COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Why do we have to thank people who are breaking the rules instead of punishing them? Still face masks not being worn where they should be

 

[Healdplace]

Some hospital data today:

UK hospital numbers approx 2367 - In a day up from 2251. A week ago it was 1638.

England up from 1881 to 1958 today. It was 1381 a week ago.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Sweden didn't take no measures at all. They brought in social distancing and many of the other measures short of a lockdown, which kept their figures at just 10 times worse than their neighbours and similar to ours.

But the model also predicted that Sweden, only doing those measures that they did, would see over 40000 deaths in the ‘first wave‘, which suggests it wasn’t terribly accurate...

 

[inchy14]

It’s not though is it, some of it is true, I’m not saying it’s all factual but aspects of the above are accurate.

 

[BobKowalski]

They are definitely applying the lubrication today ....

not a question of if a lockdown but when .

Yep. We’re all getting ‘Johnson‘ed‘ in a week or two.

 

[Healdplace]

Ventilators in England up from 259 to 281 in a day.

All three other nations up today too.

Total in UK up from 308 to 337 today.

We are at the highest number since 21 June.

 

[Healdplace]

Regionally the North West has again had the worst day.

Patients up from 612 to 660. It was 439 a week ago. (26 June last time it was higher)

Ventilators up from 82 to 91 in the day. It was 56 a week ago. 27 MAY last time this was higher.

As you see the number of ventilated Covid patients is quite acute now in the NW.

In better context - that is between a quarter and a third of how many we had on ventiilatrors in the NW at the peak of the wave when 1000 a day were dying.

So those measuring this as a mini wave - I don't think it is easy to justify that in the NW now.

That suggests it is a lot bigger in the NW right now. And explains why far more died in the NW in todays figures than any other part of the UK.

Though better treatment and understanding of the disease means fewer will die it is still a clearly worrying upward escalation in this measure most likely to correlate with subsequent deaths. I do not see how anyone can argue otherwise right now. Sorry.

 

[BigJoe#1]

But the model also predicted that Sweden, only doing those measures that they did, would see over 40000 deaths in the ‘first wave‘, which suggests it wasn’t terribly accurate...

.... and not forgetting the new infection rate in Sweden is fantastically lower than the UK.

Has to be something in it!

New cases reported in the last 14 days:

Sweden 4792

UK. 71928

The European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS)

This interactive dashboard provides a weekly integrated epidemiological summary for influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2.

www.ecdc.europa.eu

 

[BlueHammer85]

It’s not though is it, some of it is true, I’m not saying it’s all factual but aspects of the above are accurate.

when half truths are mixed in with wild conspiracy's i think it should be classed as bollox, it's stuff like this being spread around causing more harm and delay to our recovery

 

[Blue Llama]

For anyone who says "it's just a flu", remember that around 12,000 people per year die to flu and that's with a vaccine.

That figure of 12000 a year is not the one quoted by Public Health England. They state an average of 17000pa,where is your statistic from?