The oafs who can't pee straight use cubicles too.
Then you sit on it.
Boris was like Logan Paul trying to land a punch on Floyd Mayweather during PMQs.
Big flashy and full of distractions and razzmatazz but zero substance and offering nothing of note and this on such an important topic.
And why would they do this, if they didn’t feel it was right?
Really, why?
When you look at those charts carefully they are not as scary as some may think. The key axis in comparing the autumn wave with the current one is the timeline at the bottom. As an example in his top tweet the graph on daily hospital admissions in the North West actually shows a doubling after 30 days, in the autumn wave line it had gone up 7 fold in the same time - a huge difference. Granted the level of admissions seem to have picked up in the most recent days although local Bolton area health officials have downplayed it recently. When you add in the age breakdown you then quite clearly see the impact of the vaccines and how they are working, the other thing that is not on here is the length of stay in hospital and the severity of the illness for those in hospital i.e. the numbers on ventilation.
When I look at the national data of hospital admissions and total numbers in hospital on the government website l can't really see increases in exponential growth that he claims is becoming apparent across the country. When you look at national daily admissions they are running at about 130 per day (latest data 2 June), this is compared with 4,000 per day at the back end of last year and 3,000 per day in April 2020. The daily admission numbers are little changed since a month ago, certainly no doubling or tripling etc. Certainly it doesn't show that on his twitter graph either - case numbers up 40% from a very low base in 20 days is not exponential especially if you took the North West data out of those figures I bet it would show very slow growth in the rest of England.
When you also look at the total number of people in hospital it is 957 as at 6 June, this number has barely changed during May and June, and is actually lower than 4 weeks ago (1,299).
The national situation with people on ventilation is an increase of about 20 people compared to the average in May (148 compared to about 128).
I am not rubbishing what he has shown and he clearly recognises the impact of vaccines and age differences but sometimes a red line is not as scary as it may look. Time will tell. data is all below on a daily basis.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
Really fail to see how someone can be accused of cherry picking data to back up a scary forecast and criticised for not including length of time in hospital.
The chart is real time admissions data, the people won’t have left hospital yet.
He’s using admission to show a trend on...admissions. It’s not a forecast, it’s not making a prediction, it’s a real time trend using the data available.
It does make me wonder how some apparent experts cherry pick to back up a scary forecast. .
The last sentence wasn’t aimed at politicians though...
Hospitalisations are flat because new admissions are matching those leaving hospital one way or another.
Hospitalisations and deaths lag 2/3 weeks behind cases.
3 weeks ago daily cases were around 1,500-1,800 a day.
The experts then look at that, can look at the age groups and vaccinations of those testing positive and model what kind of numbers they’d be looking at for hospitalisations and deaths in comparison to now when it’s likely to be about 6,000 cases a day.
That’s why it matters, plus some of us would like our children to stay in school and that’s only going to happen without disruption if community levels of infection stay low. So if some common sense compromises allows that to happen then I’d be bemused why anyone would be against that.
Well, I hope we have the stocks. As it's younger adults who only have the Pfizer or Moderna jabs, I read we get roughly 1.5 Million of those a week. If most are being used as 2nd jabs, it doesn't leave many.Good news.
More than one million people booked a COVID-19 vaccine through the NHS website on Tuesday - a record high.
Well, I hope we have the stocks. As it's younger adults who only have the Pfizer or Moderna jabs, I read we get roughly 1.5 Million of those a week. If most are being used as 2nd jabs, it doesn't leave many.
Pot.
Kettle.
Typical Sky News headline......if they stated that the UK had only six deaths, that is the big positive and most crucial aspect! She even stated 'six deaths' softly as if it wasn't the important bit. And no reporting of hospitalisations. These figures again show how vaccines have broken the link between cases and hospitalisations.