Hospital data just as grim. Yet another big rise of 120 in to England hospitals to now total 1261. It was 782 last Monday. These increases are not trivial and are increasing.
Ventilator patients also up another 12 in one day to 154. It was 88 last Monday. Again this is no trivial rise.
Yeah we should take advice experienced epidemiologists Kirstie Allsopp & Denise Welch......Yes agreed and them 2 doom merchant scientists they keep wheeling out want pensioning off.
its the best way to Conttol the virus, by getting people to take it seriously again. that to me was clearly what they did there.
but they are statistically speaking correct. if nothing changes to slow the spread, the virus is doubling every 7/8 days. meaning in 4 weeks we will be at about 50k cases.
telling people that will hopefully make people take it a bit more seriously again.
the fact they said then extent 200+ deaths a day does show how much its controlled now though
I don't know why people want to wait to actHospital data just as grim. Yet another big rise of 120 in to England hospitals to now total 1261. It was 782 last Monday. These increases are not trivial and are increasing.
Ventilator patients also up another 12 in one day to 154. It was 88 last Monday. Again this is no trivial rise.
Out of interest Karen how do you explain the sudden drop in infections and deaths in Manaus Brasil with only 20% of the population having had the virus and no lockdown. Interested to know your opinion on this?
They're not, they report 12,000 cases and then adjust them down to 3-4000, leave them a week then put them back up, I've been following their numbers for 3 weeks now and it's happened each week.Spain are seeing a case reduction
I supose it could be, it also might be lower if our healthcare system is better than in Manaus or if we shielded vulnerable groups sucessfully.This is a bit ironic, an article on herd immunity supplemented by a picture of mass graves.
The article says 1 in 500 in the city died so translate that into the UK and we need to agree to 80,000 more deaths to achieve relative herd immunity..
definitely!Enough grim news for today. Hopefully the football will improve all of our moods later.
My 13-year-old lad broke down crying today when he got home.
He's was told someone has tested positive in his side of the year eight bubble and he must self-isolate for 14 days at home.
Six months off school and he was so happy to be back, having missed so much of his first year at secondary school.
That's 96 kids on his side all being told they could not get the bus or tram home and needed to ring someone urgently to collect them. Kids in tears and panicking. He's at a grammar and some of these pupils come from miles around to go there (another debate)
It was inevitable and back to learning on Microsoft teams - he can cope with it but missing out on the social aspect and deeper understanding of his subject matter, certainly when it has come to sciences and experiments.
Poor kid is crestfallen and is just another casualty of those people who couldn't give a fuck and spread this disease around from the pubs to the parks.
No symptoms and hoping desperately he will be okay.
Sorry to hear that Tolmie. Hope the wee fella is ok and gets back to school soon.
My 13-year-old lad broke down crying today when he got home.
He's was told someone has tested positive in his side of the year eight bubble and he must self-isolate for 14 days at home.
Six months off school and he was so happy to be back, having missed so much of his first year at secondary school.
That's 96 kids on his side all being told they could not get the bus or tram home and needed to ring someone urgently to collect them. Kids in tears and panicking. He's at a grammar and some of these pupils come from miles around to go there (another debate)
It was inevitable and back to learning on Microsoft teams - he can cope with it but missing out on the social aspect and deeper understanding of his subject matter, certainly when it has come to sciences and experiments.
Poor kid is crestfallen and is just another casualty of those people who couldn't give a fuck and spread this disease around from the pubs to the parks.
No symptoms and hoping desperately he will be okay.
Some experts also think as low as 20% with this particular virus may be enough.