Is there a possibility this thing is fizzling out?
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We’ll all be locked soon.
It’s a con job. Death rates are on par with this time last year.
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Is Austria landlocked lads?
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More than 22,000 people have died globally since April 1st and that number is growing between 5 and 8k per day.
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I’d urge caution on trying to compare death percentages for different countries. It’s fraught with potential pitfalls.
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I agree but they aren’t reporting catastrophic death rates or anything. We need to bear in mind that it’s now a month since we heard reports of the Italian hospitals being overran.
As per google Yes…
March 5th they had 107 deaths. A week later they had 827.
And that will sadly continue for a few weeks yet, and probably get worse given the incubation length.
There are lots of positives signs on case growth and flattening the curve though in Western populations.
Have we any idea of numbers of all Irish deaths so far this year?
But that is neither here nor there to my point. Are we hearing those reports here or in Sweden? I don’t believe we are.
We will likely come under some more pressure this week certainly though.
I was talking about Italy one month ago. The hospitals came under pressure a month ago and within a week things had gotten wildly out of control. I was putting context on your point
Just on the Italian case, it has it’s own particular set of variables that are not necessarily replicated in other countries (see post above about age, underlying medical conditions, state of hospitals pre-coronavirus).
The problem with the media reporting on deaths is that they end up being incorrectly used to make assumptions on the state of the world. They keep conveniently omitting the numbers on mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals, which is a fundamental component on how prevalent the virus is.
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Are the numbers you quote deaths due to COVID-19, or deaths with COVID-19? That’s a question of high importance here.
In what way? If you have an underlying issue you can’t argue that person would have died regardless of a COVID19 infection.
Christ
You can. When a report of a COVID-19 death says the person was old and had underlying medical conditions, that has got to be taken into account. I posted above, more than 99% of the coronavirus deaths in Italy were people who had previous medical conditions. 84% of the deaths to-date were in the 70+ age bracket, and 50% were in the 80+ bracket. These statistics point to people that are vulnerable to death by chest infection from causes ranging from flu to pneumonia to coronavirus. The correct way to report on a lot of these deaths would be to say coronavirus contributed to, but did not cause, the death.
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How will lads drink in pubs wearing face masks
Jaysus wept, somebody reads way too much Spiked Online