{"id":50412,"date":"2020-06-02T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=50412"},"modified":"2020-06-02T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:52:54","slug":"lies-damned-lies-and-yesterdays-covid-19-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/02\/lies-damned-lies-and-yesterdays-covid-19-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, damned lies, and yesterday&#8217;s Covid-19 stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mega_xtopher\/status\/1267531777813483520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet is pretty important:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-20.52.06-550x462.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-20.52.06-550x462.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-20.52.06-357x300.png 357w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-20.52.06-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-20.52.06-477x400.png 477w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-20.52.06.png 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mega_xtopher\/status\/1267531777813483520\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enlarged version of that chart can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If a consistent basis for reporting Covid-19 deaths had been applied to yesterday's data i.e. the deaths had been reported as they had been for weeks, then there would have been a significant upturn in Covid-19 deaths reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the basis for reporting was changed and the deaths were backdated and past data was restated.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a false representation of declining deaths<\/p>\n<p>When the government thinks it has to lie we need to worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet is pretty important: An enlarged version of that chart can be found here. If a consistent basis for reporting Covid-19 deaths had been<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/02\/lies-damned-lies-and-yesterdays-covid-19-stats\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}