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17 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
🦠🦠20,051 new cases but processing down. Expect the Monday home test swabbing catch up to start hitting cases from tomorrow/ Friday.

⚰️⚰️⚰️ 598 (28 day cut off) deaths ⬆️⬆️. Catching up on weekend lag.

🛌 It is clear we now have over 16k IN hospital. (15,919 without NI)
On deaths. 63,871 Covid certified deaths with AT LEAST an additional 2,634 deaths (counting by date of death) since ONS last reporting date (6th November).

In reality likely c 1k more than that due to reporting lag
But I echo @ChrisGiles_

“We should recognise that Covid-19 is linked to around 75,000 UK deaths since mid March, not the wholly fictious government number of 52,147

@BBCNews and others should stop using that figure.
The fact it is written down daily on a government website doesn't make it true”

In many respects the hygiene and Covid distancing measure have reduced other respiratory infectious disease deaths.

A summary with a 7 day comparison from @LawrenceGilder

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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
19 Nov
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
19 Nov
Have journalists finally learnt how to challenge political lies? | Financial Times

“If journalists deny airtime to lies, they will incentivise politicians to tell the truth. That might just increase trust in both professions.”

So simple. So effective ft.com/content/43cd32…
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 Image
“In part,,letting falsehoods pass was lazy journalism, in a profession that traditionally privileges access over accuracy.

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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
19 Nov
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. Image
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 )

Horror show
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
18 Nov
Good for @JolyonMaugham

I ALSO think it super important to find out what the testing regime is for all those containers of PPE stacking up in ports/ warehouses in UK/China

How many of those stored goods are fit for purpose? That goes to VfM in the @NAOorguk report next week.
2/.

1/. What is the CONTRACT value of all the goods as yet untested?

2/. Where are they?

3/. How much by category of goods?

4/. Who was the contractor (&/or ) subcontractor?
5/. What are the on costs of storage of these goods?

Can these be specified as I think it is not small.

6/. What is the wastage rate? (Damage/ inability to return/ sue due to unfitness)
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
18 Nov
🦠🦠. 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 ImageImage
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? ImageImageImage
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.

Looks as if Mon likely to be c1640. In one day. ImageImage
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
18 Nov
Great interview with the prescient @larrybrilliant

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 Image
“Best” dammit.
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