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ALT Poster for the Coventry Cultural Challenge Hackathon on 5-6 November 2022. Text reads: Do you work in arts and culture? Or are you a data scientist or analyst? Or perhaps a digital artist or coder? Join the Coventry Cultural Challenge on the weekend of 5-6 November 2022 for unprecedented access to big data from Coventry’s year as the UK City of Culture, and create innovative concepts, ideas, and products to make life better in Coventry. Teams with the best ideas will then have the opportunity to pitch your ideas to cultural leaders at Coventry’s Reel Store this December. https://coventry21evaluation.info/coventry-cultural-challenge
ALT The epidemiological curve for Coventry from 29 May 2020 to July 2021. Here’s a look at the latest Covid-19 stats for Coventry, nine days from the UK Government’s proposed end to all lockdown restrictions. Looking at the seven-day case rate only, the increase looks terrible – with cases rapidly increasing in June and into July. We will end up with case numbers similar to what was experienced in January. This is driven pretty much entirely by the delta variant, which spreads a lot more easily than the original and the alpha variant of Covid-19.
ALT A epi curve for cases and hospitalisations for Coventry, with a call-out for 5 July 2021. However, when you plot cases, along with hospitalisations, another picture emerges –– that is, although we had 189 new cases of Covid-19 on 5 July (and 1,080 cases over 7 days), there’s ‘only’ 12 people at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) and 3 on mechanical ventilation. That is, the vast majority of people who now get Covid-19 are not ending up in hospital; they are getting mild to moderate Covid instead of getting something so severe they end up in hospital.
ALT A epi curve for Coventry cases and hospitalisations, with a call-out for 28 December 2020. It’s worth contrasting this to the position on 28 December 2020, when there were 212 new cases on the day (and 1,035 over seven days). At that point, there were 133 Covid-19 hospital patients at UHCW – and 12 on mechanical ventilation – a much more dire position than what we’re now facing. So what’s the difference between 28 December and 5 July? Covid-19 vaccinations! It appears that the Covid-19 vaccinations have weakened the link between getting Covid-19 and ending up severely ill.
ALT Of course, every single hospital bed and every single doctor or nurse treating a Covid patient puts pressure elsewhere on our NHS, which is why it is so important to continue to take precautions to keep more vulnerable residents safe even after the Government removes all legal restrictions, by wearing face coverings in busy spaces. As of 4 July, nearly 7 in 10 Coventry adults have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccination – but vaccination uptake in Coventry remains lower than the UK average in some parts of the city, and lower than in Solihull and Warwickshire. By getting the Covid-19 vaccine, you can help reduce the risk of Covid-19 to you as well as your friends and family. The NHS has a full list of vaccination drop-in clinics at: https://www.happyhealthylives.uk/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccination/vaccination-drop-in-clinics/
