"Ten times" is perfectly adequate context to illustrate the fact that the policies you're so fond of don't come without consequences. How do those infection rates compare to early March? Didn't take long for that to turn into 60,000 dead huh?
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Scotland rolling 7 day average of people in hospital with C19 - 404
0.007% of the population
England rolling 7 day average of people in hospital with C19 - 1864
0.003% of the population
Are those figures right, I’ve just read them but unsure of the validity. Anyone comment?
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I have no idea if those figures are correct. But if you want to compare them, you need to be sure that the policy for admitting cases to hospital is consistent across both areas. Is it? Who knows.
We need to be very careful when comparing numbers - and I include both UK and Scot Govts in that warning.
I agree with your comments. I have been impressed with the JRS scheme it has worked exactly as it says on the tin, credit to Sunak for that. (I never thought I would ever praise a Tory but we are indeed in strange times). It has certainly helped the charity I am involved with.
What irked me when I heard of the conditional £1K was that it had not been mentioned, I felt Sunak was better than that
Typical of the jammy bosch to luckily have a system! :rolleyes:Quote:
"It was a risk," says one senior source.
"We bet on red. And it came up black. The Germans were lucky. They had lots of machines lying around and a system in place. We had next to nothing.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...rules-12022566
Profoundly irrelevant to current policies. People who get seriously sick with this disease stay sick for a long time. I doubt your numbers are accurate anyway as what would be the point of quoting a 7 day rolling average when hospital stays run into multiple weeks. When did those people get admitted to hospital do you think?
"We bet on red. And it came up black. The Germans were lucky. They had lots of machines lying around and a system in place. We had next to nothing."
The luck of those Germans eh, with their well funded health system and government who fortuitously had contingency plans in place.
I've always been worried by the high number of new cases in England as they open up much quicker than us. So it was good to see that the number fell by 29% last week.
Any mask wearer's got any recommendations on breathable face masks? Only been an hour and it's torture. Another 6 hours to go ...
Daily Scottish update;
18 new cases since yesterday - highest number in 3 weeks
Increase of 22 in hospital including a decrease of 5 in the confirmed cases
Increase of 3 in intensive care (1 confirmed case and 2 suspected cases)
4115 have left hospital since 5th March
No deaths registered since yesterday
Maximum of 20 can attend funerals, marriages and civil partnership ceremonies from next Wednesday.
Can't answer when fans will be allowed into stadiums, doesn't expect it any time soon.
FM doesn't seem too concerned by the jump in cases, as she says it's still a small number dispersed throughout the country so we can assume it's just a variation on the day to day figures.
There seems to be something a bit odd in the data today. It's reporting 13,000 tests completed under the UK government privatised scheme, compared to around 6,000 the day before, and a total of c.60,000 backdated tests added the day before that.
The 18 cases aren't really concentrated in one area either (6 in Glasgow, 4 in Lothian, 2 in Grampian, Lanarkshire and D&G, and 1 each in Ayrshire and Fife). Hopefully just an anomaly and it'll drop down again tomorrow.