Coronavirus - Page 381

**Damien** · 08-06-2021, 21:35

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/sta...51586786037763

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NEW: latest data now show a clear rise in hospital admissions in the UK, and numbers could climb rapidly.

Admissions & patient numbers in the North West are ~straight lines on a log-scale: exponential growth

I suspect there will be a delay. The vaccines are still working but we just haven't vaccinated enough people yet.

Pierre · 08-06-2021, 21:51

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Originally Posted by Damien

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/sta...51586786037763

I suspect there will be a delay. The vaccines are still working but we just haven't vaccinated enough people yet.

I don’t know who that bloke is, but the U.K. official stats don’t reflect that, hospital admissions down., deaths up slightly but still well below previous.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

1andrew1 · 08-06-2021, 22:06

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Originally Posted by Pierre

I don’t know who that bloke is

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Renowned by those following the pandemic closely as the person who does the daily updates of the coronavirus trajectory tracker for the FT.

**Damien** · 08-06-2021, 22:06

He is a data journalist at the FT.

And yes it's not skyrocketing yet but there is a sign of an increase towards the end of May with a further week's data about to come out tomorrow. The FT is linking to specific areas where it's increasing.

We'll see but all I imagine it'll prompt caution to delay. You need to tackle exponential growth before it starts.

Pierre · 08-06-2021, 23:37

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Originally Posted by Damien

He is a data journalist at the FT. .

So as about as plausible as me, or any other Pleb.

Carth · 09-06-2021, 06:59

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Originally Posted by Pierre

So as about as plausible as me, or any other Pleb.

Sounds about right.

People who link to twitter posts in order to make a point should step back and realise that twitter is just the modern equivalent of women gossiping over the garden fence, absolutely pointless when trying to win (or start) an argument

**Damien** · 09-06-2021, 07:00

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Originally Posted by Pierre

So as about as plausible as me, or any other Pleb.

Well no because someone who is trained to analyse data and does it every day is more qualified to spot trends.

Besides he isn't the only one now getting concerned that we're talking about a wave rather than a small increase in cases.

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Originally Posted by Carth

Sounds about right.

People who link to twitter posts in order to make a point should step back and realise that twitter is just the modern equivalent of women gossiping over the garden fence, absolutely pointless when trying to win (or start) an argument

The tweets are just a more accessible form of this article: https://www.ft.com/content/f2ae00ee-...e-49f5cb540321

Carth · 09-06-2021, 07:03

In that case, link to the article and not a mouthpiece of your desired preference

Much more believable than the opinion of some oddball on twitter

**Damien** · 09-06-2021, 07:24

He is the writer of the article and FT seemingly randomly enforces it's paywall. The thread I linked to is a distinct summary of the article.

Carth · 09-06-2021, 07:46

aah yes of course, the paywall.

You would think that any media source with a great story, that is important enough to be shared with the general public, would not be hidden behind a wall.

Or is it maybe not a great story, and simply yet more data driven analysis that only has interest to those who think it's worth paying for?

Sephiroth · 09-06-2021, 08:15

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Originally Posted by Carth

aah yes of course, the paywall.

You would think that any media source with a great story, that is important enough to be shared with the general public, would not be hidden behind a wall.

Or is it maybe not a great story, and simply yet more data driven analysis that only has interest to those who think it's worth paying for?

It is, after all, the Financial Times.

Carth · 09-06-2021, 08:32

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

It is, after all, the Financial Times.

Crossword any good, or should I stick with the Guardian?

papa smurf · 09-06-2021, 08:57

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Originally Posted by Carth

Crossword any good, or should I stick with the Guardian?

The only people who read the FT are those without any money

jonbxx · 09-06-2021, 09:31

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Originally Posted by Damien

He is a data journalist at the FT.

And yes it's not skyrocketing yet but there is a sign of an increase towards the end of May with a further week's data about to come out tomorrow. The FT is linking to specific areas where it's increasing.

We'll see but all I imagine it'll prompt caution to delay. You need to tackle exponential growth before it starts.

Yeah, it us wandering up a bit. The data presented in those tweets is focussing on the North West and you can narrow down to that region on the website Pierre posted - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/deta...e=North%20West

If you reallt want to dig down in the weeds, you can see lots of data here - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/download . Here are hospitalisations for the North West for example - https://api.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/...ses&format=csv

Sephiroth · 09-06-2021, 09:43

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Originally Posted by Carth

Crossword any good, or should I stick with the Guardian?

Dunno. I do the Torygraph crossword every day. I used to do the Grauniad cryptic (when I was at grammar school).

FT is too pink for me.