Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Covid

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

Daily numbers, graphs, analysis thread 3

992 replies

Barracker · 03/04/2020 18:10

Welcome to thread 3 of the daily updates.

Resource links:
Worldometer UK page
Financial Times Daily updates and graphs
HSJ Coronavirus updates
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre
NHS England stats, including breakdown by Hospital Trust
Covidly.com to filter graphs using selected data filters
ONS statistics for CV related deaths outside hospitals, released weekly each Tuesday

Thank you to all contributors for their factual, data driven, and civil discussions. Flowers

OP posts:
Thread gallery
56
ScrimpshawTheSecond · 09/04/2020 12:39

Yes, we have fairly chronically low levels of Vitamin D in the UK. And coming out of winter that will be a low time of year.

1 in 5 people are deficient, apparently.

www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/the-new-guidelines-on-vitamin-d-what-you-need-to-know/

BigChocFrenzy · 09/04/2020 12:42

I've been objecting to the fury on some threads against people who sit in the sun - keeping 2m rule - as part of their "allowed" time out
People are saying take Vit D pills instead

Enjoying sunshine is much better imo, psychologically too.
It has been encouraged here (Germany) including for those who can't / won't actually exercise outside, but it was before COVID too

DuLANGDuLANGDuLANG · 09/04/2020 12:48

The spring is so important for humans, isn’t it? Sunlight good for immunity, strong bones, lifting the gloomy moods that come with short winter days, losing the extra layer of fat many of us put down over Xmas.

It’s cruel (and bad for public health) to attack people who are just seeking out what they need to be healthy, especially when you have the luxury of outdoor space and they don’t.

We live in bog standard Victorian northern terrace, and I am so, so grateful for our little square of backyard.

Sillyscrabblegames · 09/04/2020 13:09

Scotland 81

peridito · 09/04/2020 13:12

Oh pocket is he ?Trust me ,I have no critical facilities with this kind of stuff .Blush

Maybe like many things a grain of truth in advice to get Vit D levels up .

Am tempted to ask about the idea of intubation "damaging" lungs ,but it's not a data question so probably not v relevant on this thread .

UYScuti · 09/04/2020 13:14

Next thing we know the government will be ordering us all to spend one hour outside in the sun, but like points on a grid spaced at 2 m intervals

Frompcat · 09/04/2020 13:37

I actually feel like I have the opposite of SAD. I feel so much better in the winter. Feel anxious and miserable every time it starts to get warm and sunny.

Zofloramummy · 09/04/2020 13:45

I’ve told my parents to take vit d and zinc just to try and give their immune system a boost. It can’t hurt and it may help.

NeurotrashWarrior · 09/04/2020 13:53

I think this has been discussed before but Is this report anything to do with vit d status? I believe it's BAME communities in the U.K. who often suffer from low vit d; rickets had been making a comeback in some areas at one point and I seem to remember it being more of an issue among BAME people? Obviously we only get vit d from the sun half the year here.

Are minorities being hit hardest by coronavirus? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52219070

Sexnotgender · 09/04/2020 14:22

Another 81 deaths in Scotland bringing total to 447.

ShootsFruitAndLeaves · 09/04/2020 14:22

Latest NHS England figures 765 new deaths, 140, 284, 100 from last 3 days

Yesterday was 828 with 135, 306, 162.

So not in fact a fall, a slight rise or statistically insignificant difference but yesterday's figure was inflated by weekend deaths recorded late.

Laniakea · 09/04/2020 14:35

"Of the 765 new hospital deaths announced today by NHS England, 140 occurred on April 8 while 568 took place between April 1 and April 7.

The remaining 57 deaths occurred in March, including two on March 19 and one on March 16."

ShootsFruitAndLeaves · 09/04/2020 14:40

That's entirely consistent with previous days

Zofloramummy · 09/04/2020 14:40

So are we starting to steady out on the rate?

Sunshinesky1981 · 09/04/2020 14:41

So that's 765 from England + 81 from Scotland. Have Wales or NI updated numbers yet?

SabineSchmetterling · 09/04/2020 14:43

Wales was 41. Don’t think NI numbers have been released.

Rosehip10 · 09/04/2020 14:44

Also today's wales figure are only a 12hr period.

GreyGardens88 · 09/04/2020 14:44

So 140 total for yesterday?

Wired4sound · 09/04/2020 14:44

I thought it would be over a 1000 today

BigChocFrenzy · 09/04/2020 14:45

PHW are changing their reporting time, so we can expect a sharp drop in today's daily Welsh figures

FaFoutis · 09/04/2020 14:46

140 recorded. Any others will be in statistics in the next few days.

DuLANGDuLANGDuLANG · 09/04/2020 14:46

IIRC low levels of vitamin D have been observed amongst conservative/orthodox communities who have ‘high coverage’ dress codes.
That was quite a few years back now, so hopefully the public health campaign at the time has made supplemental vitamin D a normal part of life for anyone falling into that risk category.

It’s been hypothesised that the reason humans living in Europe developed lighter skin is to maximise the vitamin D available from less sunlight (not my area so I don’t know how credible the theory is, but it makes logical sense and would explain why black Britons and African Americans have fewer Vit D reserves than their white neighbours).

the likely explanation for the pigmentation genes is to maximize vitamin D synthesis, said paleoanthropologist Nina Jablonski of Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, as she looked at the poster’s results at the meeting. People living in northern latitudes often don’t get enough UV to synthesize vitamin D in their skin so natural selection has favored two genetic solutions to that problem—evolving pale skin that absorbs UV more efficiently or favoring lactose tolerance to be able to digest the sugars and vitamin D naturally found in milk. “What we thought was a fairly simple picture of the emergence of depigmented skin in Europe is an exciting patchwork of selection as populations disperse into northern latitudes,” Jablonski says. “This data is fun because it shows how much recent evolution has taken place.”

www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin#

If correct, at least this is something we can try and equalise through improved public health education and access to supplements (unlike the X chromosome explanation for why men are getting sicker than women).

SabineSchmetterling · 09/04/2020 14:47

140 so far for yesterday. There is a lag in the figures. The vast majority of the deaths that occurred yesterday will get added into the figures over the next week.

Sostenueto · 09/04/2020 14:51

Don't know if this might be useful on this thread. It's about stats on carehomes and community deaths and ways they measure all death rates.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending27march2020

namechangemania · 09/04/2020 15:06

So we’re at at a total of 887 for the U.K. today so far, without NI figures