Just been on the retail park by us and much the same.
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Just been on the retail park by us and much the same.
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The queues for the Post Office have been longer than the Sainsburys one for a while now, during the week anyrate.
brieverton
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Immensely encouraging to read that. Even getting a vaccine before the end of the year would be the most wonderful news.
Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug
Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after "fantastic" trial results, experts say.
www.bbc.co.uk
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.
The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.
The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.
It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.
Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.
And it could be of huge benefit in poorer countries with high numbers of Covid-19 patients.
Millions of job losses is factual news..
Those figures also don’t reflect the actual number of people who were killed by Covid yesterday. That’s all deaths where the patient tested positive.
My missus is a few weeks away from finding out if she still has a job.
It should always be about saving lives.
Money can always be made, lives can never be brought back.
6 people die of skin cancer every day in the UK, but everybody sunbathes in the summer.
Thousands upon thousands die from alcohol consumption every year, but we carry on getting smashed.
Thousands are killed in car accidents, but we drive to work to make a living.
You can’t ask the lives of millions to be put into ruin to save the lives of a few thousand, it’s the brutal reality.
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233 is the all settings figure, up 195 from yesterday (as is standard due to weekend lag) and 53 down on last Tuesday. This brings the 7 day rolling average down to 155.14
The earlier hospital figure has brought that 7 day average down further to to an even 75 while new cases have seen a massive drop of over 500 in the past week from 1741 last Tuesday to 1279 with that average falling under 1300
The earlier hospital figure has brought that 7 day average down further to to an even 75 while new cases have seen a massive drop of over 500 in the past week from 1741 last Tuesday to 1279 with that average falling under 1300
brieverton
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I agree in the main, but can equally understand why people want to be cautious for a longer period given the unprecedented circumstances.
The tension is inherent and to be expected given the different primary concerns, depending on where you're coming from.
I heard a public health expert put it quite well recently; "When you call the fire brigade, they as well as you want to be sure there are no embers remaining after the fire has been put out"
There are plenty of embers remaining as far as this outbreak is concerned.
Covid is significantly more lethal than the flu. And I'm not at a hugely increased risk of being involved in a car accident because a family member was involved in one.
Things are beginning to work out and I have huge empathy for people who will lose their jobs.
There’s nothing wrong with being cautious, but this idea some are flouting that we should all avoid public spaces and stay locked up at home is not helpful.
As a society we accept avoidable deaths every day, that’s just a fact. I’m at the point with Covid as I think many others are, where less than 100 deaths per day cannot be deemed a reason to continue locking down society.
Caution urged for reopening schools to prevent spread of COVID-19 crisis
Large-scale testing of children, expansion of school-based health centers recommended
news.uci.edu
Posted this visual the other day but seems relevant since you’re citing other causes of death.
This is how Covid tracked against other causes, as the virus took hold, and started exponentially increasing, and this is with a worldwide lockdown Being put in place, and is why countries are so keen to control and avoid a second wave.
Edit: New link, as old one led to 403 error. Same info.
Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19
A Flourish data visualisation by Tony Nickonchuk
public.flourish.studio
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Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug
Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after "fantastic" trial results, experts say.
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.
The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.
The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.
It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.
Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.
And it could be of huge benefit in poorer countries with high numbers of Covid-19 patients.
Its a generic, go down like a lead balloon. Patent patent it's gotta have patent.
Posted this visual the other day but seems relevant since you’re citing other causes of death.
This is how Covid tracked against other causes, as the virus took hold, and started exponentially increasing, and this is with a worldwide lockdown Being put in place, and is why countries are so keen to control and avoid a second wave.
Edit: New link, as old one led to 403 error. Same info.
Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19
A Flourish data visualisation by Tony Nickonchukpublic.flourish.studio
Again I’m not sure of the relevance to my comments.
I’ve not said anywhere that Coronavirus isn’t killing people nor that we can go back to how things were before the outbreak.
Worth noting that graphic only shows 7% of total deaths. It’s strange to me that it omits the two largest killers globally, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
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