News:

And we're back!

Main Menu

Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

Started by Syt, January 18, 2020, 09:36:09 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

crazy canuck

Looks like the reporting is starting to catch up to what the doctor was saying the other day.

Sheilbh

Quote from: crazy canuck on March 25, 2022, 11:41:45 AMLooks like the reporting is starting to catch up to what the doctor was saying the other day.
Mongers post is about the ONS survey. It's a random sample to estimate prevalence and is always a week out of date. So that was the prevalence last week (ending 19 March). Worryingly there are intentions to end this survey which I think is a huge mistake because now we've set it up I think it's incredibly helpful and could be easily re-purposed for other illnesses/the next pandemic.

The more up-to-date reporting is on the dashboard (https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/). The cases there are, as Jos says, only those that are reported so an underestimate but the hospitalisation and death figures are obviously far more comprehensive because it's basically the NHS/death certificates, though hospitalisation is lagged by four days.
Let's bomb Russia!

The Brain

#17027
Sweden's current wave appears to have peaked around the time restrictions were lifted (early February), and numbers (ICU and death) have been going down since.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Josquius

Just read the current version floating about when it hits vaccinated people does mean a runny nose....
I'm now over 50% sure I've got/recently had it.

Quote from: Sheilbh on March 25, 2022, 11:34:38 AM
Quote from: Josquius on March 25, 2022, 11:29:16 AMWorth noting it's just recorded numbers too. With tests unavailable and so many ceasing to care...
No - that's the ONS survey which is a random sample taken every week.

Ah that's a relief.
Wonder how accurate this is.
██████
██████
██████

CountDeMoney

Quote from: mongers on March 25, 2022, 09:57:22 AMTurns out this still might be a thing

It's a plot designed specifically to get COVID back on the front page in time for the midterms for the socialist commie fascist Brandons to take away our freedoms.  OPEN YOUR EYES

mongers

Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 25, 2022, 06:53:02 PM
Quote from: mongers on March 25, 2022, 09:57:22 AMTurns out this still might be a thing

It's a plot designed specifically to get COVID back on the front page in time for the midterms for the socialist commie fascist Brandons to take away our freedoms.  OPEN YOUR EYES

Yes, my blood microchips say this is a possibility.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Jacob

What's the story behind the "Brandon" term?

The Larch


Legbiter

Wave here is in steep decline which is not surprising given a majority of the entire population has been formally diagnosed with covid. Death rates for the last 3 weeks have been high, comparatively speaking, since it's swept through our vaccinated oldies, but until the total death rate for this year has been calculated we won't know for sure. Tragically a 2 year old has died, parents lived in a remote fishing village, seemingly got bad advice on the phone and waited too long to seek more advanced medical help.

At this point I'll take it, we've literally done all that is humanly possible in a very rich country context. 
Posted using 100% recycled electrons.


mongers

Quote from: Legbiter on March 25, 2022, 11:26:42 PMWave here is in steep decline which is not surprising given a majority of the entire population has been formally diagnosed with covid. Death rates for the last 3 weeks have been high, comparatively speaking, since it's swept through our vaccinated oldies, but until the total death rate for this year has been calculated we won't know for sure. Tragically a 2 year old has died, parents lived in a remote fishing village, seemingly got bad advice on the phone and waited too long to seek more advanced medical help.

At this point I'll take it, we've literally done all that is humanly possible in a very rich country context.

:-(
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Josquius

Wow. Haven't heard of such young people dying of it. That's sad.
██████
██████
██████

garbon

Wtf, covid. Why am I starting to get bits of a cough now while testing negative? :angry:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

viper37

Quote from: garbon on March 30, 2022, 08:42:42 AMWtf, covid. Why am I starting to get bits of a cough now while testing negative? :angry:
It may not be covid.  Could be cold or the flu.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

garbon

Quote from: viper37 on March 30, 2022, 10:44:39 AM
Quote from: garbon on March 30, 2022, 08:42:42 AMWtf, covid. Why am I starting to get bits of a cough now while testing negative? :angry:
It may not be covid.  Could be cold or the flu.

I haven't been around other people since I got covid so it would have needed to be hiding out while I had covid?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.