COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Eds]

If we don't prepare as a country that would be wrong and if we do everyone panics. You can't please any fucker

Spot on.

 

[kaz7]

28 deaths suggests we aren't on the same path as Italy a couple of weeks ago as they were increasing rapidly then. Good news today.

they said today our peak i s expected in 2-4 weeks

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I don't know if you noticed but the government has been compiling figures as from 1pm to 1pm each day. Yesterday's figures however were from 1pm Monday to 9am yesterday. The numbers were awful yesterday and I think they did that to keep the count down for the day.
Keeping this in mind I think today's figures could be quite disturbing, hence the failure to publish.
Before someone jumps in, I'm only putting 2+2 together.

One possibility the. Monday’s higher death figures.!Traditionally, a lot more people died towards the end of weekends in NHS hospitals. This has been addressed (at least in part) over the last decade with increased consultant cover in hospitals and changes to when some extremely ill patients are admitted. I don’t know whether that’s still the case in the current crisis.

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

Better than expected in the scheme of things. But let none of us forget that each and every one of those is a loss beyond comparison to the families concerned.

That goes without saying so you have to hope the peak is a lot lower than feared.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Yeah but still 39 to many.

Yep. Much bigger than a number.

 

[kaz7]

So if they announce another 75 deaths or 150 deaths would it make you feel any better or worse. And they can quote any figure as nobody knows the truth. People will trust or distrust the figures regardless. The fact is this is a serious time for all and maybe there are slightly more serious things to sort out first than announce hundreds more deaths.

Not better or worse just want to know what is going on

 

[blueparrot]

they said today our peak i s expected in 2-4 weeks

Yes but if the trajectory is kept lower the peak will be lower. Hopefully.

 

[bluemoon32]

Numbers are much lower than i expected

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

That goes without saying so you have to hope the peak is a lot lower than feared.

Sorry, wasn't in reference to you.

 

[UUJblue]

Day by day comparison from first death
UK 465
Italy 827

hopefully our peak much lower