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@Bluebird Hewitt did you get arrested in the end?

Danish government already talking about opening back up in early April whilst Sweden haven't even locked down.

With >1200 deaths in New York state they are now asking for health care workers from around the country to come help

Correction, 8000 and around half of them are in London.

NHS confirm 9000 people in hospital

Hungarian parliament has voted to shut itself down and have the government operate a dictatorship.

The uncle of someone I know died this weekend from coronavirus. In his 50s, no underlying health conditions. The cases we have are largely only people who needed emergency care. They'll not test anyone else. Are you based in the North West? Manchester has 91 cases https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ae5dda8f86814ae99dde905d2a9070ae

People in Austria must spit a lot when they talk

Germany considering making face masks mandatory when lockdown is over.

Newspapers mustn't be getting the clicks they need for revenue without any football.

Worst thing about that is it is not cases of people who have it, it's only people who have it who need hospital treatment, are in a vulnerable group or work for an essential service. No one else is getting tested.

This is the Excel centre in London. Typically a conference centre, being turned into a 4000 bed hospital, ready end of next week. Flu kills more people though

You just have to go back to the first month of this thread to see the western mindset. Blaming sensationalist newspapers, complaining about panic buying and trying to argue the fatality rate isn't bad.

13% of cases in Spain are also healthcare workers. The great scandal in all of this when it is over is going to be how medical professionals didn't have the gear to be protected.

Don't think that has actually been confirmed. The WHO have guidelines on reporting. I'd be surprised if Germany aren't following them. Though I believe the UK aren't recording coronavirus deaths unless it happens in a hospital. Some Mediterranean islands similarly locked down hard and fast a couple of weeks ago. In Cyprus you're not even allowed outside for exercise. All flights were banned. Nationals being brought back on government chartered flights were taken into the mountains and quarantined in hotels for 2 weeks. Businesses have to shut or owners face jail time. It seems to be working for them. Their peak is coming and likely low. Almost overnight a couple of weeks ago Malta decided every tourist on the island isn't allowed out of their hotel room.

Imperial college modelling expected 260 deaths in a day to be the peak in mid April, with 6k deaths total. We have 260 deaths today! Modelling way out. If it underestimated us has it underestimated Spain where it expected 50,000 deaths? Let's hope it overestimated there.

Usually takes 2-3 weeks for deaths to emerge after cases. New Zealand had 5 cases 2 weeks ago.

New York state in massive trouble. Fuck me. It's going to make Wuhan look like a sneeze at this rate. US in general on course for 1000+ deaths per day within a couple of weeks. Lets hope it curves well before then.

Here are those estimated stats if you want them

Higher mortality rates likely caused by concentrated community outbreaks. So the idea that loads more people have it so Germany mortality rate is real might not be the right way to look at it. Test. Trace. Isolate. It's what the WHO said and it's what Germany and South Korea are doing well. Others are doing little testing. No tracing. Hence everyone must isolate. We'll only get out of isolation when we mass test constantly.

Chris Witty is now self isolating after displaying symptoms. Whole UK crisis leadership is going to be Skype only for 14 days