UK Covid death toll

[Birdman1811]

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)
6th Jan - 27,727 (1.22 x pw)

Another horrible week for hospitalisations with 5k more being admitted in England, however it shows that the % increase is about the same. The big problem we will have is the number, we locked down on March 23rd with 3,183 in hospital and it peaked on the 12th April with 18,974 and it took until the 14th July to get down to 1,500 patients. lockdown measures ended on the 1st June.

So expect the numbers rising to go on until three weeks after 4th Jan (25th) and then it start declining. By the 25th Jan, at the current rates, we could be over 45k in hospital and we are looking at restrictions for at least 3 months after that to get back to normal (I hope that calculation is wrong btw).

This is where my frustration kicks in, during September Sage advised a lockdown was needed but Boris bottled it because of all the nay sayers in his party. I hope each and every one of those that said 'lockdowns are damaging' and 'we have this every year' are now thinking again. Lockdowns are damaging, there is no doubt about that, but delaying them against something like covid means they go on for longer and cause more damage. I really hope this puts that to bed.

Stay safe folks.

Yep.

We delayed, and delayed, half assed it all, then complained things are bad.