Crazy to think this virus has been circulating the globe since November last year now, so nearly 9-10 months now... it’s literally taken over and transformed the world we live in. I can’t tell you how much I hate this virus and I wish such nasty things didn’t have to happen in this world.. I just wanna enjoy the theme parks, and now I barely can.
Admittedly second hand, but I've heard (from a friend far more educated in these things than me) that some of the sewage testing they're starting to roll out has shown fairly notable (in other words - measurable, I suppose) Covid levels from last summer. It was plausibly in circulation for a fair while before it managed to reach it's runaway phase. Seems to align with lots of reports of people with mild-flu-like symptoms since pre-November. Bonkers.
Anyway, for those of us in the UK( and others interested) I have some graphs of testing/cases today. First time over 1000 daily for a long time, but testing is also on an increasing trend, so we will pick up more cases. Worth keeping an eye on though and make sure to all stay vigilant out and about and in the parks so things don’t have to shut down again!
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I caveat all of this by saying that I'm not entirely sure I know a better way of reporting things, but taking a step back and looking at the numbers reported:
Looking at the
reported 7-day averages:
1st June = 1905 cases, 112k tests = 17.0 cases/1000-tests
1st July = 711 cases, 137k tests = 5.2 cases/1000-tests
1st August = 802 cases, 172k tests = 4.7 cases/1000-tests
So yeah, still a way to go and definitely not out of the woods yet, but I don't currently feel particularly worried about the whole thing totally blowing up again. Still, laughably ****e performance on our end...