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Looking at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ and you can see that current daily infections (tested and confirmed) is way higher
by Zenst 6y ago
Looking at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
and you can see that current daily infections (tested and confirmed) is way higher than any time in September as are deaths. So whilst the R number and how it is calculated may be down, I'll not place my caution upon such `good` news.
After all this R of below 1 is based upon a reduction in those testing positive and 3 weeks of a country lock-down and you would expect that number to reduce, otherwise your whole reason for a lock down would be proven to of been futile. So that's good, lock downs do work - science shown that here(again).
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk#other-key-statistics https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk#other-key...
- jlokier 6y agoLooking at the same site, I see "People tested positive" is down by 25% in the last 7 days, and the number tested has been stable in the same time interval, so the ratio is also down by 25%. I don't see any other figure called "current daily infections"; do you mean something other than "people tested positive"? The reduction in the last 7 days is considerable and suggests lockdown is working surprisingly well (considering it is hardly noticeable in some places, even though other places are more severely closed). Prior to that it was indeed higher than any time in September, and deaths still are, hopefully just due to time lag. If it's just time lag and 25% reduction per 7 days is already in the pipeline, that is very promising.