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New guy wrote:

Sandstorm wrote:

Last Line wrote:

New guy wrote:793 deaths in Italy today. Well yesterday I assume.

Stay inside guys.

Christ. It's out of control there.

If they lose that number every day until Xmas, that’s only half of the 500 000 deaths in Italy last year.

Corona sux, but it’s not in the top 5 things that’ll kill you in Italy.

But the growth is exponential, that's the issue. It'll be 900 tomorrow.

Frodder wrote:So what you saying Sandstorm?

terryfinch wrote:

Edinburgh01 wrote:Good stuff or about time, I am not sure which.

The NHS has struck a deal with private hospitals to acquire thousands of extra beds, ventilators and medical staff to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

An extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 fully qualified staff will be available from next week.

The agreement will see the private sector reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity to the NHS.

The extra resources will also help the NHS deliver other urgent treatments.

The additional staff includes 10,000 nurses, more than 700 doctors and more than 8,000 other clinical staff, who will be joining the health service to help manage an expected surge in cases, said NHS England.

Chief executive Sir Simon Stevens hailed the deal with the private sector.

He said: "We're dealing with an unprecedented global health threat and are taking immediate and exceptional action to gear up.

"The NHS is doing everything in its power to expand treatment capacity and is working with partners right across the country to do so."

Under the terms of the deal, the private sector will be reimbursed at cost, meaning no profit will be made for doing so.

"Open book" accounting and external auditors will verify the public funds being deployed.

David Hare, chief executive of the Independent Healthcare Providers Network, said: "We have worked hand-in-hand with the NHS for decades and will do whatever it takes to support the NHS in responding to this pandemic."

He added the independent sector "stands ready" to maintain that support for as long as needed.

That is great news.

Sandstorm wrote:

Frodder wrote:So what you saying Sandstorm?

6pm. Beer time

Last Line wrote:

New guy wrote:793 deaths in Italy today. Well yesterday I assume.

Stay inside guys.

Christ. It's out of control there.

Sandstorm wrote:

Last Line wrote:

New guy wrote:793 deaths in Italy today. Well yesterday I assume.

Stay inside guys.

Christ. It's out of control there.

If they lose that number every day until Xmas, that’s only half of the 500 000 deaths in Italy last year.

Corona sux, but it’s not in the top 5 things that’ll kill you in Italy.

RodneyRegis wrote:

Last Line wrote:

New guy wrote:793 deaths in Italy today. Well yesterday I assume.

Stay inside guys.

Christ. It's out of control there.

Usual daily deaths in Italy are around 1600 a day....

Obviously some crossover here, but holy fudge.

RodneyRegis wrote:

Last Line wrote:

New guy wrote:793 deaths in Italy today. Well yesterday I assume.

Stay inside guys.

Christ. It's out of control there.

Usual daily deaths in Italy are around 1600 a day....

Obviously some crossover here, but holy fudge.

goeagles wrote:

RodneyRegis wrote:

Last Line wrote:

New guy wrote:793 deaths in Italy today. Well yesterday I assume.

Stay inside guys.

Christ. It's out of control there.

Usual daily deaths in Italy are around 1600 a day....

Obviously some crossover here, but holy fudge.

Also have to consider other deaths due to hospitals being overloaded from this. If a heart attack patient has a 2 hour wait time and dies when they would have lived, that doesn't count as a death from COVID-19 but it's indirectly caused by it anyway.

c69 wrote:

BlackMac wrote:I see some doctor in Canada has worked out how to use one ventilator to treat 8 patients.

Link

Sandstorm wrote:I’m just saying Pandemic is too strong a word. Perhaps global infection or even health scare is more accurate at this point.





Ah, here’s my beer.

Gavin Duffy wrote:

Sandstorm wrote:I’m just saying Pandemic is too strong a word. Perhaps global infection or even health scare is more accurate at this point.





Ah, here’s my beer.

