Borotommo
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Ventilator bed occupation down to 336 on 19th April. 385 on the same day last week (12th)
Cheers Billy. All over the place at the minute.. Shoddy or partial reporting, I assume.
I know you are speaking relatively, but 2 k deaths a week doesn't seem that good to me.Hard to read into and trust the raw numbers at the minute, other than hospitalisations which are coming down and the 7 day av for deaths coming down too, both good lagging indicators.
A good indicator of where we're currently at (and going) can be seen in the test positivity rate though, but this can only be shown for England or it's regions/ local authorities. Jan 22 was the Omicron BA1 phase and March was the BA2 phase seemingly picking up whatever slack was left.
Not sure if we will get to the <1% positivity rate of Summer 21, with Omicron being so transmissible (esp BA2), and then combining this with waning and possible reinfections. Not going above 280 deaths a day over winter was a good result though, especially when flu deaths were exceptionally low.
I don't even give Covid a second thought now when out and about, although just been away for a few days and Europe isn't there yet, a lot of people still wearing crappy cloth masks in the street!
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I know you are speaking relatively, but 2 k deaths a week doesn't seem that good to me.
I am not sure that the public would buy into those kind of numbers on a yearly basis.
Imagine the public outcry if the government made weekly cancer deaths announcements instead of charities working their arses off to fundraise for a cure and making the public aware of the risks.....
Imagine the public outcry if the government made weekly cancer deaths announcements instead of charities working their arses off to fundraise for a cure and making the public aware of the risks.....
Not comparing diseases. The subject of Laughing's point was public knowledge of covid deaths each week now that all restrictions have ended. I imagine you used Google to find the figures yes? Or did you see them on the breakfast news, lunchtime news and 10pm news?2835 cancer deaths (all cancers named on death certificates) per week on average in 2020 in England and Wales.
Information to find that was just as easy as Covid stats.
Though you're comparing something that is highly contagious with something that isn't to make a point I'm sure made sense in your own head.
Not comparing diseases. The subject of Laughing's point was public knowledge of covid deaths each week now that all restrictions have ended. I imagine you used Google to find the figures yes? Or did you see them on the breakfast news, lunchtime news and 10pm news?
Try again.
This is very true, however I suspect that people are more accepting of cancer deaths because its a harder disease to eradicate. People will expect covid to be more manageable than 30k deaths over winter.Laughing said the public wouldn't buy into 2000 covid related deaths a week. They probably won't and would ask for action.
The same public would also ask for action to combat cancer if figures for those deaths were reported on the news every week. Instead of us having to rely on charities to fight the battle they would rightly demand that government does more to finance the fight.
I remember reading a road traffic police officer saying that people would probably drive more carefully if the emergency services didn't do such a good job of clearing up the mess of a serious accident and a much bigger deterrent than publishing statistics.This is very true, however I suspect that people are more accepting of cancer deaths because its a harder disease to eradicate. People will expect covid to be more manageable than 30k deaths over winter.
It sounds like it would be better to hold your hands up here as it was a genuine misunderstanding. Your boss my then want to play with figures to cover their side, but I'd give the boss the responsibility. You'll only dig a deeper hole.This is probably a long shot but done anyone know if there's a way to fake a lateral flow test result?
I've been doing them for work but had misunderstood and hadn't realised we had to register the result, I'd thought it was only for PCR tests. Now my manager wants me to send him the notifications of my recent test results, which of course I haven't got.