COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[MillionMilesAway]

Does that say that 44k are repeat tests on individuals? That seems quite a lot.

 

[Claytop]

I'd suggest they are underestimating the number of ICU beds as they mention this is key to their calculations, under 800 is low. I wouldn't have thought we'd be vastly different than Spain and France to be honest in the end numbers but this is a difficult virus to predict and analysis needs to be done at more localised levels to get an accurate picture.

It says we’re gonna be nearly 24,000 ICU beds short if I’m reading it right...

How many do we actually have in total?

 

[kaz7]

Spotted this, 2nd tweet. UK now changing to show total number of tests run, not number of people tested.

Hmmm number of tests is misleading,you only get tested once so why seperate it from number of people tested,they are stung by people saying they are not testing enough

 

[SWP's back]

It says we’re gonna be nearly 24,000 ICU beds short if I’m reading it right...

How many do we actually have in total?

According to that (dubious source) 744.

 

[SWP's back]

you only get tested once

Obviously some aren’t tested only once.

 

[urban genie]

Well that two day dip leveled itself out

 

[True_Blue69]

It says we’re gonna be nearly 24,000 ICU beds short if I’m reading it right...

How many do we actually have in total?

I think at the start we had something like 6k. With the additional hospitals (Excel etc.) It could be triple this but whether they have all the equipment is a different story.

As it stands we are supposed to be well under capacity and they talked about a peak round about the 10th so fingers crossed.

 

[kaz7]

Obviously some aren’t tested only once.

A very small number i would think,once you test positive you dont need testing again,maybe some negatives re-tested,more like they are rejigging the way they report it to show they are doing better than they are

 

[MillionMilesAway]

A very small number i would think,once you test positive you dont need testing again,maybe some negatives re-tested,more like they are rejigging the way they report it to show they are doing better than they are

On the face of it, 44k tests.

I can see cases for this for the following:
- initial investigations to see if false negatives were common
- frontline staff being tested every day (I'd be happy with this)

It still seems high for those two options, although obviously there may be others.

 

[SWP's back]

A very small number i would think,once you test positive you dont need testing again,maybe some negatives re-tested,more like they are rejigging the way they report it to show they are doing better than they are

A small number being 44,000 tests, yes

It includes testing front line staff so some may be being tested weekly etc and it also says it will include antibody testing.