Coronavirus (2021) thread

[M18CTID]

45,000 cases in France today, 225 deaths
23,000 in Italy, 460 deaths
22,000 in Germany, 205 deaths

 

[worsleyweb]

45,000 cases in France today, 225 deaths
23,000 in Italy, 460 deaths
22,000 in Germany, 205 deaths

that’s tragic. Europe third wave looks like it will be brutal.

 

[sky tot]

Number of patients in English hospitals:

25 March 2020 - 4402 (and rising)
25 March 2021 - 3763 (and falling)

Be interesting to know what it was 25th March 2019

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Be interesting to know what it was 25th March 2019

Zero I'd assume as these numbers refer to Covid patients only.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Zero I'd assume as these numbers refer to Covid patients only.

Indeed. Amended my post for accuracy.

 

[BlueHammer85]

45,000 cases in France today, 225 deaths
23,000 in Italy, 460 deaths
22,000 in Germany, 205 deaths

45k. Wow.

i remember when we was hitting that number. Awful.

 

[unicorn]

Zero I'd assume as these numbers refer to Covid patients only.

For context there's about 140,000 hospital beds in England; not sure how many non-Covid patients currently in beds but clearly the proportion that have Covid is small and rapidly declining (though still a stretch on NHS resource).

 

[ayrshire_blue]

45,000 cases in France today, 225 deaths
23,000 in Italy, 460 deaths
22,000 in Germany, 205 deaths

35,000 in Poland with 520 deaths.

Brazil with a record (I think) 93,000 cases as well with 2,375 deaths.

Apologies for the sombre post, but these are devastating figures and again worth highlighting the importance of the world getting vaccinated as quickly as possible and not just ourselves. We're doing well on that front, long may it continue.

 

[meltonblue]

Why does one have to wonder? The reason the Government gave those assurances was to get the development of the vaccines started as quickly as possible by giving extra confidence to investors and vaccine developers. That’s also partly why the AZ / Oxford vaccine is offered on a not for profit basis and is the mainstay of the global vaccine fund.

The indemnity was offered after the contracts, they were only able to give it from September onwards. Understand why they did it though.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Pointless using cases as testing increased so much over the period. Hospitalisations are a much better measure.

"Casedemic". Got it.