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Infections, transatlantic surge
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- Dr. John Campbell
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- Sep 5, 2026
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US, Back to behavioural normal, No public health measures South and West Population level immunity is driving viral evolution, fast BA.5 Antibodies from vaccination and infection offer little protection against infection https://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_tyh BA.2.75, next after BA.5 Cases, flat, 100,000 per day Infections, up, perhaps 1 million per day Hospitalizations, up, 0.6% on the week Deaths, flat CDC, stay up to date on vaccines, and take appropriate precautions to protect themselves and others UK covid infections https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data Cases, + 348,001 (Proportionate, 1 million new infections per day in the US) Currently covid symptomatic, 4,296,603 UK data https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk Infections, up Hospitalizations, up Deaths, down UKHSA https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2022/W24/776667357 Requirement for the ongoing supply of additional Lateral Flow Testing and Polymerase Chain Reaction Kits £ 2, 000, 000, 000 Lord Kamall, health minister https://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 backlog clearly measures may well have to be introduced Current data does not point to cases becoming more severe but also what we have managed to do is break the link between infections and hospitalisations, and hospitalisations and death If that gets out of control then of course we will stand up the measures that we have previously Ziyad Al-Aly, epidemiologist, Washington University St. Louis There are no public health measures at all We’re in a very peculiar spot, where the risk is vivid and it’s out th…