Record-breaking 4.9m people in UK sick with Covid - up 600,000 cases in a week

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: Mirror

A record 4.9 million people in the UK are estimated to have had Covid-19 in the week ending March 26, up from 4.3 million in the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said.

Only a month after Covid restrictions ended in the UK, the number of Covid cases has soared, rising by around 600,000 cases in a week.

The ONS released the figures for the end of March showing that the virus infection rates had reached an all time high.

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The government has come under fire in recent weeks for scrapping universal free testing of Covid-19.


Read more: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-record-breaking-49m-people-26611055

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UK has high vaccination rates. Bad news for red states with low vax rates.

[Marthe48]

1. Covid is by no means over

Let's not go straight to the mortality rate. Let's see how many people are surviving with lingering symptoms, or permanant damage, such as heart, lung, brain and kidney impairment.

I am not going to listen to government officials, who don't undertstand, or don't care about the peril.

[OnlinePoker]

2. Over 21 million cases in the UK since the pandemic started

Assuming the majority of cases were people getting it one time, that's 31% of the population.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Take a look how the Danish cases went, from Jan 1st to Mar 1st

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_cases_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=USA~GBR~DNK



From 14.4% to 47.8%

[gab13by13]

3. Making me think about that 2nd booster.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Last night I was finally able to make a 2nd booster appoint.

It took a few days for the pharmacies to get organized but now they are up and running for those over 50.

[wnylib]

13. Glad I got mine Wednesday.

[NBachers]

4. My grand daughter's the only person in her London classroom wearing a mask. She won't be old enough

to get a shot 'till late April. I hope her parents can keep her safe.

[róisín_dubh]

21. I was often the only person wearing a mask on the trains and Tube.

Got Covid when I returned to the US. Second time around for me. Thankfully both cases were very mild, but I've had to have a battery of tests to check on my heart.

[PortTack]

5. Oh but don't ya know the pandemic is over???

[Ocelot II]

6. Just scheduled my 2nd booster for tomorrow.

I guess it's going to be every person for him/herself from now on....

[MineralMan]

10. Yes, I think so. I haven't dropped the precautions,

and got my fourth Moderna shot yesterday. My wife gets hers tomorrow. Masks on.

[GB_RN]

7. 600k Cases In The Last Week...

That's reminiscent of the last Delta wave here in the States. I don't think the last Omicron wave hit the UK quite that hard, so the numbers don't bode well for another wave here, especially with mask mandates basically having been dropped most places and the federal travel mask mandate goes away this month, I think.

Yeah, a new wave could be quite disastrous both numbers-wise and politically, as the Democrats/Biden will get the blame for not having beaten it, despite GOPQ intransigence and lies/mis/disinformation.

[IronLionZion]

8. USA says hold my watery beer

Americans are done with COVID but COVID isn't done with us.

[MineralMan]

9. Get Your Booster! Wear Your Mask!

It's not over. Not by a long shot.

[love_katz]

14. Kicking for visibility

[Brainfodder]

15. Not April Fools Day joke?

Thought the #s were a bit high?

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. That has to be wrong. Missouri's Governor said it's

over so whatever is making people sick has to be something else.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. I wear my mask to do some shopping

And heard a sales clerk mumble under her breath "COVID is done, why wear a mask."

No one wears a mask where I live. I get looks and mumbled comments. At least no one has confronted me face to face.....yet.

Time to get my second booster.

[róisín_dubh]

22. I had a woman giving me withering looks in the grocery store the other day.

Now, I am covered in tattoos, so perhaps she didn't want to take a risk. I'd have given her a taste of my New Jersey attitude.

[Yavin4]

18. If masks work, why aren't they working right now in S. Korea, Germany, and Vietnam

Germany mandated N95 masks last year. S. Korea and Vietnam have high mask usage along with other constraints, yet, these three nations have been leading the world in new cases for over a month.

Sorry, but masks don't prevent the spread. Get vaccinated/boosted, eat healthy, and exercise. It's your best protection, not masks.

[LisaL]

19. Mandating masks last year doesn't help this year.

[Yavin4]

23. They're under the mandate while cases were soaring.

Germany has been #2 in cases since March. Only recently have they relaxed the rules.

[LT Barclay]

20. Any ideas on how to track infections in the US now that government support for testing has ended?

So, I've had both vaccines, and no I didn't get the booster because I had severe side-effects from the shot, my wife had 2 shots and a booster. I was considering a Pfizer booster (shots were Moderna), but we both caught it in January. We are cautious about where we go and the whole family (1 middle school, 1 grade school kid) wears masks out. We think we caught it from the 11 year old as he had sniffles just before we got sick (it was a warm day, we were thinking allergies and he never tested positive). I got bronchitis after that and I still feel "off"; can't organize things, have no endurance, and low motivation.
I'm worried because this is brief version of my wife's medical history:
Diagnosed with 2 types of breast cancer and Chronic Lymphocyte Leukemia in 2019.
Chemo
Infected chemo port
Double mastectomy (almost died- BP went to 70/ OMG get the cart)
Infection in tissue expanders
Infection in implants
Another infection that went to sepsis and destroyed her aortic valve
Heart valve replacement
2 episodes of V-Tac
Pacemaker/defibrillator
Another infection
She was finally healing and had a diagnosis of a recurrence of one of the breast cancers and has had to start chemo again (is on 4/6) then surgery and they suggest radiation.
Sorry, to dump this, but I'm frustrated that no one is wearing masks anymore, and I can't even tell how worried I should be. And now folks here know and If I've been a jerk in posts, now you know why.