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Interesting. Could be either test capacity going up, or medical practices improving, or more infection of young people? Good advice I heard was that hospitalis
by frabcus 6y ago
Interesting. Could be either test capacity going up, or medical practices improving, or more infection of young people?
Good advice I heard was that hospitalisation with Covid symptoms is a better measure than deaths (happens sooner) or positive tests (not altered by increasing testing).
This report has that for Uk but alas only updated every week and then nearly a week late.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19...
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoYou can see up to date data on hospitalisations at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
- xo5vik 6y agoThese are the measures to watch as they were unavailable at the start of the pandemic. Hospital admissions, Covi-19 occupied beds and ventilator beds have all roughly doubled from 1-14 Sep.
- xo5vik 6y agoGood article about the PHE Covid-19 Dashboard here - it's quite recent: https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/04/the-covid-19-dashboard-bringing-together-data-and-statistics-in-one-place/ https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/04/the-covid...
- collyw 6y agoYes, but doubling from practically none is still a low number, compared to the peak a few months back.
- zelos 6y agoThe covid survey seems to show current rates are roughly a quarter what they were towards the end of the peak in the UK. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/11september2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...