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    Presumably they are doing post mortem testing of deaths in the community though. I guess any body that enters the system now should be regarded as a transmission risk.

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      Originally posted by Fussbudget View Post
      No, all the new deaths were hospitalised cases, the community cases haven't been added yet.

      Edit: as WFD just said

      Oh dear. Not good, though not entirely unexpected, I guess.

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        Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View Post
        Re: domestic production: this just got announced by Science Group:

        On 13 March 2020, Sagentia Limited, a subsidiary of Science Group plc, attended a conference call with a number of other organisations at the request of the UK Government. The UK programme for a Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator System ("RMVS") was initiated.

        A team from Sagentia commenced work immediately. In just a few weeks, the Science Group team, led by Sagentia with additional resourcing from across the Group, has developed, prototyped and documented the Sagentia Ventilator. This very intensive development programme is continuing to be funded by the UK Government on a time and materials basis.

        The Sagentia Ventilator adopts a different approach from other participants in the UK Government RMVS initiative by primarily using conventional fabrication techniques (eg CNC machining and laser cutting), services which can be supplied by a wide range of manufacturing partners. As such, this innovative design minimises sourced components (which are currently in high demand around the world) and also provides an intuitive user interface to facilitate rapid deployment with minimal training.

        A working prototype of the Sagentia Ventilator has been produced and 20 trial units are currently in the process of being manufactured. These units will be used for evaluation and submitted for regulatory approval through the Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ("MHRA"). As with any medical device, there can be no certainty that the unit will receive regulatory approval nor that the Sagentia Ventilator will enter production.

        A manufacturing contract ("Manufacturing Contract") is being negotiated by Science Group with the UK Government, for production of 10,000 units of the Sagentia Ventilator conditional upon receiving MHRA approval. These units will be manufactured by a subsidiary of Science Group and/or subcontract manufacturing organisations. The Manufacturing Contract is anticipated to provide Science Group with the necessary working capital and cash flow for materials procurement, labour, overheads and set up costs. Certain long lead-time components have already been ordered to accelerate the manufacturing schedule of the Sagentia Ventilator.

        From first concept to manufactured medical device in one month is a formidable challenge set by the UK Government. But these are extraordinary times. The Sagentia Ventilator Team have exhibited incredible dedication and commitment and the Science Group Board is proud of the remarkable achievement and the potential contribution that the Group is making to address the Covid-19 pandemic. Science Group also acknowledge the unprecedented collaboration between normally competitor Cambridge-based consultancies, together with the support provided by the UK Government in their determination to deliver this critical initiative. The RMVS programme has again demonstrated the outstanding and innovative capability of British science and engineering.
        You wouldn't have a direct link to this PR would you, GY? I would be intigued to see if there any images of Sagentia's ventilator available. Professional interest so to speak.
        Background - Sagentia are often a direct competitor of my place. The two companies are pretty similar, overall. There is quite a bit of movement of staff between the two, and also two other rather similar organisations in the Cambridge area (Sagentia is based two villages up the road from my place). But in this case it's just to see what they have done and cheer them on. This is a race. But not with each other! See the line about the unprecedented collaboration between the normally competitor Cambridge-based consultancies.

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          Originally posted by Benjm View Post
          Maryland caught my eye; it almost looks like Bridget Riley might have designed it.
          The black and gold are from the arms of the Calvert family, which founded the colony (becoming the Lords Baltimore, as echoed in the city flag).



          The red and white are from the Crosslands of South Yorkshire, the family of the mother of the first Lord Baltimore.

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            Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post

            Today's stats don't include them - the careful wording in the announcement is "1,789 of those hospitalised in the UK have sadly died"

            Edit - having said that, the same announcement mentions 381 so maybe the 393 quoted elsewhere includes non-hospital cases (though still doesn't explain the leap of course).
            Some stats have come out today about non-hospital deaths last week, up to March 24th I think. That has increased the Britain's number of total deaths. Simply put, it takes time for this information to filter through - it just can't be ready within hours so the "yesterday's deaths" number is never going to be quite right.

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              Where's the non-hospital info? How many does it add to the 1,789?

