England’s latest Covid outbreak was slowing down a fortnight ago, according to official data from the ONS, as it once again peaks without masks or restrictions. MailOnline has more,
Analysts behind the country’s most trusted surveillance project, ran by the Office for National Statistics, estimate 3.14 million people were infected on July 13th – up only 9% on the previous week’s estimate. For comparison, the surge logged last Friday was roughly a third.
Cautious statisticians said it’s “too early to say” if the wave is peaking. But public health experts claimed the worst is likely over, given that the mass-testing survey is “always two or three weeks behind the epidemic curve”.
Separate NHS England figures shows admissions actually began to fall 10 days ago. MailOnline analysis yesterday revealed rates are now dropping in each region.
Despite the positive signs, some scientists have urged ministers to reintroduce mask mandates and working from home rules. Others have even raised the prospect of limits on social gatherings, similar to harsh policies adopted during the darkest spell of the pandemic.
Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert at the University of East Anglia, said: “It is worth restating that the ONS infection survey primarily publishes prevalence of Covid – the proportion of the population of people testing positive – and a week or more later than the samples were taken on which the results are based.
“Because people can remain positive for about 11 days after becoming positive for Covid, it is always about two to three weeks behind the epidemic curve, as far as new infections are concerned.
“Other sources have suggested that for England the number of new infections peaked around the July 8th to 10th and are now in decline.
“The suggestion new infections are indeed now falling is further supported by the fact new hospital admissions are also now falling, though I suspect the next couple of days’ data may be confused by increased hospitalisations because of the heat wave.”
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Gosh, it’s almost as if nothing we do makes the slightest bit of difference to the progress of the virus. Who could have guessed?
Indeed, who could have guessed. LS/DS ATL and BTL comments from March 2020. But then we’re all just granny-killing nutjob conspiracy theorists.
We can stop the spread of the virus if we stop breathing.
But, ah yes, I see the flaw there.
As demonstrated by Big Chief Joevid Fourjabs in the White House.
The simplest, most basic principles of the mammalian immune system make this perfectly understandable. Look beyond the perverted, inverted and corrupted information out there, people!
The attached plot shows the case load in NSW up until the present. The black arrow indicates when mask mandates were lifted.
Oh, wait, no, that’s when mask mandates were introduced. They were lifted a month or so later.
Yes but it would have been much worse without them…. something…
I guess the demands from some health officials that mask mandates be brought back is panic that doing nothing will be shown to work just as well.
And there could be a serious risk that if they overcome the obsession with statistics for one thing, it might go away.
We have this proof already, with Belarus having similar all cause mortality to its neighbours up to March 2021, it’s just that the Guardian, Times muppets etc. choose not to report it.
I wonder what the graphs looked like for ‘Summer Cold’ c. anytime before 2019..?
Exactly. We probably don’t know because no one thought it was worth measuring, because it wasn’t.
They can’t claim the “vaccines” stop the spread either. The most that can be claimed is that they mitigate the worst effects, but data that consistently indicates that is vanishingly rare.
And always heavily doctored….
Doctored, or obfuscated – hopefully one day will be recognised as criminal, sadly long after the guilty are safely in their graves. If the “vaccines” were safe and effective, it would be easy to prove with real-world, unmanipulated data.
Exactly.
The increase the spread as multiple data now show.
And claims are not evidence.
Which is all that that they promised on the leaflets that were issued to promote it. I still have a copy in print. It said: “..two doses will reduce your chance of becoming seriously ill. We do not yet know whether it will stop you from catching and passing on the virus.” March 2021. I suggest that they do now know, and won’t advertise the truth.
The reason those scientismists are always clamouring for restrictions near the end of a wave is, that they want to and now more than ever need to prove that the restrictions work/ed and were responsible for any subsequent decline.
A decline/end without restrictions like now is their worst nightmare, as it lays bare to Joe Public their quackery and the total inefficiency and as such totally unnecessary destruction and huge cost of them.
Brilliant piece, nails what is really going on here, incl. with Joe Biden’s Covid. https://off-guardian.org/2022/07/22/theyre-bringing-covid-back-this-time-its-permanent/
It didn’t stop BBC Radio news bulletins from announcing ‘Covid cases continue to rise’.
Infection is not disease; disease is not a case.
Anyway, it may well be in decline because fewer jab-junkies are taking up the thrill of a 4th, 5th, 6th ‘booster’, so fewer people are making themselves CoV 2 targets.
Do you know who has the lowest death rate from Covid? Its Haiti – why? Because they use anti malarial drugs and haven’t been jabbed! There is a lesson to be learnt here but no one is listening!
Where is the graph for Scotland?
Being invented by the SNP as I type…
Big Chief Joevid Fourjabs has torpedoed the ‘wear a mask to protect granny – don’t be selfish’ idiocy.
He appeared in a video announcement to show he was alive and well, and without a mask. When a member of the media asked that strange creature WH Press Secretary wasn’t the President putting the person behind the camera at risk, she said no because he was wearing a mask and was protected… and it was outside.
Well yes, if A is wearing a mask, B doesn’t have to. Infection control works on the premise of single barrier effectiveness. If one barrier doesn’t work, two won’t either.
So there we have it: those who want protection should wear a mask not demand others wear them.
And outside? Why do fools wear masks outside, the WH now confirms not necessary?
Mask have not effective anyway against aerosols.