Either lazy journalism means the writer missed Y7-11 have the most cases of any age (>2%) or they were trying to create the impression of a problem that is overhyped
Bias
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Relatively few is wrong
Look at @ONS data: you see only 6th Form - 24 even come close to 2%
NB: These @ONS demographics seem to carry bias too
.@DogLady2020 I just checked back in on the prediction from 21 days ago & the 7 day average is 200 deaths per day
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Third time in a row I have been a bit under (181 yesterday, then we had catch up Monday) but a reasonable prediction for 14/11 is 300 - 400 deaths a day
Previous estimates have been based on the 7 day average of cases reported.
Shifting to 7 day average of cases by swab date gives an expected average of 206 deaths/day today - spookily accurate.
WARNING: We don't know the average yet as swab date lags by c. 4 days
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We are on day 57 👆
Looking at another measure - the log of cases reported so far 👇 you can see the orange line (deaths by date of death) is higher than the rolling average reported (blue)
This is because fatalities are rising - but note the last 5 days are unreliable