The seven-day rolling average suggests Covid cases peaked around 23 October and have been in decline for almost two weeks. Despite this, there are frequent claims that Britain’s Covid rates are continuing to skyrocket. So what’s going on?
As always with the virus, every shift in the data must be taken with a pinch of salt; there’s always a chance things could take a turn for the worse. But some data is set in stone: that is, the virus’s trajectory last year and how it compares to what’s happening now.
Today, a strange update was given by Amanda Pritchard, the new head of NHS England. In a bid to encourage people to take up vaccines (both for Covid and flu), Pritchard said ‘we have had 14 times the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 than we saw this time last year’.
Pritchard said ‘we have had 14 times the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 than we saw this time last year’.
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