CoVid19 Part XII - 4,604 in ROI (137 deaths) 998 in NI (56 deaths)(04/04) Read OP

willowthewisp · 02-04-2020 06:19PM

Multipass wrote: »

My son is in leaving cert and is working his butt off. I hope the exams go ahead, I really do. I can’t see what will happen with college admissions if they don’t. I don’t see why they can’t use primary schools as extra exam centres, space them out more, don’t allow congregation afterwards. I would certainly volunteer to invigilate.

Agreed , and what’s the alternative. Everyone start the year again? Lose a year? Also everyone is in the same boat, so if performance is affected points wise, it will probably be consistent across the board.

jackboy · 02-04-2020 06:20PM

cameramonkey wrote: »

Update of the report.

"Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus"

Well that note is not going to help. Admitting they don’t know the virus origin.

Rob A. Bank · 02-04-2020 06:20PM

A page of very detailed global interactive graphs and visualizations for the data hogs.

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – the data

statesaver · 02-04-2020 06:21PM

Could the Government just cancel the Junior Cert and use that extra space for social distancing of Leaving Cert students.

Inquitus · 02-04-2020 06:23PM

froog wrote: »

the median is better as it lessens the effect of outliers. for example a single death of a 10 year old would skew the average a lot. not so with the median.

The median is crap, you could have 9 10yos die 1 93yo and 9 94yos, the Median would be 93 and truly unreflective of what happened.

10000maniacs · 02-04-2020 06:23PM

eagle eye wrote: »

We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.

That just means we are doing more testing than say the African or Arabian countries with low figures.

gozunda · 02-04-2020 06:24PM

Strazdas wrote: »

This is where the antibody test might come into play. There may come a day soon when every person in Ireland is given the antibody test (I believe it only costs €5 or something).

On that. A specialist in infectious diseases interviewed on the radio the other day stated that the presence of antibodies does not necessarily mean that a person has developed immunity.

An antibody test will simply indicate whether the person has been infected at some point or not.

ITman88 · 02-04-2020 06:24PM

Inquitus wrote: »

The median is crap, you could have 9 10yos die 1 93yo and 9 94yos, the Median would be 93 and truly unreflective of what happened.

You could but we don’t have 9 10yo die

boardz · 02-04-2020 06:25PM

On average I prefer the median

RugbyLad11 · 02-04-2020 06:25PM

eagle eye wrote: »

We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.

But they some people seem to think our government are doing a great job

RugbyLad11 · 02-04-2020 06:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

But most of the counties more populous than us are not recording accurate / any figures. Either by design, or that they have no idea of them

But sure you could say the same for us

Rob A. Bank · 02-04-2020 06:26PM

A sad milestone on the Covid-19 road, with more to come as the infection graphs are exponential in many countries.

Coronavirus Cases: 1,000,889

of which 37,702 in severe condition

Deaths: 51,371

Recovered: 210,214

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 204 countries and territories

According to https://virusncov.com/

froog · 02-04-2020 06:26PM

Inquitus wrote: »

The median is crap, you could have 9 10yos die 1 93yo and 9 94yos, the Median would be 93 and truly unreflective of what happened.

and the mean would be 54, which is much less accurate. none of the people are even close to 54.

Ger Roe · 02-04-2020 06:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

He has to say that, even if they are not. Otherwise everyone just stops doing any study for the rest of the year.

So it's fair game to put additional mental pressure on our young people in a time of global crisis? Nothing else is certain at the moment, but we are certain that the exams will be going ahead kids.

Even if they aren't...

Not a good mental health policy there.

Stheno · 02-04-2020 06:26PM

Inquitus wrote: »

The median is crap, you could have 9 10yos die 1 93yo and 9 94yos, the Median would be 93 and truly unreflective of what happened.

I thought the median was that half those who died were over that age and half were under?

Is your calculation not the mean?

Inquitus · 02-04-2020 06:27PM

Stheno wrote: »

I thought the median was that half those who died were over that age and half were under?

