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Healdplace said:
Todays 18 England hospital deaths were aged between 56 and 95 and for the first time in a while two of them had no known underlying health issues.
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I'm amazed anyone can get to 56+ and not have some underlying health condition? Is being overweight counted?
 
Blue Llama said:
Average deaths from flu in England each year is 17000. In 6 months of Covid we have over 40000 and still going up.
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56,000 excess deaths and a change in how we record deaths to wipe 5,000 plus off the numbers , some had to come off but nowhere near that imo,spinning death figures, a new low
 
Blue Llama said:
Average deaths from flu in England each year is 17000. In 6 months of Covid we have over 40000 and still going up.
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Depends how you count it. If flu is a contributing factor the numbers are a lot higher. Covid deaths are counted when covid is a contributing factor. Over 1k a week at the minute with flu as a contributing factor check the ONS stats.
 
As you may recall the Pop score measures how a town performs across the duration of the pandemic. By creating a daily score measuring the number of cases it gets day by day related to the population numbers of the town or borough.

Allowing comparative judgements. So the higher the number (it can only go up not down as cases are added day by day) the less good it is doing.

I have tallied the pop score over the duration of the GM restrictions for the 10 boroughs. Here is how each of them matches up.

The number is the difference between Pop score at the start of the new outbreak versus what it is now. So it shows how each GM borough has fared during these weeks versus one another. The lower the increase the better obviously.

Bolton 488

Oldham 329

Tameside 269

Manchester 262

Rochdale 261

Salford 261

Bury 243

Trafford 148

Wigan 128

Stockport 117

As you can see it reveals the worst and best easily (though Bolton was nowhere near top 2 weeks ago). The bunching of the bulk of boroughs somewhere in the middle shows they mostly have been impacted in a very similar manner when you use this measure to smooth out ups and downs and what (say) 20 cases means to one place versus another as size of population means that is not identical.

Then you easily spot the three boroughs that are some way ahead of the rest.

For comparison in the same period. Blackburn went up 327 (almost level with Oldham), Bradford by 293 and Leicester the city that went into restrictions in late June before the NW went up by the least of these three in the past month at 241 (almost the same as Bury).

Nothing earth shattering but it gives a different look at how each borough has performed versus each other across the duration of the present restrictions in GM.
 
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True_Blue69 said:
Depends how you count it. If flu is a contributing factor the numbers are a lot higher. Covid deaths are counted when covid is a contributing factor. Over 1k a week at the minute with flu as a contributing factor check the ONS stats.
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My stats are from Public Health England and are accurate.
 
True_Blue69 said:
Ridiculous that over 1000 are dying a week from flu in the UK no way is it that little globally.
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I’m not sure what little globally means or where you got your science degree from ? Please enlighten me on both and what your doctorate was in ? I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours and lots of people know me on here so I can’t really bullshit ;-)
 
andyhinch said:
Let’s see if he gets back to me ;-)
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I'm not claiming to have diagnosed them, just quoting ONS stats that have widely been reported in the media recently. The links are in the post above.

The point was to prove that original image was bollocks, which we all agree on surely.
 
“The country’s testing chief has admitted that she did not anticipate such a large rise in demand when children returned to school”


I know it’s all very serious but I’ve been re-reading and laughing at this for a good 45 minutes now.
 
True_Blue69 said:
I'm not claiming to have diagnosed them, just quoting ONS stats that have widely been reported in the media recently. The links are in the post above.

The point was to prove that original image was bollocks, which we all agree on surely.
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You really think that’s the point, really ? Fuck me throw a dog a bone and he thinks he knows the universe, I’m sure your happy/frightened but please don’t try and pretend you understand, I’ll disengage with you, I’d hoped for more, but I’m frequently disappointed.
 
MeatnSpudsMCFC said:
“The country’s testing chief has admitted that she did not anticipate such a large rise in demand when children returned to school”


I know it’s all very serious but I’ve been re-reading and laughing at this for a good 45 minutes now.
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The shear ineptitude of this is astonishing. She's called Dido,was appointed by the government and had to stand on a box to see over the lecturn at the briefings and didn't realise we might need extra testing once reopening started. Not fit for purpose
 
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