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Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) 15:27 - Jun 30 with 715 views

But the govt is sitting on a much more complete dataset including pillar 2, which tells a completely different story

More than 90% of new cases in Leicester are now under pillar 2, yet these numbers are not public. If youâ€™re a local biz owner in Leicester, you only see the blue. pic.twitter.com/aZY20EuOGc
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) June 30, 2020

Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) on 15:38 - Jun 30 with 654 views

gordon

Yes, this is going to be a massive problem in the next phase - it's because everything had to be so centralised to allow Matt Hancock to pretend that he'd hit his target, but now because local health authorites / GPs etc. were completely bypassed as part of the target hitting exercise it's now very difficult to get timely, geographically specific data back out to local areas.

Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) on 15:51 - Jun 30 with 624 views

sparks

If the figures are not made public, where is he getting them from?

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Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) on 16:24 - Jun 30 with 587 views

WestStanderLaLaLa

Outrageous. I’ve based my decision sending kids back to school on local data plus being told they don’t catch it and don’t spread it. Now this on top of Hancock saying children have been particularly affected in Leicester. I can handle the truth, just serve it up to me straight please.

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Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) on 16:28 - Jun 30 with 576 views

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They're punishing Leicester because they don't like Gary Lineker's less-than-wholehearted support for the tories.

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Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) on 16:44 - Jun 30 with 545 views

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Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) on 15:51 - Jun 30 by sparks
If the figures are not made public, where is he getting them from?

They're retrospective. The government doesn't publish pillar 2 tests (labs and home tests) and then only releases them to some local authorities (not all) normally with a significant delay of around a couple of weeks. Which is presumably why that chart stops at 19th June. Our current knowledge of more recent cases in Leicester will still be based on the wildly inaccurate pillar 1 tests.

They touch on it in the FT article linked in the tweet (not sure if paywall as I have access through work).

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Govt misleading public on Covid19 cases again. Shock... (Leicester Edition) on 16:46 - Jun 30 with 535 views

Plums

I was about to post this. Absolutely scandalous from this shower of chancers once again. There is no hope of getting this under control with local authorities working on two week old data.

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