Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

Tonight’s figures are sort of err....encouraging?

 

15 is when both Italy and the UK were on 233 souls lost.

 

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So the curve looks to be starting to flatten.

Fingers crossed.

Any figures on new cases identified?

 

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

 

We follow China's reported numbers quite closely.

 

Have you got a mega graph with every majorly affected country?

 

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

 

there might be something on this site

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

 

How accurate are the numbers from China? I suspect the actual numbers were much higher.

 

This is since a country reported 10 deaths

 

Thats why I put reported.

 

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.

 

“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

 

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.

 

There’s loads of companies with ventilator plans. Just this evening Imperial College has reached out to manufacturers with a working design.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.