tinfoilhat Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 53 minutes ago, makapaka said: 4th time in 5 days we’ve done over a million tests. How are they counting the tests? At one point they were counting ones they've posted as a test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makapaka Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 1 hour ago, tinfoilhat said: How are they counting the tests? At one point they were counting ones they've posted as a test. I don’t know but either way it’s all relative - double what we were doing a couple of weeks ago. wonder if they’ll find more cases? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 2 hours ago, makapaka said: I don’t know but either way it’s all relative - double what we were doing a couple of weeks ago. wonder if they’ll find more cases? Numbers are going up pretty steadily so I'd guess yes. Serious cases? Not yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makapaka Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 31 minutes ago, tinfoilhat said: Numbers are going up pretty steadily so I'd guess yes. Serious cases? Not yet. But if you double the amount of tests - would you get double the results? im confused by it all. the cases are going up but so are the tests. why don’t we stop reporting the cases and report the hospitalisations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sibon Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 17 minutes ago, makapaka said: But if you double the amount of tests - would you get double the results? im confused by it all. the cases are going up but so are the tests. why don’t we stop reporting the cases and report the hospitalisations? I think that we need to report both. If cases keep going up, but hospitalisation doesn’t, we can conclude that the vaccine has broken that link. But we do need both bits of info to do that. The data is quite encouraging though. Lots of new cases, not so many serious ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 18 minutes ago, makapaka said: But if you double the amount of tests - would you get double the results? im confused by it all. the cases are going up but so are the tests. why don’t we stop reporting the cases and report the hospitalisations? Valid point - I suppose testing gives hospitals a heads up that a wave might be coming 3 weeks or so down the line. I'm reading A&Es are being swamped with numbers or at least are busier than normal. Funny thing is that as of Friday the Royal hospital in Chesterfield has zero covid cases according to chief exec there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki-red Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 8 hours ago, tinfoilhat said: Valid point - I suppose testing gives hospitals a heads up that a wave might be coming 3 weeks or so down the line. I'm reading A&Es are being swamped with numbers or at least are busier than normal. Funny thing is that as of Friday the Royal hospital in Chesterfield has zero covid cases according to chief exec there. Zero in the NGH too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky B Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 12 minutes ago, nikki-red said: Zero in the NGH too. But is that because they're all at RHH? 😉 Still, it's better than it was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Curves going up much less steeply than previous anyway https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 All eyes are on the hospital admission numbers, if that doesn't rise with cases then we're good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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