Coronavirus (2021) thread

[cleavers]

From what I can see, the UK is near the top but doesn't have the highest death rate in the world, or even Europe. Some of the ones above it have had harder lockdowns and more restricted travel, so it can't be purely down to that.

I think you have to take into account a countries population, we're 8th highest "death per million" in Europe, but few of those 8 have a population above 5 million, so a single death there makes for a far bigger proportion of population than 1 here does. Belgium's total is far worse, but the like of Gib, San Marino, really should not be used as a measure.

We're 4th if you use a minimum of 5 million population, 6th if you use a 2 million population.

One other stat that is interesting is that we've now tested the equivalent of 94% of our population, which given for 2 months at the start, we were only testing people who were admitted to hospital who likely had covid, it's not a bad effort, but only about 0.5% have actually tested positive.

Now given our high test rate, our actual number of cases per million, puts us down in 16th in europe, but again if you discount populations less than 5 million, we're actually 7th. Obviously that's a function of how many tests are done in each country, rather than how much "better" we have done than others, as ultimately the deaths per million mark that out.

 

[somapop]

Cheers mate! Seem to be well on the mend, hopefully others on here will soon follow suit and beat this bastard thing.

That’s brilliant news mate.
I personally feel I’m a fair way from recovery (it’s going the wrong way) but your news is a helpful positive.
That brief walk around the flat when I thought my heart was going to give out, scared me a bit.

 

[gaz76]

One other stat that is interesting is that we've now tested the equivalent of 94% of our population, which given for 2 months at the start, we were only testing people who were admitted to hospital who likely had covid, it's not a bad effort, but only about 0.5% have actually tested positive.

Something about that 94% just dosent seem right

 

[marco]

That’s brilliant news mate.
I personally feel I’m a fair way from recovery (it’s going the wrong way) but your news is a helpful positive.
That brief walk around the flat when I thought my heart was going to give out, scared me a bit.

were all here rooting for you mate,although i dont post to you much i read the posts to catch up, infact for some strange reason i just bent over and picked the laptop up around 6pm off the table and thought to myself i must see how that poster is ;-), strange how we do things,,,keep on top of your situation and dont hesitate to make that phone call should you need help,are you on your own or is there someone with you?

 

[Healdplace]

61, 774, 304 tests - finding 3, 433 , 394 positive Over the 10 months of the pandemic.

The UK population is about 67 million.

Of course plenty of those tests will be multiple ones to the same people.

But it is a mind boggling stat even so.

 

[The Northern Baptist]

Vast majority of the time they are in single digits of cases per day meaning they can do a really solid track and trace system.

in total they have had 2,262 known cases.

it was something we could have had if we had used the time we had wisely and not unlocked too quickly 1st time around. as well as not gone down the route of creating our own track and trace app which was a massive money and time hole as it was never going to work.

Track and trace was never going to work over here given our mentality

 

[cleavers]

Something about that 94% just dosent seem right

Its equivalent of 94%, we have no idea how many have been tested multiple times, or for what reason (I suspect a lot of health workers are included in that total, and some are tested twice a week, understandably).

Until recently it was only if you had symptoms (or worked in health services), and many, especially younger, never get any symptoms, so why would they have a test ?

 

[ayrshire_blue]

That’s brilliant news mate.
I personally feel I’m a fair way from recovery (it’s going the wrong way) but your news is a helpful positive.
That brief walk around the flat when I thought my heart was going to give out, scared me a bit.

I'm all too aware that we've tested positive at similar times but having different experiences, I think that sums this whole thing up regarding how it affects each and every individual - there's just no accounting for it. All I can say is try not to compare your situation to others too much, let your body go through what it has to go through to get itself on the mend. If you're anything like me you will be anxious and I suppose it's natural, take it easy and don't question yourself as to why you're not better yet.

As @marco has said above, that phone call is there if you need it and you can rely on us having some of the best medical staff on the planet to help you - if you need it. I know you're a runner too, have faith in your body, let it do what it has to do and you'll get there. Stick in mate. Sounds utterly ridiculous I know, but when I found myself struggling a bit I ended up picking out my City XI for the next few games, what I'd like to see happen in the summer, who I'd bring in, who I'd let go or sell*, simple things like that just to take my mind away from it.

*ffs Mahrez :-)

 

[unicorn]

61, 774, 304 tests - finding 3, 433 , 394 positive Over the 10 months of the pandemic.

The UK population is about 67 million.

Of course plenty of those tests will be multiple ones to the same people.

But it is a mind boggling stat even so.

There must be an awful lot of repeat tests in that 62million (I guess many, like the footballers, tested weekly).

I don't know anyone who's been tested, let alone definitely had it (yet).

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Question on the stuff re the mutation news from tonight, if as it seems this SA strain spells bad news. Am I being naive or will Pfizer, Astra, Moderna etc already be on this case and likely to come up with something in the next few weeks which will work against it? Realise I'm probably missing something here, but people have said vaccines can be adapted within 6 weeks if necessary to beat new strains, what sort of point does this process begin if not now?