Of course, a superspreader event …

That figure is up 75% from two weeks prior, before Brits celebrated the Queen’s 70th anniversary on the throne with a long weekend of street parties and social gatherings.

Source: UK Covid cases surge following Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, new variants become dominant

That was the first week of June. A large percentile increase in a very tiny number. But see below – France and Germany saw even larger increases. They too must have all been in the UK at this superspreader event.

World Health Organization data:

UK ONS data:

 

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UK’s rise is less than France and Germany – obviously, France and Germany were celebrating the UK Queen’s Jubilee too

UK Hospitalization Data

Hospitalization typically lags “cases” by a week or two. Hospitalization began rising from the 3rd week of May and continued rising at the same rate after the Queen’s Jubilee. Again, no evidence that this rise is connected to the Jubillee.

Have you noticed the pattern in the media? They make stuff up – they find random correlations – but make no attempt to correlate their correlations to context, the real world, or much of anything.

After a while, public health and public health reporting resembles fiction far more than facts.

On my other blog I have documented that all superspreader forecasts were false – and failed to produce a superspreader event.