Covid – where are we now?

A very informative and long Twitter thread on the current UK Covid situation is linked here.

This is a chart on the rate of UK hospital admissions which is way higher than elsewhere in Europe and with the additional UK problem of having less beds per head than almost all other European countries:

(Source FT)

The summary to get back to controlling hospital admissions would be – roughly – that we need to reduce mass gatherings, wear masks indoors, increase all indoor ventilation, increase roll-out rate of booster jabs to the elderly, get vaxxing children to reduce transmission in adults and increase the UK’s rock bottom rate of sick pay to a livable level.

But the whole thread is well-worth reading.

As one commentator at the end concludes:

Our criticism of U.K. government is that it doesn’t seem to care.

That seems to have been a recurring theme on this blog too…