Big Numbers today

Charlie George · 19 Jul 2020

You can't just count excess deaths,as in the last 3 weeks we have no excess deaths,actually hundreds fewer than average,if that continues for a long period it would reduce the death toll significantly ie excess deaths was 65000 3 weeks ago to 64000 today.

IT Minion · 19 Jul 2020

Charlie George said:
You can't just count excess deaths,as in the last 3 weeks we have no excess deaths,actually hundreds fewer than average,if that continues for a long period it would reduce the death toll significantly ie excess deaths was 65000 3 weeks ago to 64000 today.

But how can we have reduced deaths whilst there is Covid-19!?!?

Excess deaths are a good measure of how the country fared as a combination of Covid-19 and lockdown. But as you say, not for Covid-19 deaths. covid deaths could be higher or lower.

What is clear is the earliest Covid-19 numbers are definitely low. The later numbers where we can actually test people before they die shouldn't be massive under estimates, but might even be over estimates due to silly number counting.

motorbiking · 19 Jul 2020

Charlie George · 20 Jul 2020

ellal said:
Up until yesterday, but for now...

"The UK government has halted the publication of the daily number of coronavirus deaths over concerns that "statistical flaws" might be rendering the data inaccurate."

Of course if you could shed light on where to find the data from today onwards, then please do so.

Heres todays figures for you ellal,see they are freely available. you need to look on GOV.UK it's the goverment website.

ReganAndCarter · 10 Aug 2020

This was a really interesting thread, but no posts or info for a while. Would be interesting to hear from the experts how The UK is doing now.

Scarlet Pimpernel · 10 Aug 2020

Experts? Ppffff!

Brigadier · 10 Aug 2020

Bobby Dazzler said:
Experts? Ppffff!

Yeah, who needs them when you have Google?

motorbiking · 11 Aug 2020

We have been declining week on week, but the drops are quite small now as the numbers get lower. I haven’t been tracking the last few days

Scarlet Pimpernel · 11 Aug 2020

Brigadier said:
Yeah, who needs them when you have Google?

You mean we use google to look up experts opinions?

Well I never thought of it quite like that.

Gove: I think the people in this country have had enough of experts, with organizations from acronyms, saying—
Interviewer: They've had enough of experts? The people have had enough of experts? What do you mean by that?
Gove: People from organizations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.
Inteviewer: The people of this country have had enough of experts?
Gove: Because these people are the same ones who got consistently wrong what was happening.
Interviewer: This is proper Trump politics this, isn't it?
Gove: No it's actually a faith in the—
Inteviewer: It's Oxbridge Trump.
Gove: It's a faith, Faisal, in the British people to make the right decision.

Trazor · 12 Aug 2020

Can anyone explain, why on the 10th Aug we had 67 critical cases and on the 11th Aug we had 102 deaths ...........

All other countries show a small proportion of the critical cases as deaths, the following day.

This has happened a few times.....

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

IT Minion · 12 Aug 2020

trazor said:
Can anyone explain, why on the 10th Aug we had 67 critical cases and on the 11th Aug we had 102 deaths ...........

All other countries show a small proportion of the critical cases as deaths, the following day.

This has happened a few times.....

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Some of it will be when the deaths occur and when they are reported. A lot of the metrics don't separate them out.

Also not everyone who's going to die of Covid-19 will be going into critical care. Sometimes it's clear that putting someone on intubation just won't help.

Trazor · 12 Aug 2020

IT Minion said:
Some of it will be when the deaths occur and when they are reported. A lot of the metrics don't separate them out.

Also not everyone who's going to die of Covid-19 will be going into critical care. Sometimes it's clear that putting someone on intubation just won't help.

I follow that, but why do all other countries show deaths as a small proportion, of critical cases, we are the only one out of line.

IT Minion · 12 Aug 2020

trazor said:
I follow that, but why do all other countries show deaths as a small proportion, of critical cases, we are the only one out of line.

Pass. When you get to that level of detail you've got to dig into it closely. Who knows if we're still reporting anyone who does having had a previous positive result as a Covid-19 death, no matter the immediate cause, then that's answer it.

Brigadier · 29 Dec 2020

From BBC News today:

"There were 20,426 people being treated for the virus in hospitals in England on Monday, which is higher than the previous peak of about 19,000 in April."

I doubt the figures are out there for public consumption, but I would be curious about the demographic (age, socio-economic group, underlying conditions, BMI, etc etc) of the 20,426.

JP_ · 29 Dec 2020

Brigadier said:
From BBC News today:

"There were 20,426 people being treated for the virus in hospitals in England on Monday, which is higher than the previous peak of about 19,000 in April."

I doubt the figures are out there for public consumption, but I would be curious about the demographic (age, socio-economic group, underlying conditions, BMI, etc etc) of the 20,426.

A good friend of mine works in a London hospital, and says while it is high and serious, most cases are still elderly people that are obese with other health issues. Might not be the same everywhere though.

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