These Coronavirus figures

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When the news is reporting figures they just seem to be reporting confirmed figures not mention of how many have had the virus but are now deemed "cured" after being quarantined or whatever. I think first UK case was Jan 22nd(??) and only 2 have so far died. Some of those who had it will be out of quarantine now so those still having the virus will be lower than the figures the news is using to scare people. Surely the news should be reporting these figures as well to put people at ease.
Obviously that only those that they know about. Probably people who dont even know they have it yet.
 
They weren't going to report on a daily basis a week ago. They backtracked on that. Agree, public should get as full a picture of what's happening as possible. No sure what the measure of 'cured' is though. Japan cruise ship victims need three clear negative tests. One got two then the third was positive and that's a month + down the track.
 
I agree, they’re really not posting all of the cured figures alongside the deaths making them skewed, loads of the Chinese infected are now cured but you don’t hear about that. Current UK figures are below and lots of the infected are just sat at home self isolating and not in any danger

UK
Confirmed: 273
Deaths: 2
Recovered: 18
Active: 253
 
There's as much danger of under-reporting as over-reporting.
Given the transmission mechanism, the danger to those with other conditions and the lack of any vaccines then I think the response has been about right.
I don't think there's a need for panic, but there is certainly a need to be careful and modify the way we all look at hygiene and cleanliness.
 
Dont think its changed hygiene thoughts one iota in the pubs I visited over weekend. In London or Redcar scunners still not washing their hands.
 
I read the other day that the average age of the Italian deaths was 81, obviously they wasn’t as many as now but they were a good few hundred, it’s still massively impacting mainly on the very old and infirm unfortunately
 
Apparently Italy has the second oldest population in the world (behind Japan). As such they are likely to have a higher death % than most other places. Like the post above said, the average age of those who've died is 81.
 
I read a report on how the virus causes the lungs to form crystalisation patterns (please don’t take as a straight fact, I may have remembered this incorrectly). It does make me wonder how big an impact being a smoker may have. If I smoked, I’d be looking to quit this week. Is being a heavy smoker, an ‘underlying condition’?
 
Cuthbert said:
Apparently Italy has the second oldest population in the world (behind Japan). As such they are likely to have a higher death % than most other places. Like the post above said, the average age of those who've died is 81.
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I heard this but there just seems something amiss about Italy - either they are one of the few nations correctly reporting cases or their treatment of cases is poor - they have a high death rate compared to other countries. Just feels we may hear
More about the Italy cases at some future point.
 
I think the high mortality rate in Italy is due to the rapid spread of the virus and the inability of the government there to keep up with it, in other words I think the number of confirmed cases will be significantly less than a country that has managed it better, such as Germany, which has a much lower mortality rate.
 
FatCat said:
I heard this but there just seems something amiss about Italy - either they are one of the few nations correctly reporting cases or their treatment of cases is poor - they have a high death rate compared to other countries. Just feels we may hear
More about the Italy cases at some future point.
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A report today on R4 from the deputy chief medical officer here suggested Italy's problem was their health service is regional and does not have the capacity for central command and control like ours.

We will see, I guess
 
1finny said:
A report today on R4 from the deputy chief medical officer here suggested Italy's problem was their health service is regional and does not have the capacity for central command and control like ours.

We will see, I guess
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A bit like ours (Scotland/Wales/NI/England).

Europe wide mortality is currently running 3% plus.
 
Some of these figures seem quite mixed. BBC News just reporting roughly 9000 people have tested positive for the virus in Italy. Just over 4000 of those are in hospital, with just under 800 in intensive care.

That doesn't SEEM consistent that 80% will have little or no symptoms. Odd. (I suppose it must have massively spread amongst the older age group)?
 
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