Data, Stats & Daily Numbers started 28th Jan

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UK govt pressers Slides & data www.gov.uk/government/collections/slides-and-datasets-to-accompany-coronavirus-press-conferences#history
R estimates UK & English regions www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk
Imperial UK weekly LAs, cases / 100k, table, map, hotspots statistics Attendance explore-education-statistics. service.gov.uk/find-statistics/attendance-in-education-and-early-years-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak
NHS England Hospital activity www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/
NHs England Daily deaths www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/
Cases Tracker England Local Government lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/view/lga-research/covid-19-case-tracker
ONS MSAO Map English deaths www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/
CovidMessenger live update by council district in England www.covidmessenger.com/
Scot gov Daily data www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/
Scotland TravellingTabby LAs, care homes, hospitals, tests, t&t www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/
PH Wales LAs, tests, ONS deaths Dashboard app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZGYxNjYzNmUtOTlmZS00ODAxLWE1YTEtMjA0NjZhMzlmN2JmIiwidCI6IjljOWEzMGRlLWQ4ZDctNGFhNC05NjAwLTRiZTc2MjVmZjZjNSIsImMiOjh9
ICNRC Intensive Care National Audit & Research reports www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports
NHS t&t England & UK testing Weekly stats www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-weekly-reports
PHE Surveillance reports & LA Local Watchlist Maps by LSOA www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-weekly-reports
ONS England infection surveillance report each Friday www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/previousReleases
Datasets for ONS surveillance reports www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/datasets/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveydata/2020
ONS Roundup deaths, infections & economic reports www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19roundup/2020-03-26
Zoe Uk data covid.joinzoe.com/data#interactive-map
ECDC rolling 14-day incidence EEA & UK read https_www.ecdc.europa.eu/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecdc.europa.eu%2Fen%2Fcases-2019-ncov-eueea
Worldometer UK page www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
Our World in Data GB test positivity etc, DIY country graphs ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/united-kingdom?country=~GBR
FT DIY graphs compare deaths, cases, raw / million pop ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=gbr&areas=fra&areas=esp&areas=ita&areas=deu&areas=swe&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usnj&byDate=1&cumulative=1&logScale=1&per100K=1&values=deaths
Alama Personal COVID risk assessment alama.org.uk/covid-19-medical-risk-assessment/
Local Mobility Reports for countries www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
UK Highstreet Tracker for cities & large towns Footfall, spend index, workers, visitors, economic recovery www.centreforcities.org/data/high-streets-recovery-tracker/

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My London borough are now saying that anyone who leaves the house for work should go and be tested twice a week.

I am not in a place affected by the new variant stay in your house stuff.

@JanuaryChill

Yes, good ideas. I guess the fear is that people would break isolation after the Day 5 test if negative though

In that case tell them to test at day 7. Test result back by day 8/9 so out of isolation earlier, but with much reduced risk of having it. Win win

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

My London borough are now saying that anyone who leaves the house for work should go and be tested twice a week.

I am not in a place affected by the new variant stay in your house stuff.

Gosh

I know and our cases have dropped down to nearly the national average from some of the worst. So it isn't because we are doing badly.

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

I know and our cases have dropped down to nearly the national average from some of the worst. So it isn't because we are doing badly.

I think local authorities aren't always the fastest at responding to changing rates. You probably have the extra testing in place now because you could have done with it 6 weeks ago

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum our Borough has been doing the same for a few weeks. I actually went and had two tests done, I was really impressed with the whole process, and hope it has helped bring our boroughs rates down too.

Can't remember the exact date but mobile testing centres got set up some time last week of November in my borough. We already had two big ones.

Then the council got the secondary schools to encourage parents to take kids that were symptomless had close contact with a positive case there.

Then around the second week of December the general public were told to go for a test before Christmas even if they don't have symptoms.

It did a first drive up the figures for positive in our area. Especially for secondary kids because they wouldn't have been recorded before. However obviously it has helped a lot to get more cases isolating.

I believe other London boroughs did similar before Christmas. Not sure the situation now.

Yeah we can only imagine how many further infections that has prevented! I’m quietly amazed at how big an improvement there has been in testing situation when I think back to March/April time. Many mistakes have been made in the pandemic, but there have also been achievements.

Can I ask a question about the longer list of symptoms, which has probably been considered and answered somewhere. Could things like runny noses and sneezes just be because it’s winter and people have concomitant colds? So it looks like covid is causing the symptoms but actually it’s just a coincidence?

Re, other symptoms: Our LEA changed policy back end of Nov to say that you can’t go to school for 48 hours if you have cold symptoms/headaches/unexplained tiredness and should take a test. I think this seems a reasonable approach.

Cases: Twitter @bristoliver has a pretty clear graph showing we’re heading to 10,000 cases by 15th Feb. I don’t know if vaccines will speed this up though?

@TheChineseChicken - that's possible. If someone has covid and sneezes though then the common cold will also help spread the two together, so that's a nasty scenario on its own.

