July/August ‘dip’

[Getawaywithit]

Why is there no dip in the death stats as with case numbers and hospitalisations? Is it too early still for a corresponding dip in deaths? I attach a photo of yesterday’s stats so you can see what I mean. I have been waiting to see it for a couple of weeks now but am still waiting….

Because cases aren't helpful here, finding lots of cases in the under 30's is irrelevant, so few get ill. The graph of cases in over 40's didn't have that spectacular dip, it's been much more consistent. The dip in hospitalisations was likely due to the under 30's being admitted with covid and admission for completely unrelated things.

We won't see a dip in deaths until cases in unvaccinated over 40's start declining.

Also under 40s who are hospitalised due to covid are highly likely to recover rather than die. And sadly if they do die it is generally longer than 28 days later so they wouldn't count in the death statistics.

On cases it depends why there was a dip - lower test positivity or lower number of tests done?

But I do not know why with hospitalisations.

Because people aren’t testing anymore.