So, not everyone with Corona is classed as a case? Asymptomatic people can still pass disease own you know? See Typhoid MaryI don't understand. Some little spikes there.
Incase you missed the news bear, Spain are now using targeted testing and only classing those who are symptomatic and have tested positive with the new narrowed down testing technique as a 'case'.
I've seen evidence they can and evidence they cannot. I don't know Spain's plan or the evidence behind it. I can only guess they don't believe asymptomatic cases are as dangerous as a whole to the nation as symptomatic cases are. Who knows? They've adjusted the testing procedure too.So, not everyone with Corona is classed as a case? Asymptomatic people can still pass disease own you know? See Typhoid Mary
I mean, they can. For any commutable disease.I've seen evidence they can and evidence they cannot. I don't know Spain's plan or the evidence behind it. I can only guess they don't believe asymptomatic cases are as dangerous as a whole to the nation as symptomatic cases are. Who knows.
It's almost like at the beginning of flu season everyone with the sniffles has been for a test, the PCR test then pulls up a bunch of positives and voila here we are.
See hospital admissions for instance... You go in get seen, get told to chill out and sent home. 1 admission there which counts despite you being in the hospital for a couple of hours.
Deaths are also susceptible to this problem, go hospital with late stage cancer, get tested duento regulation then be positive (false or otherwise) die within 28 days... It's on the death certificate.
Mix in lack of access to care, exponentially growing levels of poverty and you now have excess deaths rising.
So it's simply impossible to make good decisions now.
Clusterf*ck
See hospital admissions for instance... You go in get seen, get told to chill out and sent home. 1 admission there which counts despite you being in the hospital for a couple of hours.
Daily count of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital at midnight the preceding night. Data from the four nations may not be directly comparable as data about COVID-19 patients in hospitals are collected differently. Data are not reported by each nation every day. The UK figure is the sum of the four nations' figures and can only be calculated when all nations' data are available.
Daily and cumulative numbers of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital. Data are not updated every day by all four nations and the figures are not comparable as Wales include suspected COVID-19 patients while the other nations include only confirmed cases.
I was worried we would have a seasonal outbreak (when everyone like you billy said it wasn't seasonal) I'm actually encouraged by today's figures that we might get luckier than I thought.
I agree that we can't stay locked down forever and I wouldn't want to make an outright prediction on what will happen. However, my concern would be that, instead of bringing numbers down to extremely low levels in the summer, we might end up 'seeding' the population with higher levels of background infection, just in time for the arrival of the cold and flu season in the autumn.
You say people on ventilators up 230% what are those actual numbers Vs the % change?
Should we not be doing everything possible to get the NHS waiting lists back down and opening up gp consultations? I just don't understand why you guys think that more and more restrictions are needed or are helpful, please feel free to express your viewpoint.
Interesting hypothesis, for which I note you provide no evidence. It also runs contrary to the fact that the total number of people in hospital with Covid has doubled in the past fortnight and the number of people on venilators has increased by 240% in the same period.
People are just going to avoid getting tested as most simply cannot afford to take the hit, especially those who had no financial help through lockdown.
The whole process is a farce, caused by a lack of joined up thinking and prioritising lining the pockets of private firms who are failing time and time again.