COVID-19 - UK: ONS Reports - 31 January 2023 - 1m Positive

No, he didn’t. The linked analysis supported a view different to the statement that you made.

Ok it’s what I would have posted myself and I don’t see how it’s different from what I said, that we have one of the highest testing rates per 1m of population. But I assume you have no data for your own assertion that we are tenth “as far as you know”. Seeing as you don’t seem to want to provide any further details (which may be of interest to readers here) I will leave it at that.

But you didn’t.

I do.

Assume what you will.

Oh, I want to, and I am able to, but until you support your statement with your own source then I will withhold my source.

Slightly off topic. My wife is a Nurse & has worked face to face with patients both on wards & within A & E across the whole Covid thing.

A few of my wife’s colleagues have succumbed to covid, 2 young & fit colleagues even dying of it. But this current less serious Omicron variant is taking colleagues & nursing friends down like nothing else. One friend having two periods of self-isolation imposed on her within 2 weeks of each other.

One thing they are seeing among each other, is Omicron is not being detected as easily as previous versions. The hospital uses 3 testing methods. Lamp, a formerly reliable & accurate testing method for asymptomatic people. PCR & lateral flow. Previously it has been well recorded that lateral flow tests are very unreliable when it comes to negative results, being as little as 30% accurate in some groups. But what they are seeing among colleagues, is lateral flow tests are showing people as positive where Lamp & PCR are showing negative.

The above is not evidence of anything, but is being seen as an interesting potential development.

I got my data from the Worldometer site Omah. It shows similar figures to Bread’s Statista chart.

The chart supplied by Bread appears to be exclusive:

Rate of coronavirus (COVID-19) tests performed in the most impacted countries worldwide as of December 9, 2021 (per million population)

So the Worldometer chart is wrong as well.

It’s not a question of being wrong.

Different views of the same statistics will produce different results.

Just to reiterate that I am pretty sure we do have one of the highest testing rates per 1m of population. I haven’t seen anything to dispute that fact. NB “one of the highest” isn’t the same as “the highest”! :smiley:

Also to add that testing data isn’t static. It changes every day, so you need to look at a specific period when the most complete dataset was available. Ideally the most recent excluding holidays.

Just to reiterate

There you go, Omah, swerving an answer again. If you have a source, put it up or shut up.

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Please mind your manners - there are ladies present.

Oh I’ve heard worse than that on here Omah.
But you are a cutie.

You could settle the argument Omah by simply suppling the data that puts the UK 10th.

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I wouldn’t hold your breath, Scot, Omah is well known for swerving.

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Only when Annie supplies a source for her original, unsupported, statement.

Oh, dear, personal attacks … :roll_eyes:

I think this is probably worth a small amount of panicking over however, I suggest those of us that had our flu jabs will probably be OK:

Latest data provided on 31 December 2021

Daily

189,846

Last 7 days

1,051,807

Out of Control … :skull_and_crossbones: :skull_and_crossbones: :skull_and_crossbones: :skull_and_crossbones: :skull_and_crossbones:

This thread is for the UK, mate … :wink:

Bruce’s thread deals with the world situation … :world_map: