Well as of July 1st it seemed that only 17% of Day 2 were sequenced.

I'm pretty sure I had it back in December 19, there were a few of us in a bar for a Christmas do and we all had bad fever and cough for 3 days after that, but no loss of taste/smell so I'm not 100%. I think some tests were done in Italy on people who could have had it back to October or November that year too.

FWIW I had heard September, and wife and daughter had a similar sort of illness in Dec 19 too.

Speaking of Italy, back in October '19 Wuhan hosted the World Military Games (I know, sounds like a blast!) and many of the Italian athletes who took part in it (who also are 'normal' athletes as the various military branches sponsor a lot of the Olympians, a bit like the DDR) reported having flu or flu-like symptoms. I guess we'll never know what happens, China doesn't want anyone from the WHO anywhere near the labs.

October 19, Shanghai... Something passed through me and the friends I was visiting (not to mention a lot of other people). Fever, tiredness and a sore throat for a couple of days. Seemed to recover quite quickly. But it's China - there's always something spreading around. Of course, we all just ignored it and got on with enjoying our time. I have since speculated that the pandemic might have started as something milder.

Daily data:

Cases 31,117 (39,906 last Thursday)
Deaths 85 (84)
Patients admitted 932 (788 on the 18th)
Patients in hospital 6,034 (4,890 on the 21st)
Patients in ventilation beds 853 (647 on the 21st)
People vaccinated up to and including 28 July 2021:
First dose: 46,733,115
Second dose: 37,782,252

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 37.1% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 28.9%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 71.3 today.

Second daily rise...

Day after my 2nd Moderna jab. I had no side effects at all from the first jab, but as posted by alex67500 the second one has been a different story - I think this also seems to be a common pattern for Pfizer which is another mRNA vaccine.

I was feeling very tired yesterday afternoon and evening, but it then developed in to a mild flu like symptoms. Very difficult night sleeping, and cycling between feeling too cold and too hot. Also a bit of a headache. By this afternoon I am feeling a little better, but the headache still persists. No coughing at all though.

Anyway, thought this may be useful to other for what may be expected, and I am hopeful about being back to normal tomorrow.

I had absolutely no side effects from my Pfizer duet, and neither did my parents, although I did do some simple weight lifting after both to try and limit any arm soreness.

I'm not sure whether my immune system is so amazing that it just laughs at the spike protein while ripping its head off without breaking a sweat, or whether it's so useless it simply hides and the vaccine generated proteins are just floating around me looking lost and lonely.

And strangely the mass ranks of immunologists don't know why this is either. We do know that the very worst side effects tend to affect those with previous Covid infections - note the word "tend". But we don't know much about the reverse, those with low side effects. For example we don't see this group adversely hit by COVID after infection, they are just as protected as those given a clobbering. Broadly side effects are good, since it show a working immune system, but even those immuno compromised and immuno surpressed show similar side effects to those with mainstrream immunity.

Good luck with that, and hopefully paracetemol may give you a better night's sleep. Keep hyrdrated and sugared up too.

It's not a harbinger. Thursday is usually the worst day of the week, so the rise is less than the workload should be in a static scenario.

Consequently the downward trend remains remarkable and much, much bigger than expected.
Infection rate per 100k - 7 days cumulative - is 306.4 compared to 486.9 a week ago..
Infection rate per 100k - 14 days cumulative - 793.3 compared to 878.8 a week ago.
7 days over 14 is 38.62% indicating that the decline in cases is speeding up compared to a few days ago. It is the second sharpest single day trend reduction seen in this pandemic, the record being 38.53%

I've been on a conference call with my colleagues in Redcar - one of the worst places in the UK for infection - and they are already seeing a decline in cases at their hospital. There are 4 groups involved here, those with COVID symptoms who turn up at A&E and are sent home, those who are admitted for treatment, those in intensive care, and those who are in hospital for other reasons but have coincidentally tested positive for COVID, often asymptomatically. That is now the largest group, reflecting the large but thankfully declining pool of infected people in Redcar.

There was a report in the Telegraph (I think) earlier this weeks saying that more than half of the hospitalisation figures were accounted for by people admitted for non-COVID reasons but that tested positive during routine screening. I did think about posting it here, but was not convinced about its accuracy. Perhaps it was not so far off after all.

Glad it was short-lived. My Pfizer experience seems a little unusual in that the first one was worse for me - the arm was very sore, and I had (fairly mild) feelings of being ill - hot, tired etc. for a day. The second one was absolutely fine - even the arm pain was barely worth noting!

I'm not going to take an antibody test; it ruins the suspense.

I think the "admitted for non-COVID reasons" just means "admitted without first taking a PCR test that was positive". So, they could have gone with potential Covid symptoms and then found out, once admitted, that yes they did have Covid.