Data Update | Stuart McDonald and John Roberts
We thought it might be helpful to share our regular Twitter updates here, since not all of you are Twitter users and the blog format allows us to add some more comment. Please let us know if you have any feedback on these updates.
We typically provide updates on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. All updates use NHS England data (so they don’t cover the rest of the UK) and include:
- latest hospital admissions with COVID-19
- estimate of R based on hospital admissions
- latest COVID-19 hospital deaths data, including an estimate of deaths which have occurred but not yet been reported
- latest vaccinated totals, including split by age (Thursday’s only)
Today’s hospital admissions update shows numbers still increasing nationally, but much less rapidly than they had been recently. We are way past the first wave peak and today’s data showed more than 4,000 COVID admissions on a single day for the first time. The regional picture is important to understand these national trends, and we cover it below.