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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/covid-all-year-virus-summer-wave-uk-cases-105241355.html>
'The UK is experiencing a "summer COVID wave", a UCL professor has said,
warning: "If you have cold or flu symptoms, it's probably COVID."
Figures from the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) show a sharp uptick in
COVID hospitalisations in England in late July, and while admissions have since
started to dip, they're still the highest they have been for around six months.
While the FLiRT variants of COVID seems to be leading to milder infections and
symptoms, Professor Christina Pagel, from UCL's Clinical Operational Research
Unit, suggests we should still be wary.
"I think the problem is that kind of in our heads and the way governments are
dealing with it," she tells
Yahoo News. "They're trying to treat COVID like
flu, but it just isn't. It's not a winter virus. It's an all-year-round
virus."'
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: August 15, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-110132360
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
