Can Someone Explain These Numbers?

[diddlydo]

"Just 52, 429 tests were carried out in the UK in the 24 hours to yesterday, on 33,455 people."

As reported this morning.

[barry1010]

I can only conclude that 33,455 people were tested with 18,974 having two different tests.

[ToraToraTora]

Do you have a link so we can see the source of these figures and work out how you've misunderstood them.

[douglas9401]

Some needed more than one test.

[ToraToraTora]

steady doug don't overload her!

[diddlydo]

Here's the full para
Minister acknowledges government may miss Covid-19 testing target
A cabinet minister has acknowledged that the government may not meet its target of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by the end of the month.

After intense criticism, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, pledged the country would be conducting the tests by the end of April but, with only 52,429 carried out in the 24 hours to yesterday, the justice secretary, Robert Buckland, has now conceded it might not happen. He told BBC Breakfast:

Even if it [the target] isn’t met, we’re well on our way to ramping this up and 100,000 is an important milestone, but frankly we need more.”

He added: “Yes, 52,000 isn’t 100,000, I know that ... but we are straining every sinew to get there... If he [Hancock] hadn’t set a target he would have been criticised for being unambitious. I think now is the time in respect of this to be bold ... being brave, I think, is something we should acknowledge even if the target isn’t met today.”

Just 52,429 tests were carried out in the UK in the 24 hours to yesterday, on 33,455 people.

[retrocop]

That's the sort of nonsense you get for reading the Guardian it would seem..

[Togo]

Perhaps they "tested" 18,974 cats dogs and budgerigars.

[naomi24]

Could you post the actual link please, diddly?

[mushroom25]

the article does explains the "discrepancy".

suggest you re-read and your question will be answered.

[TheWholeTruth]

why bother trying to get links from her etc...just another lame attempt to have a dig at the governemnt..Zzzzzzz...youll be going round in circles with diddelydodo by lunchtime

[barry1010]

I've re read it and can't find the explanation for the discrepancy. Perhaps you'd be good enough to copy and paste, mushroom, to help us less intelligent ABers

[diddlydo]

No Naomi unless you want the whole of the Guardian live feed which you can easiiy find online. Mushroom - no it doesn't explain how there were more tests used than people tested.

[mushroom25]

ok
// Just 33,000 people were tested for Covid-19 in the latest 24-hour period – a record high for a single day – according to official figures. Dominic Raab, the first secretary of state, said that more than 52,000 tests were carried out, but this total is apparently bolstered by 19,000 retests. //

[naomi24]

diddly, it's usual to post a link. Still, you have your answer now so all's well.

[ToraToraTora]

I suspect some of them had more that one test, there are several different test approaches.

[diddlydo]

Mushroom - where's your quote from?

[KARL]

I think recently there has been a large increase in the number of people among the Great British public who are very uneasy with the reality that is pushing through every tiny crevice and hole in the barriers that have for a very long time been established to maintain the illusion that everything is as good if not better than it possibly could be - think British and praise your good fortune over and above "them" out there.

The issue is not really that a promise of 100,000 tests for corona virus was missed by nearly a half. The issue is that not only is everything not rosy but that when looking for truth and reality you have allowed yourself to be short changed on far too much for far too long (but not quite everything, close, but not everything). And don't think it was the Tories (now in charge), in this sense there is precious little difference between them and Labour and even the Liberal Democrats. It is a national culture that needs to be put under the spotlight and seriously questioned. Oh, but that is too much hard work, let's just carry on as usual and, now that we are beginning to suspect what's going on, simply pretend and feel the cosy warmth of......

[barry1010]

diddly, this appears to be the link mushroom has quoted from
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/hospital-chiefs-increasingly-frustrated-with-uk-testing-failures/ar-BB13ogKx?li=AAaeSy5

[Zacs-Master]

As diddly got her ‘facts’ from the guardian, here’s a link, from said organ, which explains the 19000 figure:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/hospital-chiefs-increasingly-frustrated-with-uk-testing-failures

I’ll leave the dear readers to conclude why this wasn’t posted in the first place.

[fiction-factory]

"A Guardian analysis of the data suggests that around 20% more tests are carried out each day than there are people tested. On Tuesday, that rose to a high of 37%
The reasons are unclear, but it is known that retests because of results that doctors disbelieve are not uncommon. In hospitals, that can be because doctors are convinced a patient has COVID-19 and do not believe a negative result, so get the test repeated."