I wish all this long term would lead to people staying home and keeping kids home when they're unwell.

[quote MRex]@TheChineseChicken - that's possible. If someone has covid and sneezes though then the common cold will also help spread the two together, so that's a nasty scenario on its own.

I wish all this long term would lead to people staying home and keeping kids home when they're unwell.[/quote]
But that’s bit necessarily an argument for everyone with cold symptoms to isolate and get a test

• not necessarily

@TheSunIsStillShining we have a strong family history of IBD. DH has Crohn's as do his father and brother, not sure further back because of war deaths etc. Our DC are now students and early twenties and have (we think) probably had COVID uneventfully.

One thing to bear in mind is that in my experience ( friends and working in an IBD department many years ago) many people first have episodes of Crohn's or UC at times of stress, so keeping our young ones well is about more than avoiding a potential viral trigger. Even in non-pandemic times there are potential triggers everywhere. But only you can tell what's right for your child.

[quote TheSunIsStillShining]@tootyfruitypickle
He is not really aware what he has to "miss out" on as we avoided introducing the triggers into our family life on purpose. And it's not hard to avoid: sugary fizzy drinks, takeaway like mcdonalds, generally unhealthy foods.
Before the pandemic he didn't even know that this was in the cards for him. So in no way was it limiting his life. :)
Stress is another trigger, but I'm not willing to treat it as such because then I'd have to put him in a bubble which is way more unhealthy :) But I did/do teach him stress relief methods. Not that it's helpful - according to him ....

@babyyodaxmas
We didn't send him back in Sept, so he's been off since last feb.[/quote]
My friend whose 15-year-old daughter has a Crohn's diagnosis sends her to school (in the US). Even though her current medication has sadly stopped working and they have to try something else.

@babyyodaxmas

Anecdata; our trust was horribly hard hit in December (Kent) in the week between Christmas and new year 30% of staff were off sick/ isolating. They were very proactive in vaccinating the staff and everyone who wanted a vaccine had had one by the 15th Jan. This week- not a single positve covid test (all staff check LFTs twice weekly). We still have over 200 Covid inpatients so it's not like they're not getting exposed......

No change in our staff rates of covid sickness in my hospital yet. We only received vaccines from 4 Jan though so maybe it's too soon to tell. People are having single dose of Pfizer.

Anecdotally, people who have had covid have lots of side effects after vaccine and those who have not had covid have had minimal/none.

@squid4 the side effects situation fits with Zoe app's noting of more effects on second shot maybe?

Anecdotally people I know who've had second Pfizer shots have reported more side effects than those who just had the first. I know of GPs and nurses in a London surgery who felt quite flu-y after the second one. And my elderly mother and her friends, who all had second doses (they just snuck in before the protocol changed), reported them too. Not that they were anything less than utterly delighted to have had both doses, I add!

I’d be interested to know what is more likely - having COVID with no symptoms at all, or having it with atypical symptoms such as headache or runny nose?

hi everyone. I have just completed a new deaths table for each council in England on Covid Messenger.

It's taken longer than I hoped as homeschooling has derailed things quite a lot

It's still in beta - I haven't linked it from the homepage for now - but I figured you guys might like a sneak peak and might be kind enough to offer feedback if you spot any glitches.

Do let me know if you notice any issues but I think the table is looking good - you can sort the data as before and all the functionality of the cases table on the homepage.

Its here:
www.covidmessenger.com/deaths/

I have to say, I was surprised by some of the councils with the worst death rates.

It is also shocking to look at the number of deaths in last 30 days versus the cumulative total for the whole pandemic - on average about one third of deaths have occurred in the last 30 days.

Which I can't quite get my head around....

@TheSunIsStillShining, slightly off topic, but to give you some hope, we recently found out the cause of my 31yo sister's severe learning disability by new genetic testing. It's too late for her to benefit from gene therapy but they believe they can arrest developmental delay in children soon. So there's always hope. (She's recently had her vaccine as she lives in a care home facility, though it doesn't feel like a care home, it's very small with only 4 residents, more like a house share with live-in carers!).

@cathyandclare @oneglassandpuzzled
Thanks
As I said, I know stress is a main problem. It's more the uncertainty of what this virus could cause -as it does have gut related symptoms and is known to provoke autoimmune reaction towards own cells- is my concern. Normal times I'm not shielding him from anything basically, but unhealthy foods -and even that is more of a way of life than anything medical.

Thank you everyone for the answers and for letting me derail the thread. I'm okay to ask MN to delete my long -here irrelevant- posts if anyone wants.

@ATieLikeRichardGere

I’d be interested to know what is more likely - having COVID with no symptoms at all, or having it with atypical symptoms such as headache or runny nose?

The ONS infection survey is the place to look for that. I can't recall the conclusions (it was certainly a mix of both, as well as some pre-symptomatic people that they pick up in their testing) The link to the study is in the OP of this thread I think

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