Why aren’t U.K. reporting closed cases (recovered)?

[SinkGirl]

According to the stats, only 135 people in the UK have had diagnosed coronavirus and recovered / been discharged from hospital.

I thought maybe this is because we are only testing seriously ill people but that can’t be the case because it says 99% of the active cases are mild.

Apparently there are only 193 open cases in the UK which are critical, which surely cannot be true given the daily death totals.

What am I missing? Are the UK just not reporting figures properly?

(Taken from worldometer stats)

The problem is that each country measures these things slightly differently. In Scotland we have 147 people in ICU but 1153 in hospital. I suspect the discharge figures are also around somewhere.

The numbers on Worldometer clearly aren't being maintained. I've never seen the critical number above 193, yet we've had more than 2000 deaths - those people didn't just go straight from mild case to dead.

Indeed - other countries data is updating, so I’m curious about why the UK’s isn’t (whether the figures aren’t being released or whether the site isn’t updating them but that seems unlikely where some are updated)

This has been bothering me. It can’t be possible that no people have recovered for the past 10 days but the figure hasn’t been updated for at least that long. Why hasn’t it?

Probably because the figure would terrify those being kept calm by the 'it's only the oldies that end up in iCU' bullshit.

It's the same reason as why the number of confirmed cases is a lot less than the number of actual number of cases of coronavirus. The number of confirmed cases is low because only a small percentage of people are tested, currently those who are unwell enough to go to hospital or HCPs.

The only recorded data we have for "recovered" individuals is people who have needed to be treated in hospital for the duration of the disease or tested to make sure they are clear of the virus because they are HCPs. Most of the people who are unwell enough to go to hospital (and therefore be tested) will still be able to return home before they have fully recovered and are clear of the virus so there is no official record of the outcome.