COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[M18CTID]

New cases and deaths in the Uk up but lower than I expected.

I think the number of new cases (63) is just Scotland and Wales and we've yet to see the new numbers for England (and NI?), but numbers of new deaths I think are for the whole UK.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

New cases and deaths in the Uk up but lower than I expected.

Very odd, I assume this is a blip or an anomaly and that tomorrow's figures will then be a huge jump.

 

[kaz7]

It's a good conspiracy theory but everyone admitted to ICU is being tested, and COPD or otherwise, no one is just dropping dead of this, it's a progressive illness - they're spending days in ICU before dying.

The idea that people are just dropping dead without being tested has no basis in the facts.

Do you ever read properly,i am talking specificaly about patients in care homes who are expected to die with lung/chest disease,stop quoting me and taking it somewhere i haven't gone,it is very annoying

 

[M18CTID]

Maybe a dumb question, But does more people catching the virus mean more of the virus disappears ?

Not really a dumb question. I'm no expert but I heard a professor on the radio the other day saying that the more of us who get it and develop an immunity to it, that in itself should make it harder to flourish in the future. Of course, that's just a very generalistic view and we don't know the probability of catching this thing more than once, etc. Plus we don't want it to spread too quickly of course.

 

[domalino]

Do you ever read properly,i am talking specificaly about patients in care homes who are expected to die with lung/chest disease

So you think the workers at care homes are just completely ignoring the very clear and obvious symptoms of coronavirus and just locking them in a room for 2 weeks until they die?

Explain to us a scenario where someone is coughing so violently they're throwing up and have a fever off the charts for close to 10 days before dying and no one at the care home notices?

And why hasn't there been massive outbreaks in care homes with this incredibly infectious virus? You wouldn't just have 1 or 2 deaths, we've seen in China, South Korea and Seattle that this thing is wiping out near enough the entire population of a home when it gets in.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

New cases and deaths in the Uk up but lower than I expected.

the new cases stat means nothing. They are barely testing anyone

 

[domalino]

the new cases stat means nothing. They are barely testing anyone

They are testing people admitted to hospital, so it tells us roughly how many are in hospital from it.

 

[kaz7]

So you think the workers at care homes are just completely ignoring the very clear and obvious symptoms of coronavirus and just locking them in a room for 2 weeks until they die?

Explain to us a scenario where someone is coughing so violently they're throwing up and have a fever off the charts for close to 10 days before someone at the care home notices?

again that is not what i said,i said if they started with a sore throat the day before they will not be tested and it will go down as whatever they were expected to die of,this is like talking to a child who can't read

 

[SebastianBlue]

very important to not look at single day values. Multi -week trends are more useful.

Yes, I can professionally confirm that inferences from trends are usually much more reliable and insightful than single metric inferences, especially as the latter is nearly always without context and individually is of low confidence.

 

[mexico1970]

the new cases stat means nothing. They are barely testing anyone

If you watch the news outlets the slebs have their faces all over suffering for their art, some are self isolating on tropical islands even though the paid for help aren't as attractive as the normal staff.