Latest COVID 🦠 #803

The Zoe COVID Study’s positive symptomatic case estimate is up for the 7th consecutive day (with 127,503 cases). The 7-day estimate is up for the 5th consecutive day (with 859,133 cases). On average, it is estimated that 122,733 people are infected every day in the UK.

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First published in May 2022.

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Zoe Latest Estimates

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 24h: 127,503↗️ (up for 7 consecutive days)
▫ 7d: 859,133↗️ (up for 5 consecutive days)
▫ 28d: 3,979,827

𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 122,733 per day↗️

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 1,737,073

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟭-𝗝𝗮𝗻-𝟮𝟮
▫ 27,803,324

(Source: UK Health Security Agency & Zoe COVID Study)

latest guidance

■ UK Government’s List of symptoms of COVID-19

After two years without updating its list of just three symptoms of COVID-19 (a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to the sense of smell or taste), the NHS has finally updated its list of symptoms of COVID:

😩 Shortness of breath
🥱 Feeling tired or exhausted
🤕 An aching body
🤯 A headache
🤐 A sore throat
🤧 A blocked or runny nose
😞 Loss of appetite
🥴 Diarrhoea
🤮 Feeling sick or being sick

■ ZOE COVID Study’s Top 20 symptoms of COVID-19 (as of 12-May-2022)

ZOE

Changes to COVID-19 testing in England from 1 April

Information on who can access free coronavirus (COVID-19) tests from 1 April 2022 and how to get them.

GOV.UKUK Health Security Agency

(Source: Gov.uk)

latest news

Around 99% of adults have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies – ONS

In the week beginning 2 May 2022, 99.1% of adults in England and Scotland, and 98.9% of adults in Wales and Northern Ireland, had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

Additionally, in England 95.5% of children aged 12 to 15 years and 88.7% of children aged 8 to 11 years had antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 is the specific virus that causes coronavirus (COVID-19). The minimum level of antibodies included in the data was 179 nanograms per millilitre (ng/ml).

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covid tweets

1/2 How do we overcome the ongoing challenges for families caring for children living with Long Covid?#LongCovidKids would like to see @NHSEngland provide #paediatric clinicians with the latest research to safeguard their health and wellbeing.
This young person is 17. She had pic.twitter.com/a03hFw61v4
— Long Covid Kids HQ #LongCovidKids #ProtectAllKids (@LongCovidKids) May 18, 2022

NEW: A study of over 78,000 people who received a specific medical diagnostic code for long Covid found that most hadn't needed hospitalization for their initial infection and nearly a third had no pre-existing medical issues. https://t.co/vA0XGjfnz5
— Pam Belluck (@PamBelluck) May 18, 2022

comment

Since February, the UKHSA has stopped publishing COVID updates at weekends. Now they take place on Mondays and Thursdays only.

The virus doesn’t take a break at weekends, nor does it show up twice a week only. It spreads and kills people every day in the UK and around the world.

We, at PMP, have decided to continue to publish the latest COVID data available every day, especially the Zoe COVID Study estimates – probably more accurate than the UK Government’s own data since free testing has ended in England.

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■ 🧬 Latest COG-UK sequencing

(Source: COG-UK)

long covid

🧩 Long COVID UK

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LONG COVID UK ESTIMATE (ONS – 6 May 2022)
🚨 1.8 million people currently live with long COVID in the UK
🚨 2.8% of the UK population currently live with long COVID
🚨 1 in 36 people in the UK has long COVID
🚨 Long COVID symptoms adversely affect the day-to-day activities of 1.2 million people (67% of long COVID sufferers)
🚨 Of those, 346,000 people (19%) are “limited a lot”
🚨 556,000 (31%) first had COVID-19 before Alpha became the main variant; 249,000 (14%) in the Alpha period, 446,000 (25%) in the Delta period, and 438,000 (24%) in the Omicron period.
🚨 Most common symptoms of long COVID:
▫ fatigue (51%)
▫ shortness of breath (33%)
▫ loss of smell (26%)
▫ difficulty concentrating (23%)
🚨 Prevalence of long COVID is greatest in people:
▫ aged 35-49 years
▫ females
▫ living in more deprived areas
▫ working in social care, teaching, education or health care
▫ with another activity-limiting health condition or disability

(Source: ONS)