Coronavirus UK Daily Statistics

[Mr Ripple]

No point quoting but lets look at waht the article is suggesting.

Is the cure worse than the disease?
To deal with the threat of COVID-19 the UK Government has ordered unprecedented shut-downs and quarantines, and many support this in the spirit of "better safe than sorry". However, this overlooks the fact that shutdowns and quarantines also kill. The economic, social and health costs will almost certainly include:

• Earlier deaths for cancer sufferers due to diagnosis and treatment delays
• Business failures leading to more business failures
• Job losses leading to poor health, social problems and suicides
• Fewer taxpayers available to fund an increasing need for social benefits
• Reduced funding for the NHS and the rest of the public sector
• Lost educational opportunities and disruption to exams and graduations
• Inflation as Government "prints" and "borrows" more, while tax revenues fall
• Pension values reduced by stock-market crashes
• Reduced life expectancy for people moving deeper into poverty

With the exception of the bolded bit the rest would make it a non article.

 

[the_atomic_fart]

What it fails to take into account is the lock down. Easy to compare the current numbers to seasonal flu when the numbers are only so low because of severe intervention and a country wide lock down. Without that intervention they predicted 1/2 million deaths in 3 months. You don't get that with seasonal flu. Neither do you get dozens upon dozens of dead health care works like in Italy who have over 100 dead doctors in a mere few weeks.

Agreed, the effects of lockdown are not taken into account.

There's also a lag with the figures.

A large number of doctors in italy have indeed died, 109 at last count. Here's a list of them:

https://portale.fnomceo.it/elenco-dei-medici-caduti-nel-corso-dellepidemia-di-covid-19/

You have to visit a cached version to the original page that still has thier dates of birth. Most were retired and far from frontline.

https://web.archive.org/web/2020032...ci-caduti-nel-corso-dellepidemia-di-covid-19/

 

[Rickster]

980 deaths in the UK today

 

[Mr Ripple]

Further 888 hospital deaths bring UK total to 15,464
As of 9am on 18 April, 15,464 people have died in UK hospitals after testing positive for Covid-19, the Department of Health and Social Care said. That is a rise of 888, up from 14,576 the day before.

As of 9am on Saturday, 357,023 people had been tested, of which 114,217 proved positive. Overall, 460,437 tests have been done, with 21,389 tests on Friday, excluding data from Northern Ireland.

Rising again!
15th recorded 761
16th recorded 861
17th recorded 847
18th recorded 888

 

[zouzounaki]

Where are they testing all those people? Have they started testing people in the community again?

 

["Misfit"]

Further 888 hospital deaths bring UK total to 15,464
As of 9am on 18 April, 15,464 people have died in UK hospitals after testing positive for Covid-19, the Department of Health and Social Care said. That is a rise of 888, up from 14,576 the day before.

As of 9am on Saturday, 357,023 people had been tested, of which 114,217 proved positive. Overall, 460,437 tests have been done, with 21,389 tests on Friday, excluding data from Northern Ireland.

Rising again!
15th recorded 761
16th recorded 861
17th recorded 847
18th recorded 888

The key words here are IN UK HOSPITALS

 

[Mitz]

Apparently there coukd be another 7k deaths in care homes.

 

[Crewella]

Where are they testing all those people? Have they started testing people in the community again?

I'm guessing mostly still with NHS staff - over 100,000 of those tests done must be people being tested again?

 

[Mr Ripple]

Today's figures are a little concerning given it's a weekend and we know the figures are normally not all collated at a weekend.

The UK's coronavirus death toll in hospitals has passed 20,000 after rising by 781 in 24 hours.

It brings the number of victims to 20,287.

The tragic figure comes less than a month after NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said he was optimistic deaths could be kept below 20,000.

Edit.... They've just announced its 813

 

["Misfit"]

Today's figures are a little concerning given it's a weekend and we know the figures are normally not all collated at a weekend.

The UK's coronavirus death toll in hospitals has passed 20,000 after rising by 781 in 24 hours.

It brings the number of victims to 20,287.

The tragic figure comes less than a month after NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said he was optimistic deaths could be kept below 20,000.

Is this not just the hospital deaths ?
I fear the true total will be more than double this