Rolling chart for hospital deaths in England with backdated data

The 178 patients in England were aged between 32 and 98 years old

12 of the 178 patients aged between 58 and 95 years old had no known underlying health conditions

Regional breakdown of the 178 new hospital deaths

• North West - 44


• North East & Yorkshire - 32


• Midlands - 28


• London - 25


• East of England - 23


• South East - 18


• South West - 8

I wouldn't either. We can vaccinate monkeys against it and there's no reason we can't do the same on us apes. (Side note: this'll create awkward ethical dilemmas if the successful vaccine turns out to have been tested on primates!)

What we should be pushing for in the meantime is much, much greater use of antibody testing, starting with anyone who had flu-like symptoms from February onwards.

Agreed and I don't think a lack of phlebotomists can be used as a reason not to use the reliable antibody tests. I think most doctors and nurses know how to draw blood.

Breakdown of the 178 hospital deaths in England by date

• 33 on May 9th


• 88 on May 8th


• 27 on May 7th


• 24 between May 1st and May 6th


• 4 in April


• 2 in March with one on March 17th

Not surprising considering it is ridiculous whichever way you look at it 

I've had the monthly summary report through from my car (it emails me once a month) and it strikes me I'll probably not see the likes of this again for several years, if ever*. I expect as the lockdown frays ("stay alert" - what garbage, it implies you don't have to stay at home any more) that I'll be called in more frequently to work, and once the guidelines change for gatherings I will be back to the wolf centre.

In the meantime, I'll enjoy the fuel savings and - when I do go out - the much quieter roads.

(* - my plan is to leave the school once the wolves die - the youngest are 9 at the moment - and work from home. I will thus be driving much less, although 100 miles a month - as in April - will be a hard ask!)

It implies that you can do what you like, providing you keep a distance / be aware not to cough on people etc. Obviously that's not the case, but it's such a failure of a message that you just know people will take it as carte blanche to meet their pals / organise sports matches etc.

The police moved 850 people on from the beaches in Thanet yesterday. The law may still technically be the same, but it'll be damned hard for them to enforce it now that the message has changed...

(Source: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/850-people-ordered-off-beaches-in-one-day-226953/ )

Limit contact with other people ………………..other than who ?

Its an  absolutely ridiculous comment - Sent the slogan to a mate ………...reply " Does this mean we can go and see friends" 

Sorry, but that's just rubbish. I was supportive of the govt until early March. 

Keep an eye on Germany. The German people are apparently much keener to end lockdown than we are. Therefore, I expect the German federal government and regional states will be minded to keep easing for a while.

The reproduction rate of the virus in Germany has risen above one, causing concern days after some restrictions were eased.

The country's "R-value" - the average number of people a patient will infect - is now 1.1, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control said. [source: BBC]

Riot police clashed with hundreds of protesters yesterday in Berlin wanting an end to the lockdown

I wonder who would usually exercise more than once a day.

What absolute cobblers. 

Edit: This really is a lamentable post, Andy. Xioni was, indeed, broadly supportive of HMG in early March and I can say that because he and I disagreed a few times.

I really do wonder at what point you stopped being able to reason and just started your regime of unquestioning loyalty to Boris Johnson. It is extraordinary.