| Topic: | Re:Re:We are in Tier 2 from midnight Friday | |
| Posted by: | Al Webber | |
| Date/Time: | 15/10/20 11:33:00 |
| There are a numnber of problems with that graph. It's misleading because the number of cases in the spring was MUCH higher. They would have been well off the scale, but there was not the testing capacity. The chief scientific advisor has said there were probably 100,000 cases per day in the spring, and the bulk of those would have been in London. More recently, testing capacity was diverted away from London in September - probably responsible for the dip in mid-September. Without that dip though, the gradient for the last few weeks would look a lot lower. The other big problem is that a lot of the recent cases aren't actually in London. Boroughs like Richmond are supposedly very high at the moment, but the Evening Standard was reporting that 30 to 35% of the cases there were students who were away from home, but still registered with their home GPs. I don't want to get into big arguments, but the amount of misleading (and in some cases plain wrong) data that is being thrown around is really not helping the situation. |