This graph has been produced by a man called David Paton, a professor of economics at Nottingham University. Link to his twitter here:
twitter.com/cricketwyvern/status/1254041723526922241?s=19
He is plotting the deaths by date of occurrence rather than by date of reporting. The government numbers quoted each day are by date of reporting not by date of occurrence. This is giving a consistently bleak picture of very little improvement. However, if you go by numbers 'reported' there is a lag time of several days and even weeks. For example, today's figures encapsulate deaths that happened two weeks ago.
If you look at the graph by the date deaths are recorded, you can see a clear downward trend. I am just interested to understand why the stats aren't being shown more widely in this way. Am I missing something? (I hope I've explained that clearly, it's taken me a while to get my head around it all 😬)
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Why aren't these figures being reported?
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IdrisElbow · 25/04/2020 18:51
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