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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭rafatoni


    citysights wrote: »
    Seriously, they must have bought it from Del Boy!!
    Spent over 200 million buying gear from these spoofers. Unreal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭the.red.baron


    Mean and average are the same. Add up the numbers and divide by the number of numbers.

    Median is the highest number added to the lowest number and then divided by two.

    Median is usually higher than mean, making the age at death seem higher.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Achasanai wrote: »
    I suppose it depends on which statistics you believe. Others have suggested that not only are deaths in Italy (and elsewhere) far in excess of comparable periods, this excess suggests that Covid19 deaths are being unreported:


    https://twitter.com/J_CD_T/status/1245739661449977867

    Exactly there is a variance on what stats you believe.
    Other stats suggest the incredibly mild Winter has up to now created a much lower annual death rate.

    Until this year is over we won’t know what the death rate will be


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    what time is the meeting today?


    Whats the difference between avergae, mean and median


    Why can't they start the presser on time


    I think we will get to 2 million tomorrow


    Leos great


    Leos ****e


    Have SF dissappeared



    anything I missed?

    We are going to send China back to the stone age. With a few lads and a hurley stick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    A lot of people regretting not listening in school when the maths teacher was talking about median. They probably thought it was something they'd never need. How wrong they were!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Italy today
    4,585 new cases and 766 deaths in Italy.

    Italy in lockdown 2 weeks before us. This demonstrates how slow the come down is from peak figures 10-12 days ago.

    RIP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    jackboy wrote: »
    I’m thinking after this maybe there will be some extra actions taken every winter to reduce flu deaths.

    One thing we are seeing is the ease that this spreads in hospitals. New practices should come out of this experience.

    Shaking hands at mass should be gone for good. It may be time to get rid of shaking hands at funerals also.

    Most people still going to work even though they are in a state with colds and flus may change.

    There are many many learnings from this which could be applied to flu season. What is culturally considered appropriate levels of hygiene may be stricter after this.

    There might be something to taking more care of the flu during winter season, but the flu can not and should not be compared to or even mentioned in the same sentence as this.

    The flu is generally something only the elderly die of and even they have a pretty good chance of fighting it off. What's more the flu is rare in itself and is harder to catch, it's not as contagious. When some people do have the flu YES of course you must be very careful around them.

    The flu takes people who are on death's door in general, people on beds waiting to die. This is routinely taking immunocompromised people or those in their 50s, 60s and 70s who may be in fine health and have decades of life expectancy left. Here's one example:

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/areema-nasreen-death-coronavirus-healthy-nhs-nurse-a4405961.html

    This isn't something you can pull out of the past few years like with the flu, this is happening to many people every day. Also the flu occurs over the whole year, there is no extraordinary spike, that's another element to it.

    I have personally never heard or read of anyone dying with the flu, especially not a young person. You would now and again hear of celebrities or people well known dying of car crashes or rare cancers or something like that, I don't believe I have ever in my life heard of someone like that dying of the flu, not unless they were really elderly and frail then maybe it was the final thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3



    Median is usually higher than mean, making the age at death seem higher.

    Do you mean in this case?

    In most cases, like wealth and income and so on, the mean is way higher than the median, which is more useful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Considering events in England this week, the lockdown might be causing more deaths than Covid-19 itself!

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/murder-probe-hemel-hempstead-coronavirus-lockdown-a4402141.html

    I think there have probably been an increase of suicides and domestic violence across many countries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭shocksy


    The briefing is at 5.30pm this evening.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    You never shut up about the economy and suicides. You're in a little young man, office, economy bubble. A kind of Tory extreme. Elements of Thatcherism.

    Economy yes, suicides not????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Italy today
    4,585 new cases and 766 deaths in Italy.

    Italian testing numbers are back high again.

