To make good comparisons we'll need to look at full data when its available over a decent period. Perhaps from say 1/1/20 to 31/12/20 so long as the outbreak does end this year.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
I wrote that before those figures were quoted, not after it.
Very interesting comment from another site.The FT estimates of excess mortality by country are especially interesting when you also look at their estimates for specific large cities or areas. For example (figures shown are the 2020 increase to date in mortality from all causes compared with an average year):
UK +61%, London +135%
France +31%, Ile de France +137%
Sweden +29%, Stockholm +87%
US +19%, New York City +408%
Italy +55%, Bergamo province +496%
https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-...3-955839e06441
What this probably shows is that crude death leagues by country are incredibly misleading, because so much depends on sudden high-speed exponential growth in crowded areas. It probably also suggests that there could be a lot more big outbreaks to come as things relax a bit.
Trump right now: https://tenor.com/s1MA.gif
Looks more like Boris.
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If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
Another mask shooting.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...ave-police-say
I wonder if the media will do a demographic analysis of crimes of this nature like they did for school shootings.
Swedish authorities must be proud about beating the world in the per capita number of covid-19 deaths.
Congratulations America
Because a lot of British people, especially Tories, have this almost subconscious belief that Britain is, in some nebulous way, intrinsically more advanced than other countries, especially non-Anglophone countries. So, yeah, of course they're going to default to "we didn't fuck up in a way which lead to 10s of thousands of preventable deaths, the just that the foreigners can't count properly, with their un deux trios and their einz zwei drei viers", especially when some of the Toriest Tories ever to Tory are currently running things.
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Idle thought: if the virus has a resurgence towards the end of the year, I bet we can count on Trump being an enthusiastic supporter of quarantine orders around November.
And y'all brushed me off when I said he was going to find a way to fuck the election
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Loki is right -- since data collection varies so widely, the best metric will be all-cause/excessive deaths. Even our CDC has been conflating diagnostic tests with antibody tests...and states have different criteria for reporting deaths, and under-reporting deaths at home.
Can't recall where I saw the 5 year graphs showing similar death spikes in *all* countries, but it's not a coincidence that it started when covid-19 began circulating.
How will your results be incorporated into national data? What kind of test did you use? Was it testing for remnants of the virus, or anti-bodies?
And what is the error rate?
It was a test to see if we currently have the virus. No symptoms for either of us but we have very good reason to need the test, I'd rather not write why on a public forum though so happy to discuss via PM if anyone wants more details.
So our results will be incorporated in the daily testing totals, fingers crossed not in the positive column.
The test involved getting a swab and rubbing it against my tonsils five times (my wife has no tonsils so back of her throat), then into each nostril until there was resistance and rotating it five times each time again.
Lol:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...ted-officials/
Well I guess that's one way to win. Imagine they're not alone in this though.
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It doesn't take a maths whiz or media genius to figure out people are being tested twice.
Hiding in plain site.
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Does anyone know how serious Covid-19 is in asthma sufferers? I want to send my eldest back to school on 1st June but she has asthma. Not sure what to do.
Make sure she always has her inhaler on her is the advice I have heard. There's some good information here: https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/tri...asthma-do-now/
Thanks. I did come across that. I guess I was hoping for more on what the official line is (in this and other countries) and whether anyone has made exceptions for it. I can't see anything from our government guidelines so I can only assume that their advice is to send her. I may well have missed something though.
Breaking news. UK to implement emergency quarantine measures at airports.
Just in time...
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