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 … (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… (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)

Their number today is the equivalent of well over 800 in UK terms and yesterday was quite high too so it doesn't seem to be a weekend effect (View Post)

They're predicting today's number will be 1200 and it'll keep getting worse from here, so does indeed feel a little off. (View Post)