Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional - Office for National Statistics
Of the deaths registered in Week 45, 1,937 mentioned "novel coronavirus (COVID-19)", accounting for 16.4% of all deaths in England and Wales; ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
1,937 Deaths registered in Week 45, mentioned "novel coronavirus (COVID-19)", accounting for 16.4% of all deaths in England & Wales; this is an increase of 558 deaths compared with Week 44 (when there were 1,379 deaths involving COVID-19, accounting for 12.7% of all deaths)
And, no, it isn’t “just ‘flu.”
“Of the 1,937 deaths that involved COVID-19, 1,743 had this recorded as the underlying cause of death (90.0%); of the 2,267 deaths that involved Influenza and Pneumonia, 307 had this recorded as the underlying cause of death (13.5%)”
Week 45 is the week ending 6th November.
Since then there have been AT LEAST 2634 Covid deaths, simply looking at test positive deaths within 28 days of death.
This will be a marked undercount due to significant death reporting lags. Especially in the last several days.
This figures are based on reports by the date of death. Understandably it can take a week or more for those to filter through.
I would except several hundred more...quite likely 1k more.
A couple of Tweets from @AdamJKucharski on the denialism over Covid deaths and them being the driver for excess deaths
We have already seen how excess deaths receded markedly when Covid infections and deaths receded, and are rising together (despite a reduction in other infectious respiratory deaths).
In the USA they can compare lockdown States and non lockdown states.
I shall wait & see if the lesson sticks here and in the US, given who controls the press, the too powerful grip the Government has in the BBC AND the willingness of some journalists to publish lies, deliberately or lazily promoting them for clicks
WE should deny THEM OUR airtime
“In part,,letting falsehoods pass was lazy journalism, in a profession that traditionally privileges access over accuracy.
..Though most media opposed Trump, it’s also true that media made him...Trump’s inventions were allowed to drive the news agenda.”
That’s 74.3% positivity rate. In Wyoming. Out of every 4 tests 3 are positive. That is appalling. The other states are bad enough, but even at our very worst in March/ April, when we were mainly testing respiratory admissions it was not that bad.
And Wyoming borders the Sturgis rally state. Within 3 weeks of the rally the bordering counties in Wyoming saw their cases by nearly 11%.
North and South Dakota are in a bad way too, but their Governors are in denial.
Look at these figures. They are shooting up. The US crossed the quarter of a million deaths today. 164k new cases in one day. Not far off 1900 deaths in one day. (Comparative to the U.K. that is still under our 7 day average but tracking upwards faster )
🦠🦠. 19,609 new cases but why are test processed down?
I would expect restrictions to reduce infection BUT if processing is down how can we be sure?
One would have hoped there would be an all out push to catch every case possible
⚰️⚰️⚰️ 529 deaths
1/. Processed
2/ Cases by date reported show a decline over the last three days
3/ cases by specimen date. It has been taking 4 days for the bulk of cases to be processed after specimen date, but some take a week and even longer. What is happening this week?
Looking at
🏥 ADMISSIONS. Last full date of data is for Sunday 14th. 1589 in a single day. Slightly fewer than the previous few days but a few more than the previous Sunday. Let’s watch this space for a few days.
Talking about “the best of times” in Covid..the speed with which scientists have been able to move on vaccines, treatment trials and tests when backed well.
The worst of times : “The virus creates a disease that is godawful”
The beat of times. It truly is an extraordinary thing to produce likely effective vaccines at such speed, let alone the huge numbers in the pipeline...AND get them under production.
Human beings at their best working efficiently, carefully and hugely productively