Covid Infections in England Dropped Last Week, ONS Data Confirm
Coronavirus infections in England declined again last week despite infections continuing to rise in children, figures from the ONS showed today. MailOnline has more.
Government analysts estimate 2.6 million people in the country were infected on any day during the week ending January 22nd, compared to 2.9 million one week earlier. Both figures equate to one in 20 people in England carrying the virus.
It marks the second week in a row that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has projected a fall in prevalence, illustrating how the Omicron wave fizzled off after causing infections to spiral to pandemic highs.
Cases are now trending downwards in all age groups apart from under-16s, with the return to classrooms earlier this month thought to be behind the trend.
The ONS survey is regarded as the most reliable indicator of the UK’s outbreak because it uses random sampling of around 100,000 people, rather than relying on people coming forward to be tested.
Official daily numbers show cases have plateaued at around 90,000 per day, following a fortnight of infections being in freefall. This was before the effects of lifting Plan B restrictions in England have even been felt.
Work from home guidance was revoked last week, while Covid passes and requirements to wear face masks in public spaces will come to an end tomorrow. Boris Johnson has also said he wants the self-isolation rules to be ditched by the end of March as part of the UK’s plan to ‘live with the virus’ like flu.
The report, used by ministers to guide Covid policy, is normally published on Friday – but its release was moved while infections run at unprecedented levels.
The ONS said the proportion of children aged two to 11 in England who were infected increased for a second week in a row, while cases among 12 to 16-year-olds are now also on the rise.
However, infections among all other age groups are still declining, according to the statisticians.
All parts of England are seeing a drop in case rates, apart from the South West, where the trend in cases is uncertain, the ONS said.
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‘Infections’ (Again). WTF?
Pfizer Board Member Suggests End to Mask, Vaccine Mandates
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pfizer-board-member-suggests-end-to-mask-vaccine-mandates_4233260.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-01-24-4&utm_medium=email&est=borRVF9eZ6Z1ar9MDlJaI%2FBtf8aD5npdmO7wPNIB%2FKSOuH8wQ1OF%2BFb78g9e2VEh14h6
By Jack Phillips
The big danger is that this fake normal stays
Join the friendly resistance before it’s too late
now is not the time to give up
Thursday 27th January 5pm
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“No More Lockdown”
Bring torches, candles and other lights
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opposite Queen Victoria St),
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“Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and current board member at Pfizer…”. There’s the problem in half a sentence – regulatory capture.
Gottlieb? For the love of God!
Great track by Steve Vai.
Aye.
And “survey”. I infer that they’re simply demanding personal medical information from 100,000 randos, assuming that all answers are true, and scaling up from the number that actually answer (versus those who tell them to do one) to the general population.
As with almost[*] all polls, selection bias seems like a hazard there.
[*] One notable exception being the British Social Attitudes Survey which uses a different, more time consuming and expensive method of pursuing a representative selection of people doggedly.
A pandemic of abusive parents testing children
Plus masking up and getting their little (soon to be?) angels jabbed with the poison death shots.
WHO would have thought we would still be discussing ‘infections’ 2 years down the track. Come on people, move on, wake up, start the prosecution. On another note, the WEF young leaders need to be matched up with a scale of lockdown lunacy. Jacinda is the star but Macron just as nutty. Some correlation and causation there. Please round them up and prosecute them.
Please don’t forget Trudeau. He needs to be up there with them.
Absolutely, it’s a long list but I was blind to the correlation until I searched WEF young leaders. They are brazen about their criminality.
He needs hanging from his man pussy!
Excuse my language.
There is a veritable feast of star leaders in the woeful Covid lunacy stakes.
Let me fix that for you…
“and
prosecutechoose their end of life pathway for… them”Personally I doubt very much that Covid is rife amongst children since the tests can’t tell the difference between the common cold and Covid or Coca-Cola and Covid for that matter. As any parent knows kids always have a cold and especially in the winter. Why on earth are “parents” allowing their children to suffer these tests anyway?
Perhaps the parents are responsible people.
Most people are…thankfully.
You’re in the minority then? Fetch.
Responsible for what? Their children’s vaccination side effects?
Instilling deep rooted hypochondria that they can carry into adult life?
No side effects from tests. Pay attention.
TROLL ALERT
Woah! I used special tracking software to hack rational’s webcam… be afraid, be very afraid….
OMG! We should have known – the word for rational in German is…rational.
Obviously, there are few responsible people in this group.
Ir-rational is back
Please don’t feed.
Irrational (sorry rational) makes me laugh. He’s like one of those scruffy dogs you see in a park, tongue hanging out to one side as he waits for you to throw him a stick. I’m not going to feed him, but I will chuck him a stick – it’ll give him something to do and he does so want to please his master.
