Thread by @fascinatorfun

YESTERDAY- 27/1/21 we passed the grim milestone of 120K COVID Deaths

⚰️💔⚰️💔⚰️💔120,058 COVID DEATHS

SOURCE :Gov Covid dashboard

107,907 Deaths by date of death to 15/1/21 (ONS/ Stats Covid on death cert)
+
12,151 (16/1/21-27/1/21 by date of death (28 day)
=
120,058

That is 1 in every 566 U.K. citizens have died of Covid.

Remember the reporting lag. So deaths are still being added to 15/1/21. The close to today the more will be added.

⚰️⚰️1239 of those deaths were added today.

🦠🦠🦠28,680 cases (now processing more of Monday’s swabs)

🏥 admissions slowly coming down (over 3k in a day) but bother they and in hospital Covid 🛏 in patient numbers (nearly 37k) ares till very high indeed.

Overall ventilator 🛌 numbers (3937) slowly coming down, especially in England (3602)
Less clear for the other 3 nations.

7,557,199 people have received at least one dose of vaccine.

Of those 476,298 have received 2 doses.

I mean. If we are going to test 200,000 to 353,670 people a day using lateral flow tests one would think it was worth reporting how many tested negative, positive and unclear, in which settings and local prevalence.

How many confirmed through PCR.

Especially if we are spending £800 million on it.

It seems very very reasonable to ask for some very granular performance data to me.

Esp to see if the the money could be better spent supporting isolation.

Let’s evaluate

@DrMikeWGill

theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…

A flag that vaccination follows seems to have slowed, such that the 15 Feb target to get the over 70s vaccinated seems to be slipping.

Not clear the reasons for this. Is it supply?

https://twitter.com/colinrtalbot/status/1354842046708768770