Covid increasing again? (Not trying to trigger anyone - no calls for lockdown etc in my post, just asking a question)

In the absence of proper daily test figures, the rate of hospitalisation provides the best indication of the level of the virus and at the moment it is increasing. And the rates aren't 'so low' as implied by the OP. The latest ONS survey estimated that 1 in 70 had the virus in the week leading up to 1 June. That's not low.
Very true, was something like 1 in 1,300 this time last year.
 
I don’t know of anyone recently who has had it, I don’t know of anyone who has did they’ve done a test recently either though.
 
We’re always going to have increases and falls with covid - like we do any endemic virus. Covid may start to increase again and when sufficient herd immunity is built up in the population for that strain of covid , it will start to fall again .

In my uneducated opinion, it probably has a undergone a minor mutation that gives it a little immune escape for it to increase again
 
We’re always going to have increases and falls with covid - like we do any endemic virus. Covid may start to increase again and when sufficient herd immunity is built up in the population for that strain of covid , it will start to fall again .

In my uneducated opinion, it probably has a undergone a minor mutation that gives it a little immune escape for it to increase again
My understanding is its more to do with waning vaccination, although the latest omicron is slightly more infections than the last.
 
I’m in bed with Covid having never had it before. My work and lifestyle mean I’ve had less chance of catching it than most but I’ve still had plenty of opportunity in the last 12 months. I was quite complacent I suppose but if the boosters are wearing off and the levels are rising it will soon take off again.
 
In the absence of proper daily test figures, the rate of hospitalisation provides the best indication of the level of the virus and at the moment it is increasing. And the rates aren't 'so low' as implied by the OP. The latest ONS survey estimated that 1 in 70 had the virus in the week leading up to 1 June. That's not low.
And that's from a much scaled down version of the ONS study
 
We’re always going to have increases and falls with covid - like we do any endemic virus. Covid may start to increase again and when sufficient herd immunity is built up in the population for that strain of covid , it will start to fall again .
1. Covid isn't yet endemic. If you think it is I'd suggest you don't understand what endemic means.
2. There is no such thing as herd immunity with covid. You can't have herd immunity with a virus you can catch multiple times and where vaccination/infection don't prevent transmission.
 
Our testing capacity will never recover to previous levels, so any large increase in cases will not be reported correctly.
 
I went abroad with a group last month and one of the group tested positive the day after we arrived back home, rest of the group tested negative with no symptons even though we spent the majority of the trip together, sat on the plane together, and drove home in the car together. All triple vax'd as well and as far as we know haven't had it in the last 6 months.
 
Lad i know has got some dodgy fake NHS app which generates fake QR codes and makes out you've got the jabs, looks exactly like my proper NHS app. He has travelled abroad a few times with it nobody ever scans the codes they just look to see he's got all the jabs. Risky, but he'd rather use that and potentially get pulled and turned round in an airport than get the jabs.
 
Lad i know has got some dodgy fake NHS app which generates fake QR codes and makes out you've got the jabs, looks exactly like my proper NHS app. He has travelled abroad a few times with it nobody ever scans the codes they just look to see he's got all the jabs. Risky, but he'd rather use that and potentially get pulled and turned round in an airport than get the jabs.
That's dumb on more than one level!
 
Our testing capacity will never recover to previous levels, so any large increase in cases will not be reported correctly.
Precisely this. In fact it never went away as far as I know.

There's no free testing and no mandatory testing. Hospital admissions are the only remotely reliable indicator.

For the vast majority not a concern, but still think there should be more messaging in the media still about taking sensible precautions if you have any symptoms to protect others, particularly the vulnerable.

People do wrongly assume it's mostly disappeared.
 
Lad i know has got some dodgy fake NHS app which generates fake QR codes and makes out you've got the jabs, looks exactly like my proper NHS app. He has travelled abroad a few times with it nobody ever scans the codes they just look to see he's got all the jabs. Risky, but he'd rather use that and potentially get pulled and turned round in an airport than get the jabs.

Mine were scanned. Hope he loses his holiday for putting people at risk.
 
Pretty sure i had it a fortnight ago, had it back in September (very severe) and was ill for for a few weeks,

Chest is still not right, bringing up phlegm from my chest, something i have never done before.
 
Lad i know has got some dodgy fake NHS app which generates fake QR codes and makes out you've got the jabs, looks exactly like my proper NHS app. He has travelled abroad a few times with it nobody ever scans the codes they just look to see he's got all the jabs. Risky, but he'd rather use that and potentially get pulled and turned round in an airport than get the jabs.
It should be and possibly is against the law.
 
Prior to the start of this year, I only knew a handful of people that had caught covid.

This year, from about Feb onwards, I know loads that have had it, my whole family included, and different friends seem to get it on a weekly basis at the moment, not loads at the same time, but people keep getting it. Thankfully it's been mild for most with one or two of us feeling pretty rough.
 
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