Links to some of my popular COVID-19 tweets in reverse-chronological order:
27 Feb 2023 - Widespread misunderstandings persist about how the ONS deaths by vaccination status dataset
31 Jan 2023 - Review of “7% increase in aggregate mortality for each vax dose”
26 Sep 2021 - The claim that you’re more likely to die of any cause after vaccinated is flawed
13 Sep 2021 - The significance of population estimates and how they can skew figures
3 Sep 2021 - A quick analogy for those looking at hospitalisation rates of vaccinated vs unvaccinated individuals
30 Aug 2021 - A short thread about the “average age of death”
5 Aug 2021 - NHS England released their detailed admissions data today
13 Jul 2021 - A short thread about the average age of COVID-19 deaths
8 Jun 2021 - Quick look at the English regions and age groups. Log scale cases show a rapid growth in most regions
29 May 2021 - Simple charts overlaying weekly age-standardised mortality rates with annual excess (%)
26 May 2021 - Here is a quick analysis of deaths within 28d of +ve COVID test by vaccination group
23 Apr 2021 - A short thread further illustrating vaccines having a positive effect
16 Apr 2021 - Thoughts and observations on whether “lockdowns work” (or not)
11 Apr 2021 - Rates that COVID-19 deaths have been decreasing as we exit the second / third wave
4 Apr 2021 - Under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths in the most elderly during the first wave
27 Mar 2021 - Breakdown of daily cases by age bands - cases increasing in school children
16 Feb 2021 - Weekly deaths by region and updates on 23 Feb + 23 Mar
9 Feb 2021 - Weekly deaths as radar / polar plots - I accidentally deleted the previous week’s viral tweet (3 Feb) after this tweet!
5 Feb 2021 - Observations of weekly COVID-19 deaths - not misclassification of other deaths
3 Feb 2021 - Weekly deaths as radar / polar plots - I accidentally deleted the initial tweet (London, SE and East) on 9 Feb!
2 Feb 2021 - Weekly deaths by region - I accidentally deleted a very popular share of these charts on 9 Feb!
22 Jan 2021 - Adult critical beds by region and updates on 4 Feb + 11 Feb + 26 Feb + 5 Mar + 18 Mar + 26 Mar
14 Jan 2021 - PHE adjustments to deaths in December
9 Jan 2021 - Explaining how the weekly ONS data should be interpreted
7 Jan 2021 - Adult critical care beds in London + comparison to previous years
6 Jan 2021 - Hospital admissions in England by age group
19 Dec 2020 - Considers the headline COVID-19 figures (hospitalisations and deaths) in the context of community prevalence