Is your calculation not the mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median

gipi · 02-04-2020 06:28PM

eagle eye wrote: »

And are we? Have you looked at the number of deaths on rip.ie the last couple of days. Well above the average amount at about 130 per day and all deaths are not put up on rip.ie.

I noticed that too

Genghis · 02-04-2020 06:29PM

boardz wrote: »

On average I prefer the median

I know what you mean

johnnyskeleton · 02-04-2020 06:29PM

splashuum wrote: »

2015 article where a virology lab in Wuhan was testing a "bat" based coronavirus

[URL="https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?fbclid=IwAR28hFcpP6l-2SkWh8CPUj5UT9yZQqU7aEgzJvtC4ksnZkRYNS3oWd0dw2g#/ref-link-2
https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/666158895149264897"]https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?fbclid=IwAR28hFcpP6l-2SkWh8CPUj5UT9yZQqU7aEgzJvtC4ksnZkRYNS3oWd0dw2g#/ref-link-2

https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/666158895149264897[/URL]

2015 tweet stating the same https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/666158895149264897?fbclid=IwAR3L3h2QjUjBEW7-PlsfO7cHFVoWi2ZjbNhbHS12WENdBntHS8fc-07oUmQ

First line of the online article, being the only relevant part:

Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.

ChikiChiki · 02-04-2020 06:30PM

RugbyLad11 wrote: »

But they some people seem to think our government are doing a great job

They are doing a good job. Think of all the failed states, tinpot dictatorships and general ****holes that constitute "other countries". Like fcuk are they reporting accurately.

Beasty · 02-04-2020 06:30PM

Inquitus wrote: »

The median is crap, you could have 9 10yos die 1 93yo and 9 94yos, the Median would be 93 and truly unreflective of what happened.

It works for larger populations though and unfortunately the numbers are going to be increasing. Hence you may get that sort of distortion in daily figures but it's much less likely a problem with the cumulative totals

dougm1970 · 02-04-2020 06:30PM

over a million confirmed cases worldwide

Cork Boy 53 · 02-04-2020 06:30PM

boardz wrote: »

On average I prefer the median

Do you mean that?

JPCN1 · 02-04-2020 06:31PM

eagle eye wrote: »

We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.

We are testing more per head of population than most, therefore showing more cases I presume.

Tippex · 02-04-2020 06:32PM

s1ippy wrote: »

Where are you reading that? Also nobody has called it the Inter Cert since the 70s so there goes any credibility you had as an education spokesperson.

that's wrong it was still the Inter cert when I done it in 89 it became the junior cert that year with the first exam in 92.

Ha Long Bay · 02-04-2020 06:32PM

ChikiChiki wrote: »

They are doing a good job. Think of all the failed states, tinpot dictatorships and general ****holes that constitute "other countries". Like fcuk are they reporting accurately.

India is only reporting 2,341 confirmed cases which is almost 1500 less than Ireland. I'd say they have a few more than that at this stage.

magma69 · 02-04-2020 06:35PM

eagle eye wrote: »

We are the 124th most populous country in the world. We are 22nd in number of coronavirus cases.

It's the nuance of your post that makes it great.

02-04-2020 06:35PM

DenMan wrote: »

George Lee's last couple of sentences mentioned that some PPE that arrived from China was not what was expected ..
Sounds like a way of not reporting on defective medical equipment that we like other European countries got from China.

Yep, as I predicted.

cameramonkey · 02-04-2020 06:35PM

jackboy wrote: »

Well that note is not going to help. Admitting they don’t know the virus origin.

No one knows that source of the virus admitting that is not a state secret.

otnomart · 02-04-2020 06:36PM

DOCARCH wrote: »

Saw on BBC the other day France were to start adding figures for nursing home deaths.

The data on Ehpad nurning homes in France has just been published, and unfortunately it is quite high

https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/coronavirus-salomon-annonce-au-moins-884-morts-dans-les-ehpad-1887357.html

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