Oh, and apparently the vaccine comes with a whole world of chocolate bourbon biscuits while you wait.
Not like you needed any more encouragement
I mean, it's hard to overstate how incredible the whole thing is.
SARS-CoV-2 was first described less than 12 months ago and now we have a national vaccination programme. I am in total awe of everyone involved from the scientists to the logistics and operations. Thank you.🤯🙏
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A 5% drop in the number of people getting tested this week (to 1.66m), but a 28% drop in cases.
Drawing conclusions about falling positivity rates over time is getting increasingly tricky as testing among asymptomatic people is rolled out. As have said previously, reporting symptomatic separately to asymptomatic would hugely help with understanding the data.
Interesting that number of individuals tested down by 1% this week (although that's still 1.74m people).
This includes the lateral flow devices being used in Liverpool and some other settings (reported in pillar 2).
Cases fell for the first time since mid-August. Down 9% to 152,660, and positivity also down. This is consistent with PHE data today, as well as ONS survey.