Thread by @1goodtern

Did you know that when the English government stopped publishing data on how many people died within sixty days of a covid test, the proportion of positive reported tests to 60 day deaths was 9:1?

That for every 9 people who tested positive on a test that was reported, one died within sixty days of the test?

Now you may be saying to yourself, oh, that's completely normal.

But 18 months ago, that proportion was 900:1.

Here it is in a graph:

It's a little hard to think of it that way round, so here it is another way.
This is the data displayed as a percentage.
You can't tell exactly how many people have died within sixty days of their positive test, because the data isn't in that granular detail.

You can't link an individual test to an individual death with the publicly available data.
So this graph is just the people who die in one week, compared with the people who test positive that week.

For every nine positive reported tests, one of them dies.

Covid isn't over.
Omicron isn't over.