Very cool, if true

Firstly, Scotland just updated all of its infection figures to include reinfections, which means that the graph on TravellingTabby for "Cases by Specimen Date", which shows new cases in a different colour is currently showing all reinfections in an obvious way:


And it's basically showing near-zero reinfections before Omicron came along, and then a 9% increase in infections from that point onwards.

And then there's the other thing. Which is a bit more worrying. About 2 weeks ago, the number of people in Scottish hospitals with Covid started to go back up:


And I'm not at all sure why. The number of people catching Covid hasn't changed. The English hospital numbers are down 20% in that time. So what's happening in Scotland?

Also, why have Scottish case counts flatlined when Welsh and English case counts have kept dropping?



Graphs, as usual, from the award-winning TravellingTabby