US, Cases falling swiftly, but BA.2

BA.2 54.9%

US, cased down 9% in 14 days

NYC, cases up 62% in 14 days

NY, cases up 65% in 14 days

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-da....ta-tracker/#variant-

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-da....ta-tracker/#nowcasti

US exit strategy

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/0....3/30/us/covid-vaccin

Social life returns to normal

Packed sports events and concerts

Illinois, closing free Covid-19 testing sites

Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, Ohio, stopped releasing daily data on virus hospitalizations, infections and deaths.

PB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lFklbJgmZA

Second booster shot

Australia

https://www.health.gov.au/heal....th-alerts/covid-19/c

UK

Covid symptom study

https://covid.joinzoe.com/data

ONS

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep....opulationandcommunit

6.39% in England (1 in 16 people)

6.35% in Wales (1 in 16 people)

5.92% in Northern Ireland
(1 in 17 people)

9.00% in Scotland (1 in 11 people)

People were more likely to test positive for COVID-19 in the two weeks up to 12 March 2022 if they:

had not previously been infected with COVID-19

travelled abroad in the last 28 days

reported being of White ethnicity

were employed and working

had not been living in a multigenerational household

were male

were not impacted by a disability

worked in a care home

were children or aged around 30 years
had not had contact with hospitals, or were living in a household where no one had contact

Reinfections were around 10 times higher in the Omicron variant period than in the Delta variant period

The risk of reinfection was around 10 times higher in the period when the Omicron variant was most common (20 December 2021 to 20 March 2022),

compared with the period when the Delta variant was most common (17 May to 19 December 2021).

Between 2 July 2020 and 20 March 2022, people were more likely to be reinfected if they:

were unvaccinated

had a "milder" primary infection with a lower viral load

were younger

lived in more deprived areas


Sir Patrick

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne....ws/2022/03/30/covid-

We’ve got very high levels of infection at the moment, as indeed many other countries do

I think the number of infections is beginning to turn, so we may be quite close or at the peak and it may start coming down shortly
Need to look back at lockdown and dissect

Clear that there were detrimental effects,

should not be undertaken lightly in future