CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)*OP upd 28/03*

Tony EH wrote: »

Jesus...surely it was more than just a test?

For Danni Askini’s first trip to the hospital in Boston on Feb. 29, for example, she was charged $1,804 for her emergency room visit and another $3,841.07 for “hospital services.”

Sorry, it was this figure that was sticking in my head.

dummy_crusher wrote: »

Link?

Was on Telegraph live blog will try to give a more direct link

https://www.bnnvara.nl/zembla/artikelen/huisartsen-niet-geteste-patinten-die-overlijden-aan-corona-ontbreken-in-sterftecijfer-rivm
Dutch GP's claim death toll from coronavirus in the country is higher than official number.

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

Well, one thing is for sure - nobody is laughing at those American "preppers" now , with their shacks in the mountains with 6 months worth of food.

I am. Society is still functioning and food deliveries are still happening. Still no zombies, people dying of hunger, but a ton of ghastly tinned food and rations to get through.

98 people died in the first 24 days of March in the city of Bergamo last year, vs 446 this year
https://twitter.com/giorgio_gori/status/1243204679934324738

That PPE order from China is humongous- total cost of €200m! 10 flights alone just to get the first batch at €30m here from Sunday. Total of about 300 flights needed between now and the end of May.

Lavinia wrote: »

So almost 7k new cases in both USA and Spain today in this one day only...

edit: and Germany too

The US had 13k yesterday they will have 15k today I think won;t be long before they hit 20k in a single day

interesting web site
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

Hector Savage wrote: »

And South Italy has been in lockdown for 2+ weeks now, I don't know how the spread is getting worse there ...

Its not, they've stabilised it, there's no trajectory in terms of deaths, not for Italy anyway.

By the way guys, just a question - as members of the EU what have they done for Ireland to help in this emergency?

England only had 28 deaths yesterday, but there was a reason for that as Kate McCann of Sky News points out:

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Kate McCann
@KateEMcCann
For those asking/concerned about PHE figures on covid-19 deaths and why the number yesterday was low/why the way it is reported has changed, here is some more information:

NHS has been providing figures to PHE on covid deaths by 9am every day and PHE then publishing stats at 2pm. That was the intention. But as deaths rise it has become difficult to collate and verify the numbers in time.

That has led to figures being published after the 2pm deadline. To get on top of this, PHE and NHS have decided to change the time these numbers are reported to allow more time to check they're all correct.

Importantly, the way the deaths are collated has not changed, only the time. [I am still waiting to hear what the new cut off time is, and the new publishing time].

As a result, yesterday's death stats looked much lower than expected but unfortunately that was a crossover day when the times were being altered. So today the stats are likely to look far higher.

To give a more accurate picture (although I appreciate this is not ideal, stats experts) the suggestion is we add up the figures from yesterday and today and then divide by two to better understand what is happening.

There is also likely to be a note published later from officials to explain this formally, so that people can rest assured there is nothing funny going on with the numbers here.