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Post by mrk on Oct 4, 2020 10:52:19 GMT
Is this the latest technical trick to lower the reproduction number for a certain period? I can see the logic in this.
You get bad figures one day a week and good figures for the other six (shame the bad figures are really bad).
The gov.uk dashboard shows both "Cases by date reported" and "Cases by specimen date". Presumably the technical issue affects the "by date reported" figures but not those "by specimen date"?
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Post by corto on Oct 4, 2020 19:34:01 GMT
That presidential note from the hospital looks like he has nothing.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Oct 4, 2020 20:31:56 GMT
That presidential note from the hospital looks like he has nothing. Or are they covering up how bad he is, it doesn't sound like the doctors are being exactly straight one way or another. He seems to be on some pretty heavy meds for someone who is absolutely fine.
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Post by registerme on Oct 4, 2020 21:29:05 GMT
That presidential note from the hospital looks like he has nothing. Or are they covering up how bad he is, it doesn't sound like the doctors are being exactly straight one way or another. He seems to be on some pretty heavy meds for someone who is absolutely fine. Now, all bets are off when it comes to this President, and this Administration, and its supporters / facilitators. Some of the latter, unfortunately, include doctors. But still, has anybody ever heard of a doctor using an experimental treatment on somebody who wasn't at death's door? Maybe the answer is yes, and along the lines of "in a blind controlled experimental trial". Does anybody think it likely that the President of the United States of America would be used as a blind control in an experimental trial? Somebody ain't telling the truth here.
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Post by dan1 on Oct 4, 2020 21:40:17 GMT
That presidential note from the hospital looks like he has nothing. Or are they covering up how bad he is, it doesn't sound like the doctors are being exactly straight one way or another. He seems to be on some pretty heavy meds for someone who is absolutely fine. For patients receiving oxygen and dexamethasone the mortality rate from the RECOVERY trial* was 23.3%. * Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 — Preliminary Reportwww.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2021436
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Post by mrk on Oct 4, 2020 22:02:07 GMT
Or are they covering up how bad he is, it doesn't sound like the doctors are being exactly straight one way or another. He seems to be on some pretty heavy meds for someone who is absolutely fine. Now, all bets are off when it comes to this President, and this Administration, and its supporters / facilitators. Some of the latter, unfortunately, include doctors. But still, has anybody ever heard of a doctor using an experimental treatment on somebody who wasn't at death's door? Maybe the answer is yes, and along the lines of "in a blind controlled experimental trial". Does anybody think it likely that the President of the United States of America would be used as a blind control in an experimental trial? You mean this particular president, the one that took hydroxychloroquine back in May despite any clear evidence of its efficacy as a preventative treatment?
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Post by registerme on Oct 4, 2020 22:39:22 GMT
Yeah, that one.
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Post by mrk on Oct 4, 2020 22:45:59 GMT
In other news, "Vaccinating all of UK ‘not going to happen’, says task force head" (Kate Bingham) reports the FT. “People keep talking about ‘time to vaccinate the whole population’, but that is misguided,” she said. “There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.”
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Post by registerme on Oct 4, 2020 23:09:00 GMT
Well, my lodger, who's had a bad cough for the last day or two (and who's also a hypochondriac) has just ordered a test. Not, in my view, unnecessarily.
So at least until she gets her result back I am now officially self-isolating.
Ho hum.
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Post by IFISAcava on Oct 5, 2020 7:25:56 GMT
Well, my lodger, who's had a bad cough for the last day or two (and who's also a hypochondriac) has just ordered a test. Not, in my view, unnecessarily. So at least until she gets her result back I am now officially self-isolating. Ho hum. Good luck. If it gets too much, I hear that short car rides with your bodyguards is OK though.
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Post by dan1 on Oct 5, 2020 7:55:10 GMT
In other news, "Vaccinating all of UK ‘not going to happen’, says task force head" (Kate Bingham) reports the FT. “People keep talking about ‘time to vaccinate the whole population’, but that is misguided,” she said. “There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.” U-turns are born out of poor initial decisions NEW DEAL SECURES POTENTIAL COVID-19 VACCINE FOR EVERY AUSTRALIANwww.pm.gov.au/media/new-deal-secures-potential-covid-19-vaccine-every-australian
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Post by dan1 on Oct 5, 2020 8:25:35 GMT
Well, my lodger, who's had a bad cough for the last day or two (and who's also a hypochondriac) has just ordered a test. Not, in my view, unnecessarily. So at least until she gets her result back I am now officially self-isolating. Ho hum. Hope it comes back negative. I think I'd rather have a hypochondriac lodger than one who was "fearless" at a time like this. Must be difficult not to catch whatever it is... even if it comes back negative then it'll be informative whether you catch the cause of the cough. ~~~~ bernythedolt - have you received the results of your AB test?
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Post by mrk on Oct 5, 2020 9:13:12 GMT
In other news, "Vaccinating all of UK ‘not going to happen’, says task force head" (Kate Bingham) reports the FT. “People keep talking about ‘time to vaccinate the whole population’, but that is misguided,” she said. “There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.” U-turns are born out of poor initial decisions NEW DEAL SECURES POTENTIAL COVID-19 VACCINE FOR EVERY AUSTRALIANwww.pm.gov.au/media/new-deal-secures-potential-covid-19-vaccine-every-australian The UK actually made deals that would cover almost 4 times the entire population. That's what's surprising about them now saying "Less than half the UK population can expect to be vaccinated against coronavirus".
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Post by dan1 on Oct 5, 2020 9:19:04 GMT
The UK actually made deals that would cover almost 4 times the entire population. That's what's surprising about them now saying "Less than half the UK population can expect to be vaccinated against coronavirus". What beggars belief is that those in power simply don't understand the relationship between a vaccine and the economy. planet do they live on?
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Post by Greenwood2 on Oct 5, 2020 9:27:42 GMT
The UK actually made deals that would cover almost 4 times the entire population. That's what's surprising about them now saying "Less than half the UK population can expect to be vaccinated against coronavirus". It will be the same as the flu jab then, older, vulnerable, etc, although I think anyone can get the flu jab at a small cost. The Gov were hedging their bets on the Covid jab, not all are expected to work well after testing and you may need two of some of them for protection (spaced a few weeks? apart).
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