UK COVID data, week starting 19th December
Look to the future now
(9.00am, 22/12/22) In shameless self-promotion news, I was in Nature this week for the first (and very likely only) time, the University put out another of my festive maths videos and I was very excited to see the first chapter of my book with illustrations in place. I also did a thread about my COVID track record this year.
Anyway, on to this week’s COVID numbers. As you might remember, we are in a phase of (relatively slow) growth, driven by slightly more transmissible variants, and ZOE has borne that out this week. Last week’s figure was 219k (up 26% on a week previously), this week is 263k (up 20%). So perhaps a little slowing down there?
Admissions don’t show any kind of slow down though (at least yet). Last week the average was 750, it is now 1,023. Hopefully Christmas and reduced mixing in the New Year will reverse these trends though.
You can see that the growth rate is actually higher this week than last:
(4pm, 22/12/22) Last dashboard of the year - definitely a good time to say thank you to everyone who has provided data in 2022! Not any huge surprises here I think, cases going up, somewhere in the 2-4 week doubling range.
(12.45pm 23/12/22) Also ONS showing a very straight line on a log scale (slow exponential growth).
Anyway and most importantly, it’s not strictly the bunny season, but as he says:
