Just to flag up that Andrew, wonderful though he is, was not right in saying “one person died of Covid” today. One of the reasons people lose trust in scientists is the over promotion (and quite unnecessary) amplification of supposed good news stories.
I put the seven-day rolling average in the big picture, and he was saying it in a response... Yes, weekend stats but I'm not talking about if the number is one or seven... Just that "science" is on many sides of thorny questions.
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Sorry. All this does is diminish trust. We have got used to back tracking on death and case data here. I get that happy headlines are attractive. But please- never at the cost of trust. We have lost too much and too heavily. Many personally. Let’s go slow and real.
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Those of us who turn the data over daily and double check a week later get to know the biorhythms of reporting We have also suffered the brutal reversals of over optimism Some humility about what we don’t know right now would be reassuring You spoke of it eloquently last month
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