Another 'on target week' for excess deaths - Compared with 2019 there were over 500 less deaths this year compared with last and 300 compared with the 5 year average. There are still covid deaths obviously but we are now running pretty much within the expected levels for this time of year.
Some interesting reports coming out this week as more comes to light with this virus. It appears that herd immunity was always a non-starter from a report in spain. And the Telegraph gave a good article on different opinions of how this should have been dealt with, the consent was that lockdown was inevitable and the only way of dealing with this https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07...=DM1263736
Good to know we heading back in the right direction
One thing that is nagging at me on all of this data is that the new way of reporting the statistics doesn't match the old way. When we had the daily briefings they would release the datasets behind the slides the same day, it had a few days lag but never too much, an example being the dataset for the 26th June included hospital admissions in England, NI and Wales data to the 23rd and Scotland's to the 17th.
Looking at the current data on the new website the hospital admissions data is still only up to the 23rd June and picking random dates on that page and comparing them to the original dataset shows every day to be lower than the old dataset. I'm not a tinfoil hat regular but this stinks of a cover up and hiding data for some reason. The only comfort I have is that the patients in hospital and on ventilator data is coming down slowly and is more up to date (2nd and 3rd July respectively)
Some interesting reports coming out this week as more comes to light with this virus. It appears that herd immunity was always a non-starter from a report in spain. And the Telegraph gave a good article on different opinions of how this should have been dealt with, the consent was that lockdown was inevitable and the only way of dealing with this https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07...=DM1263736
Good to know we heading back in the right direction
One thing that is nagging at me on all of this data is that the new way of reporting the statistics doesn't match the old way. When we had the daily briefings they would release the datasets behind the slides the same day, it had a few days lag but never too much, an example being the dataset for the 26th June included hospital admissions in England, NI and Wales data to the 23rd and Scotland's to the 17th.
Looking at the current data on the new website the hospital admissions data is still only up to the 23rd June and picking random dates on that page and comparing them to the original dataset shows every day to be lower than the old dataset. I'm not a tinfoil hat regular but this stinks of a cover up and hiding data for some reason. The only comfort I have is that the patients in hospital and on ventilator data is coming down slowly and is more up to date (2nd and 3rd July respectively)