On your point 2 Beth......I couldn’t agree more. Wouldn’t be right for me to go into details but I will say that we are coping extremely well and able to give far more better care than we were giving a few weeks ago.
Col or me? One of Col’s boys is also a builder. I have no idea how they do any kind of distancing on a building site. By trade my lad is a joiner, but he does just about everything according to what is needed (enjoys bricklaying if the weather is good) except plastering of course, wouldn’t want to Upset the union!
Something is definitely not adding up, I agree. The NHS is coping well and the emergency nightingale hospital has thousands of empty beds. Anyone dying with Covid is recorded as a covid death, which really skews the numbers imo. We're in a right pickle now, not knowing whether to stick or twist. On a separate note Beth, you live quite near me. Do you know what the numbers are like in South Oxfordshire? I haven't heard of one person I actually know with the virus and only one confirmed case who is a neighbour of a friend and a nurse.
On your point one, isn’t it the case that the deaths tend to occur up to three weeks after initial symptoms are seen - you have cough and temperature, doesn’t improve, hospitalised, immune response into overdrive, ITU, ventilation death. So we could still be in the initial surge of deaths I think. But I entirely agree that there is something very odd going on. The ventilation protocols are apparently already excluding the weakest yet success in ventilation seems low. Hospital deaths above 15,000, who knows how many outside hospital (I know we should get these figures soon), plus a shedload of what I suspect will be extra deaths of the usual causes - stroke, MI, falls - who apparently aren’t turning up at A&E. Why not? With most elective care cancelled there must be loads of capacity, which is probably why these Nightingale units aren’t being used.
Beat me to it. My next door neighbours and my niece in Spain, that’s it for people I know who have had it.
Mmm, he wouldn't be allowed to lay bricks on the new build sites my lad works on! He hasn't worked for weeks btw.
Edging towards 7000 tests per million. High hopes we can overtake the Maldives tomorrow. France were worse than us but seem to have pulled ahead. Well done them.
Something is a miss beth. I suspect (I hope I'm wrong) that the death rate will continue for a while around these numbers. The only way I see that the lockdown was working is if they were to considerably drop to closer 100 or less. Otherwise i dont get it.
I cannot give you real exact figures Col, but I am using a COVID 19 symptom tracker (kings College) You login each day...and say how you are, even if you are well. So it actually can follow outbreaks it can follow outbreaks etc. It is actually very useful for the data miners it has 2.5million people at moment It tells me at this moment OXFORD 3493 people in oxford are using the app... 1.2 % have symptoms W. OXFORDSHIRE 2654 people are active...1.5% have symptoms SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE 4403 are using app and 1.8% have symptoms...So there are 80 people in your area that are reporting symptoms (with the caveat that they are using the app.) You can sort of roughly work backwards So calculation there are 140,000 people in your area..and 1.8% of those have symptoms = 2420?? But remember these are just people reporting symptoms of the CoVid kind, not they have it Col In Buckinghamshire, just over border from West Oxford as of yesterday we have 565 diagnosed cases of CoVid (out of a population of 540,900) We had a nurse die in the Aylesbury area last week though...very very sad Col:- There is a a good app on the bbc where you can put your postcode in and get actual figures Called Coronovirus UK map
This beggars belief. They are not really taking Major Tom to open the new Nightingale hospital are they He must be doing it remotely....like Prince Charles did!
Watching this briefing just highlights how ****ing out of their depth these ****s are! My post about smaller companies contacting the government about manufacturing PPE and them not replying was just highlighted by that little prick Jenprick. He was asked to name one small company they had spoken to, guess what..............he just didnt answer. They are so full of **** its unbelievable. We are best off taking our chances than listening to these twats.
Good team Jenrick and Powis. I thought today they handled not only the questioning (especially that silly one from Deborah Haynes... You see what SkyNews does to a good Times reporter)! But overall they were clued up today. The positive news was over 1000+ drop in hospital beds The sleeping rough 90% figure was positive. Parks to open... Good, but you can see groups of people gathering. Funerals... mourners to attend. PPE ... that was interesting and a great response from Powis saying about him/family/friends are frontline doctors And they fully understand and if you read between the lines he basically said he would be the first to complain if they let NHS staff down. Re Bame. I mentioned this last week and have listened to comments about (poorer backgrounds) however too much evidence has put that to rest. Too many people from ethnic backgrounds are dying. We need to understand why?
Powis is starting to sound more like a politician than the politicians. Do you honestly, genuinely believe he will stand up on national tv with his bosses and dare say anything that may cause them harm. You are absolutely deluded. Jenprick is nothing but a puppet who couldn't answer a ****ing thing. You really are deluded Ellers.
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