▫ Since 1 July 2022, the COVID-19 UKHSA Dashboard has moved to weekly reporting. From 8 September 2022, updates take place on Thursdays.
▫ The reporting of ZOE COVID Study data has remained daily.
▫ The reporting of ONS Infection Survey data has remained weekly with a 7-day lag.

After two years without updating its list of just three symptoms of COVID-19 (a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to the sense of smell or taste), the NHS has finally updated its list of symptoms of COVID:

😩 Shortness of breath
🥱 Feeling tired or exhausted
🤕 An aching body
🤯 A headache
🤐 A sore throat
🤧 A blocked or runny nose
😞 Loss of appetite
🥴 Diarrhoea
🤮 Feeling sick or being sick

• Throughout much of 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) held tight to the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spreads through relatively large ‘respiratory’ droplets that are expelled by infected people while coughing, sneezing or speaking. These droplets contaminate nearby surfaces or get breathed in, so the WHO stressed the importance of washing hands and disinfecting surfaces. It took many months for the agency to acknowledge that the virus could travel on tiny particles called aerosols that can spread widely and linger in the air. And nearly two years passed before the WHO clearly stated that the virus is airborne.

(Source: Nature)

• The WHO announced “COVID-19” as the name of this new disease on 11 February 2020, following guidelines previously developed with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

(Source: World Health Organization)

• The COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) actually has the ability to actively suppress and hide from multiple parts of your immune system. Even if you have been vaccinated or previously infected, some immune cells that were trained to identify the virus will not see that your cells are infected because the virus can turn off the early warning system of the infected cell to call for help.

(Source: PMP Magazine)

• When you breathe, talk, cough, sing, exercise or anything else that involves exhaling, particles (aerosols) get released into the air that contain contents from your respiratory tract, including viruses that you may be infected with that are replicating there. Exercise and singing produce large amounts of aerosols from your mouth which is why you often heard about superspreader events in choirs and gyms.

(Source: PMP Magazine)

• COVID rebound occurs when a person who has COVID-19 tests negative, then within two to eight days has a recurrence of symptoms or a new positive test. A brief return of symptoms may be part of the natural history of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infection in some persons, independent of treatment with Paxlovid and regardless of vaccination status.

(Source: CDC)

• Most people with coronavirus (COVID-19) feel better within a few days or weeks of their first symptoms and make a full recovery within 12 weeks. For some people, symptoms can last longer. This is called long COVID or post COVID-19 syndrome.
• The most common symptoms of long COVID are:

▫ extreme tiredness (fatigue)
▫ shortness of breath
▫ loss of smell
▫ muscle aches

• However, there are lots of symptoms you can have after a COVID-19 infection, including:

▫ problems with your memory and concentration ("brain fog")
▫ chest pain or tightness
▫ difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
▫ heart palpitations
▫ dizziness
▫ pins and needles
▫ joint pain
▫ depression and anxiety
▫ tinnitus, earaches
▫ feeling sick, diarrhoea, stomach aches, loss of appetite
▫ a high temperature, cough, headaches, sore throat, changes to sense of smell or taste
▫ rashes

(Source: NHS)

• In a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers report that COVID-19 reinfections could be taking a toll on some important organ systems. That risk applies to both short-term and long-term health effects. People who had more than one COVID-19 infection were three times more likely to be hospitalized and twice as likely to die than those who only had one infection. Those with multiple infections were also more vulnerable to other dangerous conditions; they were 3.5 times more likely to develop lung problems, 3 times more likely to have heart conditions, and 1.6 times more likely to have brain changes requiring care than people who had only had COVID-19 once. (See the table)

(Source: Time)

• The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) announced “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as the name of the new virus on 11 February 2020. This name was chosen because the virus is genetically related to the coronavirus responsible for the SARS outbreak of 2003. While related, the two viruses are different.

(Source: World Health Organization)

• A variant is a viral genome (genetic code) that may contain one or more mutations. In some cases, a group of variants with similar genetic changes, such as a lineage or group of lineages, may be designated by public health organizations as a Variant Being Monitored (VBM), Variant of Concern (VOC) or a Variant of Interest (VOI) due to shared attributes and characteristics that may require public health action.

(Source: CDC)

• A process in which the genomes of two SARS-CoV-2 variants (that have infected a person at the same time) combine during the viral replication process to form a new variant that is different from both parent lineages.

(Source: CDC)

Total UK population: 67,081,234 (last year: 66,796,800), via ONS (subject to changes in population over the year). These figures were updated on 25 June 2021. (Source: ONS)

• Government scientist accuses ministers of throwing people with long Covid ‘under the bus’ | iNews
• Why You Should Rest—a Lot—If You Have COVID-19 | Time
• Long COVID stigma may encourage people to hide the condition | PMP Magazine
• How will long Covid play out over the coming years? Eight experts weigh in | The Guardian
• First They Got Long Covid. Then, It Made Them Homeless | Rolling Stones
• ‘I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy’: Long Covid is the UK’s hidden pandemic – and treatment is a postcode lottery | Metro
• More than 1m people report long Covid in UK a year after infection | The Guardian
• New survey suggests reinfection worsens Long COVID | Gavi
• One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood | The Atlantic
• Study finds link between poor mental health and long Covid | The Guardian
• We’re starting to understand long COVID. Next we can fight it | Los Angeles Times
• Long Covid risk extends two years after infection. Here's how to assess your risk | CNN
• Long COVID: Why it’s so hard to tell how many people get it | PMP Magazine

Since 27 July we don’t publish the UKHSA data in our daily reporting. Those figures are just conveniently and undoubtedly flawed. Instead, we now focus on the ZOE COVID Study and the ONS Infection Survey data.

Our readers deserve the truth about COVID-19 and the UK government has clearly been doing everything – from ending free tests to irregular dashboard reports, delaying and ending some data reports – to make sure the media slowly lose interest in COVID reporting and get the public to believe both that they can live with the virus and that the pandemic is over. This is wrong and untrue, as the WHO and most public health experts have repeatedly told us.

For these reasons, PMP Magazine has so far, and will continue to publish COVID daily updates because we see it as part of our mission to always report the truth, even if it means we are the last media in the UK to do so.

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