Experts have warned that Britain is already at the start of a devastating new COVID spiral that may incapacitate the NHS this winter.
Early data showed that new subvariants of Omicron are developing around the immunity that was built up through vaccinations and COVID infections.
Some scientists fear the new immune evasive variants may cause genuine concerns for the already on its knees NHS as the cold winter approaches and seasonal pressures start to bite.
Others have insisted that an autumn surge was unavoidable. Despite worries of resurgence, Liz Truss’s Government is unlikely to bring back any pandemic-era regulations because sky-high immunity rates have morphed the disease into something that closer resembles the flu, a seasonal virus the country lives with every year.
COVID cases grew 14 per cent last week, according to the most up-to-date figures. Around 1.1 million Britons are presently infected, statisticians calculate.
The leap marked the first sustained rise since mid-July when the summer surge peaked and ministers encountered calls to bring back economically crippling curbs which were axed as part of the living with COVID approach.
Officials allege a reduction in testing and the sketchy surveillance of new immune evasive subvariants, a knock-on effect of No 10’s new approach has formed the ideal storm for another COVID spike.
COVID experts say the immune evasive variants of the virus are already beginning to generate a small boost in infections.
Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and co-founder of the COVID ZOE app, told a newspaper outlet that it looks like we’re at the beginning of the next wave and this time it’s affected more senior people slightly earlier than the last spiral.
He explained that symptoms are also presenting themselves slightly differently than in prior variants, meaning many infected individuals aren’t seeking COVID tests.
He explained that manifestations are also showing themselves slightly differently than in previous variants, meaning many infected people aren’t seeking COVID tests.
Professor Spector asserted that numerous people were still using the government approaches about symptoms which were wrong.
He said at the moment, COVID starts in two-thirds of people with a sore throat. Fever and loss of smell are actually rare now, so many old people may not even believe they’ve got COVID and say they’ve got a cold and not get tested.
The University of Warwick virologist Professor Lawrence Young said that they’ve really taken their eye off the ball with COVID tests. He said that they can only detect variants or know what’s coming by doing sequencing from PCR testing, but that’s not going on anywhere near the extent it was a year ago.
The thing is if you need a booster after being completely vaxxed, need a face mask after being completely vaxxed, need to be tested after being completely vaxxed, and are still hospitalised after being completely vaxxed, it’s probably time you realised that you’ve been conned, and it’s amazing that we scarcely saw the flu anywhere last year. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence though as they start to accentuate COVID again, and this time it’s probably better to let nature takes its course.
There were many people who had the jab and some of them ended up with Carditis, and are still suffering and are on lifelong medication for it now. Some people were forced to have the jab or lose their jobs, especially if they worked for the NHS, and some people had the jab and then later died of a heart attack, and they weren’t even elderly. There was a report on it every week, it was crazy.
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