Here are my heatmaps for detected cases, hospitalizations, vaccines, and variants. Data released 22 April 2021 for cases to 18 April 2021 apart from variants (data to 21 April 2021).
DETECTED CASES
Falling in all age groups. A very good sign. Cases will not yet have been detected as a result of Step 2 (open air pubs etc.)
Here's the colourblind-safe version
POSITIVITY
Low for all age groups.
High use of lateral flow tests will reduce positivity.
Very low positivity in 10-19 age group due to school lateral flow testing.
Higher positivity in 5-9 (esp. females) (no routine LFD testing)
HOSPITALIZATIONS
Decreasing in all age groups
ICU/HDU ADMISSIONS
Low in all age groups (highest rate in 55-64 year olds).
The UK Covid Public Inquiry has published its first Report, on Resilience and Preparedness. It is the most urgent report, as we are still ill-prepared for the next pandemic.
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This is the first of many reports, each reviewing a specific area, including healthcare systems; test, trace, and isolate; and the economic response to the pandemic.
The Module 1 Report sets out nine significant flaws from the Covid-19 pandemic:
"Inflation is currently 10%. If inflation halves, how much will a £1 pint of milk cost".
Sounds easy. It's not. It's ambiguous. It's not a good question. Unless it's designed to be a bad question. In which case it's a good question.
1. It talks about 'inflation'. But *what* inflation? At the moment, we have overall inflation at roughly 10% but inflation of food at roughly 20%. So is the overall inflation rate the same as the inflation rate for milk? It's not clear. Bad question.
First, the @ONS Covid Infection Survey is being paused, and @CovidGenomicsUK is being retired. This will have implications for data reliability and availability going forward.
OK, I'm going to write a response to this maths problem, published in @DailyMailUK, that has caused a lot of comment, some thinking the answer is 1 and some thinking the answer is 9.
Many of us would go straight to the answer 1. That's because we know (or our children know, and have taught us), that there is a 'rule' for how you deal with the order of doing the calculation - do you do + first or ÷, for example?
Enter BIDMAS (or BODMAS).
"It stands for Brackets, Indices [or Order], Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction."
That's the conventional order. Forget about indices [or order] for now - that's not important for this one. bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topic…