Update on Covid providing information on prevalence and hospital admissions for England and its regions. This post is best viewed using the browser or Substack app.
Wondering if the the regional discrepancies still hold in England? Local outburst in North/NorthEast 2 weeks ago suggests still lively community spread. Left even younger folks weak/wobbly/brain fogged, recovering but a couple or 3 weeks largely out of action.
Note that Prof Pagel suggests evidence accumulating that vaccines can lower risks of catching covid, which I would agree would need leadership in UK to gain any credibility. Got our jabs Flu/Covid by NHS Scot appt. on Tuesday but mood music was to rather play down 'covid'. HEPA filtration & judicious FFP3 masks perhaps helped us x2 80y+ remain uninfected from recent episode 'covid-in-the-house' +ve 10 days.
Philip -- the UKHSA regional Covid hospital admission rate data was not available in a suitable form to include in this week's report but they did include a panel chart in their slide deck that showed admission rates declining in most regions and stable in the remaining.
Whilst the North East hospital admission rate did fall this week it still has the highest rate, followed by the West Midlands and the South West regions.
So far at least, Scottish wastewater monitoring is pretty much useless for any practical purpose - data is lagged by two whole months and instead of being granular down to WWTW level, is now only reported at NHS Board/Local Authority level.
Yes, the lagged reporting of the wastewater data is no help at all. Let's hope that this is part of the transfer and more current data will be published in the future.
Thank you. Continue to be very grateful to you and Independent Sage for stepping into the vacuum to keep us informed
Wondering if the the regional discrepancies still hold in England? Local outburst in North/NorthEast 2 weeks ago suggests still lively community spread. Left even younger folks weak/wobbly/brain fogged, recovering but a couple or 3 weeks largely out of action.
Note that Prof Pagel suggests evidence accumulating that vaccines can lower risks of catching covid, which I would agree would need leadership in UK to gain any credibility. Got our jabs Flu/Covid by NHS Scot appt. on Tuesday but mood music was to rather play down 'covid'. HEPA filtration & judicious FFP3 masks perhaps helped us x2 80y+ remain uninfected from recent episode 'covid-in-the-house' +ve 10 days.
Philip -- the UKHSA regional Covid hospital admission rate data was not available in a suitable form to include in this week's report but they did include a panel chart in their slide deck that showed admission rates declining in most regions and stable in the remaining.
Whilst the North East hospital admission rate did fall this week it still has the highest rate, followed by the West Midlands and the South West regions.
Many thanks Bob.
So far at least, Scottish wastewater monitoring is pretty much useless for any practical purpose - data is lagged by two whole months and instead of being granular down to WWTW level, is now only reported at NHS Board/Local Authority level.
Yes, the lagged reporting of the wastewater data is no help at all. Let's hope that this is part of the transfer and more current data will be published in the future.
It’s more up-to-date now, but local data hasn’t returned yet…
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