Daily numbers, graphs, analysis thread 14

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Welcome to thread 14 of the daily updates

Resource links:

Uk dashboard deaths, cases, hospitals, tests - 4 nations, LAs, English regions
Slides & data UK govt pressers
[[https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavi
rus-covid-19-information-for-the-public UK stats]] list of reports added daily by PHE & DHSC
PHE Surveillance report infections & deaths released every Thursday with sep. infographic
ONS England infection surveillance report ONS UK statistics for CV related deaths, released weekly each Tuesday
Daily ECDC report UK & EEA
Worldometer UK page
Plot FT graphs compare countries deaths, cases, raw / million pop
Covidly.com world summary & graphs
Plot COVID Graphs Our World in Data additional data

We welcome factual, data driven, and civil discussions from all contributors 📈 📉 📊 👍

I've been very lucky.... I have a 9 month baby with health issues. All through lockdown I have had constant contact with all of the medical team she was meant with the exception of one service which staff was redeployed but I got access and advise with them 3rd hand through my health visitor who contacted them directly. Some appointments have been face 2 face otherwise on the phone and all have been on the phone with any queries or help I needed.

On a more positive note I have noticed that the argcis map on the government site is now updated daily for cases in the last 7 days.

We're waiting for dental surgery for my youngest which will hardly be considered urgent but will affect her if doesn't get done. Even their specialist dentist review appointments have been cancelled :(

The NHS runs at full / near capcity all year, so had to shut down a lot of services to handle the large number of COVID patients
and also cope with staff absences

Lockdown didn't have to result in this and didn't for other developed countries where the health service retained sufficient capacity to continue with its day (& night) job

It's not just this though. There's been a huge amount of NHS capacity for a while now. However, there's been a lot of dithering and delay about the best ways of reintroducing normal services and keeping patients and staff safe. Just like the schools.

In such enormous structures ( the NHS is one of the top five employers worldwide) it can be painfully slow to make changes. It was staggering the way the NHS prepared and adapted to cope with the demands of Covid- it's been much more sluggish to resume normal care.

Cant get my locations to show with my postcode, does that mean Crawley has less than 2 cases?

Yep. Dh has had a health condition that they had just started investigating before lockdown.

Deteriorated hugely during lockdown, to the point he was unable to eat and was surving on protein shakes. Weight down to 5lb 10. Granted, he's fairly short and was slightly built before this, but still...

Nine telephone appointments to get a face to face appointment. Face to face appointment - when we'd actually managed to put some weight back on him - GP is very upset at what has happened and straight on the two week fast track thingy....three months after he really should have been on it.

Fingers crossed we get some answers this week, but I get very angry when people say how well the NHS has coped.

(sorry, not data! More of a rant.)

@Frazzled2207

Oh no!!! Owing to technical difficulties, the data will not be updated until 12 August 2020.

I know!! I need my data hit it helps keep me grounded somehow.

Can somebody make something up please?

@MarshaBradyo

Agree with musings on Merkel’s competence. Very level headed in a tough situation.

She actually needs to give Boris a very un level headed kick up the arse

We should as a country be able to adopt many of the German strategies across many things. They want to bring change to the UK. I think looking to Germany for ideas would be a wise start

1148 cases :(

They are going to have to close the pubs aren't they ?

@HoldingTight

Where was the NZ-bashing?

“NZ has really crashed its economy hasn't it?”

“Auckland locking down for 4 new cases. Amazing if people aren't going to get up in arms about this.”

“Absolutely no need at NZ near-zero community level to reimpose SD measures”

“Complete elimination is not possible atm, but near-zero is achievable for sparsely populated countries at the back of beyond e.g. NZ”

“Totally ridiculous....meanwhile how many people in NZ have died of flu, TB, etc”

I wouldn't call that NZ bashing. Seems a bit over sensitive?

To clarify my point about people being up in arms I actually meant if similar tactics were used everywhere around the world, time and again, for a similar proportion of cases to population etc etc.

@HoldingTight

1148 cases :(

Can I just ask where you looked to get that figure? I never know where to look.

holdingtight where is that figure from ?

www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Here.

Oh, just seen it on worldometers - weird that gov.uk is saying no data til tomorrow...

Is it High BUT there seems to have been 240,000+ tests either done or sent out, that’s unusually high isn’t it?

@Worriedmum999

I’d bet my life savings on it actually BEING the Oxford Vaccine. Very convenient that there was reports they tried to steal it not long ago. Let the Russians be the guinea pigs.

Hmm.. it's certainly seems suspicious. Although they said they'd anticipated this (I think oxford and imperial at least) and had put an anti hacking ring around their technology.

I suspect a lot of it is people going abroad who are testing before they go and/or when they come back. Some countries require it, like Cyprus for example.

I think the question is whether it is higher in the areas of concern, where there is a surge in testing, or whether it is a more general 'rising wave' across wide areas of the country.

I would be less worried about the former than the latter.

Is it just going to be cases released do people think?

Hopefully when the dashboard is updated tomorrow we'll get an idea on regional testing and tests processes. A high figure is concerning but needs context.

Just seen this from PHE on twitter.

102 new deaths isn't good, either.

If the Russians or anyone else wanted the Oxford vaccine formulae to produce for themselves, I hope we would have sold it to them at cost

• but they should have bloody well asked

102 death, even though they said the data wouldn't be updated. They are now going to be doing it in a different way from tomorrow and counting deaths from 28 days after a positive test and then 60 days. Im sure I read on the Guardian this morning that in may the Biosecurity group decided that the threshold for new cases should be under 1000 and anything above that needed more investigation and measures. Has anybody else Seen that I can't find it now.