Daily numbers, graphs, analysis thread 17

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Welcome to thread 17 of the daily updates

Resource links:

Uk dashboard deaths, cases, hospitals, tests - 4 nations, English regions & LAs
MSAO Map of English cases
Cases Tracker England Local Government
ONS MSAO Map English deaths
CovidMessenger live update by council district in England
Scot gov Daily data
Scotland TravellingTabby LAs, care homes, hospitals, tests, t&t
PH Wales LAs, tests, ONS deaths
NI Dashboard
UK govt pressers Slides & data
NHS t&t England & UK testing Weekly stats
R estimates UK & English regions
PHE Surveillance report infections & watchlists each Thursday
ONS England infection surveillance report each Friday
Datasets for ONS surveillance reports
ONS Roundup deaths, infections & economic reports
ECDC rolling 14-day incidence EEA & UK
Worldometer UK page
Our World in Data test positivity etc, DIY graphs
FT DIY graphs compare deaths, cases, raw / million pop
Covidly.com world summary & graphs

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

would likely discourage more people from having other vaccines later

Plus it would discourage people from having other, proven safe, vaccines like the MMR. The anti-vax viewpoint would be more believable if a government rushed through a vaccine that did more harm than good.

I am very, very pro vaccination but I wouldn't give my DC a vaccine for an illness that is likely to be very mild for them without it having completed the full trial process in the usual way. I suspect I wouldn't be alone on that.

I am confident that the vaccines being developed in the U.K. will be appropriately tested. If I was in the US I would be very wary of Trump's approach and much more likely to refuse the vaccine which is obviously dangerous to the success of any vaccine programme overall.

@Sunshinegirl82 Yes, I agree with you on that.

I don’t know if Trump rush it through but I did think the announcement the other day from a scientist there that it could be ready was electioneering.

Zoe Covid has been publishing daily estimates of symptomatic transmission rates for about a week. The number had been going up since Aug 20-25 but today is the first time it has finally gone down (from 3000+ to 2,605). Let us see if this trend continues.

The change might not be statistically significant but if the new cases are indeed driven by returning holiday makers (and their teenage children throwing end-of-summer parties), there is hope that the trend of the past few days might be reversed.

It has drastically reduced on Covid messenger too. Only a couple of days, but we’ll see.

I assume the government would not have made what is a fairly significant move unless they were concerned about what was currently brewing.

That's interesting Winter- it's still over 3600 on my app- am I looking in the wrong place?

Hmm... I am using the desktop version - Covid.joinzoe.com/data

I am wondering which number is correct.

I think (and maybe I want to think) the desktop is usually more up to date.

Yeah Zoe is showing me >3,000 too.

(desktop and app both 3,368)

Stranger still my covid-Zoe app says 3,368 daily new cases in the UK. What is going on???

Mine also says 3368

Yes that's what I've got Mrex

The 3600 must have been I refreshed.

Have reloaded the page and also got 3,368.

It is a shame - it was indeed showing 2,605 20 minutes ago! I was very happy to see the lower number but looks like it was wrong:(.

Sorry, I see I tally with the latest posters, was delayed replying to @wintertravel1980 and @cathyandclare.

Imagine what it would be if everyone who needed one could actually get a test. Then there's the asymptomatic cases so actually numbers will be higher not to mention the false negatives.

have todays new case figures been released? seem to be late nothing on Sky news....

The site says they're uploading the data and to check at 16.26- oddly specific!

I thought that cathy. Might refresh the page at 4.25

Rebel

I've had 2919 come up which isn't the same as yesterday so I assume it's today's