The coronavirus disease and death charts which were all over the media a few weeks ago seem to have drifted into the background, at least in the media I use, principally the Microsoft news feed and the Financial Times web site. Perhaps these charts are no longer thought helpful, not really fit for public consumption. But a bit of digging turns up the two charts following, one from a reputable source and one from a source about which I have not yet managed to learn anything.
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| ONS |
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| Anonymous |
With the ONS story being properly documented and explained, by proper statisticians, with the anonymous story coming with no documentation or explanation that I can find at all. With the drawback of the former being that they have taken a couple of weeks to get the story straight, so it is out of date to that extent. But both stories look to be that first we are well past the peak - and second UK/E&W coronavirus flavoured deaths are still running at some hundreds a day, with total deaths still well above average.
Can it be that our government and media are seeking to take the spotlight off this aspect of things at a time when they are keen, for no doubt good reasons, to get us back to school and back to work? Not to mention buying NewsCorp newspapers.
Reference 1: https://www.ons.gov.uk/.
Reference 2: https://coronavstats.co.uk/.
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