people are dying. At least they are being replaced by less people.Are hospitalisations not going down in Ayrshire ? Only really watch Borders where I am and Lothian where my daughters hospital is, but though new positives have stayed level, hospitalisations have fallen .
Why,i want the immunity question to be solved soon as I want to get back to helping my neighbours,one country using one test is not proof yet,the footballer in Italy has tested positive four times,by the law of averages one should be negative if it is the testsDon't let Karen see this.
Yeah. Can see that. I got the impression she was warning today that the lockdown was slipping a bit. It certainly is here. Traffic much busier 5his week at the front of our house.Yeah testing has obviously increased over the course of the month but the rates have been similar for the past couple of weeks and producing similar infection results. If the aim of the game is to get that R number as far below 1 as possible I'd maybe just have hoped that current results were declining a bit more steadily or if not then testing was much much more than it is.
Agree, was going to like but didn’t seem appropriate.ICU beds down from a peak of over 200. It is a decent indicator although also very sad as these beds are being freed because people are dying. At least they are being replaced by less people.
My thoughts revolve around the a bility of this virus to seek out the ones with underlying conditions.Totally agree with all of that.
The big question is why is this virus killing many people and yet barely making others ill at all. Instead of pinning our hopes on a vaccine which almost certainly will not be here in time, I think we have a more realistic chance of finding a drug or cocktail of drugs which means you just get sick, but much less so, and you don't actually die.
Why,i want the immunity question to be solved soon as I want to get back to helping my neighbours,one country using one test is not proof yet,the footballer in Italy has tested positive four times,by the law of averages one should be negative if it is the tests
Yeah. Can see that. I got the impression she was warning today that the lockdown was slipping a bit. It certainly is here. Traffic much busier 5his week at the front of our house.
She is the leader of scotland,of course she is relevant,every area does their news conference at different time,england like to do ours at 5pm so the others aren't going to do theirs in the evening,she is a damn sight more of a plain speaking leader than we haveShe’s really getting on my tits with her pathetic desperation to make herself relevant.
Every week we hear about new vaccine trials. We might hear news from the Oxford vaccine group soon.I also predict by next winter that face-masks will be a legitimate fashion item seen more often in UK streets. I know we're seeing a few already but the worry is the front line health workers need these before the 'influencers' promote them on the gram.
Nike, Under Armour...flipping Gucci...they'll all be at it.
If that’s true, the shit will really hit the fan.South Korea have said that the two who had it and tested positive again were in fact false positives.
in other news I see a Japanese Nobel prize winning scientist has said there is no way this came from a bat and that it is man made . If he is wrong he has said he will give up his Nobel prize.