A rubbish dog chew troll like irrational is fun to laugh at.
I know don’t debate these fools.
Yes, best to entirely ingore the idiot. Not even down-votes. Just starve it of attention.
Munchausen Sydrome? Hypochondria? The telly told them to do it?
Why parents would want to subject their children (or anyone really) to these pointless tests is one of the more baffling aspects of this corona lunacy.
They’ve accepted ‘the science’ as they heard and read about it. Much easier than giving it some thought – and anyway, the neighbours are all stuffing swabs up their kids’ noses, so how can it be wrong?
But what science?
If you test positive you get what? Medical treatment? No. Special care or attention? No. You get locked up in your home.
That’s not science. That’s literal definition of self-harm.
People who take corona tests of their own volition need urgent psychological treatment.
Obviously you are wrong about tests.
Here you go again, opening your mouth to change your feet. Perhaps you’d like to give the rest of us morons on here the benefit of your wisdom as to the rationale for testing; looking separately at LFT and PCR tests?
102k cases today.
But that’s what you get when you create a reservoir of infected people by using a vaccine where you have no idea what the longer term impact on the immune system is going to be.
Increased cases….
That’s what you get a few weeks after schools start.
It was bound to be a mechanism for infection…simple proximity.
And how many of these children are seriously ill?
Very few but not relevant. The subject is cases.
Asymptomatic positive tests are simply not cases.
This is another example of a lie you have swallowed.
Why not..they are infected.
You’re too stupid to understand simple concepts?
No symptoms. No case.
How else do you explain it? 35 idiots who disapprove?
ONS data confirm postive test results. The data do not confirm infections.
The media is spreading lies. We need to spread the truth. Apparently, history shows that truth is the only thing that causes totalitarianism to end – when the lies became unsustainable..
History shows that a full-scale invasion by a non-totalitarian power – or even another totalitarian power, or an alliance of both – can be quite a regime changer.
Yes actually infections are much much higher, as evidenced by the ONS survey, referenced by Will Jones.
Are you saying you don’t believe him?
You can see what people on here are saying, there’s no need to go full Cathy Newman. Go fetch boy.
Yup, the actual infections are in fact much higher than the stats.
And yet the world is not ending, far from it.
Notice what this means for all the unnecessary restrictions and also for the “illusion of control” that has been perpetrated since the beginning of this huge fiasco?
The point being… base observations on consistent data.
The ONS survey is the only way of tracking infections.
Admissions are now a blend of because and with.
Deaths falling to a low level is the key thing to look for.
Low relative to what? In the context of a supposedly deadly once-in-a-century pandemic that warranted measures that were unprecedented by orders of magnitude, deaths have always been low. You’d need to supply me with significantly more deaths than you’ve managed before I’d be willing to contemplate the cost-benefit analysis stacking up (even assuming there was anything anyone could do about it).
But… I thought the ‘vaccines’ clearly worked?
How can it be that the population is testing positive for a disease in unprecedented numbers when the majority have been jabbed? Much more than when nobody was jabbed.
I’m really confused…
Vaccines preventing serious illness and death. That’s the efficacy that matters.
Your correlation of vaccination with higher infections is plain stupid.
BTW ONS also said 2/3 of infections had prior infectio.
You forgot to add “in old people”. Because in young people they do nothing except produce unwanted (rare) side effects.
What nonsense. Absolute risk reduction was around only 1% right at the start of the con job that you have gullibly swallowed.
Hmm 30/30 people don’t believe what Will Jones tells them.
If you disagree with me, you disagree with him.
where are you going to get truth from?
None has stuck to you so far.
It’s mud that sticks and you’ve got it all over your little paws. Bad dog.
TROLL ALERT
I don’t know why people keep responding to the toss-pot. Ignore him.
You certainly haven’t offered anything resembling fact or truth. Puerile invective and straw man arguments is the best you can muster.
I read about some poor US citizen who’d visited his parents in Portugal. He had to take a PCR test to fly back home, and it proved positive. Multiple LTF tests couldn’t get a confirmatory positive result, so he went and paid for another PCR. This proved negative, by which time he’d missed his flight, but the authorities are still registering only his positive test result, so he doesn’t know how and when to re-book his flight home.
It’s an expensive business, travelling in an age of Covid mixed with bureaucratic incompetence.
I reported on Dominic Cummings’s interest this Monday in the idea of life on Mars; suggested he might be under a lot of stress; and wrote “If he freaks, it could be spectacular.”
Today he’s going on about Bismarck and some “flute girls”. Lol. Not Russian violinists, like Olga Kholodnaya, said to have had an affair with Boris Johnson. There might be a national security angle there. But not people like that. Flautists, OK?
