More good news, and without reading too much into a single day, the weekly figures for hospitalisations and deaths are showing distinct signs of turning the corner to follow cases
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All of this showing how it's increasingly difficult to predict the shape of the epidemic as we've been at R~1 for many weeks now.
The combination of behavioural changes, immunity building through infection and vaccination, and likewise waning over time makes it far harder to know where we're headed.
But for sure, down is better than up going into winter. And this time last year it was obvious a disaster was approaching which Vallance and Whitty were mocked for predicting (their warning actually turned out to be far too optimistic in the end). Disastrous scenarios looking far less likely this year.