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andrewducker
27 Oct 2021, 14:59
The pandemic in Scotland is stuck in a rut.
It would certainly make sense that some people would die quickly and others would survive for much longer.

Fingers crossed it still has a fair way to fall!
ylla
27 Oct 2021, 14:58
The pandemic in Scotland is stuck in a rut.
No, they are tighter this time, you're right. In October and January there was about 3 weeks in between, so I was exaggerating anyway. But it doesn't look impossible that it's just a slower fall -…
andrewducker
27 Oct 2021, 14:50
The pandemic in Scotland is stuck in a rut.
The peaks aren't spread that far apart — cases is the 3rd September, hospitalisations is the 10th September, deaths is the 19th September.

But it is entirely possible that the deaths are spread out…
ylla
27 Oct 2021, 14:46
The pandemic in Scotland is stuck in a rut.
The people dying now are presumably the ones who got ill a month or so ago, so it may not mean much more than that the infection peak was still falling rapidly then.
andrewducker
18 Oct 2021, 13:03
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Thank you!