This is a good article about a Student Nurse on a Covid ward at HRI. People seem to take it for granted it's just qualified nurses working on these wards (myself included) but the work these young 'uns have to put in to qualify is amazing. My respect to them all. Edit: Forgot to say some of the work without pay. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...ews/hull-student-nurses-draining-days-4871180
2020 worst year for total number of deaths in England and Wales since 1918 flu pandemic, latest figures show Last year was the deadliest in a century, with almost as many fatalities documented in absolute terms in England and Wales in 2020 as at the height of the flu pandemic in 1918. More than 608,000 deaths were recorded, with 81,653 attributable to coronavirus, last year according to new figures released by the Office for National Statistics. April was the deadliest month for the virus in 2020, with more than 33,000 fatalities accounting for almost a third of the deaths attributed to the virus in the UK to date. More than 1,000 people died in the UK on 23 consecutive days during the month, at the height of the pandemic’s first wave. The death toll is second in absolute terms to the record set in 1918, when 611,861 people died at the peak of the flu pandemic in England and Wales. However, the mortality rate was higher in 1918, when approximately 38.4 million people lived in England and Wales, compared with 59.4 million today. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ates?page=with:block-5ffd6f838f08f301ebd53798
Disgusting that student nurses have to do this for free. Like you I had no idea this went on. I mean this lass contracted the virus. Surely she should get compensation for that.
it’s clearly a huge number of people that’s died, but when the data is normalised & compared to other pandemics. Several other virus outbreaks have had a greater impact
Did the potato blight really kill that many people in England and Wales? Even normalised, your graph seems to show covid as being worse than either world war.
its not my graph - I copied it from sky news. I don’t understand your point mate, Covid is wayyyyy below ww1 & ww2 on the graph. On what criteria are you saying it’s worse?
Yes and if an asteroid the size of Wales smacked into Earth tomorrow,it would no doubt spike again...
I only glanced at it, and assumed the bars were the levels. I probably thought the wobbly black line was due to the guy that wrote it working from home and the kids scribbled on it.
As the potato blight wasn't even in England and Wales, it seems highly unlikely it killed people in any significant numbers at all. Seems a very odd graph.
im not an expert in history- no idea. Was southern Ireland still part of the uk then?? Would that explain it?
The whole of the island of Ireland was part of the UK of Great Britain & Ireland from 1801 until 1922. The spud blight was in the mid 1800's, hence it's inclusion in the graph for comparison purposes.
It's not a UK chart, it's an England and Wales one and if they're comparing the whole of the UK in 1840, with just England and Wales in 2020, then it's no wonder the graph looks a bit odd.
