UK Covid death toll

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North East and Yorkshire: 48%; 23%; 38%; 88% (473)
North West: 51%; 4%; 20%; 26% (648)
Midlands: 22%; 14%; 34%; 65% (419)
East of England: 22%; 14%; 34%; 32% (108)
London: 10%; -1%; 13%; 35% (435)
South West: 100%: 72%; 44%; 18% (105)
South East: 28%; 12%; 47%; 69% (164)

Adding the regional increases for the week onto the data provided last week. For context the actual numbers in hospital as of today are included. Still growth across all regions but the numbers are relatively low still. Midlands, South East and the North East have the biggest % increases week on week but the SE number is small meaning it easier to have big % increases.

I think these numbers demonstrate the wave is spreading West to East.

Over 500 hundred were admitted to hospital yesterday, but the number in hospital increased by less than 100. So either a large number aren't staying in after admission, or the length of stay is very short, with a large number being released each day.

I think we run the risk of reading into the figures what we want to see on both sides of the argument. Numbers in hospital in the North West increased by 134 last week whereas the numbers in the North East increased by 221 which would back up that theory, but the the East of England numbers only increased by 26 and the South East by 67 and London by 132, so it really is patchy and small numbers can give big % increases.

I would say that we need to tread cautiously with the figures because we have had increases in numbers in hospital in every region for 4 weeks now and when we see one of those regions have a fall can we start to feel better about them.

The 461 admissions in England resulted in an increase of 146 in the numbers staying in but I would say that the majority of the 461 were just day cases that weren't kept in overnight so the best way of using admission figures is to see if there is a week on week increase to understand if there is a growing problem. Without looking into it in too much detail there were 2,650 admissions in the last 7 days recorded, the 7 days before that was 1,707 with 1,313, 1,180 and 842 before that. This shows that more people are going to hospital with covid and we have already shown that is resulting in more being kept in. We need to look at the trends to see where we are going because we can cope with these numbers, it's where it will lead us.