Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BrendanGOT]

Those number of daily deaths figures just dont seem to be lowering.

Theyve added in deaths like carehomes etc now I think mate. So will naturally be higher, it still shows a downward trend though once you go back and add the carehome deaths etc to previous numbers

 

[peteblue]

With regards to the Nightingale hospitals, does anyone have any recent and accurate data regarding to how many beds are actually being used?

Almost none, and that’s a good thing.....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I know mate, and it's devastating how many people have died, but I'm not congratulating the government, I'm pointing out that no matter what the government did that was positive news there will always be those out there who try and find something to counter the bit of positivity. By the way mate, I can't stand the Tories, especially those buffoons Johnson and Hancock.

It won't be long before Farage will be able to say the death toll is the size of Bradford.

 

[mill]

So more tests are in the system then?

Thats surely good news?

It is good news but counting them in tests carried out is a bit ludicrous.

what if they are all lost in the post?

do they count then?

It’s like announcing a fixture list and allocating points before the games are even played...!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Almost none, and that’s a good thing.....

With a bit of time on their hands, I suspect the doctors and nurses have been trying them out. For testing purposes. If the truth be known, that's what Johnson was doing there.

 

[Amw79]

Fair play to the government and Civil servants who’ve increased the test capacity to such a high level.

Clearly a bit of jiggery-pokery going on with the numbers (home tests sent being counted etc), but the target itself was a bit meaningless to me, it was about getting the numbers up, which they’ve done.

Still stand by the above, but that very long winded answer to the question about home tests, really smacks of evasion.

 

[PhilM]

My brother in law had his driveway block paved and his crazy wife won’t let him park his brand new Audi on it, in case it leaks oil onto it lol

I wonder if she's related to my wife!

 

[tsubaki]

In a race to meet the government’s target of 100,000 coronavirus tests per day by this evening’s deadline, hospitals appear to have ramped up testing.

A reader has been in touch to report a sudden surge in the number of samples arriving for analysis at the laboratory for Great Ormond Street children’s hospital.

Demand for tests had been surprisingly low until this week, and staffing was more than halved as a consequence. On Sunday 18 April, the lab apparently received no samples at all.

However, since Wednesday the situation has reversed, with technicians now processing as many as 600 samples a day.

The Guardian understands that all patients and staff, whether they have Covid-19 symptoms or not, have been encouraged to take the test, along with the families and carers of patients. This follows guidance from NHS England asking hospitals to expand testing to all non-elective (serious and emergency) patients from Monday this week.

Testing has apparently included children being shielded from infection on isolation wards. The procedure involves inserting a q-tip shaped swab into the nose, and another into the throat - an uncomfortable experience even for adults.

A spokesperson for the hospital said:

In line with national guidance we are testing all non-elective in-patients for Covid-19. Where possible we are taking the additional step of testing the parents and carers who accompany them.

lol

 

[peteblue]

More tests aren't in the system though, thats the point. Counting them before they've been done is daft (especially as they will probably be counted again once they've been done).

He just said, we’ve now done more than 1 million tests. There has been a massive improvement and movement in the daily testing,.....

 

[mill]

I think they’ve done really well to get to the level they did. It’s massive progress.
It irks that they massaged the figures to save face as it comes across as massively dishonest. But I suppose they were in a lose lose situation anyway as they’d set the targets.
But still. Good progress and the lock down measures seem to be taking full effect which is great.

 

[peteblue]

Agree. When these tests first came out we were told it was pointless testing anyone after day 3 of symptoms because it would be a false result. So not only are they testing people who won't have it, they are testing people who may have had got it 4 days ago but will come out negative. All to hit a target.

Indeed, yet those screaming for them still aren’t happy......

 

[roydo]

It is good news but counting them in tests carried out is a bit ludicrous.

what if they are all lost in the post?

do they count then?

It’s like announcing a fixture list and allocating points before the games are even played...!

According to the medical bloke just now, they have always measured the number of tests in the same way. Some in Labs, some in delivery.

 

[tsubaki]

He just said, we’ve now done more than 1 million tests. There has been a massive improvement and movement in the daily testing,.....

What does "done" mean in that context, though? I would have assumed it meant "conducted a test and obtained the results", but if "in the post" counts as done then who knows?

It is a fantastic precedent for people working from home though - if you are asked to do work, just send it in the post and tell your boss its been done.

 

[roydo]

Still stand by the above, but that very long winded answer to the question about home tests, really smacks of evasion.

Long winded?

Was about 20 seconds.

 

[mill]

According to the medical bloke just now, they have always measured the number of tests in the same way. Some in Labs, some in delivery.

They can measure it how they like.
It’s simply not true that they’ve tested 100,000 people today if they are included tests that are in the post.
That’s unless they are looking at it from a Schrödinger’s cat perspective whereby people have both been tested and not tested and the only way of truly knowing will mean that Hancock’s cat is dead.