Thank you, very much appreciated. The extended information on the new variant and situation across the wider geographic areas is particularly welcome as we approach holiday season.
The findings of the study by @laurenwisk.bsky.social et al, 'point to the need for a deeper understanding of how COVID-19 infections affect the body, physically and mentally, in the short and long term', and we need to be thinking potentially about a longer road to recovery.
I found something quite interesting. Even though the UK stopped doing lateral flow testing on a large sample of people to estimate infection rate, the US is conducting PCR testing on arriving passengers at international airports in a number of major cities. The test positivity rate is 1.3% in the latest update. Assuming the UK has similar infection rate as the rest of the world, it would be reasonable to say about 1.3% of the people in the UK are infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (species Betacoronavirus pandemicum) in recent weeks. This number is pretty much the same as what it used to be in earlier years when the UK did testing on a large sample of people to estimate infection rate. This would suggest infection rate in the UK remained more or less constant with very little change from one year to the next.
Good to see deaths going down. We could very well see severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Betacoronavirus pandemicum) becoming endemic within the next 10 years.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Betacoronavirus pandemicum) rules!
Thank you for this information. The charts did not seem to render properly in the Substack App but were fine in the email I received. Not sure if it is a problem with my phone or with the app?
This is absolutely excellent as usual. Wonderfully comprehensive and very much appreciated.
Thank you for another detailed informative update.
Thank you, very much appreciated. The extended information on the new variant and situation across the wider geographic areas is particularly welcome as we approach holiday season.
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The findings of the study by @laurenwisk.bsky.social et al, 'point to the need for a deeper understanding of how COVID-19 infections affect the body, physically and mentally, in the short and long term', and we need to be thinking potentially about a longer road to recovery.
https://bsky.app/profile/drjoepajak.bsky.social/post/3lrgahodojk2t
COVID still spreading.
COVID has been around for centuries.
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35632836/
But not the recent human strains
True, they are all COVID, only COVID-19 is the new one.
I found something quite interesting. Even though the UK stopped doing lateral flow testing on a large sample of people to estimate infection rate, the US is conducting PCR testing on arriving passengers at international airports in a number of major cities. The test positivity rate is 1.3% in the latest update. Assuming the UK has similar infection rate as the rest of the world, it would be reasonable to say about 1.3% of the people in the UK are infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (species Betacoronavirus pandemicum) in recent weeks. This number is pretty much the same as what it used to be in earlier years when the UK did testing on a large sample of people to estimate infection rate. This would suggest infection rate in the UK remained more or less constant with very little change from one year to the next.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/traveler-genomic-surveillance/php/data-vis/index.html
Their methodology is described here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9752054/
And here's a funny video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHUCzaK05w
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (species Betacoronavirus pandemicum) rules!
Wonder what they’re up to in NI
Northern Ireland have moved to publishing the data every two weeks over the summer months, so we should get an update this week.
Bob, is there no chance of anymore ONS Winter Infection Survey using lateral flow tests?
Good to see deaths going down. We could very well see severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Betacoronavirus pandemicum) becoming endemic within the next 10 years.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Betacoronavirus pandemicum) rules!
Thank you for your continued service!
Thank you for this information. The charts did not seem to render properly in the Substack App but were fine in the email I received. Not sure if it is a problem with my phone or with the app?