{"id":227854,"date":"2021-02-18T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=227854"},"modified":"2021-02-20T06:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:24:01","slug":"covid-infections-in-england-fall-by-two-thirds-but-spreading-fastest-among-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=227854","title":{"rendered":"Covid infections in England fall by two-thirds but spreading fastest among young"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Feb 18, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

According to the Guardian report below, Covid cases have fallen precipitously in England recently. So why is most of the country still under lockdown when so many jobs and livelihoods are being lost and ruined as a result of the lockdown?<\/h4>\n

This is all the more pressing a question given that for most Covid-19 is only marginally more severe than seasonal flu.<\/h4>\n

Moreover, the majority of cases are now appearing among school children, most of who will recover completely unscathed. So why has their education been disrupted, and for some, put completely on hold?<\/h4>\n

Despite this the following Guardian report does its best to emphasise the dire impact of Covid-19.<\/h4>\n

\u201cPrevalence remains high\u201d, claims the Guardian, \u201cwith about one in every 200 people infected with Covid \u2026\u201d<\/h4>\n

So half of one percent are infected yet the Guardian insists that “prevalence remains high”.<\/h4>\n

As with Saddam Hussein\u2019s \u2018Weapons of Mass Destruction\u2019 we are again being fed another lie and, as with Saddam\u2019s WMD, the media is deeply complicit in promoting this. Ed.<\/h4>\n

Covid infections in England fall by two-thirds but spreading fastest among young<\/h2>\n

Nicola Davis and Sarah Bosely \u2013 The Guardian Feb 18, 2021<\/h2>\n

Covid infections have fallen by two-thirds in a month in England but the virus is now spreading most among primary-age children and young people, research suggests.<\/p>\n

The React 1 study from Imperial College London points to the third national lockdown having significantly curbed the spread of the coronavirus despite the emergence of new variants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prevalence remains high however, with about one in 200 people infected with Covid between 4 and 13 February, compared with about three times that number between 6 and 21 January, the interim findings showed.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday scientists told MPs that the UK could begin to ease out of lockdown more quickly<\/a> than it did the first time round.<\/p>\n

Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said: \u201cI think we do have reasons to be more confident that we can move out of lockdown swifter than we could have done out of the first one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woolhouse told the Commons science and technology committee that reviews of evidence shown that schools could have safely reopened sooner and that outdoor spreading of the virus was very rare. School reopenings had not caused a surge in cases across western Europe while to his knowledge there had never been an outbreak linked to a beach anywhere in the world, he added.<\/p>\n

But other experts warned of the need for \u201ccareful\u201d in the reopening of schools \u2013 expected to start from 8 March in England, and from 22 February in Scotland<\/a> and Wales<\/a> \u2013 in light of the React study data.<\/p>\n

The researchers said the decline in prevalence in England was seen across all age groups, with Covid now most commonly found among 5- to 12-year-olds and 18- to 24-year-olds. Researchers said there was no sign yet in their data of the impact of the UK\u2019s vaccination programme on infections; the drop in prevalence was similar among the over-65s as with other age groups.<\/p>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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