You're a bit of an idiot.

CM11 wrote:Just seen a video of a supermarket beer aisle. Any guesses for the only beer left. In great numbers?

CM11 wrote:Just seen a video of a supermarket beer aisle. Any guesses for the only beer left. In great numbers?

Raggs wrote:

CM11 wrote:Just seen a video of a supermarket beer aisle. Any guesses for the only beer left. In great numbers?

Carlsberg?

It's Corona isn't is. Idiots. Had a place post up prices of beers they could deliver on facebook, cheapest was Corona.

Raggs wrote:

CM11 wrote:Just seen a video of a supermarket beer aisle. Any guesses for the only beer left. In great numbers?

Carlsberg?

It's Corona isn't is. Idiots. Had a place post up prices of beers they could deliver on facebook, cheapest was Corona.

Seneca of the Night wrote:

Petej wrote:Italy locked down on the 9th. So the earliest there measures show up is about the 23rd and hopefully then the r0 falls below 1 and the curve slowly falls. Otherwise this is just mitigation and you end up with about 300,000-600,000 deaths in italy, uk sized countries and 2 to 4 million in the USA. Fully expecting about 10,000,000 deaths in India.

How does that compare with the number of people who die in car accidents each year in India?

BlackMac wrote:My father in law is elderly and has heart and respiratory failure. He gets eggs delivered overnight twice a week and the last two deliveries have been nicked. I will be hiding out under the front hedge next Monday morning and the culprit is in for a hell of a rude awakening.

CM11 wrote:Is there a map of the spread in Italy? Have they avoided hitting the south badly?

CM11 wrote:Ugh, wife just sent a presentation about the 5g conspiracy theory. My head hurts.

CM11 wrote:Ugh, wife just sent a presentation about the 5g conspiracy theory. My head hurts.

Petej wrote:Italy locked down on the 9th. So the earliest there measures show up is about the 23rd and hopefully then the r0 falls below 1 and the curve slowly falls. Otherwise this is just mitigation and you end up with about 300,000-600,000 deaths in italy, uk sized countries and 2 to 4 million in the USA. Fully expecting about 10,000,000 deaths in India.

paddyor wrote:

CM11 wrote:Is there a map of the spread in Italy? Have they avoided hitting the south badly?

as of 20 March):
1–9 confirmed
10–99 confirmed
100–499 confirmed
500–999 confirmed
1,000–9,999 confirmed

Petej wrote:Italy locked down on the 9th. So the earliest there measures show up is about the 23rd and hopefully then the r0 falls below 1 and the curve slowly falls. Otherwise this is just mitigation and you end up with about 300,000-600,000 deaths in italy, uk sized countries and 2 to 4 million in the USA. Fully expecting about 10,000,000 deaths in India.

iarmhiman wrote:102 new cases in Ireland. Drop from yesterday.

Still though early to speculate

Sandstorm wrote:

Raggs wrote:

CM11 wrote:Just seen a video of a supermarket beer aisle. Any guesses for the only beer left. In great numbers?

Carlsberg?

It's Corona isn't is. Idiots. Had a place post up prices of beers they could deliver on facebook, cheapest was Corona.

That’s because it’s shit.

RodneyRegis wrote:

goeagles wrote:

RodneyRegis wrote:

Last Line wrote:

New guy wrote:793 deaths in Italy today. Well yesterday I assume.

Stay inside guys.

Christ. It's out of control there.

Usual daily deaths in Italy are around 1600 a day....

Obviously some crossover here, but holy fudge.

Also have to consider other deaths due to hospitals being overloaded from this. If a heart attack patient has a 2 hour wait time and dies when they would have lived, that doesn't count as a death from COVID-19 but it's indirectly caused by it anyway.

Sandstorm wrote:I’m just saying Pandemic is too strong a word. Perhaps global infection or even health scare is more accurate at this point.





Ah, here’s my beer.