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by zh3 1809 days ago
6 deaths today because UK numbers are always low on a Monday; it's been around 30 a day for the past week and the trend isn't pretty (given deaths lag hospitalisations by around 2 to 3 weeks, and the daily infections were considerably lower 2 or 3 weeks ago). Death rate is climbing 56% per week (200 in last 7 days, so ~30 per day average) [0]

The link has definitely been weakened, but it's still there

[0]https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

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1200 down to 30 even if that rises to 50, or 60, means the link is materially broken.

there will always be a death a rate. im not sure what you were expecting ?

Simply pointing out that 6 deaths is atypical (it's going to go well above 50, it's that today alone [0]).

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274