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                Originally posted by Janik View Post
                You wouldn't have a direct link to this PR would you, GY? I would be intigued to see if there any images of Sagentia's ventilator available. Professional interest so to speak.
                Background - Sagentia are often a direct competitor of my place. The two companies are pretty similar, overall. There is quite a bit of movement of staff between the two, and also two other rather similar organisations in the Cambridge area (Sagentia is based two villages up the road from my place). But in this case it's just to see what they have done and cheer them on. This is a race. But not with each other! See the line about the unprecedented collaboration between the normally competitor Cambridge-based consultancies.
                It's here (no photo)

                https://www.sciencegroup.com/files/2...ator-final.pdf

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                  Originally posted by TonTon View Post
                  Where's the non-hospital info? How many does it add to the 1,789?
                  I think Janik is referring to this. It suggests the number of deaths is about 25% higher overall, but there's a big lag in getting the non-hospital figures.

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                    There's a bloke on BBC1 at the moment from America basically proposing (gosh) an American version of the NHS.

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                      Is it Bernie Sanders?

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                        Originally posted by Fussbudget View Post
                        I think Janik is referring to this. It suggests the number of deaths is about 25% higher overall, but there's a big lag in getting the non-hospital figures.
                        Aha, so two different sets of data, ta.

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                          Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
                          There's a bloke on BBC1 at the moment from America basically proposing (gosh) an American version of the NHS.
                          And I'm sure there's a queue outside the gun store to kill this pinko socialist.

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                            Originally posted by Janik View Post
                            You wouldn't have a direct link to this PR would you, GY? I would be intigued to see if there any images of Sagentia's ventilator available. Professional interest so to speak.
                            Background - Sagentia are often a direct competitor of my place. The two companies are pretty similar, overall. There is quite a bit of movement of staff between the two, and also two other rather similar organisations in the Cambridge area (Sagentia is based two villages up the road from my place). But in this case it's just to see what they have done and cheer them on. This is a race. But not with each other! See the line about the unprecedented collaboration between the normally competitor Cambridge-based consultancies.
                            Text only where I saw it, but maybe they have images on their website

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                              I hope Buzzfeed are wrong that the UK is still ultimately looking at this "herd immunity via catching the virus" idea.

                              https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham...bfsharetwitter

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                                [URL]https://twitter.com/meganamram/status/1244856909003255808?s=21[/URL]

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                                  If I was guessing, I'd think that the anomalous (?) high number of deaths in the UK are just unwinding the anomalously low numbers from over the weekend, which is either statistical noise or reflects my uninformed observation that weekend reports have seemed low for the last couple of weeks.

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                                    Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post

                                    The black and gold are from the arms of the Calvert family, which founded the colony (becoming the Lords Baltimore, as echoed in the city flag).



                                    The red and white are from the Crosslands of South Yorkshire, the family of the mother of the first Lord Baltimore.
                                    It is unusual sectioning. Sable & or pale sectioned by sable & or bend lozengy (so far as I can figure.) I wonder how it came about?

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                                      Two weeks ago the Government were promising 25,000 tests a day. Now “there aren’t enough tests available”.

                                      Tomorrow: “My dog at them all”.

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                                        That Baltimore flag is super op art isn't it? I'm astonished that it apparently dates back to 1914.

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                                          The family arms, which are the same without the central crest, are much older.



                                          Per Wiki, the heraldic description is "paly of six Or and Sable, a bend counterchanged"

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                                            Cheers. You're doing a yeoman's job of standing in for Burke's Peerage.

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                                              Thanks ursus, the thing that makes that image of the flag even weirder though is that the two diagonal lines cutting through it (the bend?) are not even parallel, or indeed actually straight lines.

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                                                Originally posted by Fussbudget View Post
                                                Thanks ursus, the thing that makes that image of the flag even weirder though is that the two diagonal lines cutting through it (the bend?) are not even parallel, or indeed actually straight lines.
                                                No? They look straight and parallel to me, but glad to be proved wrong.

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                                                  No, Fussbudget is correct (as usual), but I believe that is a flaw in the image that I chose (more or less at random).

                                                  In this photo of an actual flag, they appear to be parallel (as they are in the crest)

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                                                    Striking 15 second video comparing air traffic over Europe on Sunday against the same Sunday last year

                                                    https://video.repubblica.it/dossier/...C12-P3-S1.4-T1

                                                    https://video.repubblica.it/dossier/...C12-P3-S1.4-T1

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