I had hoped (but not believed) I would never need to do another if these daily summary threads again
🦠 5765 new cases (rolling 7 day average up 46.2%)
⚰️ 13 x 28 day deaths. I think they are turning up again. Watch this space over the next 2-3 weeks.
The upward movement of cases can be clearly seen in the 7 day rates.
We have not been at 35.9 cases per 100k since early April.
We got so close. Why are we squandering all that effort for want of a bit more self discipline for a couple more months?
Look at cases by swab date
5891 on 2-6-21. (NB cases may well be added to recent days due to reporting lag).
2702 on 18-6-21 just as measures relaxed.
More than doubled
🏥 admissions? 154 but the rolling average is down a fraction.
But what is happening under the bonnet?
Look. Just before measures were relaxed we got down to 78 admissions in a day rising to the high point of 134 in a day last week and 154 on Tuesday 1st June.
Sorry. 2702 on 18th May (not June!) just when measures were relaxed
I think deaths are turning up again too, when looking at deaths by date of death but the is quite a lot of uncertainty around the impact vaccinations will have on deaths esp with the DELTA variant now dominant.
Reason to believe vaccinations (esp 2-dose) reduce but not eliminate
Either way. Cases are the first indicator and the gradual increase in positivity (1.2% on 31st May, since when positives have continued to rise).
That increase isn’t increased testing either as that is down overall.
💉 535,226 vaccine doses given
(💉 1st dose- 174k
💉💉 2nd dose - 360k.)
The final graph shows the gap between those with first doses and second doses are narrowing.
But note: the uptake graphs are percentages of the ADULT population not the population as a whole.
Tell me how you’ll use my medical data. Only then might I sign up | Kenan Malik |
“Would you allow your medical data to be anonymised and used for research into cancer or to aid future pandemic planning? Most people would probably say yes.”
“I certainly would. But what if that data could be accessed by tech giants such as Google, medical corporations such as Babylon Health, security firms such as Palantir, or coercive state institutions like the police or immigration service? That raises a few red flags.
And
“What if that anonymised data could in fact help pinpoint who you are? Now you’re getting me worried.”
That is the dilemma most of face. We want to do good and also help one another.
Patients have until June 23 to opt out by filling in a form & TAKING IT TO THEIR GP for themselves, & their children, before their historical records become a permanent and irreversible part of the new data set. ft.com/content/a13225…
It looks to me, from the form itself, that this CANNOT BE FILED ON LINE OR THROUGH THE NHS app. @EinsteinsAttic or @PrivacyMatters can correct me if I am wrong
It has to be completed & handed in to your GP
What about email?
I don’t know how they can verify signatures re email.
If you’ve done it online or through the NHS App I think you’ve gone for the wrong opt out.
A great example of how appallingly badly this is being handled
Too many do not even know the right form to use
GP surgeries are sending out the wrong form when someone sends the right one
Could @AnnaSophieGross explain which Gov official suggested we were doing 25 mill LFT a week?
They certainly are not appearing on the Gov Covid dashboard. They only provide data for England but it is highly unlikely NI, Scotland & Wales combined = England.
Might also be right on scope for the @FT to do an article on John Bell’s (& other advisors) financial interests & directorships in genomics and testing given such huge sums of Gov money are going into a not hugely reliable test.
PHE frantically spinning the schools data as Delta cases rise EXPONENTIALLY driven by school age children and now moving into the older age groups, esp parent age groups.