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UK NHS: 15,000 patients with Covid and rising

A UK NHS leader has given a graphic account of the pressure that the health service is currently under. More...

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Elderly, England, Health, Healthcare, Herd Immunity, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Long Covid, Northern Ireland, Reinfection, Scotland, Transmission, UK, Wales

Canada: Ontario Risk Assessment for BA.2 to April 5, 2022

“Close monitoring of epidemiological trends since March 21, 2022 (date of mask mandate removal) suggests a corresponding temporal association with a subsequent increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases, percent positivity, and hospitalizations.” More...

April 9, 2022April 9, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.2, Canada, Children, Coronavirus, Genome, Hospitalization, Infection, Omicron, Ontario, PCR, Symptoms, Testing

UK ONS: 2.7% of the British population reporting Long Covid symptoms

An estimated 1.7 million people living in private households in the UK (2.7% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 5 March 2022

The estimates presented in this analysis relate to self-reported long COVID, as experienced by study participants who responded to a representative survey, rather than clinically diagnosed ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 or post-COVID-19 syndrome in the full population. More...

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.1, BA.2, Children, Coronavirus, Delta, Elderly, England, Europe, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Long Covid, Mental Heath, Northern Ireland, Omicron, Recombinants, Scotland, Symptoms, Transmission, UK, Wales

Hong Kong: BA.2 causes 7 times more deaths among hospitalised children than flu

A study from University of Hong Kong found that 15 per cent of children hospitalised with Omicron BA.2 had developed neurological complications

According to the report, about 15 per cent of hospitalised youngsters who had contracted the sub-variant developed neurological complications and more than 6 per cent had respiratory complications, with 21 children being sent to paediatric intensive care. More...

March 31, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.2, Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Hong Kong, Hospitalization, Infection, Long Covid, Mental Heath, Omicron, Symptoms, Vaccine

USA: National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan, issued March 2022

The US has recently issued a National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan. More...

March 7, 2022March 13, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, Long Covid, Testing, Transmission, Treatment, USA, Vaccine, Variants, Zoonosis

Denmark: 46% of children aged 0-15yrs infected with Covid in two months

During the two months between December 15, 2021 and February 15, 2022, where the Omicron variant has been dominating, Denmark has experienced a surge of PCR confirmed cases. More...

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Denmark, Hospitalization, Infection, MIS-C PIMS, Omicron, PCR, Reinfection, Symptoms, Testing, Transmission, Vaccine

Preprint: Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine among children 5-11 and 12-17 years in New York after the emergence of the Omicron variant

For children 5-11, VE against cases declined from 65% to 12% by 28-34 days. More...

February 28, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.1, BA.2, Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Hospitalization, Infection, Omicron, Pfizer/Biontech, Reinfection, Revaccination, Side Effects, Vaccine, Vaccine Waning

Scotland: Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status, January 2022 1 UPDATE

Scotland’s latest information dump on cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status continues to show a big disparity between unvaccinated patients and those that have been double and triple jabbed. More...