Update to various Covid-19 indicators for England.
Another big drop in deaths, hospitalisations down too.
Positive tests down & good to see no further rise in school age: data to 19 Mar, last day of in-school testing.
Zoe has been up & down: down a bit today (data to 20 Mar).
Another big drop in deaths, hospitalisations down too.
Positive tests down & good to see no further rise in school age: data to 19 Mar, last day of in-school testing.
Zoe has been up & down: down a bit today (data to 20 Mar).
Positive tests for school ages by specimen date will be even harder to interpret over next few days due to start of at home mass LFD testing on Sun 21 March. This is meant to be followed up by a confirmatory PCR test so bear in mind ...
... an LFD positive followed by a PCR positive will only count as 1 new positive but:
1. The case will be allocated to the LFD specimen date but when the PCR test is in, that will be deleted & the case added to the PCR specimen date ...
1. The case will be allocated to the LFD specimen date but when the PCR test is in, that will be deleted & the case added to the PCR specimen date ...
2. An LFD positive followed by a PCR negative (so probably a false positive), will stay in the data as a positive case, allocated to the LFD specimen date.
You might think that isn't sensible, but please don't blame the PHE Dashboard team - they don't make the rules.
You might think that isn't sensible, but please don't blame the PHE Dashboard team - they don't make the rules.
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