Scientist says people in England who have had two jabs and come into contact with someone infected may soon be spared 10 days of self-isolating
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Dr Tildesley said those being hospitalised in the UK at the moment tend to be slightly younger and “slightly less sick” than in previous waves. He told BBC Breakfast:
Currently, we’re seeing slightly younger people are becoming infected and, actually, the people going to hospital tend to be slightly younger and, therefore, also slightly less sick, which is again quite a good sign that, even if we’re starting to see more people going into hospital, they tend to be younger people who have higher likelihood of recovering successfully.
I realise I’m being slightly cautious here. All of these are cautiously good signs. But, of course, we do need to keep an eye on this over the next couple of weeks so that we can give as much information as we can to the government prior to the 19 July reopening.
Dr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist and a member of the UK’s SPI-M modelling group, said he was “cautiously hopeful” the number of hospital admissions over the next few weeks would not be on the same scale as what happened in January. He has told BBC Breakfast:
We are now in a situation where if we sort of wind back a month ago we were starting to see signs of cases creeping up, and they have been creeping steadily for the last four weeks, but we haven’t yet seen that reflected in hospital admissions and deaths, which makes me sort of cautiously optimistic about the situation.
Hospital admissions are starting to rise a little bit, and of course there’s always a lag when cases rise that we see any signal in hospital admissions, but of course the vaccination campaign is doing very, very well, and so we’re not in the same situation we were back in October when cases were rising, we then got a big wave of hospital admissions and deaths.
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