It's the ONS infection survey, 54k/week average between 26/apr and 24/may, but for private households only. 8k is ballpark similar to what a lot of models produce too. Edit: found it,… (View Post)
Update on FT excess deaths, adding the "missing" Spanish deaths, and moving Italy's figures up to end April: https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441 Spain and us now… (View Post)
A cinema near here adapted: they're making a drive-in cinema, a la 50s America. Social distancing maintained, and the novelty factor should make it appealing. Also relatively cheap to do I'd have gue… (View Post)
I saw a queue outside a shop yesterday, and all 6 were wearing masks. For a minor fraction of a second I had hope, then I got closer and saw it was a Chinese shop, as were all the customers. Literall… (View Post)
Our care home death numbers are surprisingly a (relatively) small fraction of our total deaths - in Europe it's a half or more, even 2/3 in Spain. Here it's less than a quarter. The problem has been … (View Post)