Latest COVID 🦠 #829

▫ 66,745 COVID cases in 7 days on the UK government dashboard (+51.1%)
▫ 4,170 hospital admissions in 7 days (15.1%)
▫ 4,602 patients currently in hospital (=)
▫ 128 patients currently in ICU (-5.9%)
▫ 386 deaths in 7 days (-28.7%)

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The Zoe COVID Study’s positive symptomatic case estimate is currently 146,794 cases (+21.6% in a week). The 7-day estimate shows 964,145 cases in a week (+19%). On average, it is now estimated that at least 137,735 people are still infected by coronavirus every day in the UK.

🙈🙉🙊 #CovidIsNotOver

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Latest UK Dashboard

Reminder on data reporting in the UK:
▫ England reports every working day
▫ Scotland reports on Mondays and Thursdays only
▫ Wales reports on Thursdays only
▫ Northern Ireland has stopped reporting altogether

UKHSA Latest Data – ENGLAND ONLY

• 386 deaths in England [within 28 days of first positive test result for COVID-19] were reported in the last 7 days.
• 66,745 new coronavirus infections in the last 7 days according to the latest England data report - the actual number England-wide is potentially significantly higher.
• 185,510 coronavirus infections have been reported across England in the last 28 days according to data in the latest England data report.
• The number of deaths in England in the past week equates on average to around 55.1 deaths each of the past 7 days. If this was to be the “new normal” for daily deaths caused by COVID-19, then annually this would equate to around 20,127 deaths across England.
• Meanwhile, a total of 1,661 deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported across England in the last 28 days.
• 583 COVID-19 hospital admissions in England occurred on 11 June 2022.
• 4,602 patients suffering from COVID-19 are currently occupying hospital beds in England – reported as of 13 June 2022.
• 128 COVID-19 patients are occupying mechanical ventilation beds in England - according to the data reported on 13 June 2022.
• All three of these healthcare measures continue to be a concern for our under-pressure NHS.

SO FAR:

• 865 days since the first infection due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus was reported in Britain (31 January 2020)
• 829 days since the first reported death in Britain (6 March 2020). Coronavirus has now been responsible for infecting around 18.9 million people in England (according to the official reported positive cases data)

Zoe Study UK Latest Estimates

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 (as of 11-Jun)
▫ 24h: 146,794
▫ 7d: 964,145
▫ 28d: 3,451,261

𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 137,735 per day

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 1,735,455

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟭-𝗝𝗮𝗻-𝟮𝟮
▫ 31,001,470

ONS Infection Survey UK Latest Estimates

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 (as of 2-Jun)
▫ 7d: 989,800
▫ 28d: 3,959,200

𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
▫ 141,400 per day

■ 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

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People with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19

Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.

GOV.UKUK Health Security Agency

COVID-19: people with COVID-19 and their contacts

GOV.UKUK Health Security Agency

Infectious diseases: schools and other childcare settings

Managing cases of infectious diseases in schools and other childcare settings posters.

GOV.UKUK Health Security Agency

Ventilation to reduce the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19

Guidance on the ventilation of indoor spaces to reduce the spread of respiratory infections, including coronavirus (COVID-19).

GOV.UKUK Health Security Agency

List of general population COVID-19 testing providers - GOV.UK

GOV.UK

A study of the hepatitis cases seen in Israel reveals they were likely a delayed consequence of COVID-19.

The average delay was 74 days (range 21-130). This is almost certainly why we’ve mostly seen negative COVID-19 PCR tests in affected kids.

No adenovirus found in liver.🧵

— Dr Zoë Hyde (@DrZoeHyde) June 12, 2022

Covid on the rise again. Living with it & other airborne viruses means structural solutions like indoor ventilation changes. We gotta learn from a devastating pandemic. It’s unfathomable that we don’t. The rhetoric is literally ‘learn to live with it’. Where is the learning part?

— Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻 (@Dr2NisreenAlwan) June 11, 2022

🚨 According to @NHSEngland’s recent ‘YOU MUST BEHAVE NORMALLY & NORMALLY = DON’T TALK ABOUT SARS2’ IPC missives for NHS Trusts, SARS2 no longer transmits in offices

For real

Staff need only protect each other against this deadly pathogen in clinical areas

Good luck

— David R Tomlinson 🇺🇦💙 (@DRTomlinsonEP) June 13, 2022

How to at least begin to live with COVID, rather than ignoring it...oh, and it will save money too!

Bravo @CathNoakes 👏

Great talking to @LindaGeddeshttps://t.co/yGVsvbtW0j

— Stephen Griffin (@SGriffin_Lab) June 13, 2022

Since February 2022, the UKHSA has slowly reduced the publishing of its daily COVID updates, following the UK Government’s narrative that we should all “live with the virus”.

England now reports on weekdays, Scotland reports on Mondays and Thursdays only, Wales reports on Thursdays only, and Northern Ireland has stopped reporting altogether.

The virus doesn’t take a break at weekends.
It doesn’t infect people from time to time.
It doesn’t stop at a border either.

The virus still spreads and kills people every day in the UK and around the world. COVID-19 is NOT over.

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,  and the ONS COVID Infection Survey estimates.

Please, support our work through our crowdfunding to help us to continue our COVID reporting: Donate now.

🙈🙉🙊 #CovidIsNotOver.

Vaccination could reduce Long COVID symptoms, new research suggests.

A study of more than 28,000 UK adults has found that vaccination after having COVID is linked to a decrease in long COVID symptoms.

PMP MagazineContributor at-large

COVID vaccines for children under five: What parents need to know.

As children under five represent the only age group yet to have a COVID-19 vaccine approved for use, Pfizer and Moderna have both recently reported results for their COVID-19 vaccines in the youngest children.

PMP MagazineContributor at-large

Severe COVID is equivalent to 20 years of ageing.

A new study finds that the cognitive loss from severe COVID is the same as losing 10 IQ points.

PMP MagazineContributor at-large

■ 🧬 COG-UK sequencing

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📈 ENGLAND COVID-19 CHART

🧩 Long COVID

• As the pandemic ebbs, long-haul Covid still drains patients and confounds doctors | The Guardian
• Long COVID found in 20% of US cases — CDC
• Is Omicron Creating More Cases of Long Covid? — Bloomberg
• Long Covid can lead to trauma and depression — Sunday Times

■ Weekly New Hospital Admissions for COVID-19 (per million)

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■ Cumulative number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK

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■ Total Cases & Total Deaths

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■ Estimated ®️ Number

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■ Population Testing Positive for COVID-19

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■ Number of contact tracing alerts sent (England & Wales)

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■ Stringency Index

📚 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

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— AUTHORS —

▫ Dr Joe Pajak, PhD in physical chemistry: exploring the data, governor of an NHS FT hospital.
▫ J.N. PAQUET, Author & Journalist, Editor of PMP Magazine.

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Sources

• Text: This piece was first published in PMP Magazine on 13 June 2022. | The authors write in a personal capacity.
• Data cross-referenced with the latest official data from the UK dashboard.
• Cover: Adobe Stock/SergeyBitos.
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