The government's daily dashboard will no longer be updated at weekends from this week as part of plans to "live with the virus" @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
This is major news for dashboard fans like myself. I interviewed covid dashboard heroes @statsgeekclare and @Pouriaaa a year ago about what exactly goes into the daily update. Pouria said at the time, it will be there for as long as it is needed: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Whoops - that piece on behind the scenes of the covid dashboard is here: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
The i first revealed in January that the dashboard would be gradually phased out as part of "living with covid" - confirmed by the UK govt's living with covid document this week inews.co.uk/news/long-read…
As the LWC doc says, the data becomes less reliable when mass testing is reduced. But there will be some publication of covid data - just not as regular. Are the tens of millions of dashboard viewers ready to give it up?
I am conflicted on this: on the one hand, we need as much info as possible to track covid. But if the public is to be less fearful of a virus which is becoming less prevalent (notwithstanding new variants), surely we can leave the experts to monitor it
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