England hospital deaths today a little concerning
16 with 9 from the North West.
13 in the last 72 hours and 7 and 5 added in the first of those days. These are the highest daily numbers in a while.
Cases now starting to work their way into deaths in the NW as sadly expected.
This is now almost ce rtainly going to see weekly deaths rise in England hospitals for the third week running and at present is significantly larger than the past 2 weeks at this stage when numbers rose.
Hopefully this is just the blip in the NW we had to expect given weeks of big case numbers in the region and the big ris4s in patient numbers and ventiulators over the last 10 days were bound to translate into more deaths unfortunately.
3 of the 9 were in East Lancashire, 3 were in Lancashire and the other 3 one each in Manchester, Wigan and Bolton.
Last week the number was 6 with 1 and wk before 12 with 3 - this is actually the highest Thursday number in England hospitals for 2 months.
They were nearly all over 60 by the way. So presumably mostly vaccinated. Though they may not have been, of course.