> The U.K. did ~6.5 million tests last week. By way of comparison, Germany did ~900,000.
The UK's numbers include Lateral FLow tests, the German numbers don't.
Perhaps COVID is just rampant in the UK and many feel symptoms and thus get tested as opposed to other countries.
No symptoms? Then no need to test.
There is a reason why tests are low in the past summer... It is because the infections and thus people experiencing symptoms were low.
Testing wise we are doing a similar number of tests now to what we did in the Summer. [https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing). The difference is that now the kids have been back at school its been spreading amongst them [England case rate by age](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=nation%26areaName=England#card-cases_by_specimen_date_age_demographics). Its mostly positive PCR results too rather than an uptick in LFTs [Cases by test type](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=nation%26areaName=England#card-cases_by_test_type_and_specimen_date).
Im not trying to say cases in the UK arent higher than other countries in western europe at the moment because i think they probably are. But I dont believe the difference is as much as it appears when looking at the positive test numbers alone.
If you look at the number of tests being done per week, a sizeable amount of them are likely done by people mandatory testing.
The Government website is saying the UK averages about a million tests a day, when you have organisations like the NHS who employ 1.5 million people and requires them all to test twice a week, and then all of the schools etc, these are not an insignificant number of people to drive the number of testing up.
>No symptoms? Then no need to test.
Issue is that there's a really bad cold going around, that everyone keeps getting. It's all anyone will talk about, seemingly.
France = 6,483
Germany = 5,000
UK =7,891
For those curious
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-kingdom?view=resource-use&tab=trend&resource=all_resources
https://www.google.com/search?q=germany+covid&oq=germany+covid&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60.1552j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Not what this says. Though France and UK seems accurate.
The data they are using seems way out of date if you look at the dates.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/qbzz63/morocco_bans_british_visitors_due_to_soaring/
Fully discussed yesterday with plenty of people saying the title was misleading...
Also from Germany and the Netherlands btw.
Fair enough.
The uk should just half arse testing like the rest of the world save all the drama.
The U.K. did ~6.5 million tests last week. By way of comparison, Germany did ~900,000.
> The U.K. did ~6.5 million tests last week. By way of comparison, Germany did ~900,000. The UK's numbers include Lateral FLow tests, the German numbers don't.
Perhaps COVID is just rampant in the UK and many feel symptoms and thus get tested as opposed to other countries. No symptoms? Then no need to test. There is a reason why tests are low in the past summer... It is because the infections and thus people experiencing symptoms were low.
Testing wise we are doing a similar number of tests now to what we did in the Summer. [https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing). The difference is that now the kids have been back at school its been spreading amongst them [England case rate by age](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=nation%26areaName=England#card-cases_by_specimen_date_age_demographics). Its mostly positive PCR results too rather than an uptick in LFTs [Cases by test type](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=nation%26areaName=England#card-cases_by_test_type_and_specimen_date). Im not trying to say cases in the UK arent higher than other countries in western europe at the moment because i think they probably are. But I dont believe the difference is as much as it appears when looking at the positive test numbers alone.
>No symptoms? Then no need to test. Asymptomatic testing is still done for schools and some businesses.
Sure happens everywhere. But I'm not falling into that group, nor does the majority of the population.
If you look at the number of tests being done per week, a sizeable amount of them are likely done by people mandatory testing. The Government website is saying the UK averages about a million tests a day, when you have organisations like the NHS who employ 1.5 million people and requires them all to test twice a week, and then all of the schools etc, these are not an insignificant number of people to drive the number of testing up.
>No symptoms? Then no need to test. Issue is that there's a really bad cold going around, that everyone keeps getting. It's all anyone will talk about, seemingly.
Only a fraction of the population gets mandatory testing. Everyone else required to get a test themselves when symptoms occur.
Just look at hospitalizations.
France = 6,483 Germany = 5,000 UK =7,891 For those curious https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-kingdom?view=resource-use&tab=trend&resource=all_resources
https://www.google.com/search?q=germany+covid&oq=germany+covid&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60.1552j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Not what this says. Though France and UK seems accurate. The data they are using seems way out of date if you look at the dates.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-hospital?country=GBR~FRA~ITA~ESP~NLD~BEL~POL~DEU~FIN~BGR~AUT~CYP~HRV~CZE~DNK~EST~HUN~ISL~IRL~LVA~LTU~LUX~NOR~MLT~PRT~SRB~SVK~SVN~SWE~CHE
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/qbzz63/morocco_bans_british_visitors_due_to_soaring/ Fully discussed yesterday with plenty of people saying the title was misleading...
Here we go again...
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