But don’t laugh for too long. Take a look at the words he has helpfully dash-underlined to assist us: among the buffoons and female stage artists, we have quack pharmacists (pharmacopolae).
What might the great man mean by “quack pharmacists”?
This week Theodore Agnew resigned as a government minister after (whoopsadaisy!) four billion pounds went “whoosh” from state coffers.
Four billion is a huge sum, but it was dwarfed by the amount that was “spent” on “Track and Trace”.
It is much smaller too than the amount that has been paid for so-called “vaccines”, unnecessary “tests”, etc.
The dirtier the SW1 in-fighting gets, the better, as far as I am concerned.
I’ve said this before how an app cost £35 Billions my mate could do it £50!
Even with the support of the infrastructure.
With any luck and or justice.
He’s dead.
https://evidencenotfear.com/evidence/
I have just found this – seems to be a collection of large amounts of sceptical information going right back to the early stages of the madness. It may take some time to read it all….
Thanks for the link; interesting reading, and so obvious to anyone not politically motivated….
Five key facts
According to Dr. Scott W. Atlas, we now have enough data to be sure of five key facts about COVID-19:
You forgot:
6 The five facts above are of no help when those making the decisions are a bunch of inverterbrate panic-merchants who don’t understand the concept of risk to any worthwhile degree.
The on, risk they care about us to their careers and bank balances.
Many thanks for this link
Cases or tests…. The FailOnline
So, we go round again on the number of cases, and hospitalisations ‘with’ covid, both misleading and bogus.
Even Bean knows cases don’t mean infection…
Not sure where to put this but this seems as good a place as any
Looks like the Canadians have got themselves a convoy:
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/canadian-truckers-for-freedom-growing-fast-11-convoys-5m-one-convoy-said-to-be-150km-long/
Incredible. Wish I was there with them.
Go go go Truckers.
Truck Fudeau!
I Regret Getting the COVID Vaccine
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/i_regret_getting_the_covid_vaccine.html
Hey, Jamaica Plain, I don’t!
has six weeks of bad side-effects from first shot for a disease she claims to have known was no risk to her, still goes out and gets a second one.
Not much American thinking going on there.
Once again for the hard of hearing :-
It was never about a virus, it is not about a virus and will never be about a virus.
The infected/ recovered never transmit it.
The jabbed are more likely to get “infected “.
WTF is Going on?
And we are still jabbing kids.
Criminal bastards. Nuremberg 2 and Hell awaits.
Natural immunity – seems to have disappeared – it’s not on the BBC at all. Why not FFS.
Only 7,000 died solely from covid over each of the last 2 years – it’s not on the BBC.
So easy to control the sheep, sadly.
I was only following orders – you can forget that defence.
Retribution awaits
Hi Will,
I mostly like your articles, but you infuriate me when you call positive tests ‘infections’; especially when you know they are not.
What is worse, though, is when you, just like the Beeb, Sky, and all the rest of the MSM, use the word ‘Coronavirus’.
It would be really helpful if you could tell your readers which coronavirus you are discussing in the article; is it…
HCoV-OC43 or,
HCoV-HKU1 or,
HCoV-229E or,
SARS-CoV or,
MERS-CoV or,
SARS-CoV-2
It would really help.
Kind regards,
Ceriain
/s
yes but……..Sainsbury’s and John Lewis asks shoppers and staff to keep wearing masks ?? Any idea why ?
Owned by Bolsheviks.
Because they think the majority of their customers are sheep.
Go there .
Do not wear a mask, and if it clears out a few sheep, you will get to the checkouts quicker.
Because they care. Everyone’s adverts say so. And because they genuinely, honest to God, care about us more than anything else in the whole wide world (yes, even profits), we will be loyal in return – naturally.
Absolutely, you can always trust their advertising…
Because they’re stupid and assume most of their customers are sheep
Perhaps they’ve got a lot of surplus nappies to use up. 10 for a fiver, or something like that? Very few staff in my local branch of Morrisons wearing them today, though. Still qiute a lot of zombies out shopping, however.
The Pfizer vaccine – more harm than good
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-pfizer-vaccine-more-harm-than-good/
TCW
The big danger is that this fake normal stays
Join the friendly resistance before it’s too late
now is not the time to give up
Thursday 27th January 5pm
Silent lighted walk behind one simple sign
“No More Lockdown”
Bring torches, candles and other lights
meet Broad Street (outside John Lewis,
opposite Queen Victoria St),
Reading RG1 2BB
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Good news. But BBC is playing it down and feeding us lots of fear porn about how awful it’s been and how a future variant might be much worse. They can’t let go.