One mathematician's view on the PHE report released yesterday:
twitter.com/JamesWard73/status/1400720398480809985
So, how am I feeling after all that? Well, to be honest, not much different to how I was before yesterday. The bad news on hospitalisations is balanced by the hope that the transmission gain / SAR might be a bit lower, and there’s no real change on vaccine efficacy.
Some may challenge why I’m not more concerned about the hospital data. And it’s clearly bad news. But for me, it all comes back to this old thread by @AdamJKucharski about the trade-off between transmissibility and severity.
In the meantime, the usual zero Covid crowd on twitter is overemphasising the negative (potential increase in hospitalisations) while ignoring the positive (drop in secondary attack rates).