The Zoe COVID Study’s positive symptomatic case estimate is increasing again with 112,768 cases. Its 7-day estimate shows 814,331 cases in a week. On average, it is estimated that 116,333 people are still infected every day in the UK.
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Zoe Study UK Latest Estimates
𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 24h: 112,768
▫ 7d: 814,331
▫ 28d: 3,384,591
𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 116,333 per day
𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 1,634,367
𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟭-𝗝𝗮𝗻-𝟮𝟮
▫ 29,113,200
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New COVID cases remain fairly flat, hovering at just under 120,000 a day, though we’re starting to see signs of an increase across the youngest age groups and in Scotland. Professor Tim Spector suspects other regions and age groups may follow suit.
(Source: 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
UK Health Security Agency
UK Health Security Agency
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covid tweets
We now have enough co-circulation of Omicron sub-lineages BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 in the US to make an assessment of relative fitness between these viruses. 1/12
— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) May 28, 2022
omg, they deleted the last one, only to replace it with this.
— Dr. Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) May 28, 2022
No, washing your hands with soap isn't *one of the most effective* ways to stop the spread of COVID-19. High grade masks and ventilation are!
You'd expect public health organisations not to mislead the public. https://t.co/KoYCFa24cD
People living with #LongCovid experience stigma. This includes:
— Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻 (@Dr2NisreenAlwan) May 28, 2022
📍experiencing direct discrimination
📍fearing and anticipating bias & poor treatment
📍internalising negative stereotyping as applicable to self.
We need to talk about #LongCovidStigma
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Since February, the UKHSA has stopped publishing COVID updates at weekends. Now they take place on Mondays and Thursdays only. Since 20 May, the UK dashboard has stopped updating Northern Ireland data altogether and updates Wales on Thursdays only.
The virus doesn’t take a break at weekends.
It doesn’t show up twice a week only.
It doesn’t stop at a border either.
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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long covid
🧩 Long COVID
Researchers still don’t know precisely how many get long Covid, what causes it or how best to treat it.
About 1 in 5 US adults have health problems from COVID long after they first test positive, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Is Omicron Creating More Cases of Long Covid? — Bloomberg
Researchers say more study is needed on the effectiveness of booster shots against long COVID.
🚨 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)
additional data
■ Weekly New Hospital Admissions for COVID-19 (per million)
■ Cumulative number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK
(Source: ONS)
(Sources: UK Health Security Agency + Welsh Government
+ Scottish Government + N-I Ministry of Health)
■ Population Testing Positive for COVID-19
(Source: ONS)
■ Number of contact tracing alerts sent (England & Wales)
(Source: NHS)
(Source: University of Oxford)
data sources
📚 Data Sources:
- Daily summary: Coronavirus in the UK | UK Government
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) NHS Advice | PMP Magazine
- Variants: distribution of cases data | UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
- Vaccination Data | UK Government
- What’s new | UK Government
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🗃️ Sources: @CovidGenomicsUK | @UKHSA | @ONS
🧮 Special thanks: @JoePajak | #NHS | NHS staff
— AUTHORS —
▫ J.N. PAQUET, Author & Journalist, Editor of PMP Magazine.
Sources
- Text: This piece was first published in PMP Magazine on 29 May 2022. | The authors write in a personal capacity.
- Data cross-referenced with the latest official data from the UK dashboard.
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