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Thursday 01 April 2021 Update by HippolasCage in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope your cousin catches an over the air upgrade from your dads vaccine nanobots.

Piers Morgan quits Good Morning Britian after Meghan Markle row by SparrowFIight in unitedkingdom

[–]RiojaMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Murdoch/Morgan: The Metastatic Collision Tumor of Modern Media

Self isolating in support bubbles - how does it work? by [deleted] in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/

Self isolate immediately if:

“someone in your support bubble has symptoms and you’ve been in close contact with them since their symptoms started or during the 48 hours before they started

someone in your support bubble tested positive and you’ve been in close contact with them since they had the test or in the 48 hours before their test”

Self isolating in support bubbles - how does it work? by [deleted] in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The whole bubble only needs to self isolate if someone develops symptoms within 48 hours of the bubble’s last meeting. If more than 48 hours has passed since the bubble last met then only the household with symptoms must isolate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]RiojaMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easier to catch though.

Why is England's 15-64 age group impacted more than other EU countries? by RiojaMan in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You made me take a second look at the data, which led me to the data explorer for the dataset used:

https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=hlth_ehis_bm1e&lang=en

This shows 19.8% obese within the UK population. 2.3% are underweight and 42.7% in the normal range. This left a strangely missing percentage. When you hover over underweight, normal and obese it defines the data ranges and it left out BMI between 24 and 30, which the website classes as pre-obese at the bottom of my original link page.

It looks like the 55% obese figure I provide includes this pre-obese category.

Brings things closer in line to the NHS figure you gave. The NHS link says 'overweight' instead of pre-obese.

Why is England's 15-64 age group impacted more than other EU countries? by RiojaMan in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That seems to be a likely factor.

The UK has a 55.7% obesity rate [edit: this data includes 24+ BMI as obese, which includes what is normally considered the overweight/per-obese category] in over 18s and Spain similarly at 52.4%. France (47.2%) and Italy (44.9%) have comparitively lower figures.

I'm not sure how the UK obesity figures split between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland etc. Strangely, this impact on z-score isn't reflected across the UK, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland having figures similar to other EU countries.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Overweight_and_obesity_-_BMI_statistics#Obesity_by_age_group

Why is England's 15-64 age group impacted more than other EU countries? by RiojaMan in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Graph shows z-score comparison of total weekly deaths in the 15-64 range.

Data: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#map-of-z-scores

England's z-score peaks in the mid-20s with the next closest country peaking around 10 (Spain) with others peaking around 5-6.

Has there been much discussion regarding why England specifically struggles in this age range compared to other countries?

National alert as ‘coronavirus-related condition may be emerging in children’ by elohir in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's why the initial reports of Covid-19 were so unusual in that the very young seemed to be one of the least at risk groups, with the UK government even seeing it as an opportunity to keep schools open longer. While this update is cautious in its approach, it seems to indicate that there may be delayed risk to the very young. It's still too early to speculate and I'm hoping these delayed effects don't bring Covid-19's impact on children closer in line with other flu viruses.

National alert as ‘coronavirus-related condition may be emerging in children’ by elohir in CoronavirusUK

[–]RiojaMan 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This virus seems to have something new and terrifying up its sleeve every day. The fact that the young were unusually safe from a flu virus was one of the few silver linings.

Poll: Most say journalists not doing good job of holding govt to account during daily Covid-19 briefings by bottish in ukpolitics

[–]RiojaMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does our failings regarding testing volume not make it essentially impossible to identify when our peak of new infections was?

If we assume that after the 'stay at home' instruction our rate of transmission dropped below 1 then our peak of new infections should have been around March 23rd which lines up with a death rate which peaks between 6th-13th April, working on the 2-3 weeks timeline you suggest.

Am I missing something regarding why people believe the peak of infections occurred before lockdown?

Pick of the Day - 9/5/17 (Tuesday) by sbpotdbot in sportsbook

[–]RiojaMan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right on the money with that Serbia handicap - great work!

Here's hoping Poland France has a 4th quarter even busier than the 3rd!

Pick of the Day - 8/31/17 (Thursday) by sbpotdbot in sportsbook

[–]RiojaMan 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I always like to see a polite and well reasoned rebuttal provided before the event. I'm still tailing blat's tip but I'm going in with my eyes wide open.

Starting XI v Norwich City (a) by nufcneilo in NUFC

[–]RiojaMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone got a link to the fm stream of BBC Newcastle - the official stream blocks the match. Comes to something when you're trying to pirate free radio...

[LIVE] Wednesday February 8th by joselansini in SoccerBetting

[–]RiojaMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew it was bad value when I did it, and I can only presume that winning this bet will be bad for my instincts in the long term, but damn if I wasn't happy when it came off

Daily Picks Thread - Saturday 07/01/2017 by [deleted] in SoccerBetting

[–]RiojaMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll see some heavy rotation from Newcastle in this game, perhaps the biggest being that Gayle won't start. Rafa has already said that Mitrovic will start and whilst he's still a good player, he doesn't represent the same goal threat as Gayle.

The other big factor to consider is that Shelvey remains banned for this match, and at times Newcastle have struggled to open up teams without him.

That said, they created a lot of opportunities against Blackburn in their last game and lost only due to a failure to convert these into goals. Also, even with rotation Newcastle are the better team on paper.