Current affairs - Covid stats and staff shortages
Prior to the Holyrood elections this year, Nicola Sturgeon held daily COVID briefings but stopped doing so after this. She claims this was because of the complaints about these from the opposition parties - but the opposition had complained about these before the election because they felt it provided her with an unfair advantage leading up to those elections. I suspect that Ms Sturgeon, now that the election is over, was quite happy to end those daily briefings as she’d got the pre-election coverage she wanted. When it became clear that the daily briefings were no more I decided to use a spreadsheet to log the basic, daily statistics issued by the Scottish government (just so I could keep an eye on how the virus was spreading) - but I did not start doing this until the 8th of June. The statistics I logged were; the number of tests, the number of positive cases, the percentage of positive cases, the number in hospital, the number in ICU and the number of deaths. On the 23rd of July I