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Originally Posted by Hugh

If you click on the data tab on Jon’s link (on the Patients admitted to hospital table), the last 7 days (21-27 May) add up to 869, and the previous 7 days (14-20 May) add up to 742.

That works out to a 17% increase week on week.

Week-on-week can be taken as more than one successive week pair. One successive week pair does not offer a trend.


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Originally Posted by jonbxx

Yes, that's right. It's also on the front page (link) where they give change on the previous 7 day period. Here's all the main bullet points;

• Cases up 34.7%
• Deaths down 14.8%
• Hospitalisations up 17.1%
• Tests down 17.3%

The data is not pretty viewing. Hopefully, the ultimate lagging measure of deaths will not follow the trends for cases and hospitalisations. That would be expected due to the vaccination program but hard data would be preferred of course

In the hotspots, we know that discovered cases (through testing) are rising as stated. Deaths appear to be falling (see vaccinations for details).

Hospitalisations rate declared in various media as being down to unvaccinated people.

This tells me that currently, the vaccine is doing its job. Best to contain this though through local lock downs.