Same here. Just hoping it's not worsening, but noises from the government haven't give much cause for hope.
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The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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Hospital capacity and new infections have levelled off, as shown with other countries but unfortunately the death toll gets to a certain point stabilises for a while and then drops slowly, and is the last thing to come down.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Ah right, fair enough. Tho for the benefit of the equally hard of thinking: C4 News is twice the length of BBC News, it's twice as smart, half as shrill, digs deeper into issues and gives more respectful amounts of time to ordinary people to share their story, while still finding time to snick in the thoughts of an influential thinker of the times in the final third of the broadcast. Beats the crap out of anything any of the other networks puts up against it. But then it always did. IMHO like
Raleigh Chopper
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C4 news and Newsnight are the only news programmes I am watching.
More in-depth and opening up stories that we would not have known about.
Ok still some sensation reporting but far better than the standard news and the endless stories from BBC, ITV and Sky.
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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you are stating the bleedin obvious, it's a shame it was necessary
Yeah obviously we're expecting the number of deaths to come down some time after the number of cases drops, I'm just hoping the number of deaths isn't higher than we've seen before, as we don't yet know what the peak number is.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Grim figures from Scotland.
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Agree with all this. Not sure why people would be critical of it?
oldboyroy
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To be honest the figures are becoming so confusing 1 min they say 600+ deaths in Scotland then it's nearly a thousand!
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
So this is the Scotland care home backlog ?
oldboyroy
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Must be think nicola was saying the 1s in hospital confirmed to have had covid 19 whereas outside hospital deaths are mainly suspected
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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Yeah, 651 England. Much lower than I had feared, hopefully we have ‘peaked’ but let’s not forget that’s still 800 families losing a loved one, easy to forget that when looking at figures.
Great post-holiday numbers in Sweden. Was fearing a sizeable increase but its all calm and steady. There are a lot of people who doubt it, but I still think that the temperature, humidity and sunlight is doing a job and that it wont be much (though the rest of April could be grim) worse until the fall.
Agreed, people should stop dying for a while as we get this sorted,
Agreed, people should stop dying for a while as we get this sorted,
I know I find the desensitization to it weird to feel relief at such an awful figure because I had expected worse. thoughts with all those affected
Si Gull
Way Down South
Not sure we can infer that we have peaked; the deaths declared each day are the sum of deaths from several days, with today's figure including a death from 23 March. Deaths outside of hospital or not tested for Covid-19 are not included. It's hard to base any sound conclusions on such data.
Are we being cajoled into believing we have peaked so that lockdown restrictions can be lifted? We may have peaked, of course.....
Don't think so - the Government seem more concerned about maintaining lockdown for the time being and are being pressured the other way...............
Also as we’ve seen, many of the deaths announced today after from the prior week and earlier. Doesn’t make it ok of course.
Agreed, it's a bit of a mess.
No I don't think so. I don't think the government want us out of lockdown. When they do ease restrictions (for the sake of the economy) they'll still want us socially distancing etc.