Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
Patrick Vallance said that cases were doubling every seven days. However the average in the seven days to yesterday was 3,679 according to the Government's website. The average for the previous seven days was 3,050. That is an increase of 21% so nowhere near doubling. Admittedly last week was quite a bit higher than the previous week, which had been 1,812 but it's still not doubling every seven days. Unless I'm missing something, it would be more accurate to say that reported cases are doubling every fourteen days.
PV also commenteed on the increasing number of tests and whether that could be the reason.

He said no, as they had seen the proportion of tests coming through as positive had increased.

During September the "come and get tested, you don't need to have symptoms" has changed to "only those who have symptoms" and regardless of other factors that will give a proportionate increase in the number of positive tests.