US
Infections up 62% on the week
Florida
Infections, + 21,683 (pandemic high)
Patients will be showing up six for at least another 6 weeks
Projected weekly cases for US
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#forecasting_weeklycases
Four weeks ahead, 608,569
Projected weekly deaths
Four weeks ahead, 3,657
US, Vaccine trends
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends
Doses administered, up 31% on the week
Georgia, Missouri, Texas
Alabama, up 159% on 3 weeks
Florida, up 78% on 3 weeks
FDA, soon formally approving Pfizer
More restrictions?
In all probability
UK, Cases down a bit today
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Includes lateral flow tests
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Saturday, 31st + 26,144
Friday, 30th + 29,622
Thursday, 29th + 31,117
Wednesday, 28th + 27,734
Seven days of decline
Saturday, 17th + 54,674 (peak)
Pindemic, w/e 21st July
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58029383
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58029383
Pings, self-isolation alerts, 689,313
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57970603
Up 70,000 on the week.
Contact, exposure notification
Isolation after contact, 10 days
Typically, 15 minutes within 2 metres
In the 2 days before first symptoms
From 16th August
Pinned people who are doubly vaccinated excused 10 days if they provide a negative result
Encouraged to book a Covid PCR test
Positive tests must self-isolate for 10 days if they test positive
19 July
Food distribution, exempt, daily tests.
Currently 260 testing sites open for these workers
Working to set up another 800.
After that, 1,200 more sites will be opened “over the coming days”
Survey on NHS app
700,000 responses
22% had downloaded then deleted the app
425,000 have had app switched on
Ping rate, 10%
Of those pinged in the last month
17 -25s 28%
25 – 30s 22%
35 – 55s 14%
55 – 75s 8%
75 + 6%
Source