Hospitals to stop testing for asymptomatic admissions

Link to free download of John’s 2 textbooks http://159.69.48.3 (please cut and past this address into search engine and it will work) UK Zoe data https://health-study.joinzoe.com New symptomatic cases per day, 108,841 Current symptomatic prevalence, 1,659,056 UK, ONS latest, 24th August https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights UK viral positive prevalence 2.63% in England (1 in 40 people) 2.39% in Wales (1 in 40 people) 2.00% in Northern Ireland (1 in 50 people) 3.12% in Scotland (1 in 30 people) Risk of reinfection Five times higher in the period when the Omicron variants common (20 December 2021 and onwards), compared with the period when the Delta variant common (17 May to 19 December 2021) Risk of reinfection in earlier Omicron period, (March 2022) people were 10 times more likely to be reinfected Overall UK hospital admissions with covid Percentage of patients in acute hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 who are being treated primarily for COVID-19 UK official data https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk US variants nowcast https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions BA.5 88.9% BA.4.6 6.3% BA.4 4.3% BA.2 0% BA.1s 0% Delta 0% US data, over past two weeks https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases-deaths-tracker.html Cases, down 16% (almost all states) Test positivity, at 15% down slightly Hospitalizations, down 8% (down in about half of the states) Deaths, down 5% (below 500 per day) Dr. Anthony Fauci (81) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fauci-step-down-president-bidens-chief-medical-adviser-2022-08-22/ Stepping down in December Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), (since 1984) part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices