The jump in coronavirus-related hospital deaths in the UK from 2,352 to 2,921 is an increase of 569 – the highest day-on-day rise since the outbreak began and up very slightly on yesterday’s rise of 563.
The total number of deaths is 24% higher than yesterday.
It took 19 days for the number of deaths in the UK to pass 300. It has taken further 10 days to reach just under 3,000.
For the first time, the number of new people tested per day in the UK for coronavirus has passed 10,000.
A further 10,215 new people were reported as being tested in the 24 hours to 9am April 2.
The total number of people in the UK tested since the outbreak began is now 163,194.
This is the equivalent of 245 people in every 100,000.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK stands at 33,718, as of 9am on April 2.
It’s an interesting question. I have 0 medical knowledge but I’d think the stress and lack of movement could affect things the other way - so that while we see fewer people with strep, we’ll also see other conditions increase like high blood pressure or whatever. It’ll be an interesting study when/if all this is over.
I’ve always had a garden, and I’ve already started planting seeds. I recommend it just because it gives me another thing to check on each day, nice to see the little seedlings popping out.
As the US becomes the global epicentre in the coronavirus battle, Americans are beginning to learn their nation’s strengths and weaknesses.
Here are a few things the US has done well, and others that it has bungled.
Testing - MISTAKE
The inability of the US government to ramp up testing quickly contributed to many subsequent failures. But most importantly, it failed to provide the “situational awareness” that is needed to combat a pandemic, says Jonathan Levi, a health policy professor at George Washington University.
Messaging - MISTAKE
Less than a week after predicting that the country could re-open by Easter, President Trump was warning Americans to prepare for over 100,000 deaths.
After comparing it to the seasonal flu, and predicting it would disappear on its own “like a miracle”, Mr Trump’s dire messaging was a real problem.
Research - SUCCESS
If the coronavirus is exposing some of the many flaws in the US healthcare system, it also could end up highlighting the strength of the nation’s drug research.
Pharmaceutical companies researching cures are receiving assurances from the government that there will be a market for their products and they will be adequately compensated for their investment, leading to a huge boost in treatment research
Just my opinion as I haven’t seen actual stats, but I think that is already happening. Hospital admissions for things not covid seem to be lower than usual. COPDers aren’t getting other viruses that send them into respiratory distress. Asthma exacerbations seem to be down considering allergy season is here. There are certainly less car crashes leading to hospitalizations. Maybe people with chronic medical conditions are also being more compliant with their medications to try to avoid going to what they see as a war zone? The hospital is certainly less comfortable than it used to be. No flowers, no visitors, very little attention from staff as we are so busy with critical patients.
Still lots of strokes, cancer, and heart attacks that require hospitalization. I would guess that these far outnumber infectious disease as far as hospitalization rate, especially on the downside of flu season.
OTOH Car accidents, workplace injuries and recreational injuries should be way down.
I’m as anti-capitalist healthcare as anyone. But maybe one of the few areas I have some faith is if you dangle a huge profit carrot in front of drug companies they’ll come up with something a lot quicker than a purely government-run lab or something.
I would offer Cuba’s meningitis vaccine as a counterpoint to that, but even granting your point, it makes no sense to count that as ‘a success’ until we have a finished, working product. Show me the money. Until then it’s “The good news is that the vampires who hold sick people to ransom have been assured that the taxpayer will bare their neck if they ever get in a position to bite” which I don’t count as ‘success’ on several metrics.
Even if NYC cases peak and then deaths peak a week later there, we have dozens of NYC that are behind…I mean we are getting like 8 states a day already going up 30-40% in deaths daily.
We have 50 states, all in various stages of this, and in many of those states, multiple areas of outbreak in various stages of this.
Plus there are follow on waves, etc.
I know people went to be optimistic, but this has a long way to go and 1M people to kill before it’s over.
