Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:21 pm
#1877012
I thought that at the very start we used the WHO definition and then changed to the 28 day one because that was used by most countries!
MikeE wrote:JAFO wrote:While I agree that demanding ID and health status of people sat outside sipping coffee is bonkers, their approach could help to explain why France has 87,000 active cases and the UK has 1.4 million.
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Total tests UK - 321,188,533
Total tests France - 146,046,715
This is not the whole picture of course, but the more tests done the more cases are likely to be found.
JAFO wrote:MikeE wrote:JAFO wrote:While I agree that demanding ID and health status of people sat outside sipping coffee is bonkers, their approach could help to explain why France has 87,000 active cases and the UK has 1.4 million.
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Total tests UK - 321,188,533
Total tests France - 146,046,715
This is not the whole picture of course, but the more tests done the more cases are likely to be found.
@MikeE, so would twice the number of tests account for sixteen times the number of cases? Honest question.
malcolmfrost wrote:I thought that at the very start we used the WHO definition and then changed to the 28 day one because that was used by most countries!
Flyin'Dutch' wrote:VRB_20kt wrote:Is there a European standard definition for what constitutes a Covid death?
There is a WHO definition.
Lobbing people who have been tested out of the statistics who had a positive C19 test more than 28 days before, is not standard in that definition but actual practise in the UK.
StratoTramp wrote:It's true but someone in my team has had it 4 times. No effect. He hasn't died 4x. It's like anything else. Have it and get over it.
StratoTramp wrote:We knew 97%+ of people at least had it and got over it before. That has only been increased by vaccination.
Sorry it is being used as an excuse now because people don't like a commute and WFH is easy. In the end you are cheating yourself as china will enslave you. Too short term.
The question is whether to demand reparations from China.
Que gas crisis, pre pie tin crisis, fuel crisis etc. Too much dependance on globalisation rather than home grown supply.
Too much dependance on globalisation rather than home grown supply. Why can't the UK make its own alminium or frack it's own gas.