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Cat in the Hat
@catinthehat.bsky.social
Mum • Lover of nature and clean, fresh air • Passionate about science • “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”
Anecdotally, I’m also hearing more & more stories of people in my circle testing positive.

And also hospitals wards with outbreaks.

So, if you’ve relaxed your precautions in recent months, now would be a good time to up the ante again.

FFP masks. Ventilation. Air filtration.
June 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
…but with the XFG “Stratus” variant growing strongly and accounting for 34% of sequenced samples across the UK as of early June (almost certainly higher by now), I think there’s a very good chance we’re heading into a summer wave…

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Here's the latest variant picture for Europe (excluding the UK), to early June.

The LP.8.1.* variant continued to dominate, but fell to 36% frequency.

The XFG.* "Stratus" variant grew strongly to 28%.

#COVID19 #EUR #LP_8_1 #XFG #Stratus #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus
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June 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
For more information about the detrimental long-term impacts of repeated Covid infections on the brain, please take a peek at my X/Twitter thread below where I’ve collated a tiny fraction of the hundreds of studies on this.

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May 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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And I'd be interested to know if ONS will revise prior years with any new method?

In particular the current model's estimate for 2024 proved to be simply wrong (the data point in red, highlighted).

Fyi @catinthehat.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Try changing the search filter to search under: ‘Channel’. When I do that, it pops up straight away.
February 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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I appear to also be blocked having liked @catinthehat.bsky.social 's post! Hahaha. Grifters don't take criticism well. 😜🤣
February 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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He’s blocked me too even though I’ve never interacted with him. He had me blocked even before I re-posted your reply.
February 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Indeed. I wrote to @mrjamesob.bsky.social about this too.

I really hope he puts out a correction.

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Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social,

Thanks for discussing Long Covid in children on your show today.

As of March 2024, ONS reported that over 111K kids had Long Covid.

And that’s just 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. If you extrapolate across the UK, it’s over 120K.

The number nearly DOUBLED in a year between Mar 2023 & Mar 2024.
February 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Please can you elaborate on why you think this would not be the norm?

It is in line with data from other countries - eg. the Canada Long Covid study below which showed that around 80% of those currently suffering from LC had had symptoms for more than 6 months:

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/75...
February 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This is the data for 3-17 year olds from the ONS survey (released in April 2024).

Feel free to check the raw data for yourself at the link below (see tab 1):

www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/pe...
February 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Again, if you’d read the chart properly, you would see that the data source is clearly labelled.

As is the fact that the charts were produced by me.

No mystery here.
February 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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No, I really don’t get what your issue is. Other than you’ve been exceedingly aggressive for no apparent reason.

I have provided the link to the raw data.

I have told you *I* produced the chart directly from the raw data.

Please do enlighten me as to what else you need?

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This is the data for 3-17 year olds from the ONS survey (released in April 2024).

Feel free to check the raw data for yourself at the link below (see tab 1):

www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/pe...
February 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM