Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

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Another 28 people have died from coronavirus in England, according to the latest numbers from the NHS.

This brings the total number of deaths in the country to 414.

NHS England said the patients who died were aged between 47 and 93 years old.

All of the people, except the 47-year-old, had underlying health conditions.

The figure brings the total number of deaths in the UK to 468.

Earlier today, a further five were recorded in Wales, a further six in Scotland and two more in Northern Ireland.

Another case confirmed in Hull, making 2 in total.

How does that compare to the recent trend?
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15 is when both Italy and the UK were on 233 souls lost.
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The sun has today changed from deaths since 20th death in the uk to deaths since 10th death in London. It’s obviously the worst picture they could paint this evening

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the figures now are nothing like the reality
with many of the infected not knowing they are infected, add to that those not tested but self isolating
some of those will have the virus many not.

either way its scary
 
“Dyson have received uk govt order for 10,000 ventilators designed and made from scratch. Will also produce an additional 5,000 of which 1,000 will be donated to uk. 4,000 to other countries,” BBC Business Editor Simon Jack said on Twitter.

Dyson’s ventilators will be available in early April
 
DMD said:
I'm not sure about the accuracy of the figures on that one, but if you rank it per head of population, we're way down the list of new cases, which has to be a good thing.

Not wanting to make light of people in tragic circumstances, but the Vatican City being up near the top should say something.
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I use that site for the numbers and they are generally what the BBC use. I am crap with figures and I see patterns in numbers but I can't add up for toffee. I just saw a small pattern that didn't fit with what the bloke on the news said, we had sort of already gone beyond the reference point and the numbers had not kept up.
 
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DMD said:
“Dyson have received uk govt order for 10,000 ventilators designed and made from scratch. Will also produce an additional 5,000 of which 1,000 will be donated to uk. 4,000 to other countries,” BBC Business Editor Simon Jack said on Twitter.

Dyson’s ventilators will be available in early April
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There’s loads of companies with ventilator plans. Just this evening Imperial College has reached out to manufacturers with a working design.
 
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DMD said:
I'm not sure about the accuracy of the figures on that one, but if you rank it per head of population, we're way down the list of new cases, which has to be a good thing.

Not wanting to make light of people in tragic circumstances, but the Vatican City being up near the top should say something.
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Sweden is doing what Boris Johnson wanted, until political and media pressure made him u-turn. Cafes, shops, schools and gyms are all open, an increase in hygiene and social distancing for over-60s encouraged but not enforced. Their rates of infection are on the lower side of the EU average and death rates are very low - half the Covid-19 deaths have been in the Somali-Swede community where language and cultural issues meant that medical help was not sought early enough. So.. Its a difficult one to know whether isolation like this is worth it.
 
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Heimdallr said:
Sweden is doing what Boris Johnson wanted, until political and media pressure made him u-turn. Cafes, shops, schools and gyms are all open, an increase in hygiene and social distancing for over-60s encouraged but not enforced. Their rates of infection are on the lower side of the EU average and death rates are very low - half the Covid-19 deaths have been in the Somali-Swede community where language and cultural issues meant that medical help was not sought early enough. So.. Its a difficult one to know whether isolation like this is worth it.
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I'd rather we could be trusted to be sensible, but sadly, it's been shown that a significant minority cannot, so I accept the current situation.
 
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The Omega Man said:
I use that site for the numbers and they are generally what the BBC use. I am crap with figures and I see patterns in numbers but I can't add up for toffee. I just saw a small pattern that didn't fit with what the bloke on the news said, we had sort of already gone beyond the reference point and the numbers had not kept up.
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They are twisting things in the media, like the sun graph from yesterday > today. Yesterday’s countries since 20th death put us high up, today it’s capital cities since 10th death which puts us worse than Italy.

A fair like for like which you have compiled shows we are some fair way behind Italy’s acceleration.

We may well end up with similar peak numbers in the end who knows but for now we aren’t keeping up with the death tolls of Spain and Italy.
 
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If all the ventilators are made available in time to coincide with this initial peak and are in place for the second peak and can keep the numbers down, the NHS may just play a blinder.
 
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