Today is a good day to remind you that Brexit was fought for and won by a bunch of right wing, entitled, rich, corrupt liars, helped by a lying corrupt media, Russian money and organised criminality
3 things to know about tomoro and beyond. 1. Lying crook has ordered his fellow lying crook next door to bring forward cost of living package to distract from the Sue Gray report. 2. Dacre and Co will do bidding. 3. It won’t address the cost of living crisis. Will prob make worse
Reality check: #SARSCoV2 will never be endemic. It is an epidemic disease, and always will be. This means it will find unvaccinated or under-vaccinated people and spread rapidly in those groups. It will display the typical waxing and waning pattern of epidemic diseases 1/5.
A bit of perspective - confirmed cases in England are down from late July and are now going up pretty slowly and ... and we have high vaccination rates.
BUT cases are still more than 25x higher than they were a year ago. 1/2
Worrying data from the most recent PHE surveillance yesterday - despite these data really underestimating infection in children (as they are based on symptom based testing), positivity rates appear highest in early year settings (fully open) & primary schools (20% attendanc).
I wrote yesterday about the spread of the UK B117 variant based on data up to the 13th Dec warning that it could become dominant across much of the UK & across most age groups. Recent data released up to end of Dec now suggests that this has already happened. Short thread.