Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Barnfred 55]

im not advocating it , just trying to perhaps understand their thinking

Sorry

Thought you were defending it. Doesn't make sense to me. Especially out in the sticks where there's no street lights

 

[Tubey]

Close to 900 dead in the UK in the past 24 hours.

Honestly think it's around 700 in the past 24 hours but they've had a backlog because of their abysmal admin over the weekend.

 

[Brennan]

Honestly think it's around 700 in the past 24 hours but they've had a backlog because of their abysmal admin over the weekend.

Was just going to edit my post.

It's following the same pattern as last week, almost exactly in terms of the lag effect.

Sunday 29th - 209
Monday 30th - 180
Tuesday 31st - 381

April 5th - 621
April 6th - 439
April 7th - ~900

Not sure it's fair to label it abysmal admin though, probably just the reality of hard working staff having time off over the weekend.

 

[Barnfred 55]

758 more died in the last 24 hours!

Many of those will be from the weekend. They said at the time that yesterday's lower figures would be inaccurate

 

[Brennan]

It's make or break now in terms of our trend versus other similar countries.

Both Italy and Spain hit their peak (touch wood) once hitting around 900 daily deaths.

France has gone over this to 1300 but has decreased markedly since.

 

[Brennan]

In more positive news, this is amazing work

 

[orchard]

Honestly think it's around 700 in the past 24 hours but they've had a backlog because of their abysmal admin over the weekend.

854 UK declared?

 

[roydo]

In more positive news, this is amazing work


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Now they know it works, they have also given the instructions and that to every F1 team to crack on with them.

 

[navidson]

May as well not publish the Monday figure - clearly riddled with inaccuracies

 

[b-rad]

It's make or break now in terms of our trend versus other similar countries.

Both Italy and Spain hit their peak (touch wood) once hitting around 900 daily deaths.

France has gone over this to 1300 but has decreased markedly since.

Bear in mind our population is quite a bit bigger than Spain (and similar to France). Obviously there's a lot more to it than that, but absolute numbers aren't directly comparable in some cases.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Rees Mogg has probably found a way to make a fortune on predicting these figures.

 

[Billy Dean]

Bear in mind our population is quite a bit bigger than Spain (and similar to France). Obviously there's a lot more to it than that, but absolute numbers aren't directly comparable in some cases.

I was wondering why they aren't looking at number of cases/deaths per capita or something like that. I guess there's a reason for it

 

[RAFUH]

Good summary of some potential therapies to go along with the suspected pathophysiology of the infection

 

[b-rad]

I was wondering why they aren't looking at number of cases/deaths per capita or something like that. I guess there's a reason for it

Not sure. I guess there are larger pockets in greater urban areas (e.g. London) where people are packed together and spread it more quickly.

Whatever the stats are, lets hope they level off and fall before too long.

 

[Zezti]

My cousin's 2 year old has been taken to hospital in an ambulance today with breathing difficulties. They hope it might just be a chest infection but for some reason they've not done a CV test, as far as I'm aware.
The really worrying thing is that they have a newborn with cysticfibrosis. If the virus has already passed to the baby, I hate to think

Just heard the 2 year old is negative for CV. Just a normal chest infection which shouldn't give her too much trouble. Big relief for her and the newborn.