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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/09/deadly-virus-britain-failed-prepare-mers-sars-ebola-coronavirus

No problem . I have had a full day of getting the wrong gist of things ! Easily done.

I suspect the convalescing may be aimed at the gap in social care provision . If they have been in hospital they have probably already been tested?

My stepmum told me today that a friend ' s daughter who works as a kind of trouble shooter/ project manager contracted to NHS is currently sourcing locations for convalesing people, so perhaps the penny has dropped ...

Excellent article https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN21P1VF?__twitter_impression=true

Time lag and differing figures. Under reporting a potentially huge issue See whole thread

Once care home deaths are added in the picture may look very different

Interesting. I know of a teenager who did private testing via Brakespear and was found to have HHV 6 active, and who is now recovered. Recovery could have been a natural process, but the treatment seems to have accelerated this if so.

The most disturbing UK figure for me is the very low number of " recovered" on the worldometer site - 135 out of over 56 000 cases. This is very low. It may be due to figures being based til recently on hospital admissions only?

Tagging @PhysiosforME

This article highlights issues with timescales in reporting numbers- impacts on the accuracy of assessing where we are on curve. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/04/why-what-we-think-we-know-about-the-uks-coronavirus-death-toll-is-wrong

Interesting article - linking BCG vaccination to reduced prevalence of COVID19 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/tuberculosis-vaccine-potential-game-changer-in-covid-19-fight-1.4220383?mode=amp

I can't believe Neil Ferguson actually believes we will plateau in a week to 10 days ...what planet are these people on ? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/04/five-year-old-child-among-latest-uk-coronavirus-deaths