Latest in the long line of attempts to uncover the 'truth' that Covid figures are exaggerated is the revelation that there is something called the NOIDs Weekly Report which records the notification of infectious diseases for England and Wales. In the report for week ending 23rd May it shows only
6 cases of Covid-19.
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Now I am sure that this was the result of extensive independent research and that it's entirely coincidental that (quoting different weekly reports) this load of old nonsense has been pedalled around the CT community for months. It's therefore unfortunate that the 'extensive research' wasn't extensive enough to discover that 'NOIDs' reports are made by doctors who
suspect that a patient may have Covid. In fact back in February a FOI information request clarified
The Statutory Notification of Infectious Diseases (NOIDS) is a process allowing registered medical practitioners to notify PHE of a suspected case of a notifiable disease. These are based on clinical suspicion alone and as such a proportion of these are likely not to be the suspected infection. Laboratory confirmed cases of notifiable diseases are collected by a separate national laboratory reporting system. These two methods of reporting operate independently.
NOIDS reports do not represent the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. The daily number of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases, as declared by PHE and by the Government, can be found at: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases
Spoiler: It turns out that rather than 6 cases of Covid in w/e 23rd May there were actually 17,036.