COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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I think this couple of weeks high figures were expected as it's supposedly our peak. Its interesting that countries with a much harsher lockdown than ours are still getting high death rates, Spain for example.

The only way a lockdown would really work is how they did it in China. That is only essential people allowed out, everyone else was behind closed doors with food delivered and left outside.
 
What we do need unfortunately is much more time to collate additional data on the capabilities of the virus and the most effective policy to contain the virus whist hoping to make big steps to the vaccine.
You can't say until the new infection figures are published, if they continue as they are we may not reach the new infection peak Italy and Spain did so may not be a few weeks behind. Also we are beginning to add in deaths from other places not sure Spain or Italy did that. France are starting to and also seeing these big spikes.

were the ONS numbers for the week added to yesterday’s hospital figures? I.e not incorporated in these figures today, these are just hospital mortalities?
 
we must be hitting the peak of deaths now from that period of when everyone went boozing on the friday and the race meeting and football,,it must surely start to drop soon
I think the peak is at least a week away and will last longer than other countries. Very sobering thought. You have to hope that many of these numbers today and yesterday are catchup numbers otherwise the UK is on for most European deaths.

The big piss up was 19 days ago. You will still be looking at up to 3/4 weeks for that to tell its full toll.
 
You can't say until the new infection figures are published, if they continue as they are we may not reach the new infection peak Italy and Spain did so may not be a few weeks behind. Also we are beginning to add in deaths from other places not sure Spain or Italy did that. France are starting to and also seeing these big spikes.
the ONS figures go on the tues figures,it is wed today isn't it,i am not really sure anymore
 
It won't drop until after the new cases start to drop, the more the new cases stay at the same rate or higher, the more the numbers in ICU will grow and the deaths will also. Maybe in the next week or so new cases will have peaked, deaths will be at leat a week after that.
are these new cases tested as suspected covid or are they random tests because the later indicates a bad situation not that it can be much worse
 
I think this couple of weeks high figures were expected as it's supposedly our peak. Its interesting that countries with a much harsher lockdown than ours are still getting high death rates, Spain for example.

The only way a lockdown would really work is how they did it in China. That is only essential people allowed out, everyone else was behind closed doors with food delivered and left outside.

The UK isn’t at its peak and won’t be for a little while yet. The peak will last quite a while too. Spain is almost 4 weeks into quite a strict lockdown and things are only just looking a little better.
 
Ok thanks, flying back stranded passengers is not something to criticise, long as they are being checked.

alot of people making out all airports are open for business as usual and everyone can fly in and out
There are and have never been checks on people comi ng in and there are no restrictions on flights in,aside from the firms that have gone out of business the others are flying in as normal
 
Aside from the 2,000 brits we have brought back there is how many on flights from everywhere in the last week that we haven't stopped? They only need to meet up with one other person each,if they are infected of course,it is naive to think none of that matters

It's just not a problem. 2,000 people over 3 weeks in a country of 70,000,000 coming off a plane, walking through a barely staffed airport and going home into lockdown immediately.

Even if all 2,000 were infected (and lets be clear here that it's unlikely they are, because they've been in lockdown in the hotel rooms they've been stranded in with almost no contact with the outside world for 2 weeks) it wouldn't make a ripple in the overall numbers of deaths after the peak or spreading of the virus.

We went from having nearly 70,000,000 people out and about spreading the virus or being able to get infected, to maybe 7,000,000 at a stretch overnight when the lockdown came in. That's what causes the drop off from the lockdown. And you're worried about 2,000 people over 3 weeks.

Just think it through.
 
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