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COVID19 Cases #1 – Latest Data and Trends for England

September 27, 2020 By Nigel

Last updated on 27th September 2020 but downloadable spreadsheet in section 3a was updated on 19th October 2020.  I will update the post when I get the time!

The latest data for COVID19 (Coronavirus) cases in England as of Saturday 26th September 2020 shows the number of people testing positive for COVID19 is up 60% from a week ago but this masks extreme regional disparities that make the national trend meaningless.  The North is in the grip of a second wave unlike the South which is not.  Unless recent trends in the North abate, the scenario of 50k positive tests per day by the end of October recently postulated by the Chief Scientific Officer remains feasible.

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Filed Under: Forecasting Tagged With: Coronavirus, Covid19, DHSC, England, NHS, ONS, Pandemic, PHE, Presenting data, SARS-COV-2, trend analysis, Trend extrapolation

Coronavirus #3 – How many people have died of COVID19 in the UK?

April 24, 2020 By Nigel

The Financial Times (FT) has estimated the true number of COVID19 related deaths in the UK as of 20th April 2020 is 42,000 not 17,000 as published by the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC).  In this article, I show that the FT headline is incorrect and is the result of either the FT comparing apples with pears due to a misunderstanding over what the various data sets measure or the FT attempting to estimate a number that can never be verified.

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: Coronavirus, Covid19, Data journalism, data quality, DHSC, NHS, ONS, Pandemic, PHE, SARS-COV-2

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