Link to free download of John’s 2 textbooks
http://159.69.48.3 (please cut and past this address into search engine and it will work)
UK Zoe data
https://health-study.joinzoe.com
New symptomatic cases per day, 108,841
Current symptomatic prevalence, 1,659,056
UK, ONS latest, 24th August
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights
UK viral positive prevalence
2.63% in England (1 in 40 people)
2.39% in Wales (1 in 40 people)
2.00% in Northern Ireland (1 in 50 people)
3.12% in Scotland (1 in 30 people)
Risk of reinfection
Five times higher in the period when the Omicron variants common (20 December 2021 and onwards),
compared with the period when the Delta variant common (17 May to 19 December 2021)
Risk of reinfection in earlier Omicron period, (March 2022) people were 10 times more likely to be reinfected
Overall UK hospital admissions with covid
Percentage of patients in acute hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 who are being treated primarily for COVID-19
UK official data
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
US variants nowcast
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
BA.5 88.9%
BA.4.6 6.3%
BA.4 4.3%
BA.2 0%
BA.1s 0%
Delta 0%
US data, over past two weeks
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases-deaths-tracker.html
Cases, down 16% (almost all states)
Test positivity, at 15% down slightly
Hospitalizations, down 8% (down in about half of the states)
Deaths, down 5% (below 500 per day)
Dr. Anthony Fauci (81)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fauci-step-down-president-bidens-chief-medical-adviser-2022-08-22/
Stepping down in December
Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), (since 1984)
part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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