Want to know the infection rate in primary kids just before schools go back?

[noblegiraffe]

Want to know what the effect of the Christmas break and school closures has been?

Want to know whether the tier 4 lockdown has had any impact on infection rates (note: not case rates)

TOUGH. Because the ONS have gone on fucking holiday.

Next data release 8th January.

Incidentally, school attendance data for the last week of term is also being suppressed.

And yet the DfE managed to find £1000 bonuses to dole out to its staff to work over the Christmas holidays putting out a pile of nonsensical bullshit.

All we can do is look at case rates, which, as we know are bollocks when it comes to kids as they rarely show the symptoms required to trigger a test. This is why the random sampling is so important.

But not important enough to keep going in the middle of a crisis.

Noble every time I think it can't get worse, it does.

Well thanks for letting me know because I was just about to go looking for exactly this data. To help me decide whether or not to send my kids back next week.

Sigh.

Here's the page www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/24december2020

I don't know if the next release date has changed or if I just didn't notice it last time.

I am so fucking done with this bunch of utterly despicable arsewipes.

Last I saw it was 2000/100,000 in primary, 2510/100,000 in secondary.

So you know - a level at which we should all just STAY AT HOME.

And breathe...

18th December:

2,020/100,000 in primary
2,980/100,000 in secondary

And 'primary' includes 2 and 3 year olds so not in school and probably bringing the rate down a bit.