COVID-19 rates rose in two-thirds of England's small areas in the week to 6th Jan. But some falls in London/SE. On this map, each arrow is an MSOA with a population of 7-10k. Green shows a fall since last week and purple shows a rise. Larger arrows show bigger rises/falls. 1/
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And here's the latest cartogram showing which small areas of England and Wales had the highest COVID-19 case rates in the week ending 6th January. Each hexagon⬢ represents an MSOA with a population of around 7k-10k. Areas are grouped into counties etc. 2/
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3/ You can download high resolution versions of these images, including labels for each local authority area, on google drive at these links: 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6O… 2. drive.google.com/file/d/1LmZ…

10:24 AM · Jan 12, 2021

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The size of the "increasing" arrows maxes out at +500 cases per 100k population. The uniformity of the arrows in e.g. Merseyside and IoW shows that almost all MSOAs had weekly increases above +500 ☹️ In hindsight the max arrow length should have been higher than +500 this week.
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