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Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62265648
UK Covid cases continue to rise
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Coronavirus pandemic
Stock image of a young woman wearing a face mask and holding a smartphone >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
Around 3.8m people - one in 17 of the UK population - has coronavirus,
latest figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest.
That's up by a quarter of a million - 7% - on the week before when there
were 3.5m Covid infections recorded.
The number of people testing positive across the UK has been rising
since the start of June but the rate of rise is showing signs of slowing >down.
Other, more recent figures, hint cases may be on the way down.
The ONS data is always a couple of weeks behind the curve for new
infections but this big dataset gives the most accurate overview for the UK.
Other data sources, such as the government Covid dashboard - which is
more current but reflects far fewer Covid test results - suggest that
for England the number of new infections may already have peaked.
Graph of Covid infections
In the latest report, for the week ending 13 July, the ONS estimates
Covid rates were:
One in 17 in England - up from one in 19 the week before
One in 17 in Wales - the same as the previous week
One in 20 in Northern Ireland - down from one in 17
One in 15 in Scotland - up from one in 16
Many of the recent cases have been caused by fast-spreading sub-variants
of Omicron, called BA.4 and BA.5.
Nearly eight out of 10 Covid infections in the UK are now caused by BA.5.
People are still able to catch the infection even if they have had Covid >before.
But vaccines are still doing a good job of helping protect people from >getting very sick with the virus.
The ONS data is collated by testing thousands of people from UK
households - whether they have symptoms or not - to estimate how much
virus is around.
Kara Steel, senior statistician for the Covid-19 infection survey, said
there were some uncertain trends in the latest data across Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland.
She added: "It is too early to say if this most recent wave is starting
to peak, but we will continue to closely monitor the data."
Graph of Covid hospitalisations. Data from the UK Government dashboard >Separate data shows, on average, week on week, hospital cases have
started to ease in Scotland and England.
In England on 18 July, there were, on average, about 1,720 new hospital >admissions with a positive Covid test, each day.
The week before, the figure was 1,861.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly (
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to
http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an
http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
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