The ONS death registrations are about 10 days behind, but they seem to show that there are up to double the deaths reported daily for the 28 days since a positive test figure. The ONS daily average for registrations was 23 per day up to 14 May; the dashboard daily average was 10 a day up to the same date. Are doctors diagnosing covid without a test or are they beyond the 28 day cut off?That deaths figure is a little disconcerting
A test isn’t required to diagnose Covid (due to capacity issues in the first wave), but the diagnosis is based on test results and clinical diagnosis.The ONS death registrations are about 10 days behind, but they seem to show that there are up to double the deaths reported daily for the 28 days since a positive test figure. The ONS daily average for registrations was 23 per day up to 14 May; the dashboard daily average was 10 a day up to the same date. Are doctors diagnosing covid without a test or are they beyond the 28 day cut off?
At least the daily figures are a measure of the direction of travel, which is generally down.
Hospital admissions up 10.8% today on the last 7 days - that's what will drive restrictions being lifted or not.Have to say I'm starting to get a little concerned lately. Cases, hospitalisations, folk on ventilators and deaths all seem to have either plateaued or are on a slight increase.
The areas with the prevalence of the new variant have had 50-100% increase in cases in the last 7 days.Have to say I'm starting to get a little concerned lately. Cases, hospitalisations, folk on ventilators and deaths all seem to have either plateaued or are on a slight increase.
38,614,683 have had a first dose vaccination. 236,119 first dose vaccinations yesterday. 24,043,956 have had a second dose. 427,458 second dose vaccinations today.
Doesn't look good for the roadmap. The big question is will it lead to another lockdown?The 7-day average for hospital admissions, number of Covid patients in hospital and number of Covid patients on a ventilator are all higher than they were one week ago. The last time we experienced that was mid-January (admittedly with much higher numbers at that time).