The Friday Report is our regular fortnightly update with a summary of the key papers and analyses that we’ve looked at recently.
This week we report on:
- COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations by vaccine status and previous diagnosis
- Booster rollout progress in the UK
- Socio-economic variation in booster take-up
- Vaccinating the unvaccinated
- Omicron outcomes in South Africa relative to previous waves
- Sensitivity of rapid tests for detecting Omicron
- New Omicron sub-lineage BA.2
- Vaccination, infection and fertility
- Association between vaccination status and Long COVID
- EAVE II
- Distribution of anti-virals gathers pace
- Actual hospital admissions compared to modelled scenarios
- Update on global excess mortality
- ONS Infection Study
- ONS Antibody Report
- Hospital “Primary Diagnosis” data
- 2021 age-standardised mortality
And finally, Elon Musk’s “interesting” approach to population projections!