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But as Poojah shows in post #3177 that only seems to be because there has been an upturn in the number of tests. If you look at positive tests as a proportion of total tests this has barely changed despite the easing of lockdown restrictions. This suggests that infections are not increasing.

You're right goddammit. I read the rules repeatedly and still got it wrong.

Admittedly they're no Leeds United, but Chelsea will probably be a big draw for him. :smile: My instant reaction to the Veltman signing was "somebody is off". It doesn't seem to make much sense otherwise.

I think Mount will be counted as HGP next season but they are still short. As an aside, whilst looking into this, I discovered Kurt Zouma's middle name is "Happy".

I don't think you are correct. Until this is passed the club cannot have attendances over 30750. And looking at the application again, a recently added document makes it apparent why this has not yet been passed. The council's transport planner was less than convinced by the club's transport...

I'd love us to swoop for Marcus Edwards, 21, as he's having a tremendous season in Portugal, but in all honesty we've probably missed the boat with him. There will be a lot of clubs circling now. Should have been in for him in last summer or in January. He's one of my favourite players to watch...

For reasons that are unclear to me, the application to increase the size of allowed attendances to 32500, BH2020/00769, has yet to be considered. It's been nearly 4 months now. There's nothing to stop them going ahead with all the building work, but until this has passed we won't be able to...

I remember watching England play in a Nike tournament in Florida in Dec 2015 against the USA, Brazil and the Netherlands (the entire matches are available on YouTube). Angel Gomes was involved alongside Phil Foden and Jadon Sancho amongst others, Albion's Tom McGill being one. It was difficult...

I don't know. The official government figure is 1006 so I am more inclined to believe that. I have seen a couple of errors in the worldometer figures in the past so it could just be another of those.

I have plotted COVID-19 hospital admissions vs COVID-19 hospital deaths in England and added a line for proportion of deaths to admissions 5 days prior (to account for the lag between admissions and deaths). Looks like at its peak your chances of death were over 30% but now it's dropped to close...

Hmm yes. I think I may have misinterpreted the data. It's possibly giving a misleading picture of how likely you are to die if admitted to hospital with COVID-19. The risk is presumably a lot higher than 1.5% once you take the length of hospital stays into account. Still, the trend is very...

Figure I have in my mind for flu is about 0.5% so some way to go before it's as low as that, if I am right, but it's possible we could be at that sort of level in the coming weeks. Worth remembering too that this is hospital deaths of course. A lot of fatalities have occurred outside of...

Put into graph form it's fascinating: If this trend continues then it's really going to make a huge difference to how we cope with this disease.

Royal Caribbean suspends cruising until Sept 16th https://www.royalcaribbean.com/gbr/en/cruise-ships/itinerary-updates

Going by reporting patterns to date, this coming Sunday could be the first day where fewer than 100 deaths are reported since March 23rd - the day lockdown was announced.

UK weekly death totals have been dropping by about 20% per week consistently since the end of April. We have had around 2100 deaths in the last week. If you extrapolate that then in 10 weeks time (Aug 3rd) we would be down to around 200 deaths per week. So many factors at play of course, so...

Hospital deaths in England continuing their downward trend.

Hydroxychloroquine is getting most of the publicity, but there are lots of clinical trials starting up using other existing therapies to combat COVID-19. Most seem to be focusing on preventing the "cytokine storm" that often leads to fatalities. Hopefully some of these will prove their worth...

Fascinating. I never knew there was such a big variability from year to year. Presumably seasonal flu is the main driver of the big variations in Jan/Feb.

If Tony Bloom ever reads NSC he must end up wondering why he bothers. :smile: