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For more Covid information and help, or if you’d like to know more about how we calculate risk, please contact BuDS and we will be happy to help.

BuDS Covid Information | Substack Up to date, expert analysis of the Covid situation in England, UK. Click to read BuDS Covid Information, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

If you’d like to get our weekly Covid risk assessments direct to your email inbox, completely free of charge, you can subscribe here: budscovidinfo.substack.com

This is BuDS’ 250th Covid risk assessment since the beginning of the pandemic, and we are still the only organisation publishing free risk data for disabled and clinically vulnerable people. We will update you on the situation again next week.

Remember, Covid is not just dangerous for clinically vulnerable people. The virus has been proven to have an adverse health impact on most people who catch Covid. No-one should be relaxed about catching Covid.

Remember, flu levels are still high, and there is a risk of catching flu in indoor places. Influenza is not as contagious as Covid, but the risk of catching it is still high in crowded or unventilated indoor spaces. Precautions against catching Covid will also protect you from catching flu. (3/3)

In lower risk indoor places, people who are not acutely clinically vulnerable to Covid may wish to consider whether Covid precautions can be relaxed. We continue to not recommend Covid precautions outdoors, unless you are in a dense crowd of people. (2/3)

BuDS continues to recommend that everyone takes proportionate precautions against catching Covid. These precautions should be taken in all high, medium-high, and medium risk indoor places. (1/3)

To mark this anniversary, we are launching a small fundraising campaign to cover the essential costs of our Covid risk assessments in 2026. If you value our work, please consider making a donation if you can. (3/3)

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This work has not been externally funded since 2022, and our risk assessments are produced by a small team of volunteers and professional advisors, most of whom are themselves disabled people. (2/3)

This week marks BuDS’ 250th Covid Risk Assessment. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have provided accurate, evidence based information for disabled and clinically vulnerable people about the changing risk from Covid. Around 50-75,000 people read our assessments every week. (1/3)

We cannot rule out a further Covid wave this winter, but there is no sign yet of a new variant 'waiting’ to cause it. What is more likely is that Covid infection levels will start to gently ramp up again as people’s immunity to current variants wanes, and they start to catch Covid again. (3/3)

We know the wave was driven by the new XFG ‘Stratus’ variant evading community immunity. It may be that community immunity was more resilient than predicted, that XFG was less immune-evasive, or maybe both. Both the public & the NHS should be relieved we were spared a much more damaging wave. (2/3)

Our Covid estimates are based on solid NHS data, and we are confident that – unlikely as it seems – the current Covid wave is over. It is difficult to say exactly why this wave has been both smaller and shorter than expected. (1/3)

The influenza vaccine is much more widely available than the Covid vaccine, and we recommend everyone entitled to a flu vaccine gets one as quickly as possible. (2/2)

Influenza (flu) continues to circulate at high levels, but there are signs that the current flu wave may also be about to peak. Remember, while influenza is not as infectious or dangerous as Covid, it is still a nasty virus to catch, and can have long-term health impacts too. (1/2)

Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 16 November 2025 The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 16 November 2025

Some rare good news about Covid in England, as infection levels fall back to ‘baseline’ levels last seen in early summer 2025. This doesn’t mean Covid has ceased to be a threat, as around 1 in every 296 people in England were still infected as of 16 November.

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For more Covid information and help, or if you’d like to know more about how we calculate risk, please contact BuDS and we will be happy to help.

BuDS Covid Information | Substack Up to date, expert analysis of the Covid situation in England, UK. Click to read BuDS Covid Information, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

If you’d like to get our weekly Covid risk assessments direct to your email inbox, completely free of charge, you can subscribe here: budscovidinfo.substack.com

We have decided to mark our 250th Covid risk assessment next week by relaunching our appeal for funding for our Covid Information, Advice, and Guidance (IAG) project. Watch out for more news next week.

This is BuDS’ 249th Covid risk assessment since the beginning of the pandemic, and we are still the only organisation publishing free risk data for disabled and clinically vulnerable people. We will update you on the situation again next week.

Covid is not just dangerous for clinically vulnerable people. The virus has been proven to have an adverse health impact on most people who catch Covid. No-one should be relaxed about catching Covid.

We continue to not recommend Covid precautions outdoors, unless you are in a dense crowd of people. If you would like to know the likely number of infected people you would encounter in different types of building, please check the table on our website or Substack. (2/2)

BuDS strongly recommends that everyone takes precautions against catching Covid. These precautions should be taken in all indoor places, unless you are sure that the space is very well ventilated or has HEPA filtration in place. (1/2)

If you have a condition which makes you extremely clinically vulnerable to Covid, you are entitled to free NHS lateral flow test kits and, if you test positive, you may be eligible for antiviral treatments to help you survive the infection. More information is available on the NHS website. (3/3)

If you can’t isolate, wear a tight-fitting non-valved PPE respiratory mask (FFP2/FFP3) whenever you are in contact with other people indoors. You can buy these masks at pharmacies or online. They both protect you against viruses in the air and protect others if you are infected. (2/3)

If you or someone you have met does have symptoms of Covid (or of a respiratory virus which might be Covid), please do the decent, patriotic, thing and keep it to yourself. Unless you are unable to do so, please isolate until your symptoms have been gone for a couple of days. (1/3)

We continue to advise avoiding NHS and healthcare buildings as much as possible, and using a PPE respiratory mask (FFP2/FFP3) when visiting. (2/2)

Although flu levels are still going up rapidly, Covid and the common cold (rhinovirus) are now falling. It remains to be seen how seriously the NHS is being affected, as data about this will not be available for some weeks. (1/2)

The influenza vaccine is much more widely available than the Covid vaccine, and we recommend everyone entitled to a flu vaccine gets one as quickly as possible. (2/2)