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Temporal variation in transmission during the COVID-19 outbreak
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Why no East Midlands? #95

Closed bryand82 closed 4 years ago

bryand82 commented 4 years ago

Why does the published regional data for Covid-19 no longer include anything for the East Midlands?

seabbs commented 4 years ago

Thanks for flagging this.

We have just switched production environments (and teams) and had some initial stability issues. These should now be resolved and estimates from all regions should be updated regularly.

Closing but feel free to reopen if this crops up again.

bryand82 commented 4 years ago

I see that data for the East Midlands are missing again. Please re-instate this information. Regards, Bryan Dawson

On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 at 19:38, Sam Abbott notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for flagging this.

We have just switched production environments (and teams) and had some initial stability issues. These should now be resolved and estimates from all regions should be updated regularly.

Closing but feel free to reopen if this crops up again.

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kathsherratt commented 4 years ago

Hi Bryan,

In the UK, we now estimate and report Rt using counts of cases, admissions, and deaths. Unfortunately the data for admissions only comes in NHS regions, which do not have separate reporting for the East and West Midlands but only as a whole. (Similarly, the North East is now merged with Yorkshire). In order to compare the Rt from each data source, we have also used NHS regions for the Rt based on case and death counts.

This means we no longer report Rt for the East Midlands and are not planning to re-instate this as a separate region. I hope you are still able to use the Rt for the Midlands, now reported as one region.

Kath

seabbs commented 4 years ago

@bryand82 for this sort of scenario (and for many other reasons obviously) we provide all our tools and data under open-source licenses so if access to estimates for the East Midlands is crucial I would suggest exploring restimating which should be fairly straight forward.

Best,

Sam