UK records highest number of Covid cases since April 1st...

[TelstarPonies]

Was this to be expected?

@secretllama

Ffs the obsession with cases needs to stop.

Fuck yes

@secretllama

Ffs the obsession with cases needs to stop.

Deliberately misrepresenting the data needs to stop too but it won’t.

@Bordois

Yep, as others have said over 1000 of them are backdated cases - some of them from march 2020

If I was the type of person to buy into conspiracies I'd be wonder if the timing was deliberate...

Can I ask where you found this out? Genuinley. I'd like to be able to point people to it when they start with ooh cases have SHOT UP!

The daily figures mean nothing. Its tge 7 day ones that actually mean something.

lucille

On the covid dashboard if you select all cases data and then change it from UK to England at the top it opens up more datasets. Scroll down to daily change in reported cases and then select the data tab. You will then get a table showing how many cases have been added or removed for a particular day. Someone clever on the stats thread tracks this so can see right away where larger numbers have been added 😊

@TelstarPonies Why didn’t you start a thread yesterday with the title “lowest number of cases since 5 September”?

Anyone who thinks a "jump" in cases today is caused by shops opening this morning needs their Internet cutting off. Jesus wept.

Cases not deaths

@Bordois

lucille

On the covid dashboard if you select all cases data and then change it from UK to England at the top it opens up more datasets. Scroll down to daily change in reported cases and then select the data tab. You will then get a table showing how many cases have been added or removed for a particular day. Someone clever on the stats thread tracks this so can see right away where larger numbers have been added 😊

Thank you

Were these the miraculously found "lost 1000 cases" they pulled out of a hat the day that lockdown coincidentally ended?

@HesterShaw1

Were these the miraculously found "lost 1000 cases" they pulled out of a hat the day that lockdown coincidentally ended?

Precisely.

Perhaps they should join other countries in looking at swabs, sewage samples and films from Autumn 2019 and focus on those lost cases, rather than manipulatively "finding" cases from March 2020.

As well as the missing data some of these are presumably due to a surge of LFD testing of secondary school children returning to school this week. Every school near us insisted - I mean heavily suggested - that children should test at the weekend. If this was repeated nationwide that's potentially a lot of extra asymptomatic cases that wouldn't normally be picked up.

But April 1st was less than 2 weeks away.

I'd regard that as normal fluctuations rather than us going back to the awful situation of 3 - 4 months ago.

I think some increase is to be expected now that lockdown is ending. It's making sure that it is at low manageable levels that are important. Hopefully now the over 40s are eligible for vaccination that will bring cases down even more.