UK Covid death toll

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Taking the figures and updating them with this weeks figures from the govt slides today
16th Sept - 929
23rd Sept - 1,439 (1.55 x previous week)
30th Sept - 2,036 (1.41 x pw)
7th Oct - 3,066 (1.51 x pw)
14th Oct - 4,313 (1.41 x pw)
21st Oct - 6,271 (1.45 x pw)
28th Oct - 9,070 (1.45 x pw)
4th Nov - 11,037 (1.22 x pw)
11th Nov - 12,730 (1.15 x pw)
18th Nov - 14,490 (1.14 x pw)
25th Nov - 14,240 (0.98 x pw)
2nd Dec - 13,212 (0.93 x pw)
9th Dec -  13,467 (1.02 x pw)
16th Dec - 15,465 (1.15 x pw)
23rd Dec - 17,834 (1.15 x pw)
30th Dec - 22,713 (1.27 x pw)

Happy New Year and FFS we appear to have stacked it properly. We're now at a point where we have about 7 times the numbers in hospitals to when we locked down in March and we're still debating whether or not to send the little cherubs back into their petri dishes. Although the new variant of the virus is about it has only seen a noted increase in the last week of the year for hospitalisation growth.

We have the vaccine ready to be rolled out so as painful as it would be it seems the logical step to close down for a month to get the numbers down. 

The deaths are also still above the 5YA and the worst week on record for the last decade so as much as some are saying it's normal at this time of year, this is above even the worst death figures for equivalent weeks. We are about to go into January when the figures are normally high, average is around 12 or 13k but we have seen 15 or 16k recently so don't be surprised to see those figures again. If we get to above 16k a week then that is unusual.

If you can stay away from everything for the next month the my advice is do so.