150 thousand now officially recovered

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FabioPorkpie

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The number of recovered grows day by day.
Of course, this number only includes those that have officially recovered having tested positive.
Many have the virus and aren’t part of this statistic as their symptoms/condition aren’t deemed significant enough to merit testing.
How many more have recovered who weren’t officially tested positive, worldwide?

10s of thousands?
100s of thousands?


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
 
In the UK 19500 infections, the vast majority hospitalised as that's the only ones tested.

Recovered and left hospital
135

Some way to go.
 
And how many who have it / had it are recovered and never had to go to hospital in the first place?
Come on Bear, 150 thousand recovered is a positive. No need to go back to the negative theme
 
I don't know. But it looks s long haul for the critical and severe cases with only 135 out of hospital. And about another 20000 expected to be hospitalised this week.
 
In Germany 9000 have recovered from 60000 cases. They've tested mild cases as well so possibly that is close to a real figure for the UK. But the hospital situation could become dire. On the positive side, not all the 8000 ventilators are in use yet.
 
While the number recovered is great news and should be celebrated, as bear says, it's the figures for those who continue to be hospitalised that are the important ones.
Continuing to stop the spread of infection is the only way to keep the numbers requiring hospitalisation as low as possible and the number of recoveries should not be used as an excuse to get complacent about social distancing or the need for a possible increase in the restrictions needed.
 
Bear and Dood you are right. Those being hospitalised are clearly very serious but yes there are hundreds daily who are now recovering as we speak. I know of three people personally who contracted the virus two weeks ago ( all 3 haven't been tested) and are almost back to health. They also had partners who also got the virus and also seem to be recovering. Thats not to play this down but it's happening.
 
There is a worldometer web site which gives a lot of information and that is currently recording 18,159 ‘active’ Coronavirus cases in the U.K.

This is then broken down into 17,996 as mild cases and 163 serious or critical. I suspect the 135 recovered refers to those who were serious or critical but managed to recover compared to the 1228 in that condition who unfortunately passed away.
 
HolgateCorner said:
There is a worldometer web site which gives a lot of information and that is currently recording 18,159 ‘active’ Coronavirus cases in the U.K.

This is then broken down into 17,996 as mild cases and 163 serious or critical. I suspect the 135 recovered refers to those who were serious or critical but managed to recover compared to the 1228 in that condition who unfortunately passed away.
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That's interesting. Germany has about 2500 serious or critical. If the UK figure is accurate there'll be a dramatic reduction in deaths tomorrow. Somehow I think it's not correct.
 
bear66 said:
That's interesting. Germany has about 2500 serious or critical. If the UK figure is accurate there'll be a dramatic reduction in deaths tomorrow. Somehow I think it's not correct.
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You don’t know how ‘dynamic’ it is though do you? There could be people arriving at hospitals every minute of the day who go straight in as critical or people in hospital taking a turn for the worst. The positive figures also include those right from the start of testing as well, some of those may never have made it to hospital, the testing changed didn’t it?
 
FabioPorkpie said:
The number of recovered grows day by day.
Of course, this number only includes those that have officially recovered having tested positive.
Many have the virus and aren’t part of this statistic as their symptoms/condition aren’t deemed significant enough to merit testing.
How many more have recovered who weren’t officially tested positive, worldwide?

10s of thousands?
100s of thousands?


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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fabio- not sure how this works. If you haven't been tested how do you know you had it in the first place?
 
I think something is amiss with the figure unless the majority of people who are critical die within 24 hours. It doesn't fit with hospital wards reported as full across the country. A lot of people may be tested positive but sent home though; that would account for the low recovery rate as they are sent home ill, not better.
 
bear66 said:
I think something is amiss with the figure unless the majority of people who are critical die within 24 hours. It doesn't fit with hospital wards reported as full across the country. A lot of people may be tested positive but sent home though; that would account for the low recovery rate as they are sent home ill, not better.
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Yes can’t imagine they will waste beds on those tested positive but not struggling to breathe.
 
The point of this post was that people are contracting this virus AND recovering. In bigger numbers than are dying.
I was in no way trying to downplay the significance of the virus. I just feel that the recovered numbers are important, as death and doom is plastered all over every single newspaper and news bulletin.

With anxiety and worry rife, it’s important to remember that people are also recovering from this.
I believe it’s a longer slog to recovery, than it is to sadly succumb, and the relatively low recovered figure from the uk will pick up significant pace with time.
The numbers who have had it, recovered and not been tested, worldwide, will in all likelihood bring the mortality rate down significantly.

Trug, you make a good point and that is a huge part of the problem. Many people simply don’t know if they’ve had it or not. When mass testing gets up to speed, I hope the results show that many many 100s of 1000s more people have had the virus and recovered without even realising.
 
I am very uncomfortable with talk of a low mortality rate being taken as a sign of a job well done at some point in the future.
Whatever the final death toll is, it will still be too many to be seen as any sort of victory.
The very best we can hope for is that we don't add unnecessary deaths to the total through our own inaction on a national level or by our irresponsible behaviour as individuals.
 
FabioPorkpie said:
The number of recovered grows day by day.
Of course, this number only includes those that have officially recovered having tested positive.
Many have the virus and aren’t part of this statistic as their symptoms/condition aren’t deemed significant enough to merit testing.
How many more have recovered who weren’t officially tested positive, worldwide?

10s of thousands?
100s of thousands?


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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👍☀️ I keep saying a little bit of light in a very dark room, little things like that pick up me no end, thanks for posting that
 
dooderooni said:
I am very uncomfortable with talk of a low mortality rate being taken as a sign of a job well done at some point in the future.
Whatever the final death toll is, it will still be too many to be seen as any sort of victory.
The very best we can hope for is that we don't add unnecessary deaths to the total through our own inaction on a national level or by our irresponsible behaviour as individuals.
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I agree with you completely dood but for me personally, they are discussions for further down the line.
Mismanagement and inaction will be called out and highlighted in time, and I don’t think anyone will see through any spin that may come down the line when the government try and paint a picture of a successful campaign against the virus. Plenty will be queueing up to criticise, myself included, but for now my energy is better spent trying to find something, anything positive about this situation.
 
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