Thread by @fascinatorfun

🦠🦠🦠 24,405 new cases

⚰️⚰️⚰️ 274 deaths

🏥 Admissions running v close to 1500 a day now
Last data to Mon

🛌 Patients In hospital 10,564 yesterday without NI
Must be at 11k by now

Ventilator beds 975 . 39 in NI suggest they must be at or near their 69 limit (30 non CV19)

And just look what the excellent @JoePajak has done with his already good graph.

Given it an extra polish to make it easier to read.

You can now track more easily where we were in March v direction of travel now

27/11/20 - 1k deaths

The Y axis is deaths @JoePajak ?

The point is as much to show how far and how fast we are continuing to move upwards since SAGE recommended the circuit break.

In fact at the height of the Spring Surge (April 12) we had ⬇️20k in hospital. Now we have c 11k.

Tomorrow is the day that they are supposed to have the “capacity” to test 500k people each day for the virus.

In fact supposedly 459k P1 and P2 “capacity” today.

Where is it ? Well P1 has notionally doubled in 5 days.(83k to 168.8k)

P2 ⬆️ bit

But is it being used?

No. Just 74k P1 tests processed (hospital & healthcare)

The “capacity” at least in P1 said to be due to some bigger processing machines. So are they just sitting there or what?

P2 is very up and down

And beware of them claiming capacity for P4 tests for ONS & REACT surveys.

So when they claim 500k capacity tomorrow let us drill down and find out what that really means

I suspect they simply aren’t testing to capacity because Trace can’t cope with more results

They haven’t thought it through
They have to control the virus transmission conditions 1st

#Newsnight tonight.

Very interestingly they talk about P1 NHS labs CAPACITY OF 100k tests a day. Not 167k as mentioned here.

They also say they are pressured to SAY they have bigger capacity than they have. The very best on the very best of day.