Remember the 40% higher rule-of-thumb I explained a couple of weeks ago, based on other countries’ deaths in care homes and confirmed by Scottish data? Latest ONS data matches it exactly. This means the horrific true UK #Covid19 total is over 23,000. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-deaths-41-higher-than-governments-hospital-only-figures-ons-11976357

It is a conservative estimate since it doesn’t include general rise in mortality that will only be observed long term.

I fear this is a deliberate ploy. Parsing the numbers + time lag, means daily number is less shocking and when true number becomes known it’ll be “historical”.