In London, covid beds are back up to the level they were at at New Year.
There's a lot of non-reporting boroughs, but hopefully enough for people to be able to triangulate & assess their local risk.
2/9
In London, covid beds are back up to the level they were at at New Year.
There's a lot of non-reporting boroughs, but hopefully enough for people to be able to triangulate & assess their local risk.
2/9
The PCR positivity map is out, and positivity has risen to 2.75% in England.
Adjusted for non-reporting we make it 3.34%.
In Scotland there's been a sharp upturn to 4.37%.
https://jamestindall.info/skeuomorphology/ladb_covid/index.html
1/9
@noodlemaz It's NHS testing, pretty stable and unaffected by people testing themselves.
@com yeah. It was just early. So much for "superflu" (which we all knew it wasn't). But these seasons are long now, stretched out so much - and oddly resp disease doesn't seem to lessen in pressure when they subside.
Flu is now down to the levels we had in October.
At this rate of decline, we have another month to go before levels are at baseline, so it's not the case that flu season is quite over yet.
7/7
In Scotland the outlier is West Dunbartonshire on 11.5%, with levels above 5% in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, and Falkirk.
This is by the way the first week I've ever seen Scotland have higher levels than England.
6/7
The same is true on Teesside, where Darlington at 8.57% looks to be on the way down again and elsewhere is generally still double the national average, but stable.
5/7
Levels have calmed on the Wirral and might have just started to tip into decline in Cheshire.
4/7
Worcestershire continues to have high levels and that's evident in the number of in-patients.
To the east, Bedford and Central Bedfordshire have a new outbreak at similar positivity to that in Worcester.
3/7
Barnet is the outlier on 16.22%.
London, the Midlands, and Yorkshire & the north east have the highest numbers of patients, but that level does seem to be declining at last in London.
2/7
The PCR positivity map is out, and there has been very little change since last week.
National positivity for England is at 2.79%, and at 2.97% for Scotland.
The areas of elevated positivity remain mostly the same.
https://jamestindall.info/skeuomorphology/ladb_covid/index.html
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