Delay in today's numbers

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Unless I'm being really stupid, it doesn't look like the numbers have been updated for today, it still says 24th March

www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Not seen any reasons as to why they are delayed?

As @RainbowPenguins posted above, the Department of Health said: "Please note these figures do not cover a full 24 hour period". Insinuating that they are not fully up to date figures. @defthand I wonder if that’s why it hasn’t updated yet?

Someone on another thread suggesting antibiotic resistance could be a factor- countries with steep curves (Spain, Italy) could have higher antibiotic resistance in the population compared to flattened curves (Germany and maybe... UK?)

Seems very unlikely - why would antibiotic resistance have anything to do with a virus at all?

@qweryuiop As in viral illnesses of the lungs/airway often a secondary bacterial infection develops which needs to be urgently treated.

Yes @KeysDontBelongInTheFridge I think that tweet makes it clear. They’ve only reported partial data for the deaths on Twitter etc. And the dashboard has not updated that stat at all so as not to confuse things by doing a partial update.

Disappointing but at least it makes more sense. I hope it doesn’t give people a false of security re: the lockdown tomorrow.

Disappointing that the numbers aren’t really that low, that is. Unfortunately this *er has a pretty recognisable pattern at this point.

Its updated now.

I didn't think the UK had ever done temperature checks? I know Italy did.
Everyone I talked to who flew at that time, none from Italy, bit from places like Singapore said the country they flew from did temperature checks, but in the UK there was nothing except signs to wash your hands.

Well I dont what to tell you. We (myself and my colleague) were checked for internal flights and sh and the kids were definitely checked because it scared asd ds and I had to video call him to help calm him down. Not likely to forget that.

11 Friday 13th
21 Saturday 14th
35 Sunday 15th
55 Monday 16th
71 Tuesday 17th
104 wed 18th
144 Thur 19 th
177 Friday 20th
233 Saturday 21st
281 Sunday 22nd
335 Monday 23rd
424 Tuesday 24th
465 Wednesday 25th

Looking at figures which were doubling every 2-3 days makes me think figure us low or not a complete 24 hour figure.

Well we can only wait and see today’s numbers. No point everyone speculating.

Imperial college London. One of the professors who advises the government are saying that they now feel the nhs won’t be breached if we keep this up, and that deaths could be way lower than the 20k, and that this could potentially be over by Easter.

Which would be fabulous. Let’s all cling onto some green shoots of hope.

And here’s an article, sorry it’s the fail, from the 31 Jan, a full seven weeks ago showing China town desserted, and it wasn’t the only place in London. People have been slowing social interaction for a couple of months now.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7953455/Chinatown-ghost-town-Londons-famous-district-deserted-coronavirus-fear-spreads.html

Government website updated. There were 1452 confirmed yesterday. Bringing the total to 9529.

Yes, but it’s hard to say what the comment on not a full twenty four hours means. It could mean the previous days were higher, because they were more than twenty four hours, so yesterday’s were lower as some had already been counted, or it could mean they submitted the numbers early yesterday and didn’t capture a whole day, but that seems Illogical due to them being late.

We can only wait till tonight to see what the numbers are.

And here’s an article, sorry it’s the fail, from the 31 Jan, a full seven weeks ago showing China town desserted,

Chinatown was deserted because people were concerned about transmission from Wuhan. It was not at all representative of the country. To claim the country has been socially distancing on a significant scale for weeks is nonsense.

I don’t think two weeks ago we suddenly implemented such strong measures for that to have an impact on the death rate today. I stick by that. Just because Flybe went bust (it was on the verge anyway).
Travel was maybe not advised to Italy and China but DH went to Austria and PIL to Spain. This was exactly two weeks ago.

Cheltenham festival was still on on the 13th March! We were really still in the wash your hands and have a little sing phase. Schools were still open...

It takes weeks for lockdown to have any impact. See Italy.

that this could potentially be over by Easter.

Easter’s two weeks away.... there’s being optimistic, and there’s being deluded; this falls into the latter.

So Spain locked down after 200 deaths, 600 less than Italy and now they have overtaken them in total ? That seems very worrying. I know the lockdown was flouted in Spain, but we’re hardly in lockdown here tbh. We just have no way of knowing how this will go for the U.K.

I don’t think two weeks ago we suddenly implemented such strong measures for that to have an impact on the death rate today.

I agree, but even if it did, it takes 3-4 weeks for deaths to work their way through... 5 days on average from infection to symptoms, and 18 days on average to death (if you are unlucky enough to die) from display of first symptoms (see link below).

www.newscientist.com/article/2236846-coronavirus-risk-of-death-rises-with-age-diabetes-and-heart-disease/

It looks like we are lying about numbers. And because we aren't testing alot of people, I'm assuming some deaths from covid haven't been listed. Looks dodge

Yep totally agree too. That’s why I don’t think the death rate currently has anything to do with any action we have taken in the past month or so.

And the fucking daily mail headline is ‘is it working, death rate halves’. We’ve only been in lockdown a few days ! What idiots. Totally irresponsible reporting. I can guarantee that lots of people will read that and think it’s all a fuss about nothing. I’ve seen people on our estate still meeting friends, building sites in full swing with loads of workers in close proximity.

Easter’s two weeks away.... there’s being optimistic, and there’s being deluded; this falls into the latter

Ok, but it’s the professor who did the imperial college report that the government use who publicly said that, not me. So it’s him you’re saying is deluded. I’m guessing you can post your credentials like he can and why you have more knowledge Than him?

And I don’t see why the daily mail is any more irresponsible with their headline on is it working than the other scaremongering shit they’ve been publishing.