The UK just hit a record number of COVID cases in one day

[NickB79]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/23/uk-records-119789-new-covid-cases-in-one-day-its-highest-total-ever?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1640278479

The record 119,789 cases for the 24 hours to 9am on Thursday represents a 139% rise on the 50,023 new cases recorded two weeks ago and a 53% week-on-week increase. Wednesday was the first time the UK recorded more than 100,000 Covid cases, with Omicron the most transmissible variant so far.

Looks like the hoped-for peak after a few days of holding around 90,000 didn't materialize

[BigmanPigman]

1. 119,000 new record, yesterday broke old record of 106,000

France, Spain and Italy are going through the roof too.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

908,000 new cases breaks the record for the whole planet.

[Haggard Celine]

2. It's going to be Bedlam at the hospitals.

Hope I don't need to go there.

[Tomconroy]

3. Testing has gone up a bit but probably not enough to account

for all the increase. I could only find the positivity rate, which is supposed to be meaningful, through yesterday.
It has crept up slightly but yesterday was still under 6 percent. Of course the increases are nothing like the doubling every two days, 1000000 cases a day by year end predictions. Over 7 days I think it's gone from 90000 a day to 120000 a day.
Good data and hope is the best way to live.

I checked on CT. The positivity rate is 9 percent. I don't know the significance of that figure but mavens always.point to it.

Connecticut if you are interested:

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[Ms. Toad]

4. Ohio has hit a new record 3 days in a row.

12,000+, 12,000+ more, 16,000.

[Tomconroy]

5. UK stats:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[Justice matters.]

6. % of hospitalizations, ICUs, and deaths not following up trend so far

hopefully not next week too.

[Tomconroy]

7. Some London hospital data:

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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-hospitals-omicron-covid-elderly-patients-b973550.html