COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Ardwick Green Blue]

28 deaths suggests we aren't on the same path as Italy a couple of weeks ago as they were increasing rapidly then. Good news today.

 

[PragueBlue]

28 more dead in England, 6 more in Scotland, 5 in Wales.

Lower than I expected.

 

[Manc in London]

They happen all the time.

Sometimes they’re not too transmissible, sometimes they’re not too deadly, but every now and again they are.

The same viruses, bacteria and fungi that have always been around won’t always be the only ones always around with the way they mutate and the way the human population is rocketing (10bn by 2050!)

At the same time as this, African Swine Fever is rampant amongst the SE Asian pig populations (¼ of the world’s pigs have had to be culled because of it) and guess what?.. they’re thinking this could jump to humans!

Related to this topic, this is from an article I read recently...


In 2008, Jones and a team of researchers identified 335 diseases that emerged between 1960 and 2004, at least 60% of which came from animals.

Increasingly, says Jones, these zoonotic diseases are linked to environmental change and human behaviour. The disruption of pristine forests driven by logging, mining, road building through remote places, rapid urbanisation and population growth is bringing people into closer contact with animal species they may never have been near before, she says.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

If you ask the population to do what we have to do then there can be no holding anything back,it breeds mistrust

So if they announce another 75 deaths or 150 deaths would it make you feel any better or worse. And they can quote any figure as nobody knows the truth. People will trust or distrust the figures regardless. The fact is this is a serious time for all and maybe there are slightly more serious things to sort out first than announce hundreds more deaths.

 

[meltonblue]

Number of cases is staying pretty similar too.

 

[Manc in London]

Lower than I expected.

Indeed, although in a couple of days we will soon find out if this is an anomaly.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

28 deaths suggests we aren't on the same path as Italy a couple of weeks ago as they were increasing rapidly then. Good news today.

Each day that it is kept to these kind of numbers is a huge positive, although obviously sad for the families and friends of the victims. It’s like ticking off another day until the peak has passed. About 40 more days like this would be awesome.

The slight negative is that as people see the numbers aren’t rising dramatically, they will slacken off on the isolation rules.

 

[davek1808]

Lower than I expected.

Yeah but still 39 to many.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

28 deaths suggests we aren't on the same path as Italy a couple of weeks ago as they were increasing rapidly then. Good news today.

Nowhere near the Italian path at the moment, much to the annoyance of some on here who said we would be soon worse than Italy. Fingers crossed though that the number of deaths continues to stay low over the next few months

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

28 deaths suggests we aren't on the same path as Italy a couple of weeks ago as they were increasing rapidly then. Good news today.

Better than expected in the scheme of things. But let none of us forget that each and every one of those is a loss beyond comparison to the families concerned.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

If we don't prepare as a country that would be wrong and if we do everyone panics. You can't please any fucker

Spot on.

 

[kaz7]

28 deaths suggests we aren't on the same path as Italy a couple of weeks ago as they were increasing rapidly then. Good news today.

they said today our peak i s expected in 2-4 weeks

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I don't know if you noticed but the government has been compiling figures as from 1pm to 1pm each day. Yesterday's figures however were from 1pm Monday to 9am yesterday. The numbers were awful yesterday and I think they did that to keep the count down for the day.
Keeping this in mind I think today's figures could be quite disturbing, hence the failure to publish.
Before someone jumps in, I'm only putting 2+2 together.

One possibility the. Monday’s higher death figures.!Traditionally, a lot more people died towards the end of weekends in NHS hospitals. This has been addressed (at least in part) over the last decade with increased consultant cover in hospitals and changes to when some extremely ill patients are admitted. I don’t know whether that’s still the case in the current crisis.

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

Better than expected in the scheme of things. But let none of us forget that each and every one of those is a loss beyond comparison to the families concerned.

That goes without saying so you have to hope the peak is a lot lower than feared.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Yeah but still 39 to many.

Yep. Much bigger than a number.

 

[kaz7]

So if they announce another 75 deaths or 150 deaths would it make you feel any better or worse. And they can quote any figure as nobody knows the truth. People will trust or distrust the figures regardless. The fact is this is a serious time for all and maybe there are slightly more serious things to sort out first than announce hundreds more deaths.

Not better or worse just want to know what is going on

 

[blueparrot]

they said today our peak i s expected in 2-4 weeks

Yes but if the trajectory is kept lower the peak will be lower. Hopefully.

 

[bluemoon32]

Numbers are much lower than i expected

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

That goes without saying so you have to hope the peak is a lot lower than feared.

Sorry, wasn't in reference to you.

 

[UUJblue]

Day by day comparison from first death
UK 465
Italy 827

hopefully our peak much lower