Had a quick look at the figures for the UK today - it looks really bad, we've just overtaken the US on daily caserate at around 750 new daily cases / million.

Had a quick look at the figures for the UK today - it looks really bad, we've just overtaken the US on daily caserate at around 750 new daily cases / million. Germany were previously increasing fairly alarmingly in November, but seem to have been able to slow the increase down, if not get it heading down again. France had a large spike in November, got it under control in December, but are on the rise again (though under a new lockdown/curfew as of today). The problem now in the UK is the winter pressures are at their worst, we haven't even seen the impact of Christmas relaxation yet, and we've just exceeded the peak number of covid inpatients seen in the first wave. We're going to start seeing hospitals closing to new admissions soon (diverting to other nearby hospitals) as they hit full capacity.