Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Catfish Blues]

Yeah, much lower population infected than previous ranges although that initial reproduction number of around 3.87 [3.01-4.66] is going to be a concern on how we manage opening up going forward.

Edit this is the table for those who don't want to trawl through the whole report

You couldn't do the following, because you'd be adding a massively unmanageable burden to the NHS, but, starting from a baseline of 1.5 million infections, if you pulled the reproduction number down to 1, and each of those 1.5 million infected someone else one person in ( say ) 10 days, then in three months you'd have something like 16 million people infected.

That'd be something like 25% of the adult population.

Plainly those numbers have got massive error margins on them, but if we're locked down to a similar extent that we currently are, then it'd make a lot of sense to do mass sampling of the population using antibody tests starting ( say ) in four to six weeks. I don't know what % of the population you'd need to test to get something statistically significant, but I can't imagine you'd need much more than 100k to get a decent handle on it.

 

[LocalNative]

Jesus wept Raab is so dour.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Tea_drinker]

Dominic Raab aka DRaab. My god hes boring.

 

[PhilM]

Jesus wept Raab is so dour.

While it isn't really anything to do with the government's dealing of this crisis, he's not a great public speaker is he.

 

[aazak]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device

Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face

www.theguardian.com

 

[summerisle]

From coronavirus.

 

[PITA]

Someone in the news said around 6 weeks isolation then we slowly get back to normal should the trend stay the same and follow.other countries.

Is this right

Don't worry. We'll be playing football before you know it. Only 180 dead today.

 

[duncs pigeon]

Are these figures they are giving just from NHS England or the whole of the UK? If they are just England it is misleading.

 

[summerisle]

Fantastic.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[dandydan]

How many people have been told they have recovered today? It's always the bad spin from the media.

 

[PITA]

Are these figures they are giving just from NHS England or the whole of the UK? If they are just England it is misleading.

180 is UK total.

 

[duncs pigeon]

180 is UK total.

The slides they were showing only showed data from England.