Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium

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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium (52 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	7,592	7,592
Background	3,124	3,124
Timeline	93	54,284
February 2020 – first case	4,631	4,631
March 2020 – spread	31,885	31,885
April 2020 – first peak	2,588	2,588
May 2020	382	382
June 2020	271	271
July 2020	1,070	1,070
August to September 2020 – resurgence	5,013	5,013
October 2020 to April 2021 – return to lockdown	2,963	2,963
May to October 2021 – easing of lockdown	962	962
October 2021 to March 2022 – new restrictions	4,426	4,426
Government response	24	63,001
Authorities	2,517	2,517
Containment measures	10,066	10,066
Medical supplies and testing strategy	4,173	4,173
Exit strategy	640	640
Communications	8,983	8,983
Criticism	16	36,598
Handling of the crisis	8,355	8,355
Shortage of medical supplies	10,923	10,923
Situation in care homes	6,924	6,924
High death toll and unusual method of counting	10,380	10,380
Other responses	20	17,955
Healthcare sector and Belgian research	11,988	11,988
Belgian industry	5,947	5,947
Impact	11	15,103
Politics	6,120	6,120
Economics	4,700	4,700
Society and environment	4,272	4,272
Statistics	15	71,688
Definitions	200	11,551
Confirmed infections	1,928	1,928
Recoveries	3,289	3,289
Deaths	4,748	6,134
Notable people	1,386	1,386
By location	2,549	2,549
Graphs	605	57,573
Total cases in Belgium (cumulative)	17,036	17,036
7-day running average for daily new cases, hospitalisations, discharges and deaths	3,752	3,752
Confirmed new cases per day	10,673	10,673
Confirmed deaths per day	9,075	9,075
Tests and new confirmed cases per day in Belgium (March to September 2020)	5,008	5,008
Change of hospitalisations per day in Belgium (March to May 2020)	2,366	2,366
Active cases in hospital per day (incl. ICU) (March to September 2020) markup removed; cannot link (help)	4,833	4,833
Confirmed new cases per day by region	2,598	2,598
Logistic growth models	1,627	1,627
See also	224	224
Notes	34	34
References	28	28
External links	892	892
Total	233,925	233,925

Why quote the pages in Flemish here?

The quoted pages on www.info-coronavirus.be are available in Netherlands, French and English. As this pages is intended for native English speakers, the politeness would be to quote pages in that language when they are available. For example, https://www.info-coronavirus.be/en/news is better here than https://www.info-coronavirus.be/nl/news/ even if there is a delay for the English version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rpilotte (talk • contribs) 11:31, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free and adapt it in this way. And by the way: the quotes are in Dutch, not in Flemish. And "Netherlands" doesn't not exist as a languange. --Tfa1964 (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Only the Dutch and French version of this government site are regularly updated, whereas the English and German part only get sporadic updates, and not all articles are translated (e.g. look at the site, as of time of writing, the English and German part say nothing about the 3 deaths, whereas the Dutch and French version do). Therefore, quoting the site in Dutch and French would be better in my opinion. I get what you mean with this, but knowing how relevant information, especially for this pandemic, comes in fast, it's a necessary evil to keep the page updated to it's fullest extent Kef274 (talk) 07:34, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject COVID-19

I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong graph of deaths?

According to these sources: COVID-19 - EPIDEMIOLOGISCH BULLETIN NL and COVID-19 - BULLETIN EPIDEMIOLOGIQUE FR the graph 'Confirmed deaths per day in Belgium' is not correct. What is the cause? Where the reported statistics in the past wrong and is this corrected by governement afterwards? Or what is the source of the current graph? --PJ Geest (talk) 09:19, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree and I have verified the numbers on the archived copies of the official bulletin in french and in dutch, as well as the press conferences now added daily on youtube, and corrected the counts accordingly. However it feels like we have too many redundant copies of the same numbers, I had to correct 3 tables/charts. --Redturnips (talk) 16:25, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why no graph for patients in IC?

Depending on how much the government is testing and whom, the number of confirmed cases will change. It is important to look for better metrics. I believe the amount of patients in IC (Intensive Care) with confirmed COVID-19 would be a much better estimator for how serious the disease is hitting the country at a given time. I would look at two graphs: one with current amount of active IC cases (to see how hard it is hitting the healthcare system), and one with amount of new IC cases per day (to reflect the overall amount of "true" people with the disease).

I can't seem to find a (good) source for the amount of IC cases per day (from which both graphs can be made). Can anybody help?