COVID update

Not much to report, other that as a newsitem, COVID is gone.

The reality is that it is still there, though in all metrics, numbers are falling.

Only 1.1 million tests were carried out in the previous sen days to August 2nd. There has been no new data published since then!

7,800 patients admitted in the previous seven days to August 1st, but down 22%, although data is now a week and a half old.

Positive tests were at over 65,00 in the previous seven days to 29th July, data nearly two weeks old, but numbers then 34% down.

And there were 930 deaths in the seven days to July 29th, down 27%.

But the numbers of positives when compared to the same periods in 2020 and 2021, we see that infections are many times higher this year, and although generally effects are not so bad, for those infected there is a significant risk of developing long COVID, and the chances of that increase with each re-infection.

Masking and social distancing helped keep numbers and infections down in previous years, but as a species, we have given up.

Let's see what the winter has in store for us.