Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Churchlawtonblue]

As predicted, BBC news leading on the threat caused in rise in "R" rate to an "estminated" (sic) 0.7 - 0.9.

No context of school return, the reduction in admissions, or even that an "R" rate below 1 means cases are still falling.

Its just poor jounalism. Healdplace and others on here have not only consistently reported the up to date covid facts accurately on this forum compared to the BBC but have also anlaysed the data and explained it significantly better.

 

[shemnel]

for context. Cases by test type, England only. Date of test specimen.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Its just poor jounalism. Healdplace and others on here have not only consistently reported the up to date covid facts accurately on this forum compared to the BBC but have also anlaysed the data and explained it significantly better.

The BBC headline is that infections are levelling off. Hasn’t Healdplace been saying that? The R rate edging up to 0.7 to 0.9 is a few bullet points down on a list on the BBC News website

 

[Healdplace]

Greater Manchester Summary:

Cases up 11 on yesterday to 423. Last week 187 (under reported due to glitch by around 250 ish).

v wk before 456.

Out of NW total today of 767 - up 20 on yesterday - GM percentage of NW total stays at 55.1%


Manchester top scores - up 10 to 90. Up massively (like all today) on the very underreported number last wk of 34.

Oldham second on 51 - up just 3 but by 28 wk to wk so like many big Pop rise will occur.

Tameside third on 48 - up 17 in day but 25 on last wk

Bolton has 47 - which is down 3 on yesterday - but up from the underreported 12 allocated last week.

Midway is Wigan on 41 - down from 47 yesterday but up 23 on last week

Rochdale is sixth on 33 - down 2 on the day but up from 20 last week.

Salford one fewer on 32 - also down 2 day to day but up 7 from last week.

Stockport is at 31 - down from 42 yesterday but up from that unluckily misreported 13 last week. This was actually a good day and Stockport had lowest Pop rise today.

Trafford rose quite a bit today (in fact it LOST Pop Score points to Stockport as it scored higher pro rata for first time in ages!) On 29 - most in 2 weeks. Its Pop will not fare well versus the very misleading 2 it got last week.

So that means Bury was lowest scorer today with 21 - down 3 on yesterday but up 10 wk to wk for the same reason as everyone else.


The Weekly Pop Table will look a bit sad tonight with all those rises but it will get better from here when normality returns tomorrow. It only really impacts the day 7 days later given how it works.

Will post the full GM pop table later as usual.

 

[unicorn]

The BBC headline is that infections are levelling off. Hasn’t Healdplace been saying that? The R rate edging up to 0.7 to 0.9 is a few bullet points down on a list on the BBC News website

The BBC led the 3pm news by telling us that "R" was increasing. No context, no explanation, just drama.

 

[splinter]

The BBC led the 3pm news by telling us that "R" was increasing. No context, no explanation, just drama.

Wankers

 

[Healdplace]

Unfortunately the England hospital numbers today are a little disappointing as Friday tends to have a big drop.

Last week for context there were 252 fewer patients and 48 fewer ventilators.

Today down just 51 patients and 7 ventilators. Lowest on a Friday in some weeks.

North West was down a little on both but a few regions went up - South East up by 27 patients and 9 ventilators.

Actually this might have been an error in the data as it fell rather a lot in both yesterday 84 patients and 13 ventilators - which did at the time seem out of synch with the other regions.

South East are down in both from 2 days ago by similar small falls as the other regions so I do now suspect a data error created too big a fall yesterday.

Either way it is not quite as bad as it seems if you do not notice that anomaly.

And either way down is down.

Full report on the regions and UK numbers later as usual.

 

[PragueBlue]

Here's hoping you can get your jab soon mate, it's a fine line we have to tread I hope they make the right decisions for us all.

Cheers. Fingers crossed.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

The BBC headline is that infections are levelling off. Hasn’t Healdplace been saying that? The R rate edging up to 0.7 to 0.9 is a few bullet points down on a list on the BBC News website

That is true, but they also provide out of date hospital data, which i believe Healdplace has pointed out several times. And there is nowhere near the anlaysis of data on any of our main news channels as there is on here. Simole things like weekly falls in hospital numbers and deaths are hardly ever reported. The differences in test results from different types of tests like Shemnel just posted is clearly interesting and throws up questions. But things like this never get reported.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

That is true, but they also provide out of date hospital data, which i believe Healdplace has pointed out several times. And there is nowhere near the anlaysis of data on any of our main news channels as there is on here. Simole things like weekly falls in hospital numbers and deaths are hardly ever reported. The differences in test results from different types of tests like Shemnel just posted is clearly interesting and throws up questions. But things like this never get reported.

Yes the info and the figures provided by Healdplace are great.

I was warming to the BBC’s analysis, particularly Fergus Walsh commenting on the vaccine fall out with the EU in recent days. Its a shame they seem to have made more out of the change in the R Rate than was necessary. That’s journalists I suppose.