Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic (issue no. 62)

Footnotes

1 A detectable S gene in a positive SARS-CoV-2 sample has been established as a useful proxy for the Delta variant in England since mid-May 2021 (SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation (publishing.service.gov.uk).

2 UKHSA has now taken over the role of compiling the consensus from SAGE, based on models which feed into the Epidemiology Modelling Review Group (EMRG).

3 Particular care should be taken when interpreting this estimate as it is based on low numbers of cases, hospitalisations, or deaths and / or dominated by clustered outbreaks. It should not be treated as robust enough to inform policy decisions alone.

4 The cyan bars use Covid-19 test data and purple bars use multiple sources of data. The estimates produced by the Scottish Government are the two on the left. (Yellow uses confirmed cases from PHS; green uses wastewater data).The UKHSA consensus range is the right-most (red).

5 Deaths, Cases and Hospitalisations from PHS COVID-19 daily cases in Scotland dashboard.

6 Vaccination and contact data for the 0-17 age cohort is not presented due to the vast majority of this age group not being offered vaccinations and the SCS excluding contacts between children.

7 Both scenarios are based on current vaccine roll-out plans and efficacy assumptions.

8 The actual positive tests are adjusted to coincide with the estimated day of infection.

9 Actual data does not include full numbers of CPAP. ICU bed actuals include all ICU patients being treated for Covid-19 including those over 28 days.

10 Four week projections are provided here: Scientific evidence supporting the government response to coronavirus (COVID-19) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

11 Based at Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University Aberdeen University and Public Health Scotland.

12 A detectable S gene in a positive SARS-CoV-2 sample has been established as a useful proxy for the Delta variant in England since mid-May 2021 (SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation (publishing.service.gov.uk).

13 Swapnil Mishra, Jamie Scott, Harrison Zhu, Neil M. Ferguson, Samir Bhatt, Seth Flaxman, Axel Gandy, “A COVID-19 Model for Local Authorities of the United Kingdom,” medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.24.20236661, “COVID-19 UK website” http://imperialcollegelondon.github.io

14 Numbers are included in Table 1 in the Technical Annex.

15 Note that data in this report overlaps that shown in last week’s publication.

16 Anomalously high values, one in Seafield (Edinburgh) in mid-February (see Issue 40), one in Dunblane in mid-June, and two in Daldowie in January, were removed.

17 The black line and red shaded area provide a smoothed curve and confidence interval for WW Covid-19 that is estimated from a generalised additive model based on a Tweedie distribution.

18 Advancements in detection and interpretation practices allow us to identify when outlying results are anomalous rather than indicators of spikes in Covid-19 levels. Table 2 provides population weighted daily averages for normalised WW Covid-19 levels both with and without the outliers removed. See Technical Annex in Issue 60 of these Research Findings for further details.

19 Coverage as at the week beginning 17th July 2021.