Uk Covid-19 Death Believed No2

[retrocop]

Another aged vulnerable person with underlying health problems believed to have succumbed to this virus in Milton Keynes. Well we were warned. That will mean,I guess, a ward full of NHS staff off duty and in quarantine for 14 days. :-(



https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/06/second-person-feared-dead-uk-coronavirus-12359887/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&utm_source=pushly

[douglas9401]

Are figures available for deaths from underlying health problems and old age in general?

How can we stop that particular scourge in its tracks?

I think we should be told, etc. Oughta be a law.

[jourdain2]

Deskdiary 19.04 I am not prone to panic, but I am concerned about this virus. Mr J2 is 86 (D.V. will be 87 in April) and has a triple-heart bypass (done 2000) he also occasionally ends up in hospital for a few days following arrhythmic attacks when his medication needs tweaking. I am just 70 - but I have been asthmatic for 4 or 5 years. This puts us both in high-risk groups and I am, for once, taking a few precautions.

I feel bad about it, but this morning I rang the Academy I volunteer in to say that I would be keeping away for a few weeks until we saw how the land lies. I simply daren't bring the virus home from school. I've just emailed my daughter to tell her that I will wait away from the school gates when I collect my grandchildren and that they must wash their hands thoroughly the minute I get them home, before I help with tables, spellings etc..

We ignored the last lot - and suffered. We survived, but that was 10 years ago! When I had bronchitis last year it took me 3 months to recover. So please forgive us for being a bit cautious this time. We'll live as normally as possible. :)

[jim360]

Nobody should panic. But they shouldn't be complacent either. I'm not sure how seriously to take worse-case scenarios, but at the moment cases in the UK are growing at a rate of about 40%/day, and it doesn't take too much time at such a growth rate to affect a lot of people one way or another.

[fender62]

if i had serious respitory issues id probably stay away from large crowds, as the virus seems to attack the lungs, im an older person but do not have lung issues, so im just going to carry on as normal, and have my regular ales down my local etc... i do however think its all rather getting overblown in the media, but im no doctor.

[brainiac]

One thing that annoys and frustrates me is that in this country most toilets in public places like cafés, hotels, restaurants etc have toilets where the doors to get out of them open inwards. So after washing ones's hands (which I always do, even before covid-19) you have to then put your hand on the handle of the door - sometimes two doors - to pull it inwards to get out. Doors should be made to open outwards to get out - as they often are in Europe.

[ladybirder]

The toilets in our local park always have the outer doors wedged open, all weathers. I don't know why, but it's a good idea I think.

[marval]

The door on our local public loo is always open, so no problem there.

[Peter Pedant]

// Why aren't the numbers of people who have recovered from the virus being deleted from the total?
Is it just to make the situation look worse than it is?//

this is called censoring data and you can do it ....
usually done in Cancer stats - the censored data is those who have not yet died - in the series ( Kaplan Meyer curves) - you want to know how many are alive in fiveyears and some most inconveniently are alive but havent made it to five y - whereas those short lived who HAVE died shorter than five years ARE counted

the Home Office were completely unable to understand this concept under the awful allison saunders
and couldnt understand the concept of appeals still in process and appeals already heard and decided yay or nay
all mediaeval french grads in my opinion

[pixie374]

Our local paper had claimed that the first people confirmed in the country were from Milton Keynes. So I'm wondering whether this is why.