COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[jay_mcfc]

The last date for which there is data is Sep 10th, and it was 227465 from a supposed capacity of 374917 tests, but the important pillar 1 and 2 are much closer, with 205659 from a capacity of 243817.

Yeah I just saw that. So 206k from a capacity 244. It's not bad but the important thing is that there's story after story after story of people not being able to get a test.

 

[Jaffamandango]

Nice WUM Worsley and I will bite. Rishi is the c*nt who told everyone who followed the Covid rules that they were not looking after their families like Cummings had. Rishi has done some good things but the Government could have come to an arrangement with Local Government to reduce council tax bills for people who haven’t had a penny off the state. That said, I agree the furlough stuff and business loans etc have helped plenty of people.

Boris is now shagging some Russian bird when he is about to get married to Carrie lol. Hancock has tried hard but there have been plenty of cock ups along the way. I just don’t like Rab because of the paper he wrote about privatising the NHS so I won’t comment further. I don’t like Starmer or Wee Jimmy Krankie so it’s not party political.

it’s poor how the Government has lost it’s grip on tue testing regime. A lot of other things are very tricky but we shouldn’t because backwards on things that were progressing in previous months. It was lunacy for them to believe they track and trace could work without local leadership and implantation, too.

Cummings was a masterstroke!! Did exactly what they hoped it would. This was very cleverly planned. Problem is those smarts don’t seem to be used in anything other than political manipulation. If they spent less time on hearts and minds and just a little on where the real focus should be, I have no doubt we’d be in a much better situation

 

[cleavers]

Yeah I just saw that. So 206k from a capacity 244. It's not bad but the important thing is that there's story after story after story of people not being able to get a test.

Like I said, I think it's targetted at areas with large case numbers, so people where cases are low are struggling to get a test locally, very few cases where I live currently, and hardly any testing centres, so you probably have to get one posted out, and as a few have pointed out here, they can go missing.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The last date for which there is data is Sep 10th, and it was 227465 from a supposed capacity of 374917 tests, but the important pillar 1 and 2 are much closer, with 205659 from a capacity of 243817.

Although, even if that 227465 is correct, it’s tests NOT people. If you go and do it yourself and drop the swab, or touch your tongue/cheeks or teeth pulling it up from your tonsils, they give you a new kit and that’s counted as 2 tests.
Don’t forget, when Hancock claimed they’d gone over 100000, he announced about 122k tests had been done but the number of people tested was 73000. It’s disingenuous at best and duplicitous at worst.

 

[cleavers]

Although, even if that 227465 is correct, it’s tests NOT people.

I didn't say otherwise.

 

[quiet_riot]

Got our first member of staff off with symptoms since re-opening today, if a positive test returns, that means 1/4 of our school will have to go home for 14 days, as well as at least 1 other staff member.

Just as an update to this - staff member got a test for TUESDAY. So potentially if positive, and if passed on, those affected will have been 'free' for a further 5 days until they get the isolation order.

Laughably shit.

 

[Healdplace]

Unfortunately looking at the 65+/75+ numbers we're going to have a lot more deaths in the near future :-(

Yes I hope we can avoid that but this is my concern and why I keep stressing what look like modest rises in hospital numbers and icu and the concentration of deaths in the NW.

There may well be factors at play that mitigate where we go from here. I really hope they prove to be correct. But we do need to watch this change in the age demographics as the people in the at risk category I know seem less and less willing to isolate. And that will inevitably push numbers of infections in that group upward.

We just have to hope other factors suppress the death numbers so they never get close to what they were. I suspect they will rise but not to huge levels at least partly as many of the most susceptible this year already have died.

 

[Healdplace]

The % reported by PHE for past week are a 92% rise in ages 50 - 59, 72% rise in 60 - 69 and 44% in 80 or above.

Those are certainly stark percentage rises in the more vulnerable categories at the same time as case numbers are increasing from around 1800 to 3500 in that week.

More warnings to the vulnerable are needed as they seem to be increasingly easing off their self protection - understandable as that is because it is so restrictive for those who are elderly at the best of times. So a balance of risk is always needed, of course. As well as some personal choice v incarceration.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital deaths up first:

8 deaths - 1 from yesterday - 3 in total from NW (2 of those 3 in last 48 hours).

Last week it was also 8 deaths with 4 from the NW.

 

[Healdplace]

Scotland data:

0 deaths happily,

But 221 cases at 2.8% of tests done.

261 in hospital (- 8 happily).

8 in icu (same).

Versus last week 0 deaths, 141 cases at 1.5% of tests, 251 in hospital and just 2 in icu ventilator beds.