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The Chief Medical Officer for Wales has been making press releases about new cases. I see them reported on the Guardian live blog and they also here: https://g

• pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Do you find that good enough compared to Scotland's figures? For counties in Wales one has to hunt for press statements and work out the numbers, then go to the press to find where those infected are? Isn't that woefully inadequate? Isn't the _UK_ government only having _England_ figures on the UK website plain wrong? The Chief Scientific Officer for the _UK_ only reporting on the infected in English counties, surely that's wrong too - seems to be a way to play down there numbers to the national press. Sitting on info that helps the public help themselves, that's bad.
  • duncanawoods 7y ago
    It's not ideal but I wouldn't go the conspiracy path. Just looks like typical issues with devolved services and responsibilities vs. centralisation. Knowing how this crap usually goes, each org demands they remain the sole source of truth for their nation. No doubt the PHE digital team is much larger than the others and probably sits in the same office as the UK digital team. One of them suggests integrating the data and they get it done in an hour. Request goes out to the other nations but they don't have the resources to respond or you go down a rabbit hole argument about how the data is collated because of different criteria and announcement times skewing comparisons. 80% solutions suck when you are in the 20%.