Yes, that has been written on the slide to match up with the pre-agreed message that this is VERY SERIOUS, and it is TOO SOON TO SLACKEN OFF. It's a metric designed to try and stop people who shouldn… (View Post)

So numbers of patients in hospital are now falling. Deaths likely to go up for a few more days given the heavily lagged reporting, but pretty soon lower ICU occupancy will feed through. (View Post)

It's pretty clear, the media, as a collective noun, don't understand charts. Hence the proliferation of narrative questions when the daily announcement actually contains interesting slides they could… (View Post)

Very notable relabeling of the graph today to show that what was previously shown as 'admissions' by day is actually total current patient numbers by day - suggests peak admissions happened a fair fe… (View Post)

Same point, Civil servants could easily, if they use these stats everyday as standard work jargon, see the word admissions and read what anyone else would call 'currently admitted patients. (View Post)