Yes. Although whilst we have been criticised for not testing in the community
from a containment perspective (and obviously that will also give the only true picture of how much the virus has spread) at least the approach of only testing those who have serious enough symptoms to attend hospital gives a reasonable picture of how many people have severe symptoms.
And I don't think the "death rate" is particularly instructive (because obviously we don't know the true case numbers) but the number of deaths is a useful direct comparable with countries such as France, Italy and Spain.
The other figure that would be interesting to know more often is how many people are currently in intensive care. A survey I saw 2 days ago said that at the 26th it was around 700 which to be honest was a lot lower than I was expecting if its anywhere near correct.
This new breathing device that can prevent people needing to go onto intensive care wards could also be very important in terms of freeing up those crucial intensive care beds for this and indeed all the other reasons that people need them.
Posted By: Jim on March 30th 2020 at 13:03:55
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- Search for cuatious optimism from the stats (update 3) - usual apologies to those not (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 12:06:04
- I think everyone is overanalysing the figures (Coronavirus) - Timmy_Goat, Mar 30, 12:51:21
- Yes. Although whilst we have been criticised for not testing in the community (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 13:03:55
- I have nightmares about those CPAP machines as my dad was on and off one for a long (Coronavirus) - Yellalee, Mar 30, 13:24:09
- Yes. Although whilst we have been criticised for not testing in the community (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 13:03:55
- Hopelessly naive comment, but one I haven't seen previously on here... (Coronavirus) - Saucerer, Mar 30, 12:41:16
- Further - again highly naive - point (Coronavirus) - Saucerer, Mar 30, 13:43:51
- the atalanta chaiman (iirc) said he thought a champions league game between (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 30, 13:00:19
- there were two of them - Atalanta Valencia, and Napoli Barcelona (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Mar 30, 13:28:55
- There was a game in Milan where about 40,000 people from Bergamo went as well (n/m) (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 13:33:31
- That's the game the article linked above is about. (n/m) (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Mar 30, 13:41:56
- (Atalanta play in Bergamo. Apart from the game above.) (n/m) (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Mar 30, 13:42:55
- Ah right, sorry (n/m) (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 14:30:08
- (Atalanta play in Bergamo. Apart from the game above.) (n/m) (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Mar 30, 13:42:55
- That's the game the article linked above is about. (n/m) (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Mar 30, 13:41:56
- There was a game in Milan where about 40,000 people from Bergamo went as well (n/m) (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 13:33:31
- there were two of them - Atalanta Valencia, and Napoli Barcelona (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Mar 30, 13:28:55
- There has been a little mention of it yes plus also the fact that many italian (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 12:54:45
- Yes, I've read that - (Coronavirus) - paulg, Mar 30, 12:52:37
- something to note about the French figures on fatalities (Coronavirus) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 30, 12:19:42
- As do ours. So yes both could be slightly underplayed but its the (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 12:29:28
- An Italian official also said yesterday that (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 12:30:38
- As do ours. So yes both could be slightly underplayed but its the (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 12:29:28
- Sorry should say "may" be a sign things are flattening out! (n/m) (Coronavirus) - Jim, Mar 30, 12:10:59
- I think everyone is overanalysing the figures (Coronavirus) - Timmy_Goat, Mar 30, 12:51:21
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