- By Junaid A 01-Aug-2022
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Health data has been vital for national and local policy and decision makers during the pandemic and is helping us to understand the long-term impact on people’s health.
New data collections have helped us understand the changing pattern of infections, which reached their highest ever level in the first week of April this year, when 1 in 13 people in England had COVID-19. Data told us about the consequences of the pandemic – that so far over 175,000 people in the UK have died from COVID-19 and that in May 2022, 1 in 36 of us were reporting long-COVID symptoms. And data told us about progress with vaccinations – with more than 9 in 10 of those eligible for a vaccination now having had at least one. Data was extensively used in the No. 10 pandemic briefings to reassure the public that the government’s response was being informed by the latest trends.
