Like many other Britons I’ve been keeping an eye on infection rates for covid. I’ve seen the numbers of infections climb and also sadly seen the numbers of deaths from covid climb.
But now there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. According to a relatively trustworthy source, Covid Fact Check, we are starting to see massive drops in infections and hospitalisaitons.
This could be a sign that we are on the exit stage for Covid in the UK. It’s also a sign that vaccination has broken the link between infection and serious illness and this is something to be welcomed.
Covid Fact Check said via their Twitter account:
“Another big week-on-week drop. Today’s figure is 39.4% down on last Sunday (48,161).”
They were reacting to new figures that said that this past Sunday (25th July) the number of infections was down to just over 29k.
Reductions in cases also means a reduction in hospitalisations and also a reduction in deaths.
The figures above are English ones but Scottish figures also show both a drop in cases and in hospitalisations. What’s interesting about the hospitalisation figures is that they are far lower than the figures found by testing. This suggests to me that the vaccines are at the very least preventing the sort of serious illness that would otherwise land people in hospital.
A note of caution. These figures are only one week out from the economy mostly reopening. It remains to be seen whether the reopening on the 19th will impact on the number of infections. Britain is also a little behind with vaccinations a situation that needs to be amended.
I wonder if all the ‘experts’ and Pollies predicting >100,000 new cases a day (we are getting about that many a week at the moment) are going to come out with a “Mea Culpa”.
Given how the emphasis on the MSM is shifting to warning that hospital cases are not (yet) falling and more dire predictions of the “might be” sort I somehow don’t think so.
Steerpike at the Speccy has a short list of these of whom some tough questions should be, but will not be, asked (at least not by the MSM).
Yeah I’d like to see a Mea Culpa from Ferguson etc. Infections are falling as are deaths and hospitalisations if you look at some of the government figures. What bothers me is we might be heading for a situation similar to that experienced by parts of the United States where deaths and hospitalisations rise in the unvaccinated young.