    They were very low for a few days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Achasanai wrote: »
    I suppose it depends on which statistics you believe. Others have suggested that not only are deaths in Italy (and elsewhere) far in excess of comparable periods, this excess suggests that Covid19 deaths are being unreported:


    https://twitter.com/J_CD_T/status/1245739661449977867

    That's scary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    I cant believe how high the cases and deaths in Italy are remaining. Youd think thered be a significant drop at least by now, its been so long since the lockdown began


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,591 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    you are smart enough for both of us

    Better than being AVERAGE.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Italy today
    4,585 new cases and 766 deaths in Italy.

    How are they having such high number of new cases?

    Is their lockdown working at all?

    How come china was able to lower their new cases within a matter of weeks and it keeps growing in Italy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    Italian testing numbers are back high again.

    They were very low for a few days.

    They've been fractionally decreased because of the lockdown.

    40-70% of people will likely end up getting it no matter what we do as Merkhel and many top scientists have said. Notice how they say flatten the curve, not reduce the amount under the curve.

    The idea of two weeks or four weeks and we'll be back to normal is pure farce.

    They will start attributing many of the deaths to other causes just like China and start up the economy again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    There might be something to taking more care of the flu during winter season, but the flu can not and should not be compared to or even mentioned in the same sentence as this.

    The flu is generally something only the elderly die of and even they have a pretty good chance of fighting it off. What's more the flu is rare in itself and is harder to catch, it's not as contagious. When some people do have the flu YES of course you must be very careful around them.

    The flu takes people who are on death's door in general, people on beds waiting to die. This is routinely taking immunocompromised people or those in their 50s, 60s and 70s who may be in fine health and have decades of life expectancy left. Here's one example:

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/areema-nasreen-death-coronavirus-healthy-nhs-nurse-a4405961.html

    This isn't something you can pull out of the past few years like with the flu, this is happening to many people every day. Also the flu occurs over the whole year, there is no extraordinary spike, that's another element to it.

    I have personally never heard or read of anyone dying with the flu, especially not a young person. You would now and again hear of celebrities or people well known dying of car crashes or rare cancers or something like that, I don't believe I have ever in my life heard of someone like that dying of the flu, not unless they were really elderly and frail then maybe it was the final thing.

    The only correct part of your statement is that the flu is less contagious.

    Everything else displays an ignorance to what being happening in Europe and the UK for a number of years.

    Just because you didn’t hear of young flu deaths it didn’t happen. 😯


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    owlbethere wrote: »
    How are they having such high number of new cases?

    Is their lockdown working at all?

    How come china was able to lower their new cases within a matter of weeks and it keeps growing in Italy?

    China may be economical with the truth. Also they welded peoples' doors to keep them in. Different definition of lockdown.

    South Korea is more of a good example. Still about 90 new cases a day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭the.red.baron


    That's scary.




    if they haven't tested them they can't be sure what it was, perhaps that explains it


    look the UK, nursing homes etc, that man who died in the nursing home here without a test, how was he recorded


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  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    First of all you are brain dead. You don't know anything, you don't understand anything. Don't for one second think I'm considering talking with you as some sort of argument or discussion, you're a joke.

    My stats are the most objective ones available from WHO and worldometers.info

    It is widely believed they are underestimates of those actually getting the virus and dying from it. Many more are dying from coronavirus without being tested for it, they are not included. The UK has estimated it could be actually 24% greater or more in their country.

    There are also many who are currently in the process of dying and many are left with life altering complications that slash their future life expectancy.

    A month ago I might have understood some of your horse****, now it's like you're insane.

    You're a joke.
    Threadbanned


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bekker


    That's wrong. The median is the value that separates the high half of a data set from the lower half

    Say a 1 year old an 84 year old and an 85 year old die from CV. The median age is not 43.

    Median is used rather than average because an extreme value can heavily skew an average in a small dataset.
    What's the median of 2,3,4,5,5,5,6,6,6,8,45,67,77,98 ? Hint it's not 50.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    Id say Italy are noe doing more testing which is resulting in more cases still.

