You can't tell from that excerpt but you need to look at hospital admissions and the ONS surveillance testing as well. Test figures in isolation are very misleading, as are comparisons with prev… (View Post)

A new low for now. Lord knows what he'll get up to as election day approaches. (View Post)

I completely agree. Something politicians really need to consider is that COVID-19 is NOT the doomsday virus. Things could have been a lot worse. We need a much greater focus on public health. (View Post)

Yes, and that does mention the 100,000 a day that I keep banging on about which you can very simply estimate from deaths and the IFR, so it could even be higher still. I'm fairly confident that … (View Post)

Ah yes all those questions about "why are you hiding the data?" When in most cases it was already published on ons.gov.uk before the briefings had taken place. (View Post)