Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

Obviously the weekly data isn't complete yet but the number of patients in hospital in SA is now dropping.

 

[Tipp blue]

Looks like we might be heading into a a January surge in our hospital admissions.

The usual busy time in hospitals, I wish just once they'd actually tell us how many rocked up to hospital and are being treated for covid, and not some git who's after falling off a horse and breaking his leg and tests positive on a routine test, well enough to be on a horse but is now a statistic in a lethal pandemic.

 

[Amw79]

The usual busy time in hospitals, I wish just once they'd actually tell us how many rocked up to hospital and are being treated for covid, and not some git who's after falling off a horse and breaking his leg and tests positive on a routine test, well enough to be on a horse but is now a statistic in a lethal pandemic.

That data is out there I think. I vaguely recall LL posting it a week or 2 ago. It was about 75% of the recorded Covid admissions were due to Covid, and 25% in for something else then tested positive (could be slightly off on the numbers here, as that’s from memory). Number of horse injury statistics not published as a subset as far as I know.

 

[Neiler]

The usual busy time in hospitals, I wish just once they'd actually tell us how many rocked up to hospital and are being treated for covid, and not some git who's after falling off a horse and breaking his leg and tests positive on a routine test, well enough to be on a horse but is now a statistic in a lethal pandemic.

Haven't looked at recently mate but the last i saw was in the end of Nov there were 6627k cases linked to hospital outbreaks and 841 deaths. out of 540k odd cases at the time nationally. The figures included health care staff i.e. those that got infected working through the pandemic. Not sure what it is at the moment. you'd imagine with Omicron being more transmissible its quite likely that we could see a spike there as well..

 

[sbbefc]

Feels to me that the government in England is gambling big time on low hospital admissions. It just doesn't feel sensible to me when the repercussions could result in a lockdown.

 

[Tipp blue]

Feels to me that the government in England is gambling big time on low hospital admissions. It just doesn't feel sensible to me when the repercussions could result in a lockdown.

Lockdown now to avoid a lockdown later?

 

[sbbefc]

Lockdown now to avoid a lockdown later?

No, I'd rather avoid any lockdowns so why aren't we introducing measures to even try and keep transmission lower than it is. They might get away with it but it's a gamble. It just feels like they constantly try and push their luck then we end up with far longer lockdowns that are needed. It's happened twice now. The last thing I want is a lockdown.

 

[Tipp blue]

No, I'd rather avoid any lockdowns so why aren't we introducing measures to even try and keep transmission lower than it is. They might get away with it but it's a gamble. It just feels like they constantly try and push their luck then we end up with far longer lockdowns that are needed. It's happened twice now. The last thing I want is a lockdown.

What measures will work?, even in full lockdown it takes weeks before numbers start going down on any meaningful way.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Feels to me that the government in England is gambling big time on low hospital admissions. It just doesn't feel sensible to me when the repercussions could result in a lockdown.

Should always be that IMO mate.

'Protect the NHS'

 

[Nymzee]

Dave would have been fun in here the last few days.

 

[Leylo]

What measures will work?, even in full lockdown it takes weeks before numbers start going down on any meaningful way.

They've got to do something surely, just got told they'res queues down the road for a pcr test in walton Park. Spreading like wildfire

 

[Toast]

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Dave would have been fun in here the last few days.

Dave would have spoke a tonne more sense than a couple of notable posters on here to be fair. At least he’d just be giving a point of view rather than making things up

 

[Mrk]

Looks like most of the UK is peaking bar England. I might give @peteblue new years eve bash a miss this year! lol

Saw that earlier - apparently that chart is inaccurate due to incomplete data from Wales, NI & Scotland over Christmas.

 

[efcfanwirral]

They've got to do something surely, just got told they'res queues down the road for a pcr test in walton Park. Spreading like wildfire

I saw a suggestion that a positive lateral flow should be assumed positive and not bother with the follow up PCR to free up some capacity, which sounds like a sensible move.