Office National Statistics Map search site. How many people have sadly died in your area?

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

And does it alter your opinion of anything Covid related if you know?

I'm not rural, but nowhere near London and I knew that it had been longer getting up here, but I've still not heard of many people I know getting the virus or dying from it.

The map search say that luckily for us, only 3 people have in my town. It seems like a lot of disruption for that, but obviously it would be a lot worse without all the measures being in place. It also shows that should we lift the restrictions too early for here, yet it being dictated by the progress in much heavier weighted areas that have been harder hit and are now improving, we may be in trouble!

Agree, a lot of people have died, and it sucks.
figures are still going down , 327 or so reported yesterday, but that is sitll a fair amount

12. highest in our area. Its a poor area so it follows that line.

Surely if these figures are per 100000 and it says 10 but you only have 10000 people living there, it actually means 1 person has died? And they've just made the figures comparable?

Forgive me if I'm being stupid though 🙈

It says 11 deaths in my county (town doesn’t come up). 10 in main city do I guess at most 1 but most likely 0.

6 in my local area. I live in a city but my parish is the smallest in the city. .

That chart does only go up to 17 April , mind.

If I add up all the blobs, in my borough it is 52. This is just an average sized market town. That seems a lot.

2 in my area. Although my (relatively young) neighbour returned home recently after a 5 week stay in hospital due to COVID, it's a miracle he's still here tbh....

I’m not sure how we’ll ever get our heads around the scale of loss here, tbh. When the inevitable memorial day comes, how do you picture it? It’s not like terrorist attacks or plane crashes where it is all fast-paced, immediate loss of life of a defined group of people. Thousands of individual stories of people getting sick and dying over a protracted period, many in the streets around you but you never knew them and apart from an ONS website probably wouldn’t have noticed they’d died. It’s intangible. Yet the scale is also so large that montages of photos of victims on the news won’t do it justice either. Perhaps a physical memorial site with names listed - but where do you stop there, because people will be dying from this for many years to come. When does a pandemic ever get declared ‘over’?

Sorry going off on a rather pessimistic tangent.

One in my area, 32 in the entire borough.

Two in my immediate area. Big spike in the town next to me that we often walked to.

0 in my postcode but 7 in surrounding market town and villages. Elderly population and lots of nursing homes who have had deaths

0 in my postcode. 7 in surrounding Post codes.

There have been a significant number of people died at local hospital which is very near me.

3 in the area with my postcode but then it does also cover our local hospital so probably all there.

Across the town as a whole there's a population of around 120,000 people and 34 deaths.

I think its by council ward and not post code?

I'm not sure how the postcode areas work, I had to put in my full postcode and it said 2 people had died.

Affluent area, little deprivation but a lot of people commuting to London (and other larger population centres). And a few care homes.

1 in my postcode, 3 in my mums. My population density is much higher but she lives in an area with a higher elderly population.

4 in the 3 surrounding villages

I don’t think deaths are registered to a hospital but to home address. I live in a relatively large area on the map (rural farming so low population density) we have one death. There are a number of care homes but they have obviously done well so far. The small social housing estate in a neighbouring area has recorded 4 deaths.
I have attached one of the other maps available, does anyone else see a strong connection with the motorway network between the major conurbations?

Ten in my postcode, and nearest town (we're in a different postcode and borough) 12. The first case in our immediate area and this town was approx two miles and in fairly early stages, so that put me in alert. List someone I knew late March to it, which was a shock as they didn't have the usual symptoms, only showed them after being admitted to hospital for something else.

I knew the city I live in is a hot spot but what I didn't realise was that my postcode is the worst in the city! 12 deaths in our small area of the city.

I think its by council ward and not post code?

It says on the website what the areas are. They're 'Middle Layer Super Output Area' ... yeah, me neither but I can google.....they are small areas defined to for the purposes of statistics with an average of 7200 people in each. The postcode is just being used to find which one you're in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiddleLayerrSuperOutputtArea

I'm in London. There are 4 deaths in my tiny area of a few streets. If I plot my walk to the supermarket (about 1 mile) I go through areas with a total of 18. If I follow my usual route to work (about 7 miles) it's 71.

It hasn't altered my opinion. I always thought London should have locked down earlier and if we had done that then large areas of the country with much sparser populations might not have needed lockdown at all.

I still think those areas with few cases should come out of lockdown ahead of places like London as they already stand a good chance of being able to do effective case finding and contact tracing.

I still think it's ridiculous to treat all areas of the country the same.

does anyone else see a strong connection with the motorway network between the major conurbations?

Motorways tend to connect large conurbations so I don't think you can deduce cause and effect. It may be correlation rather than necessarily causation.

Bristol (not sure if that counts as a conurbation now, it's pretty large) and Cambridge have good motorway but low rate.

Is it not Scotland then?