Still not a huge sample size, but the death rate in New Orleans is significantly higher than NYC or Seattle. It like much of the South has a higher rate of pre-existing conditions than average for the US.
Oil. I'm not 100% on this, but because of their relationship with the west a lot of the oil exploration and refining contracts are probably held by Chinese companies instead. So there is probably a significant number of chinese workers going in and out of Iran,
Your Japan/Cummings post was quite clear. And still in the wrong thread.
He said they were last night.
The lack of free healthcare will compound the problem. You'll get a lot of people who don't have the necessary insurance doing everything possible to avoid being admitted to hospital and ending up being bankrupted as a result. Which will result in a higher rate of community deaths than you're seeing in European (and Asian?) countries.
I'm sorry, but no-one is gonna top your posts on here.And you said I was the shittest poster in here.
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Part of what you say I can certainly agree with much I cannot. With the possible exception of Germany (thanks to Roche) and one or two Asian countries like South Korea who in the world has enough testing or PPE. Everyone is screaming out for more and I may be misguided but I don’t think the situation in the U.K. would be any different if we had elected a different colour to govern us. Not even a government of national unity would have a handle on this awful disease at this stage. Yes perhaps we could have been quicker off the mark but that claim can be levelled against the whole of Europe.
You've answered your own question. Emotive events provoke emotional responses.
Hi neighbour.
Which I believe was a number which also included the antibody tests as well. Massively shifting the goalposts as per usual.
feck. Assume you're back at home?
Even that is a travesty of the truth. It was only yesterday afternoon that he introduced the issue of 100k tests per day. So to say that he keeps committing to that number is stretching it. He also said he could not set a timescale To achieve it but hoped it would be by the end of April. Remind me on the 1st May if that figure is not met but don’t beat him over the head for not reaching that figure today.
Do you know how many tests are being done daily in the UK? While I'm critical of the lack of preparedness from some of the french regional health agencies, I have to admit that they have done what they said they would in the timeframe that they initially gave, France is now at 20k tests daily and the goal is to be at 50k classic tests plus 30k rapid tests by the end of April, we will see if the goals are reached.
I think UK does something like 9-10k tests per day, which is nothing imo. Lithuania with its tiny population now does around 3k per day for instance.
OK but the point is he keeps committing to more testing, more PPE, but never delivering on his empty promises being my point. Now the footballer smokescreen invoking that old folk demon as a magnet to draw away the public's anger.
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30% of Sanchez's salary could fund the entire NHS
Really interesting data. The US figures are terrifying yet not surprising.
But....but..... those footballers eh?
Excellent. Footballers doing this, and holding the clubs accountable for still paying their non playing staff is a lot more powerful message than them just subsidising the clubs expenses.
That's really interesting, because I've read stuff over the last months that suggests otherwise. Now that stat you've posted refers to USA data from 2009, whereas the FT used OECD data from 2017 and came up with this picture.
What the feck? Who is this Josef Mengele? Deserves to get deplatformed from every media forum available and never be heard again at the very least. Or feck it, send him to Africa and let him explain to the people what he proposes -- I'm sure they'll be considerate when feeding him to the fecking lions.
The tweet is wrong. They are talking about the current BCG trials done in Europe and Australia not a Covid-19 vaccine and they are talking about including Africa in the current trials. What he(Mira) said and the way he said it were stupid but the report is wrong too.
Good to see and fair play to them. Only 30% of one month salary right though but a great gesture.
Acute care bed is not the same as a critical care bed. Hence the discrepancy. Acute care just means a bed available for an emergency admission. Critical care bed is one in which someone can be ventilated. Both types of beds are needed.That's really interesting, because I've read stuff over the last months that suggests otherwise. Now that stat you've posted refers to USA data from 2009, whereas the FT used OECD data from 2017 and came up with this picture.
Any idea what's going on there? Financial Times just talking nonsense, or perhaps a problem with the definition of 'ICU/acute care beds'?
https://www.ft.com/content/effd0dae-655f-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5
"The US and UK both have weaknesses in their healthcare systems which could trigger a collapse if the two countries experience the kind of severe coronavirus outbreak similar to Italy, a Financial Times analysis has found.
Both countries have fewer hospital beds per capita than most other western nations, the analysis shows. While the US and UK have about 2 beds per 1,000 people, Germany, by comparison has 6, while Japan has 7.8, according to the OECD."
Compared to the stat you've posted:
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Most of Eastern European countries have acted proactively from what I've been following. Except, umm, Belarus, I don't know what the feck is happening there to be honest.
Fair enough I was only going by the the tweet which is clearly designed to outrage people. Got me obviously.
1. Bragging? Hahha. I’ve said all along, deaths will be big everywhere and that all countries that are following their scientific advisors are doing the right thing.I'm sorry, but no-one is gonna top your posts on here.
1. Persistently bragging about how "Swedish independence" is saving you, unlike cultures with "inter-generational living" and other ailments.
2. Shitting on other countries and how the cheek-kissing culture is "no doubt" responsible for the spread of the virus in Spain, Italy etc
3. When it gets bad, blaming the spread of the virus on the immigrant subsets of Swedish society
4. Constantly defending every government that uses the phrase "scientific advise", partly because you clearly don't know any science.
I'm not sure but maybe when it does come, it'll be etched into people's minds that they delivered on what they promised, albeit very late.
Yep they'll probably somehow come out of this with a higher approval rating, annoyingly.
Yes that makes sense. I've also just been reading this which might explain why there's so many different numbers floating around in the media:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/engineer-...Mx7gLc_sMP4PIcgqOEisRVei961l9X_fvdPVU2K-IyrWQ
They don't really make a distinction anymore these days, or at least not in the more local hospitals. I know two nurses, both active in the geriatrics department, and they simply have to do shifts on the Covid-19 department as well since last week.
It shouldn't need saying but his thought process is completely flawed.
Seems like the only option there is really and I assume this will be happening everywhere when needed, hardly optimal but at least it's something. What I've heard over here in the Netherlands is that the 'simpler ICU tasks' on corona patients are now done by other medical staff in order to take the pressure off, but there still is a looming shortage of proper specialized ICU staff for the next months.
