The UK should have closed its borders and locked down in mid February. It is a massive failure which our supine press is letting the govt get away with because journalists are obsessed with two things.

Originally Posted by: Justin W 

Updated trajectory. UK now beginning to curve and fall back inline with Italy.

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

Population density is alot more important perhaps?

I mean NI is comparable to Ireland with similar pop density whereas England is alot worse with a much higher pop density.

Originally Posted by: Quantum 

I wonder how that would look with care home data?

Originally Posted by: John p 

As well as stopping domestic travel, China should have closed its international borders as well, but allowed it to spread.

Originally Posted by: Phil G 

I suspect the UK would be way above Italy - as far as I know Italy has far less of a “ship granny off to a home” culture than we do. In fact wasn’t the fact that multiple generations often live together in Italy cited as a reason why their death toll was far more disastrous than ours was going to be...?

Originally Posted by: Rob K 

Ouch...a boss breaks cover. Hope he isn't hounded out of his job for spilling the beans. Not surprised to learn that the UK government doesn't understand what is possible in the UK. 

The director of a large NHS trust has contacted the BBC asking for the phone numbers of Burberry and Barbour because he does not have enough gowns for his staff working on coronavirus wards.

...

UK garment factories approached by the BBC have said the government doesn't fully understand what is possible in the UK, and which firms could produce what. This lack of understanding has caused production delays.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52319576

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Hospital admissions for CV19 in UK regions, Italy, Spain and the US

 Very interesting and shows why the NHS may be coping somewhat better with the caseload as it has been diffuse across the country rather than the huge clusters seen in Lombardy, Madrid, Catalonia and NYC

Originally Posted by: xioni2 

The UK should have closed its borders and locked down in mid February. It is a massive failure which our supine press is letting the govt get away with because journalists are obsessed with two things:

1) Johnson as Churchill

2) When will the lockdown end?

What an absolute indictment of our country

Originally Posted by: Justin W 

So not a boss at all then.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52333540

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

BBC does have form in this regard:

https://order-order.com/2020/04/17/bbc-news-gp-standing-labour-candidate/

https://order-order.com/2020/04/17/bbcs-nurse-worried-ppe-left-wing-activist/

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

More alarming news:

Exclusive: NHS rationing oxygen with doctors instructed to downgrade blood saturation targets

Oxygen is being rationed to prevent hospitals running out due to the high demand from coronavirus patients, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

NHS leaders have quietly instructed doctors to lower their targets for how much oxygen seriously ill patients should carry in their blood - a measure of fundamental health - to below levels regarded as “adequate”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/17/exclusive-nhs-rationing-oxygen-doctors-instructed-downgrade/

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

The real number of UK covid-19 deaths is probably double the official stats, i.e. around 28-29k.

https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1251177524178161665?s=19

Originally Posted by: NickR 

a twatter link is expected to be taken seriously. lol the daily fail have more cred

Originally Posted by: picturesareme 

a twatter link is expected to be taken seriously. lol the daily fail have more cred

Originally Posted by: picturesareme 

Well sadly the weekly data published by the Registers of Scotland on Wednesday suggest the true picture of coronavirus deaths is two thirds higher than the hospital deaths, so the potential for the UK death toll to be twice the headline died in hospital having tested positive figure isn't an outrageous claim. 

Originally Posted by: haggishunter 

Do you really have such a poor grasp of what Twitter is used for?

Originally Posted by: NickR 

Remarkably similar 'Russian Flu' 1890
Originally Posted by: four