COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Because testing only allows you to trace known contacts whereas the virus waits for strangers to pick it up.

will just avoid the red light districts then.

 

[Claytop]

Not sure the actual use and relevance of the daily death numbers when there likely to happened over the last 7 days. Maybe they should be reported weekly.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Because testing only allows you to trace known contacts whereas the virus waits for strangers to pick it up.

Plus because you infect people before showing the symptoms then it’s pretty useless as the amount of people you can potentially infect, who then infect others etc just goes off the charts.

 

[Blue Hefner]

288 planes landing at Heathrow today from all around the world. And some people think this will all be over in a few weeks.

How many would land in a normal day? How many passengers on board, they can’t be many surely

I expect those are repatriation flights, cargo and logistics - who in their right mind would be flying to the U.K. now? They might as well go on holiday to Naples....

 

[Rammy Blue]

How many would land in a normal day? How many passengers on board, they can’t be many surely

I expect those are repatriation flights, cargo and logistics - who in their right mind would be flying to the U.K. now? They might as well go on holiday to Naples....

Can’t see there being 288 anyway, some of those will be alliance flights where 5 or more airlines sell tickets on to the plane etc too.

 

[kaz7]

A 36-year-old NHS nurse, who was believed to have no underlying health issues, has died after contracting coronavirus.

Areema Nasreen died shortly after midnight in intensive care at Walsall Manor Hospital in the West Midlands, where she had worked for 16 years

RIP angel

 

[i8rags]

Snap. As I mentioned previously, my brother lives and works in Stockholm and said it’s pretty much business as usual. He was working all day in hair salon yesterday, took his lad to football training last night, and he’s working then playing golf today. Followed by a meal out later etc etc.

Fucking mental, imo.

Daft question, but does he need to be told to stay in, to actually act sensible

 

[alexmcity]

This sort of stuff is worthless after the fact.
New research from the sofa in Zurich.
lockdown 3 months earlier would have led to no epidemic.
Easy isn't it?

3 weeks ago the situation was far better known, especially given what was happening in Italy, than 3 months ago.

 

[johnnytapia]

It doesnt matter, they are all counted in the figures. If you test positive for covid-19 and then jump in front of a bus you go down as a covid-19 death.

Only if it's the number 19 bus.

 

[Newman Noggs]

What I don’t get is why it always says, “died after testing positive for covid19”

will it say on a death certificate
Cause of death was testing positive for covid 19.

I believe it's because Covid19 is a notifiable disease whereas, flu, for example isn't. So, in the past, we would have no idea of how many people caught flu or when they caught it and anyone who died with flu would usually have their cause of death attributed to something like bronchopneumonia or pneumonia, old age or something similar.

That is why it is dangerous to make hysterical assumptions about how much worse this virus is in terms of fatalities than normal flu relying on extrapolations from incomplete data. The only way we will have any real idea of how fatal this virus is is by comparing total deaths over the year to previous year's totals.