COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[SilverFox2]

I suspect that this is due to not as many older people dying in hospital from non COVID-19 causes. You now have to have a good chance of survival to be admitted in to hospital.
My daughter is a care of the elderly registrar and she has noticed this facet over the last 3 weeks.

I suppose that makes a change from being told as I was that my mother would not be kept alive if she had a heart attack as was expected.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Belgium include all. As far as I can make out Scotland do too. They giving broken down figures later this week. Wasn’t 100% whether these are on top of , or the daily figure broken down. I think though since April 2nd the daily figure is a combined one and this will be broken down. We’ll see when we get the figures I suppose.

Scotland are now reporting additional deaths 2 days behind hospital deaths, So some of Scotlands daily figure happened when a death was registered that isn't in their hospital figures. They do list them separately in their daily figures.

 

[blueparrot]

Scotland are now reporting additional deaths 2 days behind hospital deaths

Yes, but up to now they have been announced as just a single daily figure later in the week they are going to produce the breakdown of hospital, care home, and home numbers.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I would say it won't be till thursday/fri before we are caught up with the easter numbers,if the numbers are better next week i would be cautiously opomistic

Tomorrow will be the spike in deaths from the 4 day weekend - and they may top a thousand. Though I'm very much hoping they doesnt.

 

[kaz7]

Tomorrow will be the spike in deaths from the 4 day weekend - and they may top a thousand. Though I'm very much hoping they doesnt.

This whole thing is so depressing,make it stop now

 

[DrBlueBob]

My cousin Jimmy has just messaged me that our aunt Millie has just died of covid. Last to die of 4 sisters and two brothers, my dad and Jimmy's dad, uncle Stan.

I'm feeling sad : (

RIP aunt Millie.

Sorry to hear that.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

My cousin Jimmy has just messaged me that our aunt Millie has just died of covid. Last to die of 4 sisters and two brothers, my dad and Jimmy's dad, uncle Stan.

I'm feeling sad : (

RIP aunt Millie.

Sorry for your loss blue :-(

 

[Chippy_boy]

This whole thing is so depressing,make it stop now

This morning on BBC Breakfast I heard a distressing account from a daughter of her Mum, 58, who caught this a couple of weeks ago. For a week or so she was OK, at home, with essentially flu-like symptoms. She even started to feel better and was up and about. Then she was very tired one day and decided to stay in bed. Next day, ambulance. 5 days later, dead. And her daughter didn't even get to see her Mum after she was taken in.

Absolutely horrific and really quite frightening. I am also 58 and hardly a model of fitness and health (and male, which statistically is worse). I watched the program thinking "I absolutely MUST NOT catch this, or I could die".

 

[domalino]

"Since records began" is a pretty dramatic way of saying "Since 2010".

 

[kaz7]

This morning on BBC Breakfast I heard a distressing account from a daughter of her Mum, 58, who caught this a couple of weeks ago. For a week or so she was OK, at home, with essentially flu-like symptoms. She even started to feel better and was up and about. Then she was very tired one day and decided to stay in bed. Next day, ambulance. 5 days later, dead. And her daughter didn't even get to see her Mum after she was taken in.

Absolutely horrific and really quite frightening. I am also 58 and hardly a model of fitness and health (and male, which statistically is worse). I watched the program thinking "I absolutely MUST NOT catch this, or I could die".

Her case is typical in the way the serious cases go that end in death ,you feel a bit better in the middle then go on to crash,all you can do stick to rules and remember most people who get this are NOT dying