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The weekly Covid hospital numbers are out and they match the surprisingly good Zoe numbers that for a few days have been suggesting this wave has already just about peaked. These are more up to date than the ONS numbers the media report on Fridays that are over a week old. Both Zoe and...

Those numbers are nearly ten days old. They have kept on rising since. The numbers a few posts ago in hospital yesterday are NHS ones and a week ahead of these today. So that suggests a bigger jump up will be there next Friday in the ONS data. The Zoe graph posted a few days ago is ahead of...

Weekly update on England hospital numbers: Patients up from 7024 last Thursday to 9631 today - up about 36% in the week V 5142 to 7024 last week - a rise of about 38%. Those on ventilators up from 160 last Thursday to 195 today - just over 20% rise V 145 to 160 last week - a weekly rise of...

Someone above asked for a graph. Here is Zoe as of today showing cases since January. You can see cases are rising but not quite as sharply as the last two Omicron waves. Total ongoing cases today 2,507,005 and new cases estimated today 216,419 up 4311 on the day. Hospital data and cases...

The fatality level has significantly fallen and, as the numbers I posted here yesterday show, there are far fewer in hospital and in ICU with the 2022 waves than with the 2020 ones. So the vaccines and repeatedly catching it is building real protection. Whether it will ever disappear entirely...

For the record on the data England hospital numbers after falling for some time bottomed out on 4467 on 17 September with 117 on ventilators. But for the past 11 days have increased steadily to now be 7024 with 160 on ventilators. Last time they were at these levels was Aug 19 when they were...

Not surprising - we have been heading into the next wave for a couple of weeks in the data. The media have finally noticed. This looks as if it will be cyclical with low period then waves pretty well constantly. Hopefully less dangerous each time as we tweak the vaccines. All the mixing...

I knew next to nothing for the same reason Colin. Not to mention my grandparents on one side had the (for genealogy searches) terrible names of Roberts and Taylor. So thousands of possibilities on offer every time I searched. Though a bit better than my best friend when I moved on to doing her...

I have noticed with the Ancestry hints that many trees given as hints have just pinched your data without much checking when you have been there a while and it is often from your own knowledge clearly not their relative but they have guessed it is. So I echo the caution on the hints. Easy to...

It really can get you hooked. I was turned on to it by the first series of Who Do You Think You Are? at the dawn of the internet 20 years ago, Then - ulike the more recent series - they had a section at the end of each episode expaining how they tracked the celebrity's genealogy giving you tips...

As the reply above says the 100 years is still a rule and based on life expectancy which was rarely close to that and to prevent access to people still alive in all but rare instances. It was very frustrating that unlike the 1911 census that was widely available on the centenary or just after...

You can freely search census records at the Central Library in Manchester. It is one of the few places to do that with the recently released 1921 census. Otherwise you have to pay for each download via Find my Past who have exclusive access and charge you etra even if you pay for a subscription...

Todays Zoe App graph shows clearly the same thing from their different method of estimating cases via direct reporting on the app. You can clearly see the peak and how it is now falling. Todays new cases are estimated as 285,834 - the first drop below 300K in several weeks. It did go as high...

The BBC news just now report that cases are still rising but note this ONS data is 10 days old So the 'hints' of a fall they report and hope there that numbers may fall soon is out of date. The good news is the numbers have indeed fallen and that fall in the data started about the exact date...

On BBC 2 just now the health minister said they are expecting advice by end of the week (so today I assume) if they should only give a new Covid jab this winter to the over 75s as with the fourth booster or lower it to 65 or 70. Plus presumably those with vulnerable conditions who are younger...

Agreed. To all who are catching it and feel unwell.

I do hope that the stalling of parliament is not going to delay an autumn and perhaps Omicron targetted vaccine if one exists now. A decision must be imminent as otherwse I suspect they would have lowered the age below 75 for the fourth jab as they are strugging to get anyone who has not yet...

It can but as long as you are careful your risk is not likely to be any greater than others of it becoming serious. Which mosty it does not. Many of the cases are only beng picked up by testing when they are ill for other reasons. I have avoided posting unless or until any thread was recreated...

It was worth asking but seems silly to just have to bin vaccines they cannot get people to have if those reports are true. By the time you go things will likely have gone down anyway, This wave is probably close to its peak now and if you have a few weeks before you travel maybe better to...

You can ask your GP. It seems a reasonable request and they are struggling to get the last remaining over 75s to have it so there must be spare supply. You would get one in September anyway so I see no reason in these circumstances to say no if like me it is now 8 months since your last one -...