FlyTheNest

Alan Gibbons
@mygibbo
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James Cleverly - "We are going to repair the country that we inherited from Labour."

When you've been in power for ten years- even if you believed the spurious excuse in the first place- it wears a bit thin.

UK Covid testing cutoff quietly extended to eight days after first signs

Exclusive: confusion as helpline staff say tests not accurate after more than five days

Staff reacted with surprise and bemusement to the change on Friday. The reason behind the move was unclear, but there will be suggestions that it is intended to help manage stretched capacity. To control the spread of coronavirus, it is vital that potential carriers are identified as swiftly as possible after exhibiting symptoms. (Guardian)

Ali Velshi
@AliVelshi
Doctors say they are 72 hours into Trump’s diagnosis. That would be Weds 11am. Trump announced he had Covid Fri 1am. On Fri evening he said he was being tested. Did he attend a rally in MN on Wed & then a fundraiser in NJ on Thur AFTER his doctor thought he had coronavirus?
4:53 PM · Oct 3, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

Clive Lewis MP
@labourlewis
Quite right. Don’t let the haters drag us down to their level. Lets take out ⁦@realDonaldTrump
⁩ & his creed, politically, not personally. Get well soon, you’ve an election to lose
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Due to a technical issue, which has now been resolved, there has been a delay in publishing a number of COVID-19 cases to the dashboard in England. This means the total reported over the coming days will include some additional cases from the period between 24 September and 1 October, increasing the number of cases reported.

Last updated on Saturday 3 October 2020 at 8:38pm

People tested positive
Daily
12,872
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A spokesperson for the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has told the Guardian that the government currently does not know exactly how many new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours.

They said “some new data” would be published over the next couple of days, “but currently, we do not have a breakdown showing which cases are from today and which from a previous period”.

A technical issue resulting in conflated old and new test results was blamed, and the spokesperson said this would affect reported cases for a number of days.
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citizenJA wrote:Is there chocolate, please?

adam wrote:We are drifting towards the possibility of the confirmation of Barrett by the Senate being very tight. If the two Republicans who say they won't vote to confirm - Collins and Murkowski - hold their ground, and if the vote gets pushed back beyond November 3rd (which seems quite possible at the moment) then it's currently very likely the Democrats will have one gain in the Senate - there is a 'Special' election in Arizona as well as the regular election to fill the seat from now till 'handover' in January. At the moment it's held by an appointed Republican but it looks like the democrat contender may well win.That would put things at 50/50, which is still enough for Barrett because Pence would have the casting vote. If Republican senators appear to be actually getting ill and staying ill for any time, look for a sudden backtrack on proxy voting.

Panic and confusion permeate White House following Trump's Covid diagnosis
Concerns mount over spread of the virus within the building, and whether it could disrupt the functioning of government
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GetYou wrote:I mean, it's been ten minutes since I watched it and I am still seething.

People tested positive
Daily
22,961

An issue was identified overnight on Friday 2 October in the automated process that transfers positive cases data to PHE. It has now been resolved.

The cases by publish date for 3 and 4 October include 15,841 additional cases with specimen dates between 25 September and 2 October — they are therefore artificially high for England and the UK.

Rowland Manthorpe
@rowlsmanthorpe
Replying to
@rowlsmanthorpe
The real impact is on Test and Trace. None of these positive cases have been contact traced - they're now dealing with an epic backlog

And that's actually an impact for everyone. 15k people untraced (and by now it's probably too late)... not good for containing the outbreak

Public Health England provided a breakdown of how many cases were not included in each day’s figures, which are as follows:
957 cases were not included on September 25, when the original figure given was 6,874
744 on September 26, when the original figure given was 6,042
757 on September 27, when the original figure given was 5,693
none on September 28, when the original figure given was 4,044
1,415 on September 29, when the original figure given was 7,143
3,049 on September 30, when the original figure given was 7,108
4,133 on October 1, when the original figure given was 6,914
4,786 on October 2, when the original figure given was 6,968

So we can see that, at its worst, it meant that nearly 5,000 cases were missing from daily totals

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citizenJA wrote:I'll never forgive the US Republican party
or the UK Tory party

Out would go the elitist experts – who, as Cummings’ first patron, Michael Gove, memorably remarked, the country had had enough of – and in would come a gang of anarchistic tech-wizards armed with supercomputers and reams of data.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:You sound a bit like me after today's football

Brian Klaas
@brianklaas
The most charitable explanation for this is that they are utterly incompetent. The more plausible explanation is that they are utterly incompetent *and* they just don't care.