Covid cases are shooting up again after a six-week decline with the return to school and cooler weather helping to spread the virus 🦠 It is predicted infections will hit a new high in late October or early November 🔴 BawdenTom
are shooting up again after a six-week decline with the return to school and cooler weather helping to spread the virus.
People are also spending more time indoors together now that schools have gone back and the weather is cooler, they say. “Predictions of an October wave have come to pass. We’ve only really had September off and now it’s coming back again,” said Professor Spector, who had the new Moderna ‘bivalent’ booster yesterday and didn’t have any side effects.
Professor Karl Friston, a virus modeller at University College London, agrees that we are in for a sharp rise in cases. However, while case numbers may hit new highs, serious illness is not likely to come close to previous peaks.
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