Week Ending 20/09/2020 - 25,753 total weekly cases (Increase of 20.6% from previous week)
Week Ending 27/09/2020 - 40,712 total weekly cases (Increase of 96.2% from previous week)
Is that a 60% increase by my fag packet maths?
So for the previous two weeks which have been validated:https://www.england.nhs.uk/statisti...total-announced-deaths-28-September-2020.xlsx
Here’s today’s death stats for England. Numbers are stable.
I think you can probably put that spike down to back to school colds. Our little one started childcare this month and within 3 days he had a cold which he then passed on to both of us, including a mild cough. We didn't do anything about it, but you can imagine how many parents will have panicked. My niece got sent home from school with a cold so my sister was obliged to get a test adding to the figure even though she knew it was a cold.
Like Belgium are beginning to do as the PCR test is been proven time and time again to be unreliable.We should also factor in the number of "false positives" - I know of at least two people, that for work reasons have had to take a test before they can go offshore and have had a positive result. Sent home, symptomless and obviously not wanting to lose big work money, they have paid privately for a further test and it has come back negative. I wonder what percentage of these statistics are "false positives"?
For me, this is why we need to focus less on the positive case numbers and instead review the hospitalised, critically ill and deceased numbers.
Why are more people not picking up on two government ministers (Hancock and Raab) confirming inadvertently that the PCR test accuracy is close to 0%?We should also factor in the number of "false positives" - I know of at least two people, that for work reasons have had to take a test before they can go offshore and have had a positive result. Sent home, symptomless and obviously not wanting to lose big work money, they have paid privately for a further test and it has come back negative. I wonder what percentage of these statistics are "false positives"?
For me, this is why we need to focus less on the positive case numbers and instead review the hospitalised, critically ill and deceased numbers.
So for the previous two weeks which have been validated:
9-15 Sep: 64 deaths
16-22 Sep: 125 deaths (pretty much double)
23 Sep-present: not validated
Those deaths from 16-22 Sep likely got infected late August/ early September, when we were on about 1500 cases per day, and had the capacity to test anyone that needed it. Now requirements have exceeded capacity and are now on 7k confirmed cases per day, so if that true figure without exceeding capacity could be more like 10k per day, we could end up with around 700 ish deaths per week, in a few weeks, based on that, which is about 100 deaths per day
That's all unless the new confirmed cases are a lot younger and less risk etc, but as we learned last time, we're awful at keeping this out of care homes and the like.
Why are more people not picking up on two government ministers (Hancock and Raab) confirming inadvertently that the PCR test accuracy is close to 0%?
No wonder there are so many cases.
Some immunity must be starting to build up in the population when 11% plus have had it.
Without some form of immunity why bother with vaccines?
The earlier corona virus (Asian Bird flu) proved unstable and mutated, this virus is expected to be the same. As it mutates it is likely to become less dangerous to humans which could explain lower hospital admissions in recent weeks compared with earlier in the year when hospitals were quickly flooded in mid to late March and infections were believed to be not too similar from today.
We still have to on our guard and be careful, but slowly the battle is been won.
Couple of thoughts
We were out of lockdown from June and mingling in pubs and restaurants. The virus was in circulation and must have been spreading at a reasonable pace - no significant deaths to note at all In July and August.
September normally sees around 1200 excess deaths as colds/flu kick in. Do we know what number of excess deaths there have been this September? It doesn’t feel like a big number.