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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK: Testing

Fewer tests processed today but still over 1k positives. Mostly pillar two coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing
77 deaths before the latest Givernment fiddle@knocking off about 5k deaths because the damn patients didn’t have the decency to die within 28 days saving them a shedload of money.
The real scandal is why is the DHSC data so far short of the ONS death data.

We all know what.

The Gov refused to test people even with symptoms and even in care homes for months, not just weeks.

So now they are undercounting even by their own measure

A little reminder that several,patients have been in hospital with COVID longer than 28 days.@@some more than 60 days. Some on ventilators for more than 70 days.

Let alone discharged too soon and dying.

Have you checked the massive adjustment to the historical test data @jneill @_johnbye @PsyberAttack @justinmadders

A cool 100k added to Pillar 4 tests

‼️And a massive 1,308,071 removed from Pillar 2.

Maybe Justin would find out how many of those were Randox tests?
You will recall@that the MHRA recalled 750k of the 1.3 million sent out.

That 1.3 million seems a bit of an odd coincidence.

Then find out how much money the taxpayer has paid for them please,

gov.uk/guidance/coron…
As for the diddling with the death data to reduce the DHSC reported COVID deaths by 5k by cutting off the count at 28 days post +ve test.

Immediately increasing the gap between the DHSC report and ONS CV19 deaths even more

Don’t let this diddling blind us to the real scandal
It was only yesterday (11 August) that the gap between “Tests made available” and tests processed grew to over 5 MILLION. That doubled in c 5 weeks.

Oddly, today, the DHSC decided there would be no more embarrassing Tests Made available data.
I mean. We might ask how much this cost.

Were companies paid for sending test kits out? If so, how much? When?

Let alone 5 million that were never processed.

I think we should know.

And why.
In fact I see that by 9/8/20 the 5 million gap was already reached.

Just want to keep today’s diddlers together.

This graph shows the effect of the removal@of the 5k deaths, but, as @_johnbye points out c 2.5k of the deaths removed have COVID on the death certificate. How is that honest?
And this from those that specialise in death statistics COVID19 Actuaries.

The DHSC has just made their Covid death data “significantly less accurate”.

Slow slow handclap.

It looks as if the 1.3 million tests removed yesterday may have been duplicate counting test kits sent out as also tests processed.

This is quite extratraordinary.

So the gap between processed and *made available* has got bigger? It was 5 million?

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