COVID

It's been a while.

And with the chaos in eastern Europe, few mention COVID anymore.

Last week all restrictions were lifted, travel in and out of the country is unfettered, and on March 1st, the NHS, under Government instruction, changed the data it releases daily.

Instead of daily figures and other rolling 7 day everage figures, it now only releases the latter. Meaning that yesterday, in the previous seven days, 651 people died of COVID.

I guess if I search the site there maybe figures for each day, but its not now if COVID makes the new bulletins, infection and death have become common.

Those in greatest risk are now receiving a 4th jab to protect them further. More and more of the my friends seem to be catching it, and the last one signed off by saying expeting it to be like flu or a bad cold. And they might be right.

But for some it will get more serious, and others will end up in hospital, or worse.

Number of deaths is down 30% using the rolling daily average, with infections at over 236,000 a week, down over 18% and hospitalisations are at nearly 7,800 down 6.%.

Few scientists and doctors think Omicron was the last variant, so for now we concentrate on Ukraine and other matters.

The virus continues to evolve.

Probably.