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Rammy Blue said:
Wasn’t it rumoured a while back that he might have a share position in the producers of hydroxychloroquine?
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I thought the NYT said the Trumps had a small interest in Sanofi, through a fund. That's a big company, but wasn't there also something recently about Trump saying he had first call on a Sanofi vaccine, a claim that Macron objected to?

I think when he was claiming to have stockpiled 150 million doses of hydroxychloroquine that most came from India - all bets are off really as to manufacturing there. I think there are several generics companies who make it.
 
karen7 said:
I don't think care home owners /managers are thick,they have to be led by the gov and PHE and whoever else are the ones running the pandamic,they were told they weren't in danger in feb,they have take pts back from hospitals and were told no test was needed or maybe nobody who should have made the connection,made it
The homes decided off their own back to stop allowing visitors ,nobody advised them to do it,they maybe thought they were covering the bases,as for lockdown in terms of staff moving in I don't know without looking

It is late,i will have a look at time lines in the morning
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It's happened everywhere in Europe where there has been moderate or worse levels of Covid-19 infection. There will likely be a common cause.
Not much difference between England, Scotland and Wales either with each Health service run by a different political party. Though England is slightly better off than the other two percentage wise
 
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Tim of the Oak said:
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I've thought that for a while.

The numbers which relate to progress seem to me to be:
- number in hospital (we get this)
- number in ICU
- number discharged
- number moved out of ICU for recovery

As it's possibly a bit tricky to get them, reporting them a day behind would be fine, as it will still show the changes.
 
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I'm no @Gelsons Dad, but I can imagine hundreds of you scouring this thread daily for an update from me of the 07:33 arrival into Central London.

Well, I can report that it had seventy six passengers on board this morning. This is a 33.33% increase from a few weeks ago but, as the train usually brings in up to a thousand happy commuters, this is only a 7.6% usage.

Last time I reported, there was a 5.7% useage. So the upswing is a massive 1.9%.
 
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Zubrman said:
I'm no @Gelsons Dad, but I can imagine hundreds of you scouring this thread daily for an update from me of the 07:33 arrival into Central London.

Well, I can report that it had seventy six passengers on board this morning. This is a 33.33% increase from a few weeks ago but, as the train usually brings in up to a thousand happy commuters, this is only a 0.76% usage.

Last time I reported, there was a 0.57% useage. So the upswing is a massive 0.21%.
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Phew, I’ll sleep easy tonight, lol.

;-)
 
Zubrman said:
I'm no @Gelsons Dad, but I can imagine hundreds of you scouring this thread daily for an update from me of the 07:33 arrival into Central London.

Well, I can report that it had seventy six passengers on board this morning. This is a 33.33% increase from a few weeks ago but, as the train usually brings in up to a thousand happy commuters, this is only a 0.76% usage.

Last time I reported, there was a 0.57% useage. So the upswing is a massive 0.21%.
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The usage increase from 0.57% to 0.76% is actually an increase of 43.32% from your last update to this.
 
The Peacock family who drove an hour and a half to a beach in Dorset, then were interviewed by the BBC and were outraged by how busy it was have gone viral! I'm quite glad of that they really annoyed me when I saw them with their elitist 'the rules don't apply to us'attitude on the TV!
 
MillionMilesAway said:
I've thought that for a while.

The numbers which relate to progress seem to me to be:
- number in hospital (we get this)
- number in ICU
- number discharged
- number moved out of ICU for recovery

As it's possibly a bit tricky to get them, reporting them a day behind would be fine, as it will still show the changes.
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Good stuff MMA

I know there are figures for percentage of ICU beds that are occupied by patients but this can be a bit misleading, especially now hospitals are trying to restart the their range of health services. Forty percent occupancy sounds low but is a barrier to opening up a wider range of services if ICU bed capacity was trebles in a hospital in response to the virus.

I agree with your last 2 mate.
 
BlueAnorak said:
You have every chance of a good outcome so long as you don't need to be put on a ventilator. Then it was 50/50. Larger controlled Vitamin D, Heparin and other drugs have reduced the numbers needing to go on Ventilators by about 10% but once you're there it's still 50/50.

Here is the current state of play with drugs
https://www.healthline.com/health-n...ccines-and-treatments-for-covid-19#Antivirals
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I know a Medical Director of a hospital who says in the early days of responding to the virus some patients were being put on ventilators who were far too ill to recover. I’m not sure if that was widespread or not but could partly explain the very high mortality rates of ventilated patients.
 
oman0115 said:
The Peacock family who drove an hour and a half to a beach in Dorset, then were interviewed by the BBC and were outraged by how busy it was have gone viral! I'm quite glad of that they really annoyed me when I saw them with their elitist 'the rules don't apply to us'attitude on the TV!
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Are they known as the Ostriches now??
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Good stuff MMA

I know there are figures for percentage of ICU beds that are occupied by patients but this can be a bit misleading, especially now hospitals are trying to restart the their range of health services. Forty percent occupancy sounds low but is a barrier to opening up a wider range of services if ICU bed capacity was trebles in a hospital in response to the virus.

I agree with your last 2 mate.
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I'm thinking what would be clear to people as a stat.

"400 yesterday, 450 today" is understandable and clear.
12.5% increase requires maths.
 
Weekly deaths as of 8th May.

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49,647 above the 5 year average since March 20th
 
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Weekly deaths as of 8th May.

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49,647 above the 5 year average since March 20th
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Although it's worth noting that for the 8th of May there was only 80 odd deaths registered compared to nearly 3,000 the week before due to the bank holiday, so it will be abit higher than that.
 
oman0115 said:
The Peacock family who drove an hour and a half to a beach in Dorset, then were interviewed by the BBC and were outraged by how busy it was have gone viral! I'm quite glad of that they really annoyed me when I saw them with their elitist 'the rules don't apply to us'attitude on the TV!
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Saw that daft woman yesterday. Had me shouting at the TV!
 
Cheesy said:
Saw that daft woman yesterday. Had me shouting at the TV!
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The BBC stitched them up good and proper with that interview didnt they! Making sure they were introduced as having travelled an hour and a half to get there. Cruel perhaps but necessary to emphasise the attitude of 'its other people who are wrong not me' that seems to be very prevalent.
 
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