Adding together the 165,213 (ONS/Stats authority death Certificated Covid death by date of death) to 15th Oct 2021 + the 1221 (28 day deaths by date of death since)
We have 166,434 we have finally crossed the unthinkable 1/400 barrier
⚰️1 in every 398 🇬🇧 citizens dead of Covid
Remember. This will be an undercount due to delays in reporting and recording deaths so I expect quite a lot more to be added to recent days.
On the question of Houses of Parliament comms on masks.
Anyone would think the problem lay with outsiders coming INTO the House.
Not from within.
And we know the biggest problem lies within the Tory bench MPs ears.
Following in from @karamballes review of the JVCI meeting in May prior to the MHRA authorisation of the Pfizer vaccine for over 11 yr olds on June 4th.
Let’s have a look at child cases just to the beginning of October (when they have continued to soar (h/t @Dr_D_Robertson )
Or, based on ONS surveillance from September by which time all adults had been offered vaccination and most if not all had time to be double jabbed .
The horizontal axis. Young on left. Old in the right.
Percentage infected on vertical axis. H/t @PaulMainwood
Yet it seems the JVCI made its decision in May in part on the basis that “all adults will be vaccinated and there is a low risk of child to child transmission. Staff and parents will be protected”
9.2k cases is roughly equivalent to 55k cases in the U.K. and, following the relaxation of measures, cases and hospitalisations have been rising rapidly, despite 86% of it adult population (75% of whole pop) being fully vaxxed.
UK statistics tsar rebukes UKHSA over flawed jabs data
“Those numbers were misleading & wrong & we’ve made it v clear to UKHSA. I’m lost for words at the willingness to publish a table that led people to believe that, with a footnote that was too weak” ft.com/content/a51f85…
The NIMS v ONS denominator debate continues to hot up with criticism still robust regarding the latest attempt to “correct” by the UKHSA, sticking with NIMS but adding two pages of caveats.
Still the main (wrong) impression is vaccinated more likely to get infected than unvaxxed
David Spiegelhalter, chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge university, a statistical research institute, said the “minor changes” failed to address the problem.