US cases and vaccinations up

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%

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