...don't add up. They are making a big fuss about the increase only being 111 (even though it's a weekend figure), but the overall total is 556 more than yesterday. Either Priti Patel has done the sums or the government are doing some more fiddling.
They do add up. Look at the graphs and you'll see that deaths have been added to the previous day's figures. It's how it's been for ages. You can't announce the total number of people who died today today because some hospitals or care homes haven't reported it yet etc. So what they do is they announce the total figure that they know about today and then tomorrow they add extra cases from today onto today's figures for the graph. Day after they add some more onto today's graph etc. In the graph below it explains it better. It might only be 111 today but they've also found out about more people from yesterday and the day before and day before.
Yes that will be right. 38,489 known deaths yesterday. 111 known deaths today (38,500) and a further 545 deaths from the last week or so which have only just been logged and reported by the various NHS trusts who may have conducted a postmortem before producing the death certificate or of an elderly lady who died in a care home and it's taken a few days for her death to be linked to covid-19.
That isn't the way they've been showing the figures on a daily basis though. The overall total in the daily briefing has always been a cumulative one of all the daily announced figures. Piers Morgan has also cottoned onto it.
I now have the explanation. They are the cumulative deaths of people who were privately tested (pillar 2 testing) which are being added to the total for the first time. I knew it wasn't what SuperTyke said as the daily death figure always includes deaths going back several weeks.
Personally I think it's sick that we have so many people sat at home every day unable to contain their excitement at finding out how many people have died.
They’re fudging numbers, to try and suit their own agendas. They’ve done it throughout. Plenty have swallowed it, sadly. Like the 100k people tested a day turning into 100k tests per day. We no longer even know how many they test per day. Unavailable for 10 days is it? Proven liars.
There are many people who cannot wait to hear how many people have died. Personally I couldn't care less because it is not important at all other than to the poor families involved. What is important to us all is new infections and hospital admissions as that gives us our clearest look at how restrictions are helping, how widespread it is and how much of a strain it's putting on our NHS. Even knowing this every single day is really overkill and becomes less about understanding the impact to the common person and more about a thirst to know how many are dying. There are people who genuinely cannot wait to find out so that they can ooo and ahhh
Yep that'll be me. I'm often to be found rifling through the previous day's papers looking for tasty news about death and unspeakable heartache. It really does cheer me up no end. I find it therapeutic and stimulating at the same time. Can't wait for tomorrow....
