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As it happens, there’s been a 52% increase in infections and 17% increase in hospitalisation recently. Death rates are flat though. Was reported on Channel 5 N

As it happens, there’s been a 52% increase in infections and 17% increase in hospitalisation recently. Death rates are flat though. Was reported on Channel 5 News today.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago
>Death rates are flat though. Death rates tend to lag hospitalisations and infections.
DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
What about the long-term impact on the lungs, etc? > Was reported on Channel 5 News today. That does not fill me with confidence.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  There are actual statistics here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
- boomskats 5y ago
  > That does not fill me with confidence. You mean because Viacom?
  - DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
    Paramount now, but no: it's nothing to do with Viacom, but just that Channel 5's news programmes feel (to me, at least) dumbed-down in comparison to the BBC's or Sky's - let alone written journalism. I'm not accusing them of media-bias or intentional misreporting, but I just don't expect C5 to be entirely accurate on nuances of the issues reported or things like second-order consequences of news events. Medical news is far outside their organizational expertise: they don't have their own journalists: their Ofcom-mandated news programmes are made by ITN which just repackage AP/Reuters/BBC/ITN - it's better to get information closer to the source, where the details are, rather than getting lost in the game of telephone played between researchers, their journals, the journals' publishers (...and publicists), to newsgatherers, to newsagencies' editors, to newsrooms, and your screen. There's a lot of people in the way: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 So what I mean is that getting news on Covid from C5 is like getting world affairs updates from South Park.
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  Evidently it can do brain damage as well as recently noted in some studies.
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As it happens, there’s been a 52% increase in infections and 17% increase in hospitalisation recently. Death rates are flat though. Was reported on Channel 5 News today.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago

>Death rates are flat though. Death rates tend to lag hospitalisations and infections.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago

What about the long-term impact on the lungs, etc? > Was reported on Channel 5 News today. That does not fill me with confidence.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago
There are actual statistics here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
boomskats 5y ago
> That does not fill me with confidence. You mean because Viacom?
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
  Paramount now, but no: it's nothing to do with Viacom, but just that Channel 5's news programmes feel (to me, at least) dumbed-down in comparison to the BBC's or Sky's - let alone written journalism. I'm not accusing them of media-bias or intentional misreporting, but I just don't expect C5 to be entirely accurate on nuances of the issues reported or things like second-order consequences of news events. Medical news is far outside their organizational expertise: they don't have their own journalists: their Ofcom-mandated news programmes are made by ITN which just repackage AP/Reuters/BBC/ITN - it's better to get information closer to the source, where the details are, rather than getting lost in the game of telephone played between researchers, their journals, the journals' publishers (...and publicists), to newsgatherers, to newsagencies' editors, to newsrooms, and your screen. There's a lot of people in the way: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 So what I mean is that getting news on Covid from C5 is like getting world affairs updates from South Park.
stjohnswarts 5y ago
Evidently it can do brain damage as well as recently noted in some studies.

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