Another fantastic piece by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58281664Case numbers now are more than 30 times higher than at the same point last year and are showing signs of climbing again.
So what does this all mean and where might we be heading?
However, this still reflects how far we've come with vaccination - if there had been 37,000 cases a day last summer it would have had a severe impact on the NHS. Instead jabs are saving lives.
Now, because of increased testing for events and trips abroad, we're picking up people without symptoms, too. Again, that's down to the success of the vaccine programme.
I mean that's one way to look at it.
Another way to look at it is that at similar times of the year (summer, when spread is going to be less severe), with essentially the same level of restrictions (i.e. none), but no test and trace, no travel restrictions whatsoever, and no vaccines, there were 30x fewer cases last year.
WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY A BIG PROBLEM.
What really matters now is the number of people becoming so ill that they need hospital treatment.
What also REALLY matters is to not have that level of spread among an imperfectly vaccinated population. Because guess what you're more likely to be running into? Escape variants!
Prof Hunter said: "Pretty much everybody was predicting that cases would rocket and they fell.
I'm pretty sure there were quite a few people expecting that it wouldn't necessarily skyrocket, because one key factor encouraging the spread (despite what Bojo and his pals said, and the BBC didn't dare question this once) i.e. schools, would be gone over the summer.
But might we be nearing the end?
Yes I'm sure it's a great idea to suggest this again, after your last article titled asking "iS CovID OVeR lOLz?" a few weeks ago when cases started dipping a little bit.
Fucking morons.