    They'll & the rest of Europe may need to be in a lockdown until a vaccine comes out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Italian testing numbers are back high again.

    They were very low for a few days.

    It still looks like they're hopefully on the downwards curve now, if it can continue for the next week then it'll be good news. Looks like about 1400 recoveries today also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭the.red.baron


    ITman88 wrote: »
    The only correct part of your statement is that the flu is less contagious.

    Everything else displays an ignorance to what being happening in Europe and the UK for a number of years.

    Just because you didn’t hear of young flu deaths it didn’t happen. ��




    is the flu less contagious though, or are you just not passing it on because of immunity


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    owlbethere wrote: »
    How are they having such high number of new cases?

    Is their lockdown working at all?

    How come china was able to lower their new cases within a matter of weeks and it keeps growing in Italy?


    Italy has a very old population so there's a good chance it has struck at a lot of nursing homes and hospitals resulting in a lot of deaths. Also people may be staying at home but Italians and Spanish live in apartment blocks and as was seen is SARS these virus's can rip through apartment blocks. As regard the Chinese numbers. They have told so many lives its hard to take what they say as fact. There is a lot of reports that suggest maybe close to 80000 people could have died.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭the.red.baron


    Better than being AVERAGE.




    why do you have be so MEAN


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    owlbethere wrote: »
    How are they having such high number of new cases?

    Is their lockdown working at all?

    How come china was able to lower their new cases within a matter of weeks and it keeps growing in Italy?

    They're initial lockdown wasn't really a lockdown and alot in the north upped and went south which I'd say is accounting for a good lot of the cases. Plus the age of the population could be a factor.

    The new cases are pretty steady though for the last few days so its working alright but only been a strict lockdown for what the last 2-3 weeks, so it'll definitely be extended out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Wombatman wrote: »
    "spread for longer and at an ever increasing rate". What? It takes longer, faster?

    Are your talking about population density or size?

    You can only compare between countries in per capita terms.

    Both longer and faster (at an ever increasing rate).

    It takes more time for a virus to burn its way through a larger population of potential hosts so it will take longer to get through a population of 50 million than 5 million.

    The longer a virus continues unhindered through a population not only does the number of people exposed / infected increase but because of the geometric or exponential nature of transmission / infection, the rate of transmission / infection also increases. Not only are there more new patients but the rate at which new patients are presenting is also increasing.

    If it is not brought under effective control early geometric or exponential growth can very soon get to unmanageable numbers, even for a large country. A small delay in action can have a significant effect as can be seen in the UK figures and current projections of over 1000 deaths daily.

    All other things being equal, at the same point in time a less populous area or country is further along its 'outbreak curve' than a more populous area or country. If a comparison is made on a per capita basis then it also needs to take into account where in their 'outbreak curve' each country is.

    At the beginning of an outbreak, before exposure reaches 60% to 70% and herd immunity starts to have a significant effect, a simple unscaled numeric comparison is more representative of how effectively an outbreak or cluster has been contained.

    A person won't infect sixty times the number of people in a week in the USA than they would in Ireland so simple per capita comparisons can't be made.

    Unhindered, a source of infection should initially spread at the same absolute rate irrespective of the relative population sizes. If it spreads more slowly in one than another then it is because if natural and/or anthropogenic mitigation. e.g. population density, early introduction of socual distancing measures, progressive shutdowns, restriction of travel, contact tracing and isolation.

    I think and hope Ireland has done just enough, just in time to keep the situation within our capacity to deal with. Countries that do to little or leave it too late will pay a disproportionate price.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    wakka12 wrote: »
    I cant believe how high the cases and deaths in Italy are remaining. Youd think thered be a significant drop at least by now, its been so long since the lockdown began
    The rate of increase is down to about 4% so hopefully not far off peak. Regrettably, they will have a large death toll for a while but it should start to decline once the rate of increase gets close to zero.


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