beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread
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considered hayfever or other allergies?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Still waiting for my test result from Wednesday. What a joke.
I see this thread is also going well.
If our dear dim government could work out some way to protect the old and immunosuppressed I'd happily see everyone else just go back to normal. However our dim government is clueless. We lurch from one stupid thing to the next. Covid has not just gone away
Anyway, at least we have left the EU with a brilliant deal. All is well.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,025
interesting to bring Europe into it, what are they doing differently? last time i checked cases were rising quite a bit in France, Germany, Portgual and Greece, put down tourism spreading it about. over all there is now similar case numbers to end of March/early April. so far the mortalit rate hasnt ticked up.
Birdie Boy
Well-known member
- Jun 17, 2011
- 4,393
About 3 weeks ago, I was tested at the amex at 11am, received the result around 12pm the next day. They've now shut the site down...
Well the Who have just employed one of the head bods from Sweden so next stop Katie Price!
Richy_Seagull
Well-known member
3000 new cases in the last 24 hours? This is a worrying rise, right?
pb21
Well-known member
- Apr 23, 2010
- 6,689
Potentially, although the number of hospitalisations would be a far better indicator of the current situation/trend.
"While the number of new cases has risen sharply, fatalities remain low, with the UK reporting two deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the last 24 hours." - Guardian
See also https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
Albion Dan
Banned
Anyone else think this is slightly weird? Anyone STILL not got a tingle that something very fishy is going on?
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https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/co...w/Exports/partner/WLD/nomen/h5/product/902780
On the surface, yes it is - but we have to be careful of the interpretation of a single day's data. As I've posted a number of times on the good news thread, case data alone isn't that useful. Cases have indeed been rising over the course of the last few weeks, but they've largely been comensurate with an increase in testing. It's the percentage of people testing positive that gives us the best, most contectual view of the direction of travel.
For the last seven days of August, the average % of tests providing a postive result was 0.71% - having stayed largely flat since the beginning of July. Today's figures equate to 1.70%. That's an almost 2.5x increase in the space of just a few days. It's either incredibly concerning, or a significant data anomaly - something we've seen before. My money is on the latter.
We shouldn't dismiss it, France, Spain and Germany are all reporting big rises in cases, but I wouldn't be sh*tting the bed just yet over one day's figures either.
pb21
Well-known member
- Apr 23, 2010
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Seems its just a reporting type thing, prior to 2020 this reference was for a different item.
How are these tests targeted? Is it still only people with symptoms that are supposed to get tested? Presumably there are certain jobs that require ongoing, repeat tests? Either would skew the figures for the population as a whole.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,025
they are reporting the "Diagnostic Test instruments and apparatus" shipped. this is standard equipment, currently used in detecting Covid-19.
what you want to do is ask why your source has presented this information, deep linked in to a site, to push an agenda. what do you think that agenda is?
daveinplzen
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- Aug 31, 2018
- 2,846
On the rise again here, so going back to strict regime again on the 9th.
To top it off, a woman i slept with last week, phoned me this evening to tell me her daughter has tested positive, and I need to get checked. Triff.
To top it off, a woman i slept with last week, phoned me this evening to tell me her daughter has tested positive, and I need to get checked. Triff.
Yoda
English & European
Not yet I would say.
The following is what I posted on the BBC News YouTube piece on this latest development:
Can we stop focusing on the number of new cases on the day they are reported and focus on the day the test was submitted? This give a more accurate picture, because of the number of testing being carried out up North it is taking longer for the results to come back. For some reason we are processing 75,000 less test then the supposed capacity per day. Of the tests we are processing, 0.867% are positive base on the 7 day average.
Results from each day of specimen are as follows (to put thing into better perspective):
28th Aug: 1615
29th Aug: 1229
30th Aug: 1142
31st Aug: 1358
1st Sep: 2135
2nd Sep: 2139
3rd Sep: 1937
A 7 day average of 1650.
I've not moved on from the 3rd as those figures will change dramatically due to the back log and also because Northern Ireland doesn't post their data over the weekend.
The 7 day average for Hospital admissions continues to fall since the slow rise in cases towards the end of July, as does the number of people in Hospital and the number on ventilators as well as the 7 day average for the number dying with Covid.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
Anyone else think this is slightly weird? Anyone STILL not got a tingle that something very fishy is going on?
https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/co...w/Exports/partner/WLD/nomen/h5/product/902780
tingle .....tingle ffs ....wakey wakey ......here's a tit bit for you , an ex girlfriend of mines older sister has worked for the gates foundation for 15 years , she comes to oz with her husband probably every other Christmas , yes surprise surprise they are ****ing minted , they bring their golf clubs and we all jump on helicopters and fly all over the shop , they both work for the gates foundation in seattle ....there is now a very murky line between they have been planning for this pandemic for 5 years and they have been panning for this plandemic for 5 years , my youngest daughters boyfriends dad works for the UN ......he drives a 180 k lexus ffs.....wakey wakey ....tingle ..?? tingle...
sydney
tinky ****in winky
so cases = positive tests or people coughing their guts up in A&E.....?? the latter is just not happening is it....??