I suspect people don't mind testing positive now so they can skip work rather than cancel their festivities? for what are cold like symptoms or none at all for the vast majority. Or is that me just being cynical. ;-)48 Deaths
218, 724 Cases - over 200K as expected.
UK record
BUT NOT AN ENGLAND RECORD - THERE WERE TWO LAST WEEK OVER 160,000
England 148,725 - was 137, 541 yesterday & 117,093 last Tuesday
I never use it for hospital data as it is often behind with countries other tha n England.@Healdplace
Do you have any idea whats going on with the dashboard with Hospitalisations? the main page hasn't been updated since 27th Dec.
It is mostly the huge N Ireland backlog 30,000 cases - today. All added as IF from today when they actually are a total over the past FOUR days.I suspect people don't mind testing positive now so they can skip work rather than cancel their festivities? for what are cold like symptoms or none at all for the vast majority. Or is that me just being cynical. ;-)
Haha the BBC just like bad news so will headline with the negative stuff no doubt?It is mostly the huge N Ireland backlog 30,000 cases - today. All added as IF from today when they actually are a total over the past FIVE days.
I said earlier it would distort things today. Hope the meda are on the ball.
If they are on the ball they will explain. But that might be asking a lot.Haha the BBC just like bad news so will headline with the negative stuff no doubt?
Not Boris.Boris at 5pm
Typically, the level of isolation impacts on the income of the hospitals (based largely on the number of patients treated) and therefore how many doctors, nurses, AHPs the Trusts can pay for on their rosters. Recruitment can also be more difficult outside major Cities too.The BBC has a feature on real problems in Nth Lancashire and Cumbria hospitals due to record case numbers.
It refers to data in December as they use the 5 day old numbers. Claiming 2000 cases a day in Cumbria.
So I looked at the data and they have certainly gone up but not I think as badly as they have in other places like Stockport (that the media totally ignored for weeks when it was at record highs) and currenty both Bolton and Wigan that have accelerated a lot in past few days as Sockport has levelled off.
Just pre Christmas Cumbria had 500 cases. On Christmas Eve 900. It then rose daily 1300, 1500, 1800 to top out at 2200. But has fallen back since to 1300. So yes it is up but I would not have thought unusually so.
Using cases like this is not really the way to go now anyhow - especially depending on older figures as it misses the current trend in a very fast moving wave.
I will be very surprised if almost everywhere in the North West is not showing a similar pattern to the above. Most of Greater Manchester and Merseyside certainly has.
What it does flag up though is small rural areas with limited hospital capacity are likely to be the ones under the most strain as they often are isolated by some distance from other health areas of any size that could share the load.
We will be seeing a lot of that as this wave spreads. Lincolnshire was flagged up the other day as in crisis. There will be others coming.