COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Healdplace]

Hospital data just as grim. Yet another big rise of 120 in to England hospitals to now total 1261. It was 782 last Monday. These increases are not trivial and are increasing.

Ventilator patients also up another 12 in one day to 154. It was 88 last Monday. Again this is no trivial rise.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Hospital data just as grim. Yet another big rise of 120 in to England hospitals to now total 1261. It was 782 last Monday. These increases are not trivial and are increasing.

Ventilator patients also up another 12 in one day to 154. It was 88 last Monday. Again this is no trivial rise.

that is grim

 

[bonespost]

Yes agreed and them 2 doom merchant scientists they keep wheeling out want pensioning off.

Yeah we should take advice experienced epidemiologists Kirstie Allsopp & Denise Welch......

 

[kaz7]

Alert level has gone up

What we know is Hancock said this morning that schools will stay open and businesses ,it is social that is spreading it ,i am guessing pubs will go back to takeaway and no mixing of households ,not another strict lockdown ,but just a guess

 

[BLUEMATT23]

its the best way to Conttol the virus, by getting people to take it seriously again. that to me was clearly what they did there.

but they are statistically speaking correct. if nothing changes to slow the spread, the virus is doubling every 7/8 days. meaning in 4 weeks we will be at about 50k cases.

telling people that will hopefully make people take it a bit more seriously again.

the fact they said then extent 200+ deaths a day does show how much its controlled now though

Too many mixed messages for me.

 

[kaz7]

Hospital data just as grim. Yet another big rise of 120 in to England hospitals to now total 1261. It was 782 last Monday. These increases are not trivial and are increasing.

Ventilator patients also up another 12 in one day to 154. It was 88 last Monday. Again this is no trivial rise.

I don't know why people want to wait to act

 

[inbetween]

France are currently seeing an exponential rise and Spain are seeing a case reduction but a big increase in deaths. The scientists are being a bit rich with the rate increase but I think that's a shock tactic to force action because otherwise it's coming.

We have to ask why does it matter if exponential rises happen in October or November? Every large case increase is bad, it inevitably means more admissions and deaths down the line.

My dads mate has just been admitted to hospital with the virus and my mrs knows someone at her work who's currently just about through the worse of it. I knew of no-one who's had it until the last week or so.

We cannot just throw the dice and leave this to chance again because it's out there and it's a definite threat to many people and that's before we consider the long term effects which are very poorly understood.

 

[Healdplace]

Northern Ireland data 125 cases today at 1.3% of tests. 33 in hospital (big rise here too) and 3 in icu ventiulator beds (up 1) The weekly total of cases is a new record of 1014 of which 12.5% were over 60.

 

[inbetween]

Out of interest Karen how do you explain the sudden drop in infections and deaths in Manaus Brasil with only 20% of the population having had the virus and no lockdown. Interested to know your opinion on this?

How an Amazonian city that shunned lockdown may have hit herd immunity

The authorities in Manaus made little attempt to halt spread of Covid-19 - yet the virus seems to have run out of steam there

www.google.com

This is a bit ironic, an article on herd immunity supplemented by a picture of mass graves.

The article says 1 in 500 in the city died so translate that into the UK and we need to agree to 80,000 more deaths to achieve relative herd immunity..

 

[Healdplace]

Last time ventilator beds in England higher was 10 July. (it is going back daily).

Last time more patients in hospital in England 15 July.

1430 in UK hospital (approx) and 180 approx on ventilators as some other nation data not yet updated.

Seven days ago these UK numbers were 908 in hospital and 105 on ventilators

Two weeks ago these numbers were 638 in hospital (approx) and 77 on ventilators.