COVID-19 Coronavirus and other virus UK and World News Update 21st July 2023
World to date: Officially reported COVID cases 691,770,965, losses of life 6,901,646
The final witness has testified for the first phase of the UK COVID Inquiry. There's a lot to sift through and evaluate, so an interim report is expected next year, and it'll be a long time before the final document. By then it'll likely be another degree warmer, fish will contain too much plastic to count as fauna, and no-one will really care about a report stating the obvious inadequacies we all lived through. They hope.
A recent UK study has looked at just how many children have been hospitalised with COVID in England.
• Between July 2020 and February 2022, 3,226,535 children and teenagers in England tested positive with COVID for their first time.
• 29,230 (0.9%, almost 1 in every 111 of those who tested positive) needed hospital admission - some were tested on arrival to hospital with various other ailments, but 21,000 (around 3 in every 4) were taken to hospital and admitted specifically due to COVID.
• 1,710 (5.9% or 1 in every 17 of those admitted to hospital) involved paediatric critical care.
• 70 deaths occurred in which covid-19 or paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome was listed as a cause.
• 8,415 (28.8% or more than 1 in every 4) of those children admitted to hospital were aged under 1 year.
