I am on a health-related forum quite regularly. The numbers who are reporting it now seem much higher than they have ever previously been.
About 10,000 at least occasionally active members. Probably about 1,000 regularly so. And, at a guess, something like half a dozen now. And a string of reports going back to January. Even a couple of possibilities from 2019. Because it isn't a Covid-19 forum in any way, many members might simply not say anything. And quite a number are being extremely careful because they percieve themselves to be especially susceptible. Especially if they had it mildly and maybe didn't get a test (lots of reports have no test associated for various reasons). Or if they became so ill they are in hospital or died. Number of Long Covid claims has also gone up.
(Not suggesting any members are being intentionally dishonest. But we can all misinterpret things.)
However, one of the things many members do is take vitamin D. If it has even a little bit of the impact some have claimed, perhaps that has reduced the illness level?
I think I have more faith in
https://covid.joinzoe.com/ than many really official sources.
On their map, I see:
- Region
Pembrokeshire
- Number of contributors
2165
- Active cases per million people (estimated)
18953
- Number of active cases (estimated)
2340