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maggiebee | 14:15 Sat 11th Apr 2020 | News

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Latest news from Nicola Sturgeon.

As of 2pm today 29,903 Scottish tests have concluded

24,313 confirmed negative
5,590 positive

542 patients who tested positive have sadly died.

Heart goes out to all those who have lost their loved ones.

Corona Virus

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ynnafymmi

I agree,Maggie.Up here in Aberdeen there doesnt seem to be the same amount of deaths.I wonder if eating a lot of rowies/butteries could be the answer.Perhaps us up in the Granite City have found the cure.

maggiebee

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Hope so, my daughter and her family live in Aberdeen. She is going back to work next week in a school - caring for children whose parents are key workers. I do worry about her though.

ynnafymmi

Tell her to stock up in rowies/butteries.Natures cure against anything.I am convinced about it......By the way i dont work in a bakery.

ladybirder

Scotland's ratio of deaths to confirmed cases is a little lower than the UK as a whole.
Cases at the last count in UK 78,991, deaths 9,875. That includes 917 added today.
If I'm correct that gives Scotland a slightly under 10% death rate and UK 12.5%.

Peter Pedant

and aberseen is the most radioactive city in scotland and england for that matter - radon out of the granite

case fatality ration is very high for both - 10 and 12.5%
China has two and Germany o.2 %

so anyway we will be locked down ofr another three weeks ...

ynnafymmi

Oh,dear.I always eat my rowies/butteries while wearing a tinfoil hat though PP.Sorted.

youngmafbog

I'm sorry but I dont get the use of all these stats. They are virtualy useless.

And yes people are loosing lives to this virus, but Scotland on average has 1100 deaths a week.

for week ending 30/03 (latest official i can find) there were 1741 deaths for the week in Scotland. of those 282 were attributed to Covid.
Sort of puts some perspective, especially when you consider that many of the 'covid deaths' had underlying reason that would have killed them anyway.

If we continue the way we currently are you will be mourning many poor who will die through abject poverty and a totally boke NHS as not enough wil be working to pay for it.

Spicerack

Boke isn't very complimentary in Scotland, ymb. ;-)
I agree with the rest of your post.

Hopkirk

You can't compare statistics between different countries in any meaningful way, as there is such huge variation in reporting and testing.

fiction-factory

Those stats tell us very little and just raise more questions. For example if they are true why are non Covid deaths apparently so much higher than normal- we'd need to know. Anyway, we need to be comparing the covid deaths figure with what they would have been without lockdown- and none of us know that figure (except it would have been a lot more)

fiction-factory

Anyway is that all the deaths last week- or just those where the death cert has been finalised. Were ther also deaths (eg in Care Homes where the reason hasn't been established yet).
I think it's best to leave this analysis to medical scientists and statisticians

youngmafbog

Sorry spice, genuine typos. I had no idea what boke meaning in Scotland until I just looked it up . I mean of course broke.