He got promoted in the 5 minutes between your edits? Wow, he must be good.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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He entered a new circle of hell.
That remains to be seen. But I saw a statistic today that gives me some cause for optimism. The current average occupancy rate of ICU beds in the German states is at 8% with 16% the highest individual number. And the number of ICUs is supposed to double in the next few weeks. I guess that is actually more relevant than cases and deaths going forward.
Hehe.
He is quite a prominent figure so I just went with the title he has had for years.
Not in recent times, we haven't. We're possibly looking at millions of people not working for what could easily become 7-8 months in a row. Many industries will completely collapse.
This should have been done. There should have been zero outbound flights from China to any country until the end of March. Everything would be ok now if that had happened.
8%? Meaning 8% of patients need ICU, or 8% of ICU beds are occupied?
4050 new cases and 812 deaths in Italy today.
Or we could have been quarantining anyone who had been to China in the last 3 months for mandatory two weeks. But as pointed out, it would have been hard to implement without knowing consequences. I don't think anyone expected it to be this bad.
8% occupied as of today.
That's a good decrease in the number of cases!
That's astonishing. Most countries will be well over 50% even without coronavirus, I'd imagine.
Germany has a lot of ICU beds, about 5 times as many on a per capita basis than the UK.
Wait. I think that might be Covid-19 related cases only. The source I'm basing this one is worded confusingly. I'll try to find the raw numbers.
Raab is just terrible isn't he? These briefings are turning into an assessment centre for the cabinet ministers and he's coming across by far the worst.
Neither BBC or Sky are showing the slides.
Boris putting out a weakened team today. Rotation is important it but he could regret it.
It's a long season.
They got the later ones, they were taken by surprise I guess. I imagine the BBC feed will have them later. Meanwhile here's transport
Now's the time for a great photoshop opportunity. Make him a bit more orange and dye his hair.
Thanks.They got the later ones, they were taken by surprise I guess. I imagine the BBC feed will have them later. Meanwhile here's transport
Is the UK government not reporting recoveries or is it just stuck on 135? Seems like nobody has recovered (that officially tested positive) in ages.
If they’d stopped it by hammering the economy they'd likely have been torn to pieces politically for overreacting. People rarely get any credit for stopping crisis before they begin, as Y2K clearly exhibited.
Listening to the daily UK briefing and some of the ridiculous questions from the media. I've noted a number of them are having a dig at the police for enforcing the lockdown. Absolutely ridiculous and I'm sorry to say only in the UK. What do people want?!
The opposite of what's happening, regardless of what that may be.
Questions from the media have been consistently shite over the last few weeks.
Things are getting serious going by the police tape slogan rebrand
Yea, the funny thing for me is that I did a data analytics course with Johns Hopkins last year... so I think the value of that might be going up given that Johns Hopkins is now widely known as the data analysis model to go to for corona virus.
I'm hoping it's just that they aren't willing to classify people as recovered without retests. The cruise ship passengers in Japan had to give three successive negative tests. With tests in shortage, I doubt we're using tests that way right now. When a proven antibody test is ready, presumably that will get easier.
Maybe we'll start seeing a "admissions to hospital" and "discharged from hospital" stat soon, as well.
It’s you that’s confused. Google “intubation”. It’s not the same thing as needing to be admitted to hospital for oxygen.
Well yeah no one wants a global pandemic but with regards to police enforcement what do people expect.
i know, and i don't think there was a single one based on the thing actually being presented today - bringing Brits home.
That question was absurd and just gives the government more excuses to be cowards in the implementation of this “lockdown”.
I’d hate to think what Brits would do if they were going through this in my country (Kuwait). Anyone found stepping out their door past 5 PM either gets a £35,000 fine or 3 years in jail.
Apparently the UK has become a police state and officers are policing this over zealously.. so essentially doing what they have been asked to do whilst continuing to deal with everything else in addition.
If ever there was a time for firm enforcement it's now and that's all because the average middle class person seems to feel the rules don't apply to them.
That seems entirely reasonable.
It's the same in the UK
Is that sarcastic?
Raab’s opening monologue and abrupt end to the conference were fecking awkward, weren’t they? He answered most of the questions well though:
Yes.
Spot on
Thank God, it's all over. I was worried for a while there...