Infections, transatlantic surge

US, Back to behavioural normal, No public health measuresUploaded 12-07-22South and WestPopulation level immunity is driving viral evolution, fastBA.5Antibodies from vaccination and infection offer little protection against infectionhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/10/omicron-variant-ba5-covid-reinfection/?utm_campaign=wp_to_your_health&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_tyhBA.2.75, next after BA.5Cases, flat, 100,000 per dayInfections, up, perhaps 1 million per dayHospitalizations, up, 0.6% on the weekDeaths, flatCDC, stay up to date on vaccines, and take appropriate precautions to protect themselves and othersUK covid infectionshttps://health-study.joinzoe.com/dataCases, + 348,001(Proportionate, 1 million new infections per day in the US)Currently covid symptomatic, 4,296,603UK datahttps://coronavirus.data.gov.ukInfections, upHospitalizations, upDeaths, downUKHSAhttps://bidstats.uk/tenders/2022/W24/776667357Requirement for the ongoing supply of additional Lateral Flow Testing and Polymerase Chain Reaction Kits£ 2, 000, 000, 000 Lord Kamall, health ministerhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/12/covid-measures-could-return-rising-cases-worsen-nhs-backlog/If current increase in hospital admissions is affecting the backlogclearly measures may well have to be introducedCurrent data does not point to cases becoming more severebut also what we have managed to do is break the link between infections and hospitalisations, and hospitalisations and deathIf that gets out of control then of course we will stand up the measures that we have previouslyZiyad Al-Aly, epidemiologist, Washington University St. LouisThere are no public health measures at all We’re in a very peculiar spot, where the risk is vivid and it’s out there, but we’ve let our guard down and we’ve chosen, deliberately, to expose ourselves and make ourselves more vulnerablehttps://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1749502/v1Multiple infections have a higher cumulative risk of a severe illness or deathReinfections may be mildany coronavirus infection carries risk, and the risk of a really bad outcome — a heart attack, for example — builds cumulativelyI worry that by the time we have a vaccine for BA.5 we’ll have a BA.6 or a BA.7. This virus keeps outsmarting usMercedes Carnethon, epidemiologist, Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineIt feels as though everyone has given upzero covid not plausibleHarlan Krumholz, Yale University professor of medicinePercentage