1. The ONS data for #Covid19UK deaths for week ending 8 Jan has now been published showing a big jump from previous week (to 6,586 from 3417). So deaths in that week are two thirds of what they were in the spring peak weeks. But it is still a different narrative ...

2. ..to that of the more widely reported dashboard stats (i.e. died within 28 days of pos test) where current deaths are higher than spring peak. Even with reporting delays I doubt this will change because, compared to ONS, there was under-reporting of spring deaths on dashboard

3. But more evidence today (WHO revised PCR testing guidelines) that covid 'cases' (positive PCR tests) have been over-inflating death stats for a long time. Latest data on UK 999 covid calls/triages suggests we're nowhere near spring peak of people seriously ill BECAUSE of covid