Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

NHS England's latest figures...

NHS England has announced 207 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 24,159.

Of the 207 new deaths announced today:

– 47 occurred on May 13
– 82 occurred on May 12
– 20 occurred on May 11

The figures also show 40 of the new deaths took place between May 1 and May 10, and 18 took place in April.

NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England, often including previously
uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago. This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.

The figures published today by NHS England show April 8 continues to have the highest number for the most hospital deaths occurring on a single day, with a current total of 889.

 

[Brisan123]

It is the transmissibility of the virus that is the issue.

The elderly and medically vulnerable share homes with other family members in some cases, so the risk to them must surely increase with the easing of lockdown measures.

I'm not arguing that strict lockdown can be indefinately extended without severe economic, and other non-Covid related public health consequences. The lockdown should be eased very gradually and cautiously and with robust and refined testing, tracing, and isolation measures in place.

Each and every death and experience of critical illness due to Covid has ripple effects throughout the deceased persons family and community. That equates already to hundreds of thousands of people in the UK alone who have been affected by this pandemic.

There are no easy answers and no easy balance. But in the wider context, what is good for public health is good for the economy. Caution should be the by-word when dealing with this outbreak.

The bit in bold is where the whole system flls down.

 

[BlueStevie35]

NHS England's latest figures...

NHS England has announced 207 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 24,159.

Of the 207 new deaths announced today:

– 47 occurred on May 13
– 82 occurred on May 12
– 20 occurred on May 11

The figures also show 40 of the new deaths took place between May 1 and May 10, and 18 took place in April.

NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England, often including previously
uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago. This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.

The figures published today by NHS England show April 8 continues to have the highest number for the most hospital deaths occurring on a single day, with a current total of 889.

Based on that, probably looking at maybe another 1-200 from care homes when the full figures are announced at 5

 

[LinekersLegs]

Not paying for the Telegraph, but would be curious to know their sample sizes. Just with previous studies claiming much higher numbers it's hard to take this article on face value. If this is true, though, it would be a huge blow.

Unfortunately it looks like a large, random study mate without some of the design flaws of earlier ones like the Sant Clara one.

 

[Death]

This will come back with a bang

 

[PhilM]

Not paying for the Telegraph, but would be curious to know their sample sizes. Just with previous studies claiming much higher numbers it's hard to take this article on face value. If this is true, though, it would be a huge blow.

The Spanish study was a sample of roughly 60,000 across the country.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Toast]

148,000 infections in the UK in the last 2 weeks confirmed.

Utter shambles.

 

[Nymzee]

148,000 infections in the UK in the last 2 weeks confirmed.

Utter shambles.

Be interesting to see if there's a spike from VE Day.

 

[PhilM]

Coronavirus: Government faces WW2-sized bill for tackling virus

The increased cost of the furlough scheme pushes borrowing to a level not seen since wartime.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[PhilM]

148,000 infections in the UK in the last 2 weeks confirmed.

Utter shambles.

Liverpool is the second worst in the country; when the deaths per 100,000 are officially released, people will be shocked!

 

[LinekersLegs]

For large workplaces think this going to become far more common method of testing


But to enable widespread screening of mostly healthy people (think of a workplace that wants to screen its entire workforce on a regular basis) we need a third layer of tools that allow quick and accurate screening of large populations. For these tasks, you want machines that can screen many people with a high degree of precision, even if they don’t have any symptoms. Consider a model where employees would spit in tubes and then the samples would be pooled together in groups of 50 or even 100 and tested overnight to see if anyone has coronavirus. If a pooled sample gets a hit, the workers could be individually screened using PCR.

 

[Joey66]

The care home scandal of 40percent dead is underestimated- GPS were doing death cotificates over the telephone on the radio this am - one home a senior carer on £8.50p per hour supervising staff plus all the medications for the home.....
It needs renationalised imo.....

 

[mahermi1]

Liverpool is the second worst in the country; when the deaths per 100,000 are officially released, people will be shocked!

Why should liverpool be any different to other parts of the country though. Very strange unless it had something to do with liverpool's champions league game with Athletico, one of the most stupid sporting events ever held.