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Today @ONS have published data on drug-related deaths in 2019 in England & Wales.This shows deaths at a record high, but for me the really interesting story is the age

Interesting new paper on changes in self-reported health behaviours during lockdown.A big rise in psychological distress, but surprisingly no change in loneliness. An increase in frequency of drinking and binge

I've tweaked this plot a bit, so this version now shows the evolution of confirmed COVID-19 case rates in English Local Authorities over time. The bars on the right show

COVID-19 cases might be rising across much of the UK, but the latest all-cause mortality data (albeit from several weeks ago) still looks very normal for England & Wales, Scotland

The very nice folks @WHO_Europe published a new report about alcohol pricing today.I wrote most of it (with help from all sorts of wise folk), so here's a brief summary

Here's some good news - we're finally starting to see some blue reappear on the right hand side of these figures. Updated code here:https://github.com/VictimOfMaths/COVID-19/blob/master/LAHeatmaps.R This is also very cool -