few moments ago today’s COVID-19 figures were released in the official site, indicating 600,000 new cases this past week (599,244 to be precise). Those are just the ones confirmed by the government (not self-testing with home kits and people who experience no symptoms or won’t bother with tests).

As one might expect in light of the sharp rise in hospitalisations, fatalities rose sharply to 950 this past week (26.3% higher than the prior week). So we have about a thousand Brits per week perishing with COVID-19. Hospitals’ capacity is meanwhile impacted; it affects you no matter if COVID-19 is life-threatening to you personally.

The hospitalisations continue to rise steadily and the sum total of people in hospital was 17,440 yesterday. The latest number of admissions reported is for Monday. It was 2,227 — the highest number since January 11^th. If this trend persists, we’ll have the worst numbers in over a year!

Based on historical data, about a quarter of these patients get discharged from hospital… in a body bag.

This morning I published historical data as ODF. So far 2022 has been less deadly (overall) than 2017 and 2018, based on official NHS data. So far this year only 7 people in the age range 0-14 died in England of Wales with/from COVID-19. See sheet (7) here; compare to pneumonia in (4). Suffice to say, the vaccine patent pools wish to give barely-tested vaccines to over 10 million children because over the past ~3 months COVID-19 killed 7 kids. We know these vaccines don’t curb the spread; even the governments and the companies admit this. So why push these to kids? Just money! 7 kids is less than one per week. Some of them did not even die from it but with it. We don’t yet know the long-term side effects, maybe infertility or similar. So keep kids out of it.

earing in mind 2020 and 2021 have warped 5-year averages somewhat, I’ve decided to dig up data from 4 years prior to the pandemic. We have these data sets as OpenDocument Format (ODF):

• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2022 (so far)

Let’s examine the figures for the first two months of the years (more recent data from this year can be incomplete).

Year, followed by total number of deaths per week (in England and Wales combined):

2016: 13,045 11,501 11,473 11,317 11,052 11,170 10,590 11,056
2017: 11,991 13,715 13,610 12,877 12,485 12,269 11,644 11,794
2018: 12,723 15,050 14,256 13,935 13,285 12,495 12,246 12,142
2019: 10,955 12,609 11,860 11,740 11,297 11,660 11,824 11,295
2022: 12,262 13,311 12,776 12,401 11,862 11,558 11,271 11,150

Highlighted (bold) is the highest figure for each column.

This shows that 2018 was a lot more “deadly” than this year and the same is true for 2017. We aren’t even attempting to split by cause of death (or attribution). These are just the totals.

Source: ONS

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

LMOST APRIL already and it has been 2 years since lock-downs began here in the UK. The numbers of COVID-19-linked deaths are higher this week than they were the same week in 2020. Going by the official government figures…

Yesterday the NHS reported 16,975 people in hospital with COVID-19. The number continues to climb each day. The last time we saw a decrease was almost 3 weeks ago:

23-03-2022 16,975
22-03-2022 16,760
21-03-2022 16,350
20-03-2022 15,565
19-03-2022 15,113
18-03-2022 15,046
17-03-2022 14,816
16-03-2022 14,375
15-03-2022 14,210
14-03-2022 13,705
13-03-2022 12,954
12-03-2022 12,578
11-03-2022 12,267
10-03-2022 12,099
09-03-2022 11,907
08-03-2022 11,798
07-03-2022 11,479
06-03-2022 11,007
-> 05-03-2022 10,862
04-03-2022 10,864
03-03-2022 10,670
02-03-2022 10,818

Deaths have increased 22.2% in the past week alone:

24-03-2022 165
23-03-2022 194
22-03-2022 250
21-03-2022 169
18-03-2022 126
17-03-2022 138
16-03-2022 153
15-03-2022 200
14-03-2022 135
11-03-2022 114
10-03-2022 142
09-03-2022 123
08-03-2022 212
07-03-2022 139
04-03-2022 110
03-03-2022 194
02-03-2022 74
01-03-2022 194

Take the median or sliding average to see the increase, in spite of the NHS altering the definitions to make the numbers seem smaller than they really are.

In terms of the number of new cases, it seems to be the worst Thursday since January.

Deaths reported 23-03-2022: 194 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 22-03-2022: 250 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 21-03-2022: 169 linked to COVID-19

Deaths reported 23-03-2020: 76 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 22-03-2020: 36 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 21-03-2020: 58 linked to COVID-19

Source

And cases are still on the rise:

I’ve underestimated how nice it is not to be bothered by notifications. Yes, I’ve quit more than just Twitter and things are a lot more pleasant now. WOULD RECOMMEND.

UK cases of COVID-19: still high, still killing almost 1,000 Brits per week

Last Monday

This Monday

ith over 15,000 COVID-19 patients in hospitals and over 2,000 new hospitalisations per day let’s remember that COVID-19 is still right here, right now. Yes, not just in wintertime.

The number of new cases speaks for itself.

I’ve just left the house and got back within less than an hour. I went around town. A lot of people aren’t wearing masks — barely anyone still does — and they wrongly assume that getting infected won’t be doing any real damage. This is a dangerous and erroneous assumption. I know this from people whom I personally speak to and have been infected.

The Borisnaro regime is a bunch of COVIDiots, who put the interests of the “business class” ahead of everybody else’s.

Using Russia and Ukraine to change the subject is becoming an outdated tactic by now. It’s likely that Russia and Ukraine will negotiate for a ceasefire to be reached. You cannot negotiate ceasefires with infectious viruses. They attack again and again. Being infected does not mean “being done with it”…