25th January Stats



102,292 cases
346 deaths
1613 admitted not updated for 5 days
17,162 in hospital not updated for 2 days
598 ventilation not updayed for 2 days


Cases definition to include multiple infection episodes from 31 January 2022​

From 31 January 2022, UKHSA will move all COVID-19 case reporting in England to use a new episode-based definition which includes possible reinfections.
On the dashboard, this means:
  • cases in England by report date will change to the new definition of an episode of infection
  • historical numbers by report date will not be revised, so there will be a step increase in the cumulative numbers of cases on that date
  • specimen date metrics will be revised back to the beginning of the pandemic.
  • the same metric names will still be used
  • new metrics will show first episodes of infection (equivalent to the current case definition) and episodes of reinfection, shown by specimen date only.
UKHSA is working with the devolved administrations to align definitions across the UK.

Additional details​

As the pandemic continues and more variants emerge, it is more likely that people will be reinfected with COVID-19. Contact tracing and health protection work at UKHSA follows up people with a positive test result, whether they were a new case or a case of reinfection. However, surveillance figures only report COVID-19 cases as the date of the first infection, so individuals are only counted once.
UK public health agencies are now updating surveillance data to count infection episodes, including reinfection episodes. Infection episodes will be counted separately if there are at least 90 days between positive test results. Each episode begins with the earliest positive specimen date. If someone has another positive specimen within 90 days of the last one, this is included in the same episode. If they have another positive specimen more than 90 days after the last one, this is counted in a separate episode (a possible reinfection episode).
 
Harry Angstrom said:
Yet you are still doing it. No lockdown necessary. No mass hospitalisation of Covid patients. No mass deaths of oldies or vulnerable from Covid.
You went into minute detail about this and that and none of it happened.
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I would say you desperately need some sort of way to develop your ability to reason and apply logic. You clearly do not have the capacity to understand what is being put in front of you, and as a result you hopelessly misconstrue what is being said.
 
Locke's SAFC said:
I would say you desperately need some sort of way to develop your ability to reason and apply logic. You clearly do not have the capacity to understand what is being put in front of you, and as a result you hopelessly misconstrue what is being said.
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Just out of interest what would you have liked to seen happen these past few months?
 
rudd said:
What do you mean by a hell of a lot?

What about death certificates with Covid on them? The ones assessed by a doctor and deemed to be covid related, rather than an arbitrarily going from 28 days after a test.

Those numbers are 22,500 higher than than those within 28 days of a positive test.

There will be incidental deaths in the 28 day number but the impact of Covid is more than the 28 day figure suggests, not less.
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I don’t want to speak for @Brian Griffin but surely he’s talking about more recent deaths (since omicron became the dominant variant) rather than throughout the whole pandemic. I don’t think anyone is disputing the fact there have been an awful lot of deaths but it will be interesting to see if the death certificate data for 2022 is following the same pattern as 20/21 or if it is now showing there are more incidental deaths this year.
Locke's SAFC said:
I would say you desperately need some sort of way to develop your ability to reason and apply logic. You clearly do not have the capacity to understand what is being put in front of you, and as a result you hopelessly misconstrue what is being said.
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Sweet f***ing Jesus!
 
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Locke's SAFC said:
I would say you desperately need some sort of way to develop your ability to reason and apply logic. You clearly do not have the capacity to understand what is being put in front of you, and as a result you hopelessly misconstrue what is being said.
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Would you say you have such ability?

Because all I see is you dodging questions & resorting to abuse which suggests otherwise
 
DoctorMick said:
I don’t want to speak for @Brian Griffin but surely he’s talking about more recent deaths (since omicron became the dominant variant) rather than throughout the whole pandemic. I don’t think anyone is disputing the fact there have been an awful lot of deaths but it will be interesting to see if the death certificate data for 2022 is following the same pattern as 20/21 or if it is now showing there are more incidental deaths this year.

Sweet f***ing Jesus!
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They have been more deaths with 28 day methodology than on MCCD this year.
Given the higher prevalence and reduced morbidity I think it's coming to the point where reporting daily deaths within 28 days should be done away with and weekly figures published from MCCD when available. If not it'll only attract more attention from the conspiracy nuts

In week 1 this year there were 381 more deaths on 28 days method.
Week 2 was 225 more on 28 days.
(England and Wales only)
 
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rudd said:
They have been more deaths with 28 day methodology than on MCCD this year.
Given the higher prevalence and reduced morbidity I think it's coming to the point where reporting daily deaths within 28 days should be done away with and weekly figures published from MCCD when available. If not it'll only attract more attention from the conspiracy nuts

In week 1 this year there were 381 more deaths on 28 days method.
Week 2 was 225 more on 28 days.
(England and Wales only)
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Just heard on the radio that this years overall deaths are at a 5 year low...how does that happen with Covid rampant?
 
Gelan said:
Just heard on the radio that this years overall deaths are at a 5 year low...how does that happen with Covid rampant?
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Probably because 2020 was the deadliest year in the UK since 1918 with over 695k deaths and an excess of 75,000.
2021 had an excess of 55k. You can only die once.

If it's measured on a five year average then they'll be hugely influenced by the appalling numbers from last year where the early weeks of the year we were averaging a weekly excess of over 5000 deaths.
Then there's the massive increase in immunity too.
 

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