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The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
So Pierced Organ is going to be happy then......
Yes I guess so, especially if you are looking for a reason to tarnish it. Again, for me its tests or even tests available that count here, not the test results.But then you could just mail out every test you have and claim a huge victory on one day. I’d genuinely have preferred Paul’s option above. It’s an unnecessary talking point that tarnished a fantastic achievement.
I think the criticism isnt really fair. Is a test included when someone goes to a test centre and gets swabbed or is it when the results come back, I think its number of tests as opposed to number of results.
Best quote of the whole period:
: "We didn't ask who we could blame, we asked how we could fix it" Mr Hancock 1 May 2020
Number in the Lab, they didn’t include the amount of test kits available in the hospital for each ward, just those kits that had been actually used to carry out a test.That's an interesting point. In the early days when they were only testing people admitted to hospital were the numbers based on the number of people that had been tested that day or the number of lab results that had been returned?
It was a scientist who gave the figuresWell a very poor day for the government. When they should have been getting credit for getting close to achieving a challenging "stretch" target they have demonstrated that political spin is more important to them than actual outcomes. Why can't they just be honest and give us some sort of credible leadership to get behind?
Classic 'political spin'! And, in this case, far too easily called as 'dishonest' by the media. But will they?!So, it turns out that the 122k includes 27,000 home test kits which were posted out yesterday and 7000 kits which were sent to NHS satellite centres yesterday. So they are not actually tests which have been carried out.
Why do they need to be so disingenuous? If they had just said the testing figure for yesterday was 88k,I'm sure most people would have recognised that as a good result considering where we were a week ago.
Pedant Alert time:It was a scientist who gave the figures
It was a politician who 'interpreted' them!It was a scientist who gave the figures
Number in the Lab, they didn’t include the amount of test kits available in the hospital for each ward, just those kits that had been actually used to carry out a test.
Was itIt was a politician who 'interpreted' them!
Not sure were the test centres send their kits mate.Cheers for that. I'm assuming that means there's a lag in the number of tests each day as not all the tests will reach the lab on the same day they were taken? I'm assuming that these testing centres aren't just 9 to 5 so someone getting tested at 9pm is unlikely to be included in that days' figures by the time the test gets to the lab.
Not sure I see the word capability here?The Government target was to achieve the capability of 100K tests. There is no way they could set a target of 'completed tests' because that is entirely dependent on the demand which is not within their control.
The UK now has the ability to conduct 100k tests which is a agreat achievement in the timescale. If we never need to use the facility that would be great, however an instrinsic part of moving out of the social controls is the ability to monitor and to finely target geographic areas of infection.
I'm not a doctor but.... Many people in care homes are very old and not well. I suspect the chances of them surviving the move to a hospital and the intensive treatment required are pretty slim.I'm struggling to understand something...
Deaths in care homes are going through the roof so to speak...
If there is a downward trend of hospitalizations and capacity in ICUs....
Why are these people not being carted into the ICUs as soon as it becomes apparent that they need the treatment..?
Or am I missing something..?
Not sure I see the word capability here?
Not sure were the test centres send their kits mate.
But going by today and the update this week the testing kits sent to the centres on a daily basis will count whether they’ve been used or not.
I’m not sure of todays figure from Public Health England (PHE) for Covid-19 deaths outside of hospital or what the breakdown of what day they “actually” died.I'm struggling to understand something...
Deaths in care homes are going through the roof so to speak...
If there is a downward trend of hospitalizations and capacity in ICUs....
Why are these people not being carted into the ICUs as soon as it becomes apparent that they need the treatment..?
Or am I missing something..?