The 9am figures not disclosed yet?

Worrying these cases are going up now, especially as they weather will start cooling in a month

Now everyone is going to be sat in air conditioned restaurants.... without masks on 🥴
 
Today's headline analysis:

• 938 new cases reported in 24-hour period, up from yesterday's 744
• 7-day average for new cases increases by 4.8% to 789 per day, following 0.0% change yesterday (and 16th increase in the past 18 days)
• 7-day average for new cases is 16.5% higher than one week ago (from 13.7% higher yesterday) and 25.6% higher than two weeks ago (from 21.2% higher yesterday and 8.6% higher 7 days ago)
• 9 new deaths in all settings reported in 24-hour period, slightly up from 8 yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths in all settings increases by 0.4% to 64 per day, following 1.3% decrease yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths in all settings is 0.9% higher than one week ago (from 0.4% lower yesterday) and 6.2% lower than two weeks ago (from 6.7% lower yesterday and 24.7% lower 7 days ago)
I haven't got a clue how folk understand these updates!
 
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New tests for coronavirus or is it tests for covid-19? Results available in 90 minutes.

Blimey.
 
Someone will be along shortly to tell you there's a lag between cases, deaths and admissions despite that having since the initial outbreak not been present in the data.

I think the difference between now and the start of the year is that before we were finding cases in sick people whereas now we are hunting for cases in the healthy.

My main fear going forward is that we head towards winter with access to care still being poor for general use.

This inturn will likely lead to an increase in mortality (cancer alone sadly will greatly increase) then these people are likely to have a proportion attributed to covid incorrectly and then second wave headlines throughout winter.

You have 1 article grounded in investigation and truth and 1000 articles just screaming covid for clicks. Thus the cycle just starts over again.

6th consecutive week below the average isn't it now?
Why else are the media now focussing on cases and not deaths or hospital admissions?
 
I have noticed the the coronavirus has replaced covid-19 in the media again. You know if 100 people test positive for the flu or common cold in November they are locking that town down.
 
When you have had 65000 excess deaths, when the deaths from covid are now low, you wouldn’t expect to under the 5 year average.
 
When you have had 65000 excess deaths, when the deaths from covid are now low, you wouldn’t expect to under the 5 year average.

Well we haven't had 65,000 excess deaths.. given that we have been tracking hundreds under for weeks.

There's 3 things at play with excess death:-

1) Covid obviously
2) lack of access / use of care (as shown in the recent study done by Oxford)
3) mortality rising for the past 7 or so years as a matter of course.

See that's what I mean it's just not that simple. I would maintain that if we were in the grips of a Pandemic still you would not see excess deaths below the 5 year average, you can argue against it I suppose but it would be from a weak position in my opinion.

Lies, damned lies and statistics as they say.
 
It is I agree.
But the wording been used recently is very deliberate.

Serological testing can pick up several different strains of coronavirus apparently so maybe it's due to that.

I have noticed for sure that the reporting has moved from deaths to cases. Still not much in the name of investigation either, just report what you're told for the vast majority.
 
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