England hospital deaths:
Good and bad news
Deaths down week to week. But Sunday data (always low - hence the week to week matters - and always less reported from NW hospitals than other regions) but the NW total well up on last few week's numbers.
Total 563 (down from 623 last week) and 82 North West (up from 61 last week).
The biggest percentage rise of NW deaths this week and it has been going up all week.
More evidence that the wave has plateaued and deaths are now falling quite noticeably.
But also that the North West is the one reacting the least to this fall. And our death rate is rising when others are now falling.
And yet one third of our vaccine supply from this weekend is being diverted elsewhere.
Andy Burnham why are you not all over this?
Notice please the deaths in the NW are rising week to week by almost exactly the percentage of the vaccine doses being taken away from the region.
Where has Burnham gone, has he been silenced? I haven't heard anything from him in ages.