NEW: News of the the other, much darker side of the UK Covid story comes in. Another 587 deaths.
Always lower at weekends but still nearly another 600 dead. 7day average down by 5%.
We lamented 100,000 deaths earlier in the week. Only days later we’re already at 106,158.
Always lower at weekends but still nearly another 600 dead. 7day average down by 5%.
We lamented 100,000 deaths earlier in the week. Only days later we’re already at 106,158.
This is the context of the success of the vaccine roll out- the profound failure of the UK having one of the very worst total death rates per million anywhere in the world. The worst of any major industrialised country.
That’s why some of the criticism about reporting the success of the vaccine rollout is off the mark. They’re one and the same. We need it to be so rapid partly because of the dire straits we’re in, at least partly caused by mistakes in other areas of the pandemic policy response
The new variant has of course played an important role in this as well, for which the UK was unlucky. But there are still policy questions around how the government dealt with it once they knew about it, as outlined below.
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1347274149274791936
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