No point looking at the figures, they are totally wrong.

[Frangipanini]

Every day we see X amount of people have been diagnosed and we think, OMG there are 19,522 with CV. Actually, there aren't. That is how many people are in hospital with very serous CV. I know of at least 10 people, including nurses, who have been told they have the CV due to their symptoms but are not presenting sick enough to be tested. So, those tested are wither high profile (royalty, in Govt.) or have been admitted to hospital. Those sent home from hospital as not sick enough, those going to the doctor, those coughing like mad down the 111 line are not tested and not included in the figures.

So, right now, I am absolutely furious that more people are not being tested. Where the F are the tests?

I am counting more on antibodies testing. I had a cough for 2 weeks and this could have been covid as well. No point going to the hospital, because they will send you home, so you’re right, there’s much more infected people already. Many youngsters don’t show symptoms at all.

I know 10 people with it and believe me, my social circle is not very large at all. Incidentally this is all in the SE. My relatives up north have not heard of one case between all of them.

Does anyone think that everyone is being tested?

Surely everyone except those who live without any kind of contact with the outside world know that until the last couple of days only those admitted to hospital and those who paid for their own tests were being tested.

I've not seen anywhere that anything else has been claimed or even suggested

I'm not in the SE and I don't know anyone in my family, friends or work colleagues who thinks they've had it. A couple of people who had a sore throat and fever but were better in a couple of days so then decided they didn't but that's it.

We are in the North West and had a terrible cough that went through the family and fizzled out within a week. Started with a sore throat. No fever, no aches. We have no way to know if that was it or just a cough.

Hoping the antibody testing is available soon.

I think most people know that. Everyone is aware they arent testing so new cases isnt a true reflection.

Each country is reporting slightly differently, testing differently etc. So trying to compare doesnt work either.

No point obsessing over figures. Just keep trying to do the best we can.

I'm not sure this is news really. Death figures themselves are severely stilted and this has been reported in the news also. They don't do testing at autopsy, nor can they confirm daily exactly how many have died as there are lengthy procedures involved for trusts, including having spoken to next of kin AND receiving permission from them. The 'daily' rate of death will be people who likely died prior to it. Hospital staff today are alleging that their own death rate is 30+ but only 11 have so far been published on record.

All that can be done is to use it as a very base guideline, and not become fixated.