Why is the daily data so late this evening?

[hettyhooverdoover]

Have I missed anything?

vaccination centres are a separate thing!!

I'm sure there will have been a big jump in deaths and the government are scrabbling around trying to find a way to justify them or blame an error onto some poor civil servant. "Oh yes, there has been a big jump in deaths, but we err, well, most of those people died in August".

I've noticed Wednesday Thursdays are usually high numbers. It's inevitably going to go up with the more people in hospital. This is just the beginning of a horribly high death rate increase.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

I saw that the figures published yesterday contained deaths dating back to September and October, there was even one for May. Why does it take so long to publish some?

Autopsies.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

I saw that the figures published yesterday contained deaths dating back to September and October, there was even one for May. Why does it take so long to publish some?

In most cases, it's a data synchronisation issue; an overlap (or non reporting) between PHE (deaths outside hospitals) and NHS (deaths in hospital), or a delay in matching the data. You often see 1 or 2 deaths appearing or being removed from previous days, as the data is matched up - deaths may be reported by both a care home and a hospital, for example. Other deaths take a while to enter the system because for example the care home takes a while to report.

Still nothing ?

@frumpety

Still nothing ?

Not that I can see.

No, but looking at the English NHS hospital reported deaths they are a bit down on yesterday, 844 rather than 1012 yesterday. So hopefully even if they have ‘found’ so more death data, they’ll be spread over quite a few days and not actually a true spike on date of death.

*some more

And 884 not 844, sorry.

@TheoriginalLEM

Yeah, its all been a big fuck.up and covid doesn't exist, its just another cold

Hilarious well done

Hope you are right SusannahSophie

@PatriciaHolm thank you for the explanation.

One of my bug bears about the whole situation is the press reporting '1000 people died today' when they should be saying '1000 deaths were reported today'

surely they won't exceed 2,000!!

are these the xmas mixing deaths?

The developer of the site has said on Twitter this evening that the issue isn't that the deaths are "terrible, per se, but it's one very lengthy process and the issue appears right at the end".

The good news is that NI cases is steadily down this week. Under 1000 today and it's not even a Monday.

Oh well that's very clear PatriciaHolm

Surely the lengthy process has been lengthy for the whole time they have been doing the lengthy process, so why would there suddenly be an issue at the end now ?

BBC has today's figure in their rolling news now, 1248.

I suppose the issue is you run it, see there's an error try to fix it, rerun it, and if you weren't successful you don't find out till near the end.
Patricia, who is that? I thought I followed them all.

A drop , that is good news.

I think if they had said someone spilt a glass of wine over their laptop, at least half the country would have thought 'fair enough, easily done'

@frumpety now that would be something!

@StealthPolarBear

I suppose the issue is you run it, see there's an error try to fix it, rerun it, and if you weren't successful you don't find out till near the end. Patricia, who is that? I thought I followed them all.

@pouriaaa - Pouria Hadjigabheri

I prefer my excuse StealthPolarBear even if yours sounds more knowledgeable

I just checked him, couldn't see anything new