COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Bill Walker]

Friend of mine in Cornwall just told me hundreds of tourists have invaded for Easter. Tut Tut.

 

[blueparrot]

But then some of those who died yesterday, will have their death reported. As @BlueAnorak stated, there are issues with reporting the data in a timely fashion. I have given up using daily reported deaths as a good indicator for understanding the 'curve'.

Anyone know if positive test data is up to date?

Thats correct. The daily test will be a lot closer as tests only take 24 hours and I assume always take 24 hours so while there will be a slight lag there won’t be some from days or weeks ago other other sources to add in. The most accurate will be hospital admissions and ICU numbers, and these are what the government will make decisions on.

 

[twosips]

It's only us and the media using the deaths to measure the pandemic. The government will be going on hospital and ICU admissions more.

Where is this data?

 

[BlueAnorak]

But then some of those who died yesterday, will have their death reported. As @BlueAnorak stated, there are issues with reporting the data in a timely fashion. I have given up using daily reported deaths as a good indicator for understanding the 'curve'.

Anyone know if positive test data is up to date?

The NHS and ONS downloads are accurate. The NHS one specifies which columns are subject to change.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

so the actual days deaths could be higher now than whats being reported

Yeah in a week’s time we could find out 1000 died today, only 200 of which were reported today.

Or of course lower. There may be no more than those 200 we find out about after today.

I wonder if the daily death numbers are very variable? Rather than showing any kind of trend they’re more like 400 one day 85 another day 500 the next day and 60 the day after. But it’s just easier to report them in a correlative format.

 

[Manc in London]

Thats correct. The daily test will be a lot closer as tests only take 24 hours and I assume always take 24 hours so while there will be a slight lag there won’t be some from days or weeks ago other other sources to add in. The most accurate will be hospital admissions and ICU numbers, and these are what the government will make decisions on.

Ah right. Useful to know. Cheers

 

[blueparrot]

Where is this data?

The Scottish briefings give the figures every day , not sure where the UKfigures are, but they did show a graph for critical care at yesterdays briefing that showed a levelling off, so it must be available somewhere.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Friend of mine in Cornwall just told me hundreds of tourists have invaded for Easter. Tut Tut.

What's the matter with them? How many times do they have to be told? More severe measures are clearly necessary. First offence crucifixion, after that God knows

 

[Summerbuzz]

The average wait for an ambulance in London last month was 1h 1m 22s, compared to 22m 02s in February

 

[domalino]

Where is this data?

It's not really available to us on a day to day basis, but the government has it. I've seen a few graphs over the last few weeks tracking it I think, but from published studies IIRC. I think one was shown in a daily briefing recently?