Thread by @HEDanielClark

There seems to be some confusion around the confirmation yesterday from Cornwall Council that 170 new cases were confirmed at the Pilgrim’s Pride food factory in Pool - as far as I know, these are not 'new cases' but the total of ones already reported

Since the first announcement about the outbreak, there have been 284 cases confirmed across the whole of Cornwall - the vast majority of which have been in and around the Camborne, Pool and Redruth area where there are currently eight areas where clusters of cases confirmed

The 170 new cases confirmed headline is scary, but also wrong. The 170 cases is the total linked to the factory in the last 2 weeks, and virtually all have already been accounted for in the figures that are provided daily, so there won't be a massive spike of 170 new cases

Unfortunately, a lot of the reports published on this (mainly by the nationals) have failed to make any mention of this in their copy and have run with the line of it being 'new cases' rather than 'total cases' from the outbreak.

Anyone looking at the data would have seen the sharp rise in cases in Cornwall over the past two weeks, the majority of which can be attributed to this outbreak, given the MSOA clusters in and area the area where the factory is located, and realised these weren't 'new cases'

But then given that in yesterday's Government briefing, when showing the slides, they completely ignored the South West and what is happening here, can we really be surprised? Here's how the story has been reported by us cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-…