Today's Downing Street briefing on Covid19 included a line graph of
numbers of patients in hospital with Covid19. The top line for London
went over "4K" but appears to be levelling out in the last week. What
would be helpful would be a reference line for the number of beds
available in those hospitals - not obvious that the line demonstrates
less demand rather than saturation.
Also to note that the COBR (Cabinet Office Briefing Room) appear to pay
little attention to informative labelling. The Y axis is labelled "0K,
2K, 4K" which is insultingly nerdy - do they mean 4000 or 4096? I doubt
such "illiteracy" would be tolerated in the Civil Service for the text
in a news release. It's boilerplate Excel, exported without revision.
Allan
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