[Bungle]

My grandad died from it on Sunday , 78 years old....  RIP

Sorry to hear that Shrek. Chin up mucka 👍

[tonyoliver]

Sorry for all your losses I hope most of us will remain unaffected

No one I know has it but why has Germany with twice the number of cases to U.K. Have half of the deaths we have here
We should be ashamed how we let our NHS down as a society
Round here used to be 4 large hospitals since the 80s there is now 1 also 6 large mental hospitals now there are none
You can add schools playing fields and heaven knows how many buildings the council and gov used to own sold off  even the lamp posts in croydon are rented back to us by a French company
We've been had
The generation that could remember when things were different are dying off

[Missing Link]

No one I know has it but why has Germany with twice the number of cases to U.K. Have half of the deaths we have here

Germany has done mass testing - loads of it - which means their numbers will be skewed towards LOOKING like they have a better outcome than the UK.  90% of the tests Germany carried out were negative btw.

Whereas the UK only tests those who arrive at hospital, so our results are going to skew the other way.

But Germany has now realised that it's wasted loads of testing resources and that a test is only accurate at the moment the person was tested; they could catch the corona an hour after.  So it looks like they're having a re-think and will be going down the UK route of testing only those at hospital and front line staff.

[G Griffin]

No one I know has it but why has Germany with twice the number of cases to U.K. Have half of the deaths we have here

Germany has done mass testing - loads of it - which means their numbers will be skewed towards LOOKING like they have a better outcome than the UK.  90% of the tests Germany carried out were negative btw.

Whereas the UK only tests those who arrive at hospital, so our results are going to skew the other way.

But Germany has now realised that it's wasted loads of testing resources and that a test is only accurate at the moment the person was tested; they could catch the corona an hour after.  So it looks like they're having a re-think and will be going down the UK route of testing only those at hospital and front line staff.

And the deaths?

[Missing Link]

And the deaths?

Younger people caught the disease to begin with, but that's very probably about to change:

The average age of those infected is lower in Germany than in many other countries. Many of the early patients caught the virus in Austrian and Italian ski resorts and were relatively young and healthy, Professor Kräusslich said.

“It started as an epidemic of skiers,” he said.

As infections have spread, more older people have been hit and the death rate, only 0.2 percent two weeks ago, has risen, too. But the average age of contracting the disease remains relatively low, at 49. In France, it is 62.5 and in Italy 62, according to their latest national reports.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-death-rate.html

Skiers are generally fitter - younger - types.

[G Griffin]

And the deaths?

Younger people caught the disease to begin with, but that's very probably about to change:

The average age of those infected is lower in Germany than in many other countries. Many of the early patients caught the virus in Austrian and Italian ski resorts and were relatively young and healthy, Professor Kräusslich said.

“It started as an epidemic of skiers,” he said.

As infections have spread, more older people have been hit and the death rate, only 0.2 percent two weeks ago, has risen, too. But the average age of contracting the disease remains relatively low, at 49. In France, it is 62.5 and in Italy 62, according to their latest national reports.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-death-rate.html

Skiers are generally fitter - younger - types.

That's a lot of skiers.

[Missing Link]

That's a lot of skiers.

Germany has a lot of skiers; I've skied in Bavaria numerous times.

German skiers everywhere.

But it was Germany.