Coronavirus

[Strontium]

Deaths in the UK have almost reverted to the 5 year average.

 

[Barrington Womble]

The Zoe app is now sharing the document it presents to the government. I don't know if this link will work, it says app users only. The full pdf is in this link at the bottom of the page. There's some interesting reading. The thing I find astonishing is over 3% of users are logged as currently feeling unwell and cumulatively over 700k out of a user base of 3.9m - which I'm guessing is about 20%. I'd have thought the cumulative number would be much larger if 3% are currently unwell. 

 

https://covid19.joinzoe.com/your-contribution?utm_source=App

 

 

[Spy Bee]

15 deaths across the whole of the UK

 

And infections under 1000.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

37 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

15 deaths across the whole of the UK

 

And infections under 1000.

 

How are they getting these Sat/Sun figures so wrong?  Why haven't they figured out, after 3 months, how to normalise weekend number collection? 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

 

How are they getting these Sat/Sun figures so wrong?  Why haven't they figured out, after 3 months, how to normalise weekend number collection? 

 

 

968 last week -- well over the hump lad, downhill from here

[Colonel Bumcunt]

 

Note that these are deaths in care homes.

Note the yellow area. 

Chinny reckon.

[Section_31]

23 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

 

How are they getting these Sat/Sun figures so wrong?  Why haven't they figured out, after 3 months, how to normalise weekend number collection? 

 

 

 

It's always been like that. The Red Army lost half a million troops at Stalingrad but none on Bank Holidays.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

3 hours ago, Spy Bee said:

Any idea what percentage of these were asymptomatic? The word in Wrexham is that almost everybody from the local food factory is asymptomatic and only picked up due to track and trace. I don't know how reliable that is, mind.

 

I couldn't say mate. They are just handing out numbers for tests done and positive results. From 5899 employers 1331 tested positive. All employers of theirs are under quarantine now, think it covers 4 or 5 areas where the firm house their Eastern European workforce. Massive debates going on as work conditions and how shit they are are coming to light, not just in Tönnies but the majority of the meat industry, especially at the bottom end of the scale. 

[Barrington Womble]

There's something about watching Matt Hancock that really tickles me. It's like he's the office idiot whole been sent on some type of management course and when he's doing a press conference, it's like he's doing his training exercise. He really could be a Harry Enfield character or something. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, The Gaul said:

There's something about watching Matt Hancock that really tickles me. It's like he's the office idiot whole been sent on some type of management course and when he's doing a press conference, it's like he's doing his training exercise. He really could be a Harry Enfield character or something. 

Its when he starts pissing himself laughing when someone mentions the death figures too him that gets me. 

[Barrington Womble]

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Its when he starts pissing himself laughing when someone mentions the death figures too him that gets me. 

Yeah. And then he tries to do his serious face. 

[TheHowieLama]

Speaking on @GloboNews Brazilian infectious disease specialist Roberto Madronho says he believes Brazil actually has about 10 million coroanvirus cases, not 1million.

 

[SasaS]

7 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Speaking on @GloboNews Brazilian infectious disease specialist Roberto Madronho says he believes Brazil actually has about 10 million coroanvirus cases, not 1million.

 

And that may be understating it.

[Anubis]

11 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Speaking on @GloboNews....

GloboNews. We’re better than you, and we know it!

[Guest]

20 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Speaking on @GloboNews Brazilian infectious disease specialist Roberto Madronho says he believes Brazil actually has about 10 million coroanvirus cases, not 1million.

 

It's OK, it's not as deadly anymore. What is the death toll in Brazil?

[chrisbonnie]

36 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Speaking on @GloboNews Brazilian infectious disease specialist Roberto Madronho says he believes Brazil actually has about 10 million coroanvirus cases, not 1million.

 

 

Wasn't there talk of that in nearly every country but from random antibody tests the figures are much much less. 

[TheHowieLama]

48 minutes ago, chrisbonnie said:

 

Wasn't there talk of that in nearly every country but from random antibody tests the figures are much much less. 

Yea, been alot of talk of times 10 by a few health orgs.

 

What is pretty certain is globally it will cross 10 mil cases and 500,000 deaths tomorrow.

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, S.i.t.M aka The Boring One™ said:

What is the death toll in Brazil?

A little more than the flu

 

[Mudface]

What an absolute basket case of a country- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/22/us-coronavirus-spikes-first-wave-not-over

 

Half of US states see coronavirus surge as officials warn first wave far from over
29 states reported a jump in cases, while Trump says increased testing is a problem: ‘It makes us look like we have more cases’

Kenya Evelyn in Washington


More than half of all US states have reported a rise in new coronavirus cases, with some breaking daily records. Amid fears of a second wave of Covid-19 infections and deaths, public health officials have warned that the first is far from over.


‘New York always comes back’: workers return as city enters phase two of reopening

“I think that wherever there’s wood to burn, this fire’s going to burn – and right now we have a lot of susceptible people,” Michael Osterholm, head of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, told NBC on Sunday.

“I don’t think we’re going to see one, two and three waves. I think we’re going to just see one very, very difficult forest fire of cases.”

In Tulsa on Saturday, Donald Trump said he had asked officials to limit testing, in order to reduce numbers of new cases. On Sunday the White House dismissed the remark as a joke, but on Monday the president again said increased testing was a problem.

“It makes us look like we have more cases, especially proportionally, than other countries,” Trump tweeted.

Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany later said any suggestion Trump had ordered testing to be slowed was “not rooted in fact”. Asked if it was appropriate to joke about coronavirus when it has killed nearly 120,000 Americans, McEnany said: “He was not joking about coronavirus … he was joking about the media.”

According to tracking data from John Hopkins University, 29 states have reported an increase in their seven-day average of new cases.

Most new outbreaks are in states such as Georgia, Florida and Texas, which were among the first to launch reopening measures. Young people are especially at risk, with Florida governor Ron DeSantis warning cases have shifted in “a radical direction” toward people under 30.

Across southern states, health experts have blasted a lack of social distancing as the summer begins. Younger people, officials say, are also more often asymptomatic, putting immunocompromised friends and family members at risk.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued warnings on the need for social distancing and face masks as states reopen, rejecting Trump’s notion that an increase in testing is responsible for the surge.


But Americans remain divided on wearing face masks in public. Last week, Texas governor Greg Abbott rejected a request from mayors to require masks in their cities.

Steve Adler, mayor of Austin, criticized the decision, telling CNN he “wish[ed’ Abbott] had [reopened] a little slowly. By making it so that cites couldn’t enforce masks, it sent the message to our community that maybe this thing was over.”

California governor Gavin Newsom has announced that all residents will be required to wear masks. Cases are spiking there, with hospitalizations at the highest rate since the beginning of the pandemic. The state will continue its timeline for reopening.

According to CNN, the CDC will revise its mask-wearing recommendations after studying how masks are “good for source control and keeping you from giving it to others”, as well as “protect[ing] you from getting it yourself.”

[Scott_M]

The US has clearly just given up.
 

Bad news about India.

 

Any update on what’s happening in Africa? With the lack of medical facilities and significantly higher BAME population, I’d have thought it was be rampant. 
 

Or is it that based on the below...

 

 

...more jobs are based outside, with better ventilation, meaning the virus cant spread as well? Also in the service sector, nobody is travelling.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Due to the crisis caused by the meat production firm Tönnies, the Ministerpräsident for Nord-Rhein Westfalen has ordered  a harder Lockdown for Gütersloh and the surrounding areas until at least the 30th June. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 minute ago, Pistonbroke said:

Due to the crisis caused by the meat production firm Tönnies, the Ministerpräsident for Nord-Rhein Westfalen has ordered  a harder Lockdown for Gütersloh and the surrounding areas until at least the 30th June. 

I only briefly caught it on the news but there has been a couple of big outbreaks in Germany, right? R number of almost 2?

[Guest Pistonbroke]

17 minutes ago, Hank Moody said:

I only briefly caught it on the news but there has been a couple of big outbreaks in Germany, right? R number of almost 2?

 If you scroll back I explained it all mate, it is basically localised due to that meat factory Tönnies so no need for widespread concern, well apart from those areas affected. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

16 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

 If you scroll back I explained it all mate, it is basically localised due to that meat factory Tönnies so no need for widespread concern, well apart from those areas affected. 

Got ya, glad it’s manageable. 

[Section_31]

28 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

 If you scroll back I explained it all mate, it is basically localised due to that meat factory Tönnies so no need for widespread concern, well apart from those areas affected. 

Yeah it seems like our press is overreacting as usual. R rate so low in Germany that local testing and